Culture | bear Medicinewalker

February 17, 2025

So Do We All Have What It Takes?

Been a minute for sure! But over the past couple months. we have all had many things to deal with on a daily basis. Unfortunately it also doesn’t matter what side of the road you are standing on. No matter if it is personal issues, global issues, social issues or whatever… it is ALL affecting each of us in personal ways.

What do we do about it? Do we lock it away in the back closet, or is it best to deal with it no matter how difficult it is? The best way is to deal with it in the present. Pushing it into the corner of our proverbial closets, only makes it worse and will effect us even in more difficult ways down the road.

I have been asked over and over the past number of months, where I was and what I have been doing… well to be honest I have been dealing with health issues and me issues. I can say that I am almost through them all, but still have a ways to go. I will get there, but will still be a bit before they are in the past. Working on it though, and in a way that is allowing me to resurface once again.

That is what we ALL are called to do every minute of every day. We ALL have support around us, we just have to admit it and ask. Asking doesn’t mean we are incapable all the time, it simply means we need a push of help in the right direction. That takes COURAGE to ask for. I know, as it is something I have had to do. lately, then come to the understanding that it is okay to ask for help. Seriously we all can use a bit of it every now and then. Once we get past the realization of everyone needs a bit of help every now and then, we get it.

It’s a scary time in the world everywhere. It’s almost like the world is purging itself, and all the negative crap has been pushed in front of everyone all at once! Because of it, we all need to take time to settle, breathe and look at how we need to react in order to bring calmness to our world at this time. Not everyone of us are able to walk in marches, however there are ways for each and everyone to make a difference. How??? By making differences in our own personal worlds, our homes, our families, communities etc.

Be kinder to each other, listen to each other, assist when we can, where we can. Each of us has an ability to do just that. Is it easy? No not all the time. Yet we need to rid our minds from the anger, and set about changing things into positives. How??? By supporting each other, by listening to other without anger. To make positive differences rather than yelling and screaming about what others are doing. That’s how we bring positives into place, by adding better things to the world. By understanding that those that are disrupting are doing it to cause chaos, much of it to distort what we see or rather how we see it. It’s called panic overload. It is a place many have placed themselves.

Sop, take a breath and allow clarity and then look for answers to assist you and yours. Start small and work towards bigger. Shut the news off, it is only there now a days to overload and confuse much of us. Know and trust what is in your own hearts to guide you. Follow the positive paths, not the negative ones that have us all screaming and bitching cause the things going on are horrific in our views. We ALL need to reassemble ourselves so that we can walk in more positive ways that bring the same to our lives and those within it.

Bless have faith and understand it’s only a moment by moment that we can alter or change… Be open to that thought and remember to Breathe!

Bless All,

bear Medicinewalker

February 5, 2025

Spiritually Paranormal

OMG YEEeeeesssss we ARE Back!!!!

We will play catch up with you all. See yah in a bit! Whewwww whhhoooo!

There is a thin divide between what is perceived as Spiritual and what is perceived as Paranormal, for they are forever intertwined throughout time. Traveling within the history of the world, we can find examples of Spirituality that involves everything from Magic, Spirits, Gods and Goddesses’ and Seer’s or People said to be able to talk to the Dead to the Great Beyond.

We All have our belief systems, we all have our own Truths. So let us possibly bend those truths a bit with some insights and perspectives that may be different than yours or even give validation for what you see as true. Come sit with Holly Jenkins and myself as we talk about Research, Teaching, Discovery and those nagging questions you wanted some insights on

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Stop in and get to know us both a bit better! Besides it is always fun to catch Holly and I bantering back and forth.

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~ bear Medicinewalker

August 30, 2024

Totem Insights Turtle

Turtle teaches us that we need to remember to walk our paths slow and steady with determination, for if we do our goals will surely be met. They remind us that sometimes it is best to walk on solid ground strong and precise with each step, and at other times it is better to dive into the waters and swim with the current allowing life to assist us in that forward motion.

Turtle helps us to ground reminding us that slowing down and pacing each step will help us build confidence for as we walk at this pace, we will see more of what is being shared with us by the world around us… knowledge of the “Old Ones”. Slowing our pace, calming our breath, listening to our heartbeat, centering our spirit so that we are in balance and sync with the rest of our world.

