season of resistance

Dissent was my primary mode of operation growing up - at home, in school, with relationships. I believed moving to the United States of America would be less repressive and corrupt than the false democracy of my Philippine homeland. 

Jingle dancers at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, July 2020

I relocated in 2006 and with Barack Obama as US president from 2009 to 2017 was all too easily lulled into the belief that this was truly the land of equal opportunity, freedom and liberty. With the US' reputation abroad and the American economy significantly improved we all had our blinders on. 

 Jingle Dress Project - a healing dream

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.