What is the Pacem Arts / The Art of Peace?

Welcome to White Walking Feather’s School for the Pacem Arts!

The Pacem Arts is an evolutionary training protocol to help facilitate healing and conscious reconciliation of relationships between an individuals physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies; which can then be expressed peacefully in all other relationships, especially with family, friends, neighbours, environment, Mother Earth and the Creator.

Decolonizing Money

Over the past few weeks a few of us have been working hard to develop a website for White Walking Feather’s School of the Pacem Arts. Figuring out how to deal with energy exchange through the new website has been challenging, especially considering I don’t have a person to interact within the ‘system’. In my meditation this morning, Spirit instructed me that my idea of money has to be decolonized as well. I’ve been working for years to remove my dependency on Fiat Currency, but met with frustration as I could only get so far before hitting a wall. I was missing a key component, you!

Silver coins

Within the feudal system, the King would dictate what form of ‘currency’ he needed in order to satisfy the serf’s duty to pay service to him. Hundreds of years ago, that service was paid in the form of wood, military service, food, silver and gold. The silver and gold was then struck into coins to make interactions between the King and the serfs more standard. Everyone knew the ‘value’ of a gold coin, so it became the standard upon which to evaluate the value of other commodities, including the serf’s time. Yes, time is now a commodity and people sell it in order to pay their service to the king.

Then the banksters took over and replaced the commodities (wood, time, food, silver, gold) with their own fiat currency. I speak at length about this process within the school. The king then passed ‘laws’ to make this fiat currency the only ‘legal’ way to pay taxes, essentially turning it into a monopoly. Over the decades, people have become so accustomed to using the fiat currency, we lost connection with the old ways.

But it goes even further as I only described currency within a feudal system. What did our ancestors do within their tribes, prior to being serfs to the king? They helped one another to ensure everyone’s needs were met. There was no interest in wealth, power or conquest. Those are colonial constructs. They were interested in finding a balance of energy within the tribe. Some people were completely or partially dependent, like the sick, old and young, while the others could produce more than what they need, a fact that is now being exploited by the greedy and rich today. How do we decolonize our relationship with energy exchange so that we can return to ensuring the needs of all are met?

This decolonization process will require moving away from the monopoly established by the King and return to a spiritual expression of energy exchange. The challenge with this process is that the bankster families are pushing to further consolidate their control of money because it is THE one tool that allows them to control the whole entire world. Why? Because we have abandoned our spiritual power and authority to share with one another, instead choosing to participate in their energy vampire system. This system forces people to be feudal serfs in order to participate in it. They also designed it to cut out anybody who would try to bypass it, claiming that they are engaged in money laundering, illegal activities, fraud, tax evasion and other acts against the king. This is classic intimidation by a bully because the bully knows that spiritual authority trumps his and he desperately wants to ensure that does not happen.

A few of us have been exploring these concepts for years and there are still ways to exchange energy with one another so that we can get our needs met without being a slave to the system. To get there requires that we design a way for people to transition from fiat currency to spiritual energy exchange. The addiction to fiat currency is more invasive than alcohol or drugs, but I’m confident that by slowly making changes, we can make this transition happen. It will require patience, time, education and healing as it will most likely trigger us all until we get to the other side.

When we move towards freedom outside of the system, we end up being anonymous as the system requires identification to keep track of transactions. This anonymity makes energy exchange challenging but not impossible as the system moves quickly towards implementing the mark of the beast. There will come a day where people will not be able to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ without the mark. That is why it is important we learn how to connect to spiritual energy exchange and move away from the idea of engaging in commerce and having to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ anything, whether it be food, clothing or even land itself.

I’m going to outline the transition options that we have, along with the pros and cons of each. If people have ideas to add to this list, I’m open to adding them as it will help us all.

Precious Metals: Gold, silver, copper

Most people instinctively recognize the value of precious metals as they have been used for thousands of years. There is a difference between having the physical metal in one’s pocket vs paper certificates on account. There are many times more paper certificates than actual physical metal. I don’t trust the banksters at all on their promise that they will turn over actual metal upon demand. During political and economic chaos, it is best that the metal is in your possession.

Don’t forget that the metal has been used in many ways. Here in Canada, coins from 1967 and older contain silver, as does some cutlery, dishes, electronics, etc. The government is clamping down on physical metal purchases by requiring ID so that they can keep track of who has the gold. The downside of using metals as a currency is that moving metal around can be challenging and expensive. There is a reason why people put their metal in a vault and used the vault receipt instead. That is what started paper money to begin with. (money as debt videos)

Cryptocurrency

While Bitcoin is the most famous, there are thousands of other cryptocurrencies in the world. Mass adoption is still a challenge as governments around the world scramble to try and figure out how to control this new, anonymous, decentralized tool that completely bypasses their centralized money control systems. As a result, cryptocurrencies have been demonized for years, but now the banks are seeing an opportunity to