Turtles remind us that what we need is provided for us, that we need to remember the beginning, the simple and honor all that is Sacred, for it is part of who we all are. Be humble, grateful and make the most of what we have and what we are offered.

Blessings,

~ bear Medicinewalker

August 23, 2024

Totem Insight the Snake

Snake Is a difficult teacher at times, and one that is not easy to master. Lessons that Snake brings with it are of life cycles and change, remembering as we grow we shed and transform into new energies and new experiences. Snake also teaches us about poison and that we need to be able to rid ourselves of the toxins can be placed within our Sacred Hoops. Don’t let the poisons kill us or dim our light that resides within. At times the poison and toxins can play games with our thoughts if we allow them to, so mastering what is real and what is illusion can often contribute to negativity and clouding of ones judgement. Make sure to take a breath, a beat… before stepping into a place of no return. Keep it all in perspective and balance. Once you can accomplish this, balance will return and be maintained.

Snake can be a hard teacher. His lessons involve a transmutation of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Snake symbolizes this cycle with the shedding of his skin. We learn to the whole energy of life, the cosmic consciousness and have the willingness to experience anything without resistance. It is also about the poisons that we might take in. Those poisons can be eaten or ingested in some way but they also may be integrated into our lives. The goal is to not let the poisons taint our body or spirit.

Since Snakes can shed they teach us about the levels of our human, of our spirituality, our experiences. It is time to seek our inner knowledge before moving ahead with decisions. It is time to coil and go within to make sure we are well prepared before we strike out.

Snake also reminds us as it makes its way across the Great Mother Earth, to ground ourselves, to use our energy wisely and not to rely on primal instincts of lashing out. For at times it is more empowering to hold back and use that knowledge that energy in wise ways. At other times it is best to strike and seize the moment with a precision and quickness. Snakes often retreat long before biting defensively because they sense that it may cause consequences/damage to others and drain you of healing energy.

Snake is also very old and powerful healing medicine. Once harnessed, Snake will help you to position yourself carefully so that you will trust your gut when making important decisions.

Blessings

~ bear

Dragon Ritual Drummers

May 16, 2024

the Grizzly Bear of Shasta

Before people were on the Earth, the Chief of the Great Sky Spirits grew tired of his home in the Above World because it was always cold. So he made a hole in the sky by turning a stone around and around. Through the hole he pushed snow and ice until he made a big mound. This mound was Mount Shasta.

Then Sky Spirit stepped from the sky to the mountain and walked down. When he got about halfway down, he thought: “On this mountain there should be trees.” So he put his finger down and everywhere he touched, up sprang trees. Everywhere he stepped, the snow melted and became rivers.

The Sky Spirit broke off the end of his big walking stick he had carried from the sky and threw the pieces in the water. The long pieces became Beaver and Otter. The smaller pieces became fish. From the other end of his stick he made the animals.

Biggest of all was Grizzly Bear. They were covered with fur and had sharp claws just like today, but they could walk on their hind feet and talk. They were so fierce looking that the Sky Spirit sent them to live at the bottom of the mountain. When the leaves fell from the trees, Sky Spirit blew on them and made the birds.

Then Sky Spirit decided to stay on the Earth and sent for his family. Mount Shasta became their lodge. He made a BIG fire in the middle of the mountain and a hole in the top for the smoke and sparks. Every time he threw a really big log on the fire, the Earth would tremble and sparks would fly from the top of the mountain.

Late one spring, Wind Spirit was blowing so hard that it blew the smoke back down the hole and burned the eyes of Sky Spirit’s family. Sky Spirit told his youngest daughter to go tell Wind Spirit not to blow so hard.

Sky Spirit warned his daughter: “When you get to the top, don’t poke your head out. The wind might catch your hair and pull you out. Just put your arm through and make a sign and then speak to Wind Spirit.”

The little girl hurried to the top of the mountain and spoke to Wind Spirit. As she started back down, she remembered that her father had told her that the ocean could be seen from the top of the mountain. He had made the ocean since moving his family to the mountain and his daughter had never seen it.

