Spirit

Copyright 2010 Danise Codekas

"The goal of life is spiritual empowerment-to learn to use the power of our souls in acts of creation guided by divine instruction...Your soul is a cosmic force that creates through every breath you take. The goal is to become conscious of what you are doing with your breath, the quality of your thoughts, your emotions, and what you believe to be true about life. Breath, thought, emotions and ideas are your vessels of power. "-Carolyn Myss, Defy Gravity.

What is it about this time of year that brings out the true spirit, true self in our interactions with others? Some say it is the Winter Solstice combined with a full lunar eclipse that brought in the energy to transform our clouded ideas of self into wiser knowledge about who we are, what we don't/do want, and where we need to be and with whom, doing things we do/don't want to do.

Disruptions in my life occurred, almost daily, and others' lives. There was no doubt in my mind that a lot of it had to do with unrealistic expectations we put on our own bodies and energy systems, and the quintessential need to slow down, relax and think about life, which so many ignore, during this time of Great Expectations and Presents.

Presence should be the main focus. Being present to your needs, your bodies cries for help, for rest, and tuning in to what the world is experiencing on a monumental scale.

There are a lot of people flying around with unrealistic expectations of the weather, of the ability of others, to provide them comfort and seamless transportation systems, and shelter when all indications show that the snow is coming, the planes will be cancelled or delayed, and the airports can be closed.

Did they not look out the window or listen to weather reports before they walked out the door? No, many did not.

I hear from friends who left for Hawaii without looking to see that Hawaii would be rain soaked for a few weeks. Friends in London, traveling to India, sat for days at the airport waiting for their flight, complaining every day in their blog, about the fact that no one seemed to be listening to their complaints and fulfilling their needs.

I watched telecasts from Arkansas with families worried about why the media has not spread the word that they are experiencing earthquake swarms daily, http://bit.ly/fKHMVR, being caused possibly by Gas Companies injecting salt into the earth.

The So. Cal mud slides and floods have ravaged areas to such an extent, that nothing will be the same again in many communities. When listening to the appeals on TV, today, from homeowners who escaped with their lives, minutes before water and mud, filled homes with 4-6ft. walls of mud, the same expression was said again and again: "It's all gone, all our stuff, and we've lost everything and we had no insurance".

Yesterday, when SKYPE went down, the anger erupting across blogs and messaging services was truly astounding. There was vitriolic frustrations, around the world, being mimicked, in every language, on the SKYPE Twitter page. Truly, what are people going to do if a solar flare finally hits earth, and the Internet goes down? What did we do before the internet? I think I used the phone and drove over to people's houses to hang out.

Watching Jon Stewart's parodies about the lack of respect, by Congress, to shelve the 9/11 Responders Health Care Bill, finally brought Congress to their seats, and the vote was passed. The Unemployment Extension bill will put funds into millions of people's pockets, so they can have food on the table next week, for the first time in a month.

Some are already living in their cars, somewhere near you, because the money comes too late to satisfy banks, landlords and credit card companies.

After watching the news report video, on CNN today, of a car repossession employee, breaking into a woman's home, to get the keys to the car, as she is on the phone with 911, reporting the break-in, while she and her children are in their bedrooms, upstairs, frightened, the over-reaching insanity of the greed level, the desire for 'our stuff' level, over-whelmed me, for a few minutes.

Who have we become? What happened to these people who have lost all sense of propriety, respect for their fellow human beings?

Yes, I know this has been going on since Cain first killed Abel. Jealousy, greed, disrespect of human life, and control of others seems to be something that erupts, into consciousness, when we forget that sometimes the world is not going to provide those things for us, that we need, at the time we need them. Sometimes, we have to be patient and put our heads down, and do our work and hope for the best, while doing our best to walk softly on the earth.

Sometimes, we just have to do nothing, and let the winds of change swirl around us, as we let the energy needed to transform our lives come to us, whisper guidance to us, and do its thing.

When the transformation is in place, we will know it, and if we ignore it, ignore the hints to move, wait, go, stay, remain silent, speak now, then that which is meant for us, will not arise, and we will sit in muddy, existential moroseness, until we begin to trust, work and prepare for the next indicated thing in our lives.

As we head into 2012, the time of transformation, revelation and the end of outmoded ways of being, we have to understand, we are experiencing the same insights, at a cellular and cosmic level.

