This is a spiritual writing and is meant to be read a minimum of four times. Please remember that Native is a word that describes those that love the Earth, no matter what Nation they are from. There are Red, Black, White and Yellow Natives, and always will be.
The word Native means "ative"-is an expressing tendency meaning 'thinking about'. 'Thinking about' "N". N is the Creator name of God. To be Native means you are one that is "thinking about God" continually. This word is a Circle...a complete thought. Anyone that walks in a Sacred Way continually thinking about God and His Creation, is Native. All Beings of Light, were Native to the Earth, in the Beginning and will soon be again, in the eNd.
Everyone has heard of Spirit Wars, although many People do not know they are real or that they have been participants in them. Nor do they believe that they have been the objects of these Wars. Most People reject Spiritual Warfare as imaginary, without substance or that they are of no consequence to their lives. Understand that the effects of Spiritual Warfare are real, and those persons who knowingly or unwittingly practice this type of warfare, should know the final consequence is the total destruction of the People it is fought over.
In a competitive world Spiritual Warfare occurs everywhere in every day life. We were born as Spirits long before we entered this World as physical beings and as Spirits we need Bodies to flow through. Our Spirits are real and more important than our physical Bodies, for without our Spirits, our Bodies are merely corpses. On every level of life, an encounter is a Spiritual encounter, whether one chooses to recognise it or not. Many choose to ignore their spiritual existence and lack continuity of thought through their choice. If all People on the Earth were to agree to ignore truth, their combined thought could not move one star to change the Order of the Universe nor would their unanimity in agreement make their decision right. It would merely make ignorance a part of their reality.
Truth is a fixed reality. The Order of the Universe made clearly visible through the light emanating from the Sun, Moon, and Stars is the fixed reality, on which all truth is based. The movement of these universal bodies symbolise the continuity of truth and their light the constant flow of knowledge. The Will of God is made easy to understand through their high visibility and clarity of purpose. These lights were set in the sky to guide Mankind through the knowledge they emanate, regarding the Will of God. Knowledge is light. Without the light of the Sun, the Sol/Soul of God, rising in the east and setting in the west every day, we would be lost in darkness and unable to see a permanent basis for direction in our lives.
There is only One Truth! It did not originate with the birth of Mankind, nor was it borne from the efforts of Mankind to modify the Word of God to suit their own purposes. This is the wilfulness of the Spirit of Mankind that causes chaos to reign over Earth, as it does. If everyone were allowed to live life through their own free will, as all ambitious men believe they should, there would be no rhyme or reason for the existence of the Natural Laws, which hold the Universe together, through their unifying forces. The logic behind the orderly placement of all things in the Universe would be rendered useless, for All People would be seen as the creators of their own orders and sources of knowledge. The objects of their ambitions would manifest the knowledge they hold and these temporal objects would become the fixed sources of light on which lasting truth is based on. If any part of this scenario were made reality, truth would be as long lasting as the life span of a Man, and there would be no sense of permanence to reality, like there is now.
Feeling lost? Nothing anyone could touch, taste, see or feel would contain a fixed sensation. It is the senses that God gave us, that gathers the information that our minds assess and our hearts accept as reality. We as Human Beings do not formulate truth, we cull it form information we gather from our surroundings. Faith in everything would be as fleeting as a flight of fantasy or a fad, were it otherwise. If Mankind were the originators of truth, every truth ever conceived would have died along with its originator, leaving little of nothing to generate into permanence. Truth does not die nor is it altered by time. Truth is unwavering. It does not give way to flights of fantasy nor does it fail those who believe in it. It will remain true forever.
Truth is a self sustaining and enduring reality. Reality is based on the thoughts of the Creator God and all other thoughts allude to the fantasies or desires of Mankind. Understanding that we are Spirits first, teaches us that the Spirit World is real and that reality in the Physical World is only one level of the Spirit World. We are having a Spiritual experience at all times!
The Spirit of Competition dominates the lives of all who strive to live well in the World of Man. Spiritual Warfare is prolific in the World of Man because of its competitive ideologies. Competition is the first stage of war, and the introduction of competition into a society is an effort by those who introduce it, to divide that society. The destroying of Truth is the second stage. It is a must to issue forth the misinformation to mislead a targeted audience for exploitation or victimisation and to cause misunderstanding and mistrust among their victims, toward those who would cause them to remain unified as a community. This is the dividing line that is necessary to victimise every community. The next thing that happens is each party makes a choice on the position they will promote whether right or wrong. We are then fully immersed in a conflict of ideologies. Ideas are thoughts and the thought is the spirit of a word that each Spirit carries forth. The thought of the word contains a concept that can physically manifest as good or evil, right or wrong. When two conflicting ideas or concepts collide, one is in a Spirit War. This is the chosen lifestyle of the World of Man, and it is a continual occurrence. Everyone participates in Spiritual Warfare. Some People are more aware of Spirit Wars than others and some people are aware on many other levels of consciousness.
To demonstrate Spiritual Warfare on a greater scale, than in an individual's life or personal world, we will offer the following writing about Spiritual Warfare between imaginary organizations. This is not personal and this is an example and teaching.
