dominance vs reverence

Featured today on the Shamanic Wisdom Summit of the Shift Network are father-daughter tandem Steven Newcomb and Shawna Bluestar Newcomb. 

Activist and author Steven Newcomb offers insights into historical truths gone unrecognized for centuries. He shares how the knowledge and wisdom systems of Original Nations and Peoples teach us how to harmonize ourselves with the insight that Life-is-Energy, and Love-of-Life (Aholtewakan in Lenape), is the true purpose of our existence. He shares his life's work, decoding the doctrine of dominance perpetuated by European and Christian colonizers.

Shawna Bluestar Newcomb shares how the Gift of Remembering allows us to connect with ourselves and among each other, to walk gracefully through the many lessons of our times, and to know the gift that our ancestors dreamed for us all. As we walk through a time of Great Reckoning, recent times of challenge, and events, we are given the opportunity to see what's been hidden in plain sight for too long. When we learn to sit with the uncomfortable with compassion, new awareness, a deep healing can occur.

Steven's film "The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code" tells the story of how little known Vatican documents of the fifteenth century resulted in a tragic global momentum of domination and dehumanization. This led to law systems in the U.S. and Canada, and throughout the world, that are still used against Indigenous Nations and Peoples to this day. The film concludes with traditional teachings developed over thousands of years that provide a much needed healing alternative for humanity and Mother Earth at this time.

speaking at screening of their documentary

They work to re-educate and decolonize our histories to reconnect with the vision of our ancestors and the authentic spirit within to the true purpose of our existence. Sharing ways of Original Nations and Peoples oriented toward energy, vibration, processes, and action. How those ancient languages were evolved by our ancestors for prayerful and spiritual communication - in reverence and not domination.

By replacing empire driven perspectives with the ancestral creation practice of reverence for all life provides us with a more hopeful future. We all need to join together in support of deconstructing extraction economies and supporting regenerative systems if we are to survive and thrive on this earth.