We are all heading to the same place, on the same planet and whether or not you want to trust, or even make an acquaintance of the Mayan and Hopi prophecies, the end of the Vedic, Jewish calendars, the Navajo end of times predictions, you have to at least admit something, of great proportion is occurring to mass consciousness, reflected in your daily interactions, communications and the ground you stand on.

We are separating from those who no longer support us, on our life's mission. We are walking away from towns and cities, seeking a place that will be safe, for us, in the future. We are ending relationships with people who do not fit into our lifestyle, or do not support us with their self-aggrandizing ways. I am blessing them and letting them go, in my life, now.

We are seeing the truth about ourselves, and as it is occurring, we see that our old lives, friends, family, places, work, and healing methods, are no longer palatable and compatible, for the change in consciousness, that is taking place inside our hearts, now.

These changes are so obvious to me, in my own life, that in the past 3 weeks, I have begun saying goodbye, to people, that no longer align with my work and mind-set now. It is not difficult. The heart and soul know that the purpose, which they served, that mirrored an old part of me, is now no longer needed. I see who I am now, and know what I have to do. My old skin is shed.

Doing it, well, that is easy, since I cannot stop from moving forward. I am sure many of you, feel the same way. You just know what has to be done, and it is happening at such a fast rate, like two comets passing by one another in deep space. It is like a Hi and Goodbye now, without any pain, with gentleness and unplugging in cosmic orderliness.

We all are seeing the truth about one another, in a way never experienced, and lines are being drawn, your tribe is coming into being, and your lives are moving toward experiences of such amazing incredulousness, at their perfection, their rightness for you, there is also a small shout of joy erupting from your hearts and souls.

So, in this time of transition and transformation, in this accelerated movement to clarity, drawing the lines between truth and non-truth, meeting the ones who are on the same conscious awareness level as you, I bid you Good Tidings of Joy and Hope.

We are all experiencing it and you can connect by walking outside at night and staring at the heavens, you can feel it as you gaze across the fields of snow, you can hear it in the rushing rivers of your mind, and you can touch it, as you walk across the earth. It is new energy, it is a conscious, wise energy, and it is so palatable across our skin, and in our hearts, I no longer doubt its presence.

I once had the great pleasure of spending time with Thomas Banyacya, the Hopi Messenger who appeared before the United Nations, to deliver the warning from the Hopi people. Here is an explanation of the Hopi Prophecy: Hopi Prophecy and here is the context of Banyacya's speech to the UN on December 10, 1992 (Banyacya's Speech to UN  ):

My name is Banyacya of the Wolf, Fox and Coyote Clan and I am a member of the Hopi sovereign nation. Hopi in our language means a peaceful, kind, gentle, truthful people. The traditional Hopi follows the spiritual path that was given to us by Massau'u the Great Spirit. We made a sacred covenant to follow his life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of this land and life for his divine purpose. We have never made treaties with any foreign nation, including the United States, but for many centuries we have honored this sacred agreement. Our goals are not to gain political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in a natural way. We still have our ancient sacred stone tablets and spiritual religious societies which are the foundations of the Hopi way of life. Our history says our white brother should have retained those same sacred objects and spiritual foundations.

In 1948, all traditional Hopi spiritual leaders met and spoke of things I felt strongly were of great importance to all people. They selected four interpreters to carry their message of which I am the only one still living today. At the time, I was given a sacred prayer feather by the spiritual leaders. I made a commitment to carry the Hopi message of peace and deliver warnings from prophesies known since the time the previous world was destroyed by flood and our ancestors came to this land.

My mission was to open the doors of this Great House of Mica to native peoples. The Elders said to knock four times and this commitment was fulfilled when I delivered a letter and the sacred prayer feather I had been given to John Washburn in the Secretary General's office in October, 1991. I am bringing part of the Hopi message to you here today. We have only ten minutes to speak and time is late so I am making my statement short.

At the meeting in 1948, Hopi leaders 80, 90 and even 100 years old explained that the creator made the first world in perfect balance where humans spoke one language, but humans turned away from moral and spiritual principles. They misused their spiritual powers for selfish purposes. They did not follow nature's rules. Eventually the world was destroyed by sinking of land and separation of land by what you would call major earthquakes. Many died and only a small handful survived.

Then this handful of peaceful people came into the second world. They repeated their mistakes and the world was destroyed by freezing which you call the great Ice Age.

The few survivors entered the third world. That world lasted a long time and as in previous worlds, the people spoke one language. The people invented many machines and conveniences of high technology, some of which have not yet been seen in this age. They even had spiritual powers that they used for good. They gradually turned away from natural laws and pursued only material things and finally only gambled while they ridiculed spiritual principles. No one stopped them from this course and the world was destroyed by the great flood that many nations still recall in their ancient history or in their religions.

