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In Black Elk Speaks, he reports that the “…spirits were represented as kind and loving, full of years and wisdom, like revered human grandfathers.” He said he was visited by the Thunder Beings and taken to the Grandfathers - spiritual representatives of the six sacred directions: west, east, north, south, above, and below.
Black elk speaks series#
When he awoke, however, he reported a series of great visions. As a child he was often sick, and when he was nine, he lay motionless for several days while those around him feared he had died. One of my favorite of these leaders was the visionary Sioux medicine man, Black Elk.īlack Elk was born into an Oglala Lakota family in December 1863, in what is now Wyoming, in the United States. Red Cloud, Cochise, and Crazy Horse were all people I admired for the way they maintained their dignity and inspired their people despite overwhelming odds. Inspired by these friends, I made a study of all the great Native American chiefs and shamans by reading everything I could find on them in the local library. Whenever I could sneak away from my parents, I would spend time with the locals who taught me about horses, plants, and generosity of spirit. The way they moved in their world seemed in perfect balance.
Their relationship to the land, kindness, and gentle strength spoke to me. I lived in northern Mexico, home to a Native American people known as the Huichol. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.”Īs a child, the indigenous peoples of North America fascinated me.
The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. “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 Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. Blog: The Wisdom of Black Elk By Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
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