Indeed, as spirit incarnate there is no moment we are not spiritual; even what may be perceived as mundane is a spiritual experience. From my perspective, this lush sensory-filled experience of life is exquisitely sweet and extraordinary, when our eyes are open, and we’re viewing from the heart.
Thank you for your encouragement!
Blessings and love to you..

The excerise is deceptively simple, yet quite powerful in the direct effect it has with our circumstances and heightening of awareness of cause/effect within this reflective world which we are experiencing ourselves. If I may, please allow me to encourage your continuance with its implementation.. even greater insight and results shall unveil.

My anonymity is not as much as it may seem; those who know me offline know me just as is presented, including my name as given. Yet it is true I maintain some degree of anonymity online. The reason is two-fold; for one, consensus places such emphasis on credentials, yet without direct-experience most credentials are purely perceptive and utterly worthless. I feel it more important for each to come about realizations from within themselves as opposed to concluding we know something merely because we’ve read it or someone with ‘credentials’ says it’s so. Secondly, the ego can utilize spirituality as well as any other resource as a means of self-gratification and perpetuation of its illusory existence. I choose not to participate nor perpetuate either.

To answer your question, however, I have no personal affiliation with the places or family (I assume) you’ve mentioned.

As for the song, I have only my own interpretation which may or may not be as intended. Just as most indigenous songs utilize vocables which have no literal meaning but are rather felt and understood within, thus given individual meaning by each… I’ve also found many literal translations are not always accurate. One of the reasons I find such beauty in indigenous music is that when we listen/feel from our heart it may have very different meaning to each.

I do not know Douglas Spotted Eagle (who performs this song)… I’ve read he’s not a ‘listed’ member of any tribal affiliation but was raised by Navajo and Lakota families. As I’m quite limited in literal language skills, I prefer not to mislead anyone by offering my own interpretations which may not be as intended.

From my perspective it’s not always necessary to be literal… we may listen and guidance may reveal what is important for us, yes?

I apologize if my answers do not answer anything (hee hee!)… yet truth is always available to us ‘within.’

Blessings and love dear heart.
En’ Lakésh

I also was wondering if I may ask? I know you are “anonymous” here, and I don’t wish to impose on that, yet shortly after I found your site and commented, I received a related insight/message and have been pretty curious about it.

By any chance, do the words Rochester, Oaklane, or The Baileys mean anything to you? I wasn’t sure how to ask you this yet I do hope you reply either way! Please feel free to email me directly, and/or edit, or not post, this reply on your site too.

Oh! I also have a question about the moving sunrise prayer you posted on youtube a while ago. What do the words that are repeated at the end mean? Something like “reh jeunah est leen” I recognized those words as the same sung in Returning by Jennifer Berezan, which I have been listening to for several years.

Thank you!
En’ Lakésh,
Michele

Mmmm… how wonderful you have had such experiences with the animal friends… we can learn so much from all of nature, when we drop our ’smartness’ and open to what life says of its own. Like you say… “brilliant lessons.”

p.s. After a few years of wild animal rescue/rehab, the owls and me, we became pretty tight. hehe. GHO’s, barn, ever-adorable screech, burrowing, and pygmy, they all, all the animals, taught me the most life-changing, brilliant lessons. Time and time again, in their moments of pain, sickness, panic, fear, distress, and loss, they all still showed their courage, acceptance, grace, trust, love, and, as you’ve said, power. They are our teachers.

The life that is nature, is also our life; the nature of this life, also our nature. One the same; inseparable. Life, Itself, sangha. How very much sweeter is the experience of this life-walk, attuned!

Thank you for connecting, even if we’ve never been truly apart; yet how precious it is, we now embrace in life’s sangha.
Blessings and love to you brother.

By the way :My totem animal is ..Owl.
Warm greetings from your spiritual twin brother.