The Elders said again only small groups escaped and came to this fourth world where we now live. Our world is in terrible shape again even though the Great Spirit gave us different languages and sent us to four corners of the world and told us to take care the the Earth and all that is in it.

This Hopi ceremonial rattle represents Mother Earth. The line running around it is a time line and indicates that we are in the final days of the prophecy. What have you, as individuals, as nations and as the world body been doing to to take care of this Earth? In the Earth today, humans poison their own food, water and air with pollution. Many of us, including children, are left to starve. Many wars are still being fought. Greed and concern for material things is a common disease.

In this western hemisphere, our homeland, many original native people are landless, homeless, starving and have no medical help.

The Hopi knew humans would develop many powerful technologies that would be abused. In this century, we have seen the First World War and the Second World War in which the predicted gourd of ashes, which you call the atomic bomb, fell from the sky with great destruction. Many thousands of people were destroyed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For many years there has been great fear and danger of World War Three. The Hopi believe the Persian Gulf War was the beginning of World War Three but it was stopped and the worst weapons of destruction were not used. This is now a time to weigh the choices for our future. We do have a choice. If you, the nations of this Earth, create another great war, the Hopi believe we humans will burn ourselves to death with ashes. That's why the spiritual Elders stress strongly that the United Nations fully open the door for native spiritual leaders as soon as possible.

Nature itself does not speak with a voice that we can easily understand. Neither can the animals and birds we are threatening with extinction talk to us. Who in this world can speak for nature and the spiritual energy that creates and flows through all life? In every continent are human beings who are like you but who have not separated themselves from the land and from nature. It is through their voice that Nature can speak to us. You have heard those voices and many messages from the four corners of the world today. I have studied comparative religion and I think in your own nations and cultures you have knowledge of the consequences of living out of balance with nature and spirit. The native peoples of the world have seen and spoken to you about the destruction of their lives and homelands, the ruination of nature and the desecration of their sacred sites. It is time the United Nations used its rules to investigate these occurrences and stop them now.

The Four Corners area of the Hopi is bordered by four sacred mountains. The spiritual center within is a sacred site our prophecies say will have special purpose in the future for mankind to survive and now should be left in its natural state. All nations must protect this spiritual center.

The Hopi and all original native people hold the land in balance by prayer, fasting and performing ceremonies. Our spiritual Elders still hold the land in the Western Hemisphere in balance for all living beings, including humans. No one should be relocated from their sacred homelands in this Western Hemisphere or anywhere in the world. Acts of forced relocation, such as Public Law 93-531 in the United States, must be repealed.

The United Nations stands on our native homeland. The United Nations talks about human rights, equality and justice and yet the native people have never had a real opportunity to speak to this assembly since its establishment until today. It should be the mission of your nations and this assembly to use your power and rules to examine and work to cure the damage people have done to this Earth and to each other. Hopi Elders know that was your mission and they wait to see whether you will act on it now.

Nature, the First People and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today, December 10, 1992, you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our prophesies said would come. Even animals and birds are warning us with strange change in their behavior such as the beaching of whales. Why do animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds were destroyed.

(Thomas and Oren Lyons held up a picture of a large rock drawing in Hopiland)

This rock drawing shows part of the Hopi prophecy. There are two paths. The first with technology but separate from natural and spiritual law leads to these jagged lines representing chaos. The lower path is one that remains in harmony with natural law. Here we see a line that represents a choice like a bridge joining the paths. If we return to spiritual harmony and live from our hearts, we can experience a paradise in this world. If we continue only on this upper path, we will come to destruction.

Its up to all of us, as children of Mother Earth, to clean up this mess before it's too late.

The Elders request that during this International Year for the Worlds Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations keep that door open for spiritual leaders from the four corners of the world to come to speak to you for more than a few minutes as soon as possible. The Elders also request that eight investigative teams visit the native areas of the world to observe and tell the truth about what is being done and stop these nations from moving in this self- destructive direction.

If any of you leaders want to learn more about the spiritual vision and power of the Elders, I invite you to come out to Hopiland and sit down with our real spiritual leaders in their sacred Kivas where they will reveal the ancient secrets of survival and balance.

I hope that all members of this assembly that know the spiritual way will not just talk about it, but in order to have real peace and harmony, will follow what it says across the United Nations wall: "They will beat their swords into plowshares and study war no more." Lets, together, do that now!