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YosemiteBear’s Double Rainbow: What does it MEAN?

by Wahkeena Sitka|on August 3, 2010 |in Earth Based Spirituality, Global Transformation |tagged , , , , , , |5 Comments

Yosemite Bear posted a video on Youtube on January 8, 2010 – almost six months ago, entitled “Yosemite Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10” – and this video has skyrocketed to well over 8 million views, closing in to 9 million views shortly. At the moment that it happened, it seems obvious that he had no idea what kind of a ‘cultural meme’ he would create by being so authentic and in the moment with his awe, wonder and excitement. In the video, while rainbowgasming over the enormous Double Rainbow, he asks: “What does this Mean?” It seems to me that the answer to that question is revealing itself in the aftermath; an answer that he never could have imagined in the moment he asked that question.

He recently was featured on the Jimmy Kimmel show, and Jimmy asked him: “What does it mean?” And Bear’s response was: “Well, Spirit’s talking to me.” Jimmy asks, “What spirit is talking to you?” Bear responds: “The Spirit of the universe.” Jimmy asks, “What is the Spirit of the Universe saying?” Bear says, “It’s saying that people don’t need Sex and Drugs to connect to Nature and to Spirit; they can enjoy themselves without that stuff.”

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Gratitude for the Oil Spill

by Wahkeena Sitka|on June 29, 2010 |in Earth Based Spirituality, Global Transformation |tagged , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

Can we as a collective re-frame our perspective of the Oil Spill into that of a miracle? I realized tonight that we as a humanity all co-created this event for us to come into clarity as one humanity. As my friend, Tao, says: “Unify or Die.” The time of the Lone Wolf is over, and we must come together and work together as One Humanity in order to transform this miraculous event and bring the spill and our efforts into balance.

As I spent time considering it today, I realized that the people who created this experience, specifically BP, the government, the corporations and their decision making factions, have lived their lives within a very narrow framework of reality, limited by their myopic box of what reality is, and that this event will force themselves to begin to broaden their perspectives and choices in order to drastically transform this problem. It is only when the people in BP, Halliburton and TransOcean come to really humble themselves to the Power and Sentience of our Great Mother Earth, that they will begin to make huge changes in their decisions. Hopefully this event will cause serious pause and a dramatic change of action in their future choices, and will force them to realize that the methods they are employing to clean up the problem are going to need to be radically re-evaluated, and sustainable choices, earth-centric choices will need to be activated in order to make it work. Which will mean that they will quickly approach a point in which they realize that they can’t do it all on their own; they can’t hide behind their media blackouts, they can’t hide behind their cloaked walls and use their antiquated, old paradigm techniques, because they just won’t work. They will have to think outside of the box, and they will have to approach creative visionaries with a sustainable perspective in order to right their wrongs.

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Farewell to Hawaii

by Wahkeena Sitka|on May 16, 2010 |in Earth Based Spirituality, Healing, Self Knowledge |tagged , , , , , , , , , |5 Comments

Mermaid Dream Time - Painting by Francene HartToday I left the Big Island and spent the day in airports and on planes, flying back to Portland, Oregon. I sit here now, back in Portland, the city of Roses… Immediately I notice a lack of natural sounds in the atmosphere; the wind rustling, coqui frogs, the rustling of leaves and branches, the pitter patter of a drizzle… I miss the Coqui frogs like mad. I notice a lack of twinkling stars in the sky; they are lost here by the grey clouds blanketing the city. I wonder, where is the nearest beach? How do I get back to the magic?

It’s official, my heart has fallen madly in love with Hawaii. Like falling madly in love with a lover or beloved, only this time it’s with the way my entire being and body feels, when in the sunshine, on the sand, in the water, absorbing the steam from the steam vents. I am in love with Hawaii the way one feels when they have finally found home after a lifetime of searching and waiting for that feeling of home.

Not only will I return, but it is very likely that I will be cultivating and gathering all the necessary sundry check-list items in my life so that I can return to move there and settle down for…. indefinitely. I see myself moving there within the next few year. Not 100% sure it will be the Big Island; want to check out Maui and Kauai before I make a final decision. But I feel certain that Hawaii is my home, and I feel it in the cells of my body.

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Aina and the Mana

by Wahkeena Sitka|on April 14, 2010 |in Earth Based Spirituality, Life Force Energy, Self Knowledge |tagged , , , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

Let me preface this first by saying: I’m not a native Hawaiian. I have not been studying Hawaiian spirituality for a long time. I have only been introduced to the words and concepts of Hawaiian spirituality recently. I’m a white chick from the mainland United States. I mean absolutely no disrespect, and my understanding presented here is primarily intuitive. I have been introduced to these words and concepts recently through others; through conversations with friends who have lived in Hawaii for a while, through books and online sources.

Last year I met up with Dreaming Bear, and we went for a journey out to the Applegate River area in Southern Oregon for an afternoon spent by the river. There he told me about the word ‘Aina’. He explained to me that ‘Aina’ is the Hawaiian word for the Land, and for the spirit of the Land and Nature. It was so lovely to finally have a word for something that I’ve always felt, but never had a name for in our American linguistics. I love the word Aina, as it gives a name for the energy of the land, and by giving it a name – it is as though consciousness is breathed into it. I spent that afternoon by the river, meditating upon boulders, bathing in the cold, clear waters and contemplating the nature of Aina; the great web of life interconnecting reality in what we know as ecosystems, small and large.

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