Friday, January 23, 2015

Rock People?

As I thought about this it took me back to my experience way back when now. I had been studying with Charlie Thom around then in 1983 and had been Sweating with him and his children along with many non-native Americans as well. But, I had never experienced "communication" as clear as humans talk with the "rock people" yet.

One day I was despondent because I had moved from the remote wilderness with my family and was having to deal with a lot of affluent people that were my in laws and in business. We had moved from the wilderness because we had bought a business and though it was financially successful I was sad to be away from a life I really loved. Though I loved the California coast and ocean I missed the amazing wilderness life I had loved while home schooling my children with my wife.

One day it was just too much for me and so I went to the coast and a part of me just wanted to jump off a cliff into the ocean because of the pressures of my new life as a businessman around affluent people and seeing the changes to my children now no longer being home schooled and in good public schools in this area. I longed for my previous life in the remote wilderness once again. I don't think my then wife were ever really happy again after leaving our country remote lifestyle until we broke up about 10 years later in 1994 for the last time.

But, as I cried and considered jumping off this cliff the rock people began to speak to me. This is what they said then, "You don't need to jump. You are in transition from one life to another. There is no need to end your life in a physical body because of it. You will adjust."

I said, "Who are you?"

They said, "We are the rock people. We have lived for millions of years and have watched all creatures come and go. We see you like wild flowers that come in the spring. Your lives are very short but you are a part of us. We are with you as your bones and the minerals in your blood. We are a part of you, just like the ocean is a part of your body too."

Later, I visited Charlie Thom and asked him about the rock people. He said, "The rock people visit our sweat lodge when we heat them on the fire and bring them into the sweat lodge which is the womb of mother earth in which we are all reborn. My people have spoken with the rock people for thousands of years in my tradition I learned from my grandparents."

So, now I had a context for the "Rock people" which is a thousands of years old tradition of medicine men and women and sweat lodges in Native American cultures throughout North, South and Central America.

Later, after a sweat when I had the spins from so much heat I got out of the sweat lodge and lay on the rocks by the side of the river and it all came together for me like this:

The ROCK PEOPLE
"We are your bones
The water your blood
Your breath the sky."


This is extremely powerful at a very primal level of all life on earth.

The rock people are saying to you and me "We are your bones"

Then they are saying "The water is your blood"

And

Your breath is the sky above you.

So, literally we are the rocks, the oceans and the air and sky.

We are everything all the time. We aren't just humans, we are the earth and sea and sky all the time.

This is very very powerful. Can you feel it?

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