“When did you first discover you were telepathic?” said the old woman, “My name is Jeanne Eaglesong,” we two, standing in the middle of the labyrinth at Holy Trinity after Eucharist, she bored into me with her eagle eyes and continuing said, “I heard you tell me to be more gentle with my words, if [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Grandmothers and Aunties’
White Corn Elder
Posted in Elder Activities, tagged Eagle, Grandmothers and Aunties on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Robert Frost at Dartmouth 1962
Posted in Child/Parent Relationship, Mental Health, tagged Grandmothers and Aunties, Psychology on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My freshman year at Dartmouth College in 1961 taught me a lot about looking in the mirror. I wanted to get as far away as possible from my alcoholic family and decided to use my intellectual gifts to get a scholarship to the Ivy League. My mind was my ticket to freedom. We drove from [...]
We are all related
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Grandmothers and Aunties, Native American Church on May 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago a carefully hidden secret popped to the surface of our family consciousness. The story my mother told was that our German great-grandfather married “beneath his station” and decided to emigrate to America. He became a dairy farmer in Racine, Wisconsin. The family spoke German, as did many of the other immigrants [...]
Go Ask Alice about Hitler’s childhood
Posted in Psychology, Terroism, tagged Alice Miller, Grandmothers and Aunties, Wisdom on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Back in 1984 Alice Miller said, in the Preface to the American Edition of her book, For Your Own Good: Hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the roots of violence, two very important things: First “Hitler never had a single other human being in whom he could confide his true feelings; he was not only mistreated [...]
Man, you are old school!
Posted in Liberal Catholic Church, Peyote Ceremony, Reincarnation, tagged Grandmothers and Aunties, Native American Church, Old Catholic Church on October 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At twenty-one he is tuned into the egrets, surfing, esoteric philosophy and spirituality. Struggling to stay in school and support himself since he was a teenager, living with his friends’ families and maintaining his independence in the process, he reminds me of the old stories of the Native Americans, who were fiercely rooted in their [...]
The Little Green Frog
Posted in entheogens, Peyote, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged Coyote, Deer, Grandmothers and Aunties, Native American Church on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My granddaughter had found us seats on the north side of the crescent moon altar. My nephew was tending the blazing fire. The coals were bright orange. I was sitting beside a young man who was new to these ways. His lover was on the other side of me, next to my granddaughter. As we [...]
Is Daddy ever coming back?
Posted in Mental Health, Mentoring, sacred ceremonies, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Coyote, Divine Intelligence, Grandmothers and Aunties, Healing, Shadow on October 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was four years old, standing at the screen door, looking out at the road. There were no cars to be seen. My mom, who was sitting in a chair behind me, burst into tears saying, “Mikey you know so much more than we think.” I had put her feelings into words. We both felt [...]
Mother, Carry Me Home
Posted in Mental Health, Peyote Ceremony, Spirituality, tagged Grandmothers and Aunties, Shadow on September 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Things are shifting rapidly. I noticed my Mentoring has shifted to fathers and men aged 25 to 45. Now I am teaching dream interpretation to clergy, Marriage and Family therapists, and spiritual counselors, as well as individual clients. People’s dreams give me an intimate insight into their situation. Years of practice in counseling others helps [...]
The Mother Thunder Hen
Posted in Reincarnation, Spirituality, tagged Dreams, Grandmothers and Aunties, Indigenous, Spirituality on September 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I awoke from a short nap in the park, I began wrapping fresh white sage into smudge sticks with red string. I noticed there were four chickens looking for insects under the trees. They seemed to belong to the limping man with the two dogs on one leash. He had passed by me earlier. [...]
Papa’s Heart
Posted in Mentoring, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged Balancing the Opposites, Grandmothers and Aunties, Indigenous, Native American Church on September 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
During the Ceremony my nephew asked me to pray with the Cedar, the Sacred Evergreen, and bless the midnight water. When he handed me the Cedar Bag, I spoke about the sponsor’s father and how proud he would be of his daughter for bringing us all together in celebration of her 54th birthday. I have [...]
