Uploaded by MarkSawalha1 on Jul 7, 2010
This film is made in Finland. You can see the beautiful scandinavian nature in many scenes. The story is based on Chief Seattle’s respond to American government after they wanted to buy the land from native americans. This is the third and the most popular version of the speech and it’s modified in 1970′s. Chief Seattle was a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes in what is now the U.S. state of Washington. The city of Seattle in Washington state is named after him.
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- The Land Remembers (kelvinkraft.wordpress.com) [This brief article shares another version of this speech; I found it interesting. ~J]
from Stunned at Sunset…
How do I Dream the Dream…..
How do we get in touch with the place where we can dream dream’s that can be made real?… How do we dream with enough clarity to know that the dream is actually a vision from the Great Spirit?
The native ways require some form of sacrifice. From what I understand this starts off with “intent” to go on a vision quest. Going to the wilderness to be alone without food or knife places the person in a unique situation. The individual soon begins to realize how much the physical reality is filled with distractions and lacks connection to the spirit.
After a few days the hunger is no longer an issue. There is no place to go and nothing to do!! It is the wild mind and the internal struggle for peace that grabs all the attention. Eventually the ego mind surrenders and the soul of the person reaches out to the Great Spirit for a vision. If he or she is lucky a vision will be granted. This is one way to “dream the dream”
To me it was surprise. Thank You.
Landscape
Beyond the Arctic Circle,
can be beautiful.
Have a lovely day!
Chief Seattle’s words are just as important today as at that time long ago. The earth does not belong to us. We are merely caretakers passing through. Because respect was not given to the land or the Native American caretakers — as with many other nations and peoples through greed and arogance and ill use of ego (fear) — we all have suffered. And while we like to use lofty words and references today as Lightkeepers, it means nothing if we forget the Chief’s words. If we ignore history, we are bound to repeat it. Thank you, Jean.
General post:
Information is neither good nor bad. It’s just information. It is what it is and it is not another thing. I know, I belabor that point. In our ignorance, we can give information form and a persona to give it life but our ideal soon evaporates into the nothingness. It cannot be sustained because our contrivance has no principle. It is a thought; an idea in the mind of its co-creator and, lacking the ethos of God, it cannot abide. It becomes oblivious.
The Truth we know intuitively. It often “appears” before us as though it were fashioned of granite–so dense and so real–it manifests itself as an elemental article of our reality and our mind is drawn to it quite naturally.
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:11 thru 13
Many of you have been asking: “How do I dream the dream?” “Where do I begin.”
Begin here. You are no longer a child. You all can think in your own terms. The world you view through your own eyes is YOUR world. You don’t need to be told what to do or how to do it. You’ve all awakened. What is that agreeable nature about something we KNOW to be the Truth? That nature is that it is “familiar” to us. Though we may have never heard it or have seen it before, we KNOW it is the Truth because we accept it intuitively. It is deja vu.
The Judeo-Christian Bible also says: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Exodus 20:12
What has the Father given us? Who is your Father? Who is your Mother? How do you “keep” your brothers…your sisters? These are the things with which all of us must now concern ourselves. The time for wasting thoughts on plastic, “tangible” things, lies, and conceit has passed.
This we have been told today: “The Earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the Earth. He is a strand in the web of life.”
We know that this is the truth because it is “familiar” to us. Why? Because Seattle spoke through his higher consciousness–through his higher self which is that part of us that speaks to the Creator. This post is no coincidence; he is speaking to us now. The old man lives. Listen to the wisdom of our elder.
Now you know how to dream the dream. Start here; in the beginning with our Mother. Memorize these axioms. They are NOT assumptions; they are NOT information that grazes the periphery of our intellects only to be forgotten in the darkness of oblivion. They are droplets of wisdom and such wisdom can be known and understood to be the Truth. Move upon it! An epoch ago–long before the dark age–the Earth was a garden; our lives a celebration. Our elder speaks to us through the ether of what we should be thinking. Think of how it once was and will soon be again.
SS, this is beautifully said. I need to hold onto these ideas right now. I just said in an email to a friend that I’ve been ‘holding tight’ for several days. Not sure why. Thanks and hugs, ~Jean