#black elk

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

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[entheognosis]

#black elk #Indigenous Peoples #first nations

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”

~ Black Elk

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

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“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.” ― John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

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“Crazy Horse was dead. He was brave and good and wise. He never wanted anything but to save his people, and he fought the Wasichus only when they came to kill us in our own country. He was only thirty years old. They could not kill him in battle. They had to lie to him and kill him that way. I cried all night, and so did my father.” ― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

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[kkdas]

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.” --Black Elk, Oglala Lakota

#black elk #oglala lakota #native american #wisdom

[littlefeather-wolf]

"Sometimes dreams are wiser then waking."

Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa), OGLALA

The Great Spirit has many ways of communicating with the human being. He talks to us through the five senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. For example, we can observe nature and see a lesson or get an answer. These five senses function primarily in the physical world. But we also have the ability to receive communication from the Unseen World. To do this we have a sixth sense. It comes in the form of dreams, imagination, intuition, inspiration, or a hunch. Along with the dream or intuitive thought there is a feeling, a knowing. We just know it's true without the need for proof. We need to pay attention to our dreams and intuition ... Don't cast them off as being silly or useless. Be respectful to our dreams and feelings ... Creator, if you speak to me through dreams, let me know it in terms I can understand ... Copied with the permission of Don L. Coyhis, from the book Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons

#native american #littlefeather wolf #black elk

[bodyalive]

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

~ Black Elk 

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www.earthschoolharmony.com 

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[dgalevisuals]

Black Elk Peak - South Dakota, May, 2021

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[misespinas]

"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead."

 -Black Elk (Heȟáka Sápa) on the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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[soiledlight]

"What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. The True Peace. The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this." -Black Elk

#black elk #end of life #god #panentheism

[siamkram]

“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and around and about me was the whole hoop of the world… I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit and the shapes of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the Sacred Hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight and in the centre grew one almighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one Mother and one Father, and I saw that it was holy.”

-From the vision of Nicholas Black Elk Lakota Holy Man: 1863 - 1950

#lakota #web of life #threads #hoop #sacred hoop #black elk #holy man #medicine man

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

#book quotes #native american #nature writing #nature quotes #black elk #literature #quotes #nature #black elk speaks

[entheognosis]

Peace... comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us

Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa)

Oglala Lakota

#black elk #Indigenous Peoples #first nations

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Sara Ogren - Illus.

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All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

- Black Elk

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The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.

- Toni Packer

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The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.

- Javad Nurbakhsh

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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

- Plato

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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

- Mahatma Gandhi

[Guillaume Gris]

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[pbr-street-gang]

#books #Black Elk Speaks #Black Elk #John G Neilhardt #medicine man #shaman #shamism #visions #Sioux #oglala sioux #Battle of Little Big Horn #wounded knee

[littlefeather-wolf]

"Sometimes dreams are wiser then waking."

Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa), OGLALA

The Great Spirit has many ways of communicating with the human being. He talks to us through the five senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. For example, we can observe nature and see a lesson or get an answer. These five senses function primarily in the physical world. But we also have the ability to receive communication from the Unseen World. To do this we have a sixth sense. It comes in the form of dreams, imagination, intuition, inspiration, or a hunch. Along with the dream or intuitive thought there is a feeling, a knowing. We just know it's true without the need for proof. We need to pay attention to our dreams and intuition. Don't cast them off as being silly or useless. Be respectful to our dreams and feelings ... Creator, if you speak to me through dreams, let me know it in terms I can understand ...

Copied with the permission of Don L. Coyhis, from the book Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons

#native american #littlefeather wolf #black elk

[bookguide]

Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic

Author: Michael F. Steltenkamp

Book: 1/1

Genre: biography

Summary: Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic, tells the full interpretive story of Black Elk. Steltenkamp shows that Black Elk was not the native traditionalist others have depicted him to be, but rather a religious thinker with a positive outlook that merged Lakota ideas with Christianity. This text tells of Black Elk’s travels, visions, experience in the Battle of Little Big Horn, and the way he led his people along the path of God.

Review: I immediately pulled this book off the shelf when I saw it’s title. Quick fun fact: I attend school in the Black Hills area of South Dakota and I have personally hiked Black Elk Trail in Custer State Park. It is absolutely gorgeous. Since I have been in some of places that Black Elk has walked, I was eager to learn about his story. Steltenkamp’s telling of Black Elk’s story provided in-depth details, as well as parts of his story that many authors did not want to tell. Previous biographies about Black Elk only tell of his pre-Christian life while practicing Lakota traditions. However, Black Elk wanted his story as a missionary and his family’s involvement in their church to be told. Steltenkamp gives the reader the background of other authors’ stories and this lack of truly understanding Black Elk as a Christian. Steltenkamp fully immerses the reader into Black Elk’s life as a medicine man, heyoka, missionary, and an important figure in the church. This book contains lots of information, some parts more entertaining than others; I would recommend this book to anyone who loves history, non-fiction, and learning about other cultural experiences.

I included photos I took at Black Elk Peak, enjoy the view!

Rating: 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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