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Sun 1.21.24 

The Sacred White Buffalo Woman told the Lakota when they die; their souls must be purified so they can reunite with Wakan Tanka. – the Great Spirit.

A lock of hair is taken from a person and held over a piece of burning sweetgrass to purify it, (adopt any appropriate plant life to replace the sweetgrass if necessary.)

Then it is wrapped in a piece of sacred buckskin (or any appropriate animal skin), and the Sacred Pipe is smoked (marihuana). The buckskin bundle, called the soul bundle, is kept in a special place in the tipi of the soul’s keeper, usually a relative, lover, friend, or even self when appropriate. The Keeper of the Soul vows along with the person to live a harmonious life until the soul can be released, generally about one year.

At year’s end the ceremony to release the soul begins with a buffalo hunt (what you consider worth hunting for) and the construction of a special lodge. Kinnikinnik – sacred tobacco – is smoked in the pipe, and special food is buried as an offering to the earth. The bundle containing the soul is carried outside and, as soon as it reaches the air, the soul is released.

The soul then travels along the Spirit Path, which is the Milky Way, to reach Maya Owichapaha – the old woman who judges each soul. If she judges it worthy, she sends the soul to the right to Wakan Tanka. Unworthy souls are sent to the left, where they remain until they finally can become purified and join Wakan Tanka.

 

We approach 2024 with trepidation, but with a strong heart.  At present there is a war with Ukraine, genocide of the Palestinian people occurs at pace, a war with the Houthis. (who one admires for defending the Palestinian/Arab peoples rights from the slaughter unfolding.  This has agitated the people; we have seen, live, children half crazed with fear, children wandering in some lunar landscape of crumpled buildings where most homes are gone. Everything runs on emergency basis; one sees men and women running with broken children to get help.  The world is upset, disturbed, by the ongoing genocide;  people take to the streets to protest.

About race: We now have a President who overtly pits African people against the Europeans.  It is a longstanding political tactic countries at large use., but more subtly then Biden.  The government, as we have known it, is over.  It has become corrupt beyond repair, we are attacked for what we think, believe.  To speak one’s truth is cause for trouble. and worse.  What makes it more harmful is that we are seeing it live, we are right there at the scene.

The World Economic Forum, whose leader, Klaus Schwab, speaks of himself and his organization as leaders of the world with the power to shape and define what and how the world’s people will live their lives.  “You will have nothing, and you will be happy.”  It is the “you’s” in that sentence that concerns and not “we.”  The Economic Forum is comprised of numbers, economic numbers, number of members, of followers, that is its power.  They are betting that power will overwhelm any obstructions one has to their economic weapon.

Their influence is felt in the United States as there is an open governmental decimation of its power at hand, fostered by WEF. Our appointed leader is slowly losing his mind to dementia.  He lives in a world people left behind after the sixties.  He wants to take us back to the Woodtock Music Festival, a time of plenty before the riots, when art prevailed and music was its hand maiden.  But he’s a son of a bitch, and what he wants is power, not the people’s well-being.  And so he has opened wide the gates for the world to come in with a welcome economic packet.  We have the example of the European Union demanding that its members accept immigrants from diverse counties.  Those that obeyed the dictum are now setting about returning those immigrants back to their countries of origin.  A horror.  Imagine what it will do to the United States if the immigrants, who were encouraged and enticed to enter, were now forced to leave.  And for them to stay would destroy the country.  The United States cannot accept these millions of people without collapsing.

Humanity bases its model of power on the family.  Since the birth of its species, rules were established within families to promote its group’s survival.  Any threat was eliminated by casting out its traitors, or rendering them powerless. Am I being redundant with the word “people?”  Yes, and with reason.  You see, some rulers are succumbing to he siren song of the WEF.  As peoples of the world, we are instinctively and duty bound to protect each other in our families, in our separate cultures, in our countries and to the world of peoples in their familial, ethnic, racial, national identity.  We have no choice.  We allow the Palestinians to be eradicated we will also be placed on the list.  I am French in an Anglo-Saxon world and know well the importance of these cultural differences, holding well my own, my true sense of self..

The desecration of childhood is a weapon in which power is asserted over the powerless and impressionable to mutilate them, force them into attitudes and actions that are not the pervue of children and robs them of their childhood, their innocence.  They are kidnapped by the elites, i.e. those whose primary identification is economic, to be tortured, yes, it is now being exposed what the elites are doing to these children.  You will soon learn what two notable political women inflicted on a child with full knowledge of those in power who did nothing about it.

“People Got the Power;” said Patti Smith.  To redeem the work of fools/Upon the meek the graces shower/It's decreed the people rule/The People Have The Power.

The people in Iowa believe it.  They gathered in groups such as our ancestors from time immemorial and made a decision.  Is that the right course?  If not they will amend it at the next get-together or sooner, if needed.  I like the group’s influence in the caucus method of choosing candidates and should be adopted by all states.  It is important at this time for people to be true to themselves, their core beliefs, and to assert them,when, and where they can, as much as they can.  It is their most powerful weapon.  Say it, support it, and  live it, destroys the false.  It becomes a soothing balm that creates an impenetrable shield.  It is, and will always be, the people’s truth that prevails.  John Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed by the government; Joe Biden was chosen by government and undoubtedly deep state to preside, not the people who took to the streets to protest on January 6.  The FBI sets about destroying any group they see as threat to their rule of fear, parents, Christians, protesters.  Covid 19 and its vaccine was disseminated to cull the masses. Tell me what you think is an insult to your truth?  It will set you free . . .and all of us too.

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Eight o'clock Sunday morning, the police arrive at her apartment in Greenwich Village, "How long have you been living here?" The roommate Elizabeth, after having accepted her half of the deposit money and rent for their new apartment, has called the police. 

New York City doesn’t open its arms to welcome her, but she’s arrived and the adventure of her life is about to unfold.  She’s come from Maine with an invitation from Sarah Lawrence College to participate in the graduate writing program.

How one becomes a seeress is what this memoir explores. Stories have been specifically selected to illustrate, from the sublime to the practical, a spiritual journey introduced in each chapter by an atout, the Tarot’s major archetypes.   From the Fool, to The World, our human journey with its risk and folly unfolds. There is also an artist here alive to her new world seeking inspiration among artists on the Lower East side, learning the ways and foods of her Chinese neighbors, falling in love.