THE CIRCLE WAY NEWSLETTER Listening to the Bones: Feeding the Hungry Ghosts By Martha Lucier In the winter, we collect the bones in silent reverenc
THE CIRCLE WAY NEWSLETTER
Listening to the Bones: Feeding the Hungry Ghosts
By Martha Lucier
In the winter, we collect the bones in silent reverence. We slow down and listen, past the stillness, to the inside of trees, rock, fire and ice. With the old bones, we kindle the inner flame, surrendering, releasing, and grieving the lives we have not lived. The old bones are transformed into a heart crystal by the heat of the flame, opening a portal to divine love and light, welcoming new dreams and beginning our lives anew.
(The intention of a recent “Death and Beyond” gathering at CCSS)
Listening to the Bones
As the Earth shifts and quakes, and the bones of our ancestors begin to move, old stories that have been lodged deep beneath the surface call to us. These bones carry wisdom in the wounds of long ago that have kept the ancestral souls Earth-bound.
In the cold dark times of winter, when our bones creak and bodies contract from the chilling winds that blow, we are invited to listen, past the stillness, to the stories contained within our bones. What stories are we carrying on behalf of the Ancestors? What light wisdom do the bones of the Earth have to share with us?
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Song: Listen to them Bones
Song: Listen To Them Bones
Channelled by Martha Lucier
Singers/musicians: Martha Lucier, Kevin Alexander & Gwenith Kikkawa
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For more rock painting pictures click on image
Canada and Finland: Sharing the Light of the North
By Harold Alden
During a vision quest organized by the Northern Edge in the summer of 2005, I came face-to-face with questions that had been shadowing me since childhood: What is my place on this earth…Where do I belong? In the fall of that year I participated in a soul retrieval conducted by Martha Lucier, and the answers she helped me find were not at all what I was expecting.
I was thrust back to Finland, from where my father, and my mother’s family, had left for the U.S. in the early 20th century. Martha saw my spirit guardian, my haltija, as a powerful and wise man, waiting alongside the water in a cave with red markings on the walls, tending my forgotten soul parts. Later, through my reading I learned that the red marks that Martha saw are rock paintings from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and that they are a link to the deep shamanic tradition of Finns. This tradition links Finland to the other Finno-Ugric cultures of Eurasia, including the Sami, and to the ‘cradle of shamanism’ in Siberia.
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Upcoming
Public Conference Call With Finno-Ugric Shamanism Teachers & Practitioners
The Canadian Centre for Shamanic Studies will be hosting an open/free public conference call with Finno-Ugric Shamanism teachers and practitioners Dalva Lamminmaki , Susanna Aarnio, and Johannes Setala on Sunday February 3rd, 2013 at 1:00pm (Canada)/8:00PM (Europe).
Please join us in learning more about the deep shamanic wisdom of the Finns.
If you would like to tune into the conference call please contact CCSS Coordinator, Gwenith Kikkawa for more details:
* gwenith@shamanismcanada.com
* 888-383-8320 ext.4
Stay tuned for details of Dalva Lamminmaki's visit to Canada in the spring of 2013, visiting such areas as Toronto, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, and South River!
Dalva Lamminmaki drums/sings "Raising Up the Nature"
Song: Raising Up The Nature
A Message from Dalva Lamminmaki
This song comes from an old Finnish ritual poem.
"Rise,my nature, from the ground (hole),
from the undergrowth, my guardian spirit.
Rise, my nature, make my blood stronger.
Mother nature, the oldest daughter of the earth,
rise my nature...
rise my nature..."
The nature means enviromental nature but also human nature. We have a relationship with nature, and in nature is also the spirits, so in that way, ALL IS ONE. In these words I rise up my own energy and power, and also honour nature.
If I'm healing someone, it's important that I'm strong so i dont get sick, and in healing I need the energy from nature, and I have to ask for it.
In a drumming circle this is used this to call the spirits of nature to be in circle and give us their blessing.
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