“All dreams spin out from the same web.” — Hopi proverb
This work beats the shamanic drum of the Great Spirit that inhabits the dreamscapes of the free and the brave. Any similarity between spirits of dreamscapes and their shadows on landscapes is auditory.
Word to the wise: It would not be wise to tune-in to shamanic drumming on YouTube before reading at least the quotes in this post, lest you get carried away.
The drumming is not “making music.” It is a means of opening a doorway through sound.
— Robert Moss, Conscious Dreaming
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
— Black Elk, Oglala-Lakota Sioux
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.
— Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
— Geronimo, Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache
We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
– Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
— Chief Seattle, Duwamish, Suquamish
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
— Dakota-Sioux proverb
The dream world is the real world.
— Seneca healer*
If you do not do something with your dreams you will not dream well.
— Huichol shaman*
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.
— N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa
The dimension that separates the living from the dead is exactly as wide as the edge of a maple leaf.
— Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet*
The Great Spirit is in all things. He is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us…..That which we put into the ground she returns to us.
“Big Thunder” (Wabanaki), Algonquin
*Starred quotes are from the book Conscious Dreaming, A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life, by Robert Moss; for other proverbs and quotes we thank Google AI for extrapolating the wisdom of indigenous peoples. There are some 5000 distinct indigenous tribes, about 476 million people living in more than 90 countries of every region on the planet. Their wisdom is the experience of millennia in the ways of the Great Spirit.
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Beautiful words.
Chief Joseph of a band of the Nez Perce tribe said: “It does not require many words to speak the truth,” and “Beauty is truth, wrote John Keats of a band of the Brit tribe. That sets the bar for “beautiful words” at a few true ones in the eye and the ear of the beholder. Thank you, George, for so beholding our efforts toward that high bar.
This whole post creates a gentle drumming that I can hear as I read.
Incense dances
in the dreams
of silent percussion
Miigwech, LuAnne (“Thank you,” in Ojibwe, indigenous language of Michigan and the Great Lakes region) for incense dancing in the dreams of silent percussion. Your words led me to a YouTube video of incense dancing to shamanic drumming and bamboo fluting, but it’s only silent on mute, so be warned.