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In traditions passed down from our ancestors, we have come together
- To Teach
- To Share
- To Help YOU find Balance and Healing in your Life.
Represented here are healing traditions of indigenous peoples from around the world -- traditions that have proven to be effect for thousands of years and techniques that modern science has only begun to scratch the surface of in its quest to explore and explain how and why these methods work.
Just Exactly What Is Medicine?
To all indigenous peoples, medicine refers to the spirit power of a life form. It is the ability to make a harmonious whole. It is the inner knowledge. It is Knowing.
Traditionally, a medicine man or woman is one who is empowered with knowledge and the ability to bring about healing. To many of the indigenous peoples, the Healers are the Shaman, the Priests, and the Holy Ones. In other traditions they are the elders of the tribe. In truth, a Healer is simply one who understands that Life is Everything, one who has direct personal experience of realms of non-ordinary reality and who is able to willfully function within those realms. A Healer is primarily a "harmonizer" -- one who brings harmony at all levels -- physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual -- and in a particular way unique to him/herself.
The medicine men and women, the Healers of today, like their ancestors, practice the principles and techniques which involve working with the powers of Nature that exist both inside and outside the individual self as both manifest form and unmanifest potential. Project NatureConnect offers us a way of learning this by direct personal experience. Traditionally, the methods of the Healers transcend the intellect because they form part of the ancient Science of the Spirit and Healing and Balance is essentially an activity of the Spirit.
All healers, medicine people and shaman operate in accordance with Sacred Spiritual Laws and principles. These laws are of Cosmic origin and are universally applicable. They are known by all cultures as Sacred Laws and are set apart from the "laws of man". They provide guidelines under which everything in the universe operates within the limitations of time and space.
Although the Sacred Laws never change, they allow all things -- tangible and intangible -- to develop in harmony in an infinite number of patterns. To circumvent any Sacred Law results in imbalance. Harmony can only be restored when alignment with orderly guidance is re-established. Knowledge of the Sacred Laws helps the Healer to bring about healing for they are the keys to harmonization.
Throughout the universe there is a striving for union of Yin and Yang -- the urge for the passive feminine and active masculine principles to unite as one. It is through this fusion of Yin and Yang that new life-forms come into existence and growth, development, abundance and replenishment take place.
The whole of creation from its lofty heights to its very depths is built on the Power of LOVE. Love is both a power -- an energy which has the ability to perform work -- and a "substance". A substance is defined in the dictionary as "a material or essence from which things are made". Therefore, the Cosmos has not only come into being through the Power of Love, it is actually composed of the very essence of Love. That realization constitutes within itself a whole missing dimension in mankind's understanding of both material and spiritual reality.
LOVE is the power that brought everything that IS into existence and it is the very substance from which that which IS was made. And, LOVE has identity. It has a "Name", though long "forgotten" by mankind. Sacred writings revered by many state that "God is Love", but few recognize the LOVE is what that GOD is! All things were made BY THAT LOVE and OUT OF THAT LOVE, and IN THAT LOVE we live and move and have our being -- as does every other life-form which, because of THAT LOVE, is therefore our "relative". Aho Mitakuye Oyasin!
Mankind's relationship with the Earth, with other life-forms, and with each other is gravely out of balance through ignorance of that realization. We take without asking and offer the Earth nothing in return. We deny that the Earth is our Mother yet our physical bodies are made from her substance and fashioned, nurtured and sustained by her -- as are all our relations!. We are ALL in existence because of LOVE.
The Healer KNOWS this and does not deny it.
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