She put her head out of the hole and looked to the west. The Wind Spirit caught her hair and pulled her out of the mountain. She flew over the ice and snow and landed in the scrubby fir trees at the timberline, her long red hair flowing over the snow.

There Grizzly Bear found her. He carried the little girl home with him wondering who she was. Mother Grizzly Bear took care of her and brought her up with her cubs. The little girl and the cubs grew up together. When she became a young woman, she and the eldest son of Grizzly Bear were married. In the years that followed they had many children. The children didn’t look like their father or their mother.

All the grizzly bears throughout the forest were proud of these new creatures. They were so pleased, they made a new lodge for the red-haired mother and her strange looking children. They called the Lodge – Little Mount Shasta.

After many years had passed, Mother Grizzly Bear knew that she would soon die. Fearing that she had done wrong in keeping the little girl, she felt she should send word to the Chief of the Sky Spirits and ask his forgiveness. So she gathered all the grizzlies at Little Mount Shasta and sent her oldest grandson to the top of Mount Shasta, in a cloud, to tell the Spirit Chief where he could find his daughter.

The father was very glad. He came down the mountain in great strides. He hurried so fast the snow melted. His tracks can be seen to this day. As he neared the lodge, he called out for his daughter.
He expected to see a little girl exactly as he saw her last. When he saw the strange creatures his daughter was taking care of, he was surprised to learn that they were his grandchildren and he was very angry. He looked so sternly at the old grandmother that she died at once. Then he cursed all the grizzlies.

“Get down on your hands and knees. From this moment on all grizzlies shall walk on four feet. And you shall never talk again. You have wronged me.”

He drove his grandchildren out of the lodge, threw his daughter over his shoulder and climbed back up the mountain. Never again did he come to the forest. Some say he put out the fire in the center of his lodge and returned to the sky with his daughter. Those strange grandchildren scattered and wandered over the earth. They were the first Indians, the ancestors of all the Indian Tribes.

That is why the Indians living around Mount Shasta never kill Grizzly Bear. Whenever one of them was killed by a grizzly bear, his body was burned on the spot. And for many years all who passed that way cast a stone there until a great pile of stones marked the place of his death.

Blessings,

bear Medicinewalker

“Medicine bear” by Chris Ferree and available at www.chrisferre.com

April 27, 2024

Totem Insight the Snake

Snake Is a difficult teacher at times, and one that is not easy to master. Lessons that Snake brings with it are of life cycles and change, remembering as we grow we shed and transform into new energies and new experiences. Snake also teaches us about poison and that we need to be able to rid ourselves of the toxins can be placed within our Sacred Hoops. Don’t let the poisons kill us or dim our light that resides within. At times the poison and toxins can play games with our thoughts if we allow them to, so mastering what is real and what is illusion can often contribute to negativity and clouding of ones judgement. Make sure to take a breath, a beat… before stepping into a place of no return. Keep it all in perspective and balance. Once you can accomplish this, balance will return and be maintained.

Snake can be a hard teacher. His lessons involve a transmutation of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Snake symbolizes this cycle with the shedding of his skin. We learn to the whole energy of life, the cosmic consciousness and have the willingness to experience anything without resistance. It is also about the poisons that we might take in. Those poisons can be eaten or ingested in some way but they also may be integrated into our lives. The goal is to not let the poisons taint our body or spirit.

Since Snakes can shed they teach us about the levels of our human, of our spirituality, our experiences. It is time to seek our inner knowledge before moving ahead with decisions. It is time to coil and go within to make sure we are well prepared before we strike out.

Snake also reminds us as it makes its way across the Great Mother Earth, to ground ourselves, to use our energy wisely and not to rely on primal instincts of lashing out. For at times it is more empowering to hold back and use that knowledge that energy in wise ways. At other times it is best to strike and seize the moment with a precision and quickness. Snakes often retreat long before biting defensively because they sense that it may cause consequences/damage to others and drain you of healing energy.

Snake is also very old and powerful healing medicine. Once harnessed, Snake will help you to position yourself carefully so that you will trust your gut when making important decisions.

Blessings

~ bear