Posts Tagged ‘medicine ways’

Friends, the following HAS to be told….for ALL Med. People World Wide:  we are NOT your “Servants”.  This calling is our JOB, not for your PRIVILEGE.

ANY worker…yourself included, expects to get paid for their job Work.  Do you not?  Well, WE WOULD LIKE THAT TOO.

Note: not Every Med. Person CAN, or WILL, do ANY or ALL Healing(s).  We DO have our limits.  Our “SPECIALTIES”.

The proper way to approach ALL Med. People…Male And Female, is to 1st send Tobacco.

With this ASKING FOR HELP Offering, we go into Prayer…seeking the Creator’s WILL.  “ARE we (I) to help?”  “WHAT is YOUR Will, Sir?”

This takes time.  Often DAYS in the wilderness, waiting for “HIS” Answer.

This is time TAKEN FROM OUR FAMILY / PERSONAL needs.

We have spent MANY YEARS learning our “trade”.  Some, more then your local Physician.

Unlike those doctors, we do not PRACTICE healing.  We must first KNOW what we tell / do WORKS…..before DOING!

We have found “He” gives ONE of FOUR (4) answers;  #1:  YES (do the work).  #2: NO (don’t).  #3: THIS ONE HAS SOMETHING TO LEARN FROM THIS PERSON’S Problem, and YOU are just to pray they LEARN QUICKLY.   Or (#4):  SEND TO ANOTHER Healer.

We then do as told.

ALL THIS TAKES TIME.  Time that could better “spent” with doing things needed around home.

All this…for TOBACCO!

Then, if “YES”, the Actual work begins.

MANY TIMES THE PATIENT WILL NOT DO AS TOLD…and remains unhealed.  THEN BLAMES US!

Today Many Med. Healers set a Fee.  $75.00 per hour…2 hours MINIMUM (so, $150.00 “Up Front” and IMMEDIATELY).

This seems to be the norm.

In the OLD DAYS what you pay $150.00 for Cost THEM perhaps a small HERD OF HORSES!

In my case, I leave it between the patient and the Creator.

Unfortunately, FEW ASK….and I end up with nothing but “THANKS, Red Elk”.

This does NOT Pay Bills, does NOT feed the family, or buy gas, or does ANYTHING.  I / We Med. People need to LIVE too!

Due to this, MANY “PUT DOWN THEIR FEATHERS”…ie: QUIT!

I, myself, have come VERY CLOSE to doing so, 3 times.

Other Med. People urged me not to.

I HAVE DONE THE SAME with others.

We KEEP OURSELVES “GOING”…..RARELY, do YOU!

Now, it is told.  Openly and Truthfully.  Not just for Me, but for ALL OF “US”.

Remember, WE ARE NOT YOUR “SERVANTS”…NOR ARE WE YOUR SLAVES.  WE ARE JUST LIKE  Y   O   U   !

Another thing you need to understand:  When coming to a Med. Person, and exchange energy….do NOT Expect that ONE “EXCHANGE” means you can come back and “add on” an “OH, ANOTHER THING, Can you do This / That” (healing / advising / etc.)” FOR THAT ONE PAY TIME!

Those who do (and there are ALOT), then they have become THIEVES, “TAKERS”, LEECHES!

SHAME ON THOSE WHO DO SO!

This telling will not make me “well liked” by MANY  BUT THE MEDICINE PEOPLE I HAVE COME FORTH FOR.  For ALL of THEM, I tell.

Aho?   re

(WS)

Thought I’d share with you what it’s like to be a Medicine Man….especially an Inner Heyoka one.
Though my being a “breed” has “I don’t believe it” by many NAs as well as those of other “skins”…it has, to me at least, been a WONDERFUL experience.
Medicine People walk a fine line between what most would call Insane and INsane….as in: Sane WITHIN.
This jars many Medicine Apprentices and Does scare some so much, they cease their training.
Others see the “advantages” that their new knowledge gives and turn to the Sorcery side.  Ego – Pride – “POWER” has stepped in.
These are the ones with less training.  “Grabbing the ball and running”…withOUT seeing the End Posts.  Like running in a very heavy fog.
No “goal(s)” and so “Power-Heady” (“I’VE GOT THE BALL!  I’VE GOT THE BALL!….Ha HA!”) they learn JUST ENOUGH to “Do” SOME, and off they go.

A lot like new Teens, aren’t they?

Then there are those trained in “The Traditional.”

These have been “rote taught.”  Ancestor Passed Down to Today Knowledge.  Aho?
In this training they are told, at times Shown, then go test the learning. “Cementing” what they have been given.

High on Herbal, as well as Spiritual, training.

The Sorcery ones do as said, the Traditional ones are in a far longer training time.

Sorcery around 4 years,  and as high as 5.

The Traditional: 7, to as high as 17.

Then there are the Inner Heyoka.   Our training well beyond the others.  In my case, 41-42 years.  Most about the same.

We 12 left…(and one may be “gone,” leaving 11) are the last of this “Society.”

I replace one who ‘passed’….but as we still left ‘go’, the Society will totally cease to exist.

We “Inners” are trained to ‘align’ with the Creator and let “Him” be our “Herbs,”Etc.

In this connection, we have found NO plants are necessary.  NO chants are necessary.  Etc., etc..

We 12 (?), as All the others, are TRAINED.

What’s it like to be a Medicine Person?  A walk between what man calls “normal” and ALL of ALL in Medicine call “Sane, WITHIN.”

The Sorcerers are ‘stuck’ in the “world”…the Traditionalists have “reached out” PAST the world (and are the best respected)…the Inners  WALK BETWEEN THE STARS (and are therefor about USELESS in WORLD Ways).   The LEAST understood.  Aho?

Nevertheless, to be in Medicine is, indeed, WONDERFUL!    Ho
Red Elk

(WS)