Spiritual Warfare occurs when the Heads of two or more organizations vie for the participation of the members of one "community" to attend their "individual" functions. This warfare divides the community, through competitiveness introduced through government and/or corporate and private funding policies. Most beings do not realise that they are the willing participants of long standing plans; the carrying out of governments and/or corporations and/or private policies to divide and conquer. Division causes weakness and makes all conquests possible.
When community Leaders cannot come together because they cannot or will not see past their own agendas for attaining personal power and position, and/or government, corporate and private funding, the social and moral objectives they once held, begin to deteriorate becoming a matter of material wealth and personal security (keeping their pay checks and perky benefits). When the Leaders, who were to lead through example, cannot come together to better the lives of their People, by unifying and co-ordinating their aims and objectives, social programs, special and spiritual events, they clash head-on with one and another. They fight over the lives of their People, dividing the People, in favour of personal gain, showing everyone they are corrupt and shouldn't be Leaders.
Now our imaginary Native organization is planning an Earth Day Celebration. So are other Native and Non-Native organizations in the same area. Each organisation has received "special funding" for this great event. Everyone is pleased and starts planning for the "Day". These various groups all have two things in common. First, the day of the Event is April 22nd. They also have another thing in common. Due to funding criteria, various restrictions apply and each group needs to be able to document the numbers of people that will attend and for further funding, those numbers have to be high. This ensures the future Earth Day Celebration and personal positions. With these things understood, the leaders and committee members, begin to plan their "Day". In actual fact, they begin to prepare for a Spirit War.
Having excepted the gift of special funding, two Native organizations decide to participate in these Celebration activities, in the same city and both decide to throw a day of educational activities and host a picnic, separately. They now need to advertise and here is where the battle line is drawn. Through competition, they need to vie for the participation of members from the same community. This immediately divides the community, through the lack of co-operation, destroying any chance of unity which might have occurred, had all members (of various Organizations, Societies, Nations) come together, to celebrate this annual event.
Individuals being Spirits, have just been divided by two organizations. Now everyone must decide, which part of their family would they like to picnic with. Dividing Spirits is Spiritual Warfare. Dividing Families is wrong.
This type of Spirit War happens on a physical level in our communities, every time Socials, Workshops, Conferences, and Events are scheduled.
A community is an entity or spiritual presence composed of all its members, much like a Lion is made up of all its members. Its head(mind), heart, body, fore legs, hind legs, and tail, make it a great and powerful spirit. Missing any of these parts the Lion, you think you see, is not a Lion. Missing any of these things, the Lion is not a whole or balanced being. The head is the mind with a jaw which can crush any opposition, carrying the teeth of knowledge and the piercing truth of the tongue. The fore legs have the power to defend and the ability to hold onto anything, it desires to make his. The hind legs are its swiftness and the power to propel its entire being, upward and forward with grace and ease. The tail with its hidden spur, guides him and gives him balance when in fluid motion, whether in the air or on the ground. The tail is also a whip to spur on his soul and the body of his family when in movement and a signal to give direction to those who follow in his footsteps. The body contains the heart and purpose of all it's members, bringing them together in Oneness and Harmony. Without harmony and oneness in the pride, all members of the family body would die. For without the communal body, its members have no purpose nor could they, without the body, maintain life. A Lion, like all Great Spirits, needs all of its parts. All of its parts acting as One Body, Unified in thought, Loving its heart (all of its members), and satisfied only when its Soul is One with the Great Spirit, the Creator God. Only then can the Lion walk in Pride.
Considering that Earth Day (just one example) happens every year, the "community" Leaders have had more than ample time to put their heads together to organise one major event and unify all who are concerned for the well being of their Mother, the Earth. Further more, this would show the world, civic, federal and provincial governments in general, a nationally united Native population, unwilling to be victimised through their divisive funding policies. There is no stronger voice to deliver this message than Unity. At this time most Native populations are shown as small, hidden and divided, by national and foreign media, to Governments, Agencies and to other Citizens at large. United Native Organisations would have a greater chance to get funding, since the unified voice of a greater population, tends to be heard. With a united group, you would not need government or corporate funding either. One dollar from each member, adds up quickly and can make events happen. "Many bound arrows are hard to break."
Without Leaders putting their minds together for the betterment of their communities, through the unification of their societies, they soon become the Heads of Nothing. Only when All Life, the whole Community of the People, weak and strong, come together as One, United in Spirit, will we know that we have true Leaders. Only then will we have Peace instead of the constant Spirit Wars that we are forced to participate in. Look around and see who are worried about their personal worlds, their individual family empires, their personal power and standing. Those beings are not Leaders but Opportunists. They do not care for the Whole Community or the Nation. They care for their personal comfort and little else.
The Ancestors that walked before us were concerned for the whole; the whole Family, the whole Tribe, the whole Nation. Until all of our Family, our Tribe(everyone belongs to a tribe somewhere), our Nation walks proud again, we will be participating in Spiritual Warfare.
We can choose to walk in Peace or in War. The choice to make a change is yours.
Written by Del Ashkewe and Paula Johnstone Immortal Thunder and Lightening Woman