Native Knowings: Wisdom Keys for 2012 and Beyond

[SpiralHawk]

Cool little ebook on 2012 and the Mayan calendar with the collected views of native elders from all over the continent.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/9124

"Some things — basic spiritual teachings like honesty, sharing, humility, respect, and caring for the land — remain constant through all phases and cycles of human and world development. I reckon the year 2012 will bring no alteration to that."

[northernlights]

1. thank you so much for this

I needed to see it. :) :hug:

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Awesomeness. Thank you. :)

:hug:

[SpiralHawk]

3. Approaching the Year Cero

From the little ebook:

“According to the Maya Long Count Calendar, we are finalizing the 13 Baktun and 13 Ahau, thus approaching the Year Cero (2013). We are at the doorsteps of the ending of another period of the Sun, a period that lasts 5,200 years and ends with several hours of darkness. After this period of darkness there comes a new period of the Sun; it will be the 6th one.

"In each period of the Sun there is an adjustment for the planet and it brings changes in the weather conditions and in social and political life as well…The world is transformed and we enter a period of understanding and harmonious coexistence where there is social justice and equality for all. It is a new way of life. With a new social order there comes a time of freedom where we can move like the clouds, without limitations, without borders. We will travel like the birds, without the need for passports. We will travel like the rivers, all heading towards the same point, the same objective. The Mayan prophecies are announcing a time of change. The Pop Wuj, the Book of the Counsel, tells us, it is time for dawn; let the dawn come, for the task to be finished.”

- Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, Maya Grandelder

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. thats lovely

These are the kinds of words I love to end my yoga classes with while
the students are in sivasana.

Thank you for posting-
Peace IN, Peace ON

[SpiralHawk]

5. "otherwise, nature is going to take over..."

From Native Knowings - 2012

Lead a Simple Life
“The Great Spirit based us here to take care of this land and life for Him through prayer, meditations, ceremonies, and rituals, and to lead a simple life close to the Earth. That’s what we have been doing. Governments talk all the time about human rights, equality, justice, and all those things, but they have never done anything for the native people. Never.

"It’s time that they do that – live up to their talk – otherwise nature is going to take over. Earthquakes, flooding, destruction by volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, things like that… It’s already happening, and it takes that kind of thing to wake up many people who are controlling this land by money and power and just ripping everything from the Earth. They are doing something that is not right in the law of the Great Spirit and the law of nature. We're all going to have to work together. The world is in trouble right now."

- Thomas Banyacya, Hopi

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. "honesty, sharing, humility, respect, and caring for the land"

May they not only remain constant, may they take precedence. :hi:

[Cleita]

7. Thanks SpiralHawk. Thanks for thinking about us to post these

sources for us.