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INITIATION INTO THE TRIBES

9/8/2012

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At funerals and in churches we hear religious authorities preaching from the pulpit about how people "should" live their lives, distancing themselves from the reality of real life.
Connection with Spirit comes through connection with the spirit of  each living being... bringing spirit into matter through recognizing and communing with lost souls finding their way back into physical form.
Connection comes through living among the people within a tribe. This means showing up, relentlessly perservering with no judgement until you are found worthy to join. Initiation into a tribe is earned though learning and supporting the unique codes of behavior, body language, intuitive knowledge and spiritual quests while remaining true to ones self.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche.
Acceptance into the tribe is demonstrated through the gifting of a symbolic icon such as a copper spiral necklace of two, three or four spirals denoting who you are and the gifts you will share.
Adoption into the Navajo tribe came through the acceptance of a ceremonial blanket gifted to my husband. One of these blankets had never left the Reserve in over 837 years.  Beautiful beadwork, turquoise and silver jewelery of the clan signs denoting "born to" and "born for" with instructions of how and when the symbols were to be worn were given by the grandmother, spiritual leader and medicine people in a series of initiations. We were told "you can vacation in Montana or wherever you wish but this is your home and you will always return here." When asked what I wanted in return I simply replied, "I want to know what you know."
Initiation into the tribe of a Lakota Sundance came through a vision shared with a Sundancer...a vision of the Five Holy Men of the Lakota.
For years I have sought out and listened to the "Wanderers". I want to know what they know.  This tribe lives on the street and survives in the borderlands around Helena.   I went to the Grandmother/Grandfather Tree behind Urgent Care Plus to smudge a co-worker who was struggling. The musky smell of burning sage and sweetgrass drew the tribe in. In the mists of an angry confrontation in the alley behind us, police cars and threats of violence, one by one they came to the tree and asked to be smudged. Later that night, gathered around a single light in the hobo camp just beyond the city limits they spoke of the journey from the Star System of Orion, initiations by Carlos Castenada as a child, re-configuring human two- strand DNA into twelve-strand DNA, and life on the fringes. I listened and learned.      


 

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Joshua Farmer
9/9/2012 05:25:10 am

OH my!!! What a beautiful site you have.. soo many amazing pictures associated with some amazing experiences. I was very pleased to meet you yesterday at the Peace Fest in Arlee, and I hope stay in contact with you for your work resonates with me on a cellular level. Such power and Knowledge in those crystals.. mmm
Thank you for your energy :)
Blissings of Oneness Love !
-Joshua

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Jen link
8/1/2013 07:07:09 pm

I am awestruck. As a seeker, I read your history & I am just blown away at how you are walking the path that I have sought & still strive for. I, too, was initiated in western medicine, but my entire life I yearned for deeper knowledge in medicine & spirituality. I've always reached towards native teachings, instinctively knowing that they knew THE Truth of All That Is. Just a couple months shy of my RN graduation, I abandoned it & began my journey toward naturopathic research. I began a family early & so while that has slowed some progress, it's also fueled it as well....Guess you could say I am impatient with myself & having always had issues with time, struggle to reconcile that my path is much like that of a tree or river branching out in many directions, yet with life & purpose infused as each smaller vessel or accomplishment is just as worthy & necessary as the larger, more obvious growth(s).

For 30yrs now I have craved (as a white girl) to connect & mentor with authentic native culture. I visited the Cherokee Reservation in NC & felt disappointed - nearly aggravated - that I did not know how to take things beyond the typical tourist experience. You have given me such hope & rekindled my determination, for I had been told (by someone online) that I would doubtfully ever be accepted given my birth culture. I want to know more more more & just as you said what I want - "Is to know what you know." I could elaborate more on numerous synchronicities, but to get straight to the point, it is my life purpose to be a true healer, teacher, preserver of humanity, bridge between many people with many differences. Please, I would love to talk with you more.

1 more thing....I am struggling with the dilemma of should my family move to an area saturated with this culture to support my growth on this path, or should I stay in my hometown that is isolated in many regards throughout this process, thus only allowing face-to-face support & teaching on vacation excursions? You see, there is so much ground to cover that it's like climbing a glorious mtn & I am just not certain if I should go where the wind supports my winged flight, or stay where I am pulling up the depths of despair anchored behind me as I hike the trek? This ambiguity won't leave me & I do need help knowing which I am supposed to do. My intuition keeps saying either way, I will crest the mtn, but it's a matter of which experience I prefer, & to be honest, it'd be the supported flight in a heartbeat. However, there is a heavy guilt that follows just the desire of doing so, & I am worried that is a sign that I will be losing more than I realize should I take this break from my hometown, even if the plan is to return decades later. Advice?

Namaste,
Jen

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