"The water my blood, the rocks my bones, My Breath the sky"

Or in regard to all of you:

"The Water Our blood, the rocks Our Bones, Our Breath the Sky"

This was a mystical experience of reality that I had climbing out of Charlie Thom's Sweat Lodge on upper Sacramento River coming into Lake Siskiyou in the early 1990s. But, it wasn't just a theoretical experience it was an experience of the reality of life. As I lay there on the edge of the river on the rocks with the spins from the heat of the sweat lodge and praying I had this experience.

In other words, as we human pollute the air, we pollute our lungs and people die from asthma and peumonia.

As we human pollute the water, because there are too many of us, children die from water that is not clean enough to drink and survive all over the world.

As we pollute the grounds with chemicals, refuse and nuclear weapons we die in various ways more and more.

There is no way to separate our blood, our breath, or our bones from the water, air or earth around us.

Understanding this we live our lives differently trying to leave the earth as good or better than we found it.

note: Charlie Thom was a Karuk Medicine man I met in the vicinity of Mt. Shasta. He lived in Happy Camp, in Northern California near the Oregon border.

Karuk - Wikipedia

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Karuk. The Karuk people are an indigenous people of California, and the Karuk Tribe is one of the largest tribes in California. Karuks are also enrolled in two other federally recognized tribes, the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria and the Quartz Valley Indian Community.

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