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The Standing Bear Center for Shamanic Studies Women Elders Speak |
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A Note from Scarlet It has seemed to me for some time now that young women very much need the counsel of elder women who have walked a long shamanic path and can thus offer both new and ancient, long-forgotten perspectives on what it actually means to be a woman; what our sacred responsibilities as women are; how to live well as women in these times when we are continuing to experience a tremendous backlash against the feminist gains of the 60s, 70s and 80s. To that end, I will be inviting women elders to speak their minds on this page. If you know of a wise woman elder you would like to suggest for inclusion in this effort to offer alternative ways of thinking about ourselves as women, kindly let me know, and I will consider inviting her to contribute to this page. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ By Great White Feather Bear Native American Spiritual Elder To all of the unborn young women of the Mother Earth: I ask that you be gentle in the womb to the Mother who walked before you, for she is beginning to give you life. She is invoking the things that will make you strong as you come through and become a very young beautiful woman of light within the world we enter in, which is your future. Do not hold anger against the Great Mother who has birthed you. She worked with what she had to work with. It was the best she could do at the time, and you did choose her womb to come through. I ask that you have pity upon the Mother, as well as great love and respect. She nourished you. She brought you into the light. It is up to you, young woman, to find your way on this Great Mother's planet, what we call Mother Earth. Yes, it was a very strong warrior influence of a male who impregnated your mother with his influence, hoping to slow your own strong influence as a woman. We, as lifegivers, have allowed our young warriors to run too wild, too freely, without our own guidance. It is now time for all women young and old, to step up and to take these men under our wings and become the Great Mother and teacher. For without the Feminine archetype to be integrated with the all strong warrior energy, he runs blindly through the world, therefore not knowing love, or how to do things in a very orderly manner which would benefit the whole and future generations beyond. I have this much to say to you, young women: Go within yourselves, and find the love in your hearts. Be strong, be firm, but use everything with kindness and love. And without much effort, we will be a strong influence of Feminine enlightenment in the Fifth World of Peace. Time is running out very fast, and I see a lot of Earth's changes. I see a lot of war. I feel a lot of anger around me. The daily news…don't listen to it. For everything today is so unnecessary, causing the death of our youth. I have seen so much. I have worked with drugs, alcohol, sexual issues, very demented mind issues, and nothing has slowed up. Man's influence in pharmaceutical things has actually changed the DNA of the common man, almost as to control his mind, silencing his own spirit, leaving him unable to make his own conscious decisions. This is what we must focus upon, ladies. Because if you do not take reign now with your Feminine powers with which you have been gifted and pay close attention to what is going on with our Earth Mother and even your own offspring or your grandchildren, then we, the lifegivers of everything, have fooled only ourselves and have been blinded and become lazy by not taking charge. So rise up, open your eyes, look around you, hard. Do not think that your children will be saved in any way, because even they will be affected by this change. We must not lose another child to the ways of the world. The lack of a balance of Feminine and Male energy has been lost to the world, and as a result, men have shut off their hearts from their minds, so that they do not have to feel the repercussions of what they are producing. We must connect these two together again, for the scientist knows not what he does. Mankind has made everybody shapeshift to its ways of thinking, which is not normal, but technical. The great web which is the technology of the future, as much good as we can do with it, there is a lot of harm that comes with it. So I ask you, young woman, are you ready to stand tall? Put on your dress, and walk the walk so that the next seven generations will have a chance and a future? Our Earth is changing very fast climatically. It is unnecessary to keep altering foods genetically as they genetically alter the human DNA. Soon, we, the lifegivers, will have no need to give birth. For man has found a way to create life without using our wombs... to create the next human man-made generations of inhuman people, programmed to be war machines with no feeling, no love, and no idea of how to live. Is this what you want? I have spoken. Great White Feather Bear: June 11, 2009 Choose this link to return to my home page. 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