Greetings my Relations,
In sacred connections I weave this blog to be One Circle again! To circle back around to a man who has had the biggest influence of remembering I am a red skin in a white woman’s body, my heart was re-awakened to Spirit by Dave, a coming home!
The name and intention of this blog “Sacred Connections” Connecting back to Mother Earth and all our Relations is connecting dots. The photo of the bridge has not changed since 2008, and this film may be a bridge for you too! Or at least understanding how and why I’ve walked my walk with the prophecies close to my heart and soul journey.
I couldn’t be more pleased to bring the Film the 8th fire finally, after all these years!!
When I first met Dave Courchene in 1995 in a sunrise ceremony at a retreat center in Ontario, he had travelled from his home from Manitoba, that same year I was taking my yoga teacher training, (that’s how I found out about the Ceremony) and a few months after meeting him, I had a visitation from mother mary, not only was I learning about Mother Earth but I began a quest to learn more about the Goddesses from every culture.
I digress, but in 2021 even though Dave and Indigenous ways hold pieces of the puzzle, because of this blog, my own path took flight on the pages and all my relations did come back and have sacred connections with me.
In 2008 I began this blog, based on this film 8th fire that was released on Turtle Lodge for the first time!!!
https://sacredconnections.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/a-weekend-to-remember/
If you are interested in reading blogs of teachings I received from Dave since 1995 use the search bar “Dave Courchene Jr”
Now 13 years later, for me, I have been stripped away of being a yoga teacher and all those hats, with a purpose in sacred connections of Trumpeter Swans and the Love story that came right from spirit.
I have copied and pasted from Turtle Lodge the introduction to this Film of Prophecy below…
and Voila, we are smack dab living it Now!
THE 8TH FIRE One Earth * One Whole Circle * Again
Premiered on 14 Feb 2021
The Prophecy of the 8th Fire: They will come to a fork in the road. One road will lead to Materialism and Destruction…..for almost all living creatures….The other road will lead to a Spiritual Way upon which the Native People will be standing…This path will lead to the lighting of the 8th fire, a period of eternal peace, harmony and a “New Earth” where the destruction of the past will be healed. — Anishinaabe prophecy
“Only when we align our human spirit with higher spiritual reality will we find peace. When we become awakened spiritually, we begin to see more, to feel more. We begin to trust the Spirit.” – Nii Gaani Aki Innini (Leading Earth Man) – Dave Courchene
FIRST NATIONS WISDOM – THE TURTLE LODGE
Excerpts from the Turtle Lodge site:
Completed in 2002 and based on a vision received…at the heart of the village was a lodge, built in the shape of a turtle.
Around the “Turtle Lodge” were four smaller turtle-shaped lodges in each of the four directions. People of every colour were coming out of these lodges and walking toward the central lodge.
The Turtle Lodge is founded upon spiritual, land-based teachings that bring balance to life. It has been built for our children – the center of our lives. Our fundamental goal is Mino-Pi-Mati-Si-Win — A Good and Peaceful Way of Life. The Turtle Lodge is based on the Seven Sacred Laws and the Eight Paths of the Medicine Wheel, the ancient universal values of the Anishnabe People of Turtle Island (North America).
ELDER NII GAANI AKI ININI (Leading Earth Man) – DR. DAVID COURCHENE, HON. LL.D.
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Ancestral, land-based teachings that bring balance to life.
An Indigenous Perspective on healing, connection and Mino-Pi-Mati-Si-Win – A Good and Peaceful Way of Life.
THE CALL OF NATURE The Elders say, “What you do to the land and Nature you do to yourself.” Because we have harmed nature, we have harmed ourselves. We have to surrender to the fact that Nature is in control and always has been. We need to stop and reconcile with Mother Earth for all the harm that we have done to her. Our world will not change until we remember the Original Instructions we were given in how to be a human being. At the end of the day, we all have to realize how fragile our lives are, and how dependent we are upon the land for everything. Now, collectively, we must become true stewards of the land and teach our children the truth of that sacred relationship. We can’t live without the Animal, Bird, Fish, and Plant life. Nature is essential for human existence. Now is the time for change. This is the call of Nature: Change or you will not survive.
THE 8TH FIRE One Earth * One Whole Circle * Again Directed by Pickard & Pickard (Rites of Passage/Imagica Pictures), U.S.A., 2007, 60 min Also on Vimeo VIMEO at https://vimeo.com/497024005
Purchase DVD at http://the8thfire.org/8thfire/dvd.htm
Indigenous Teachings for Uncertain Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgMcBNOoHY
Miigwech to the Institute of Traditional Medicine who originally broadcast this teaching with Elder Dave Courchene live on Facebook on April 15, 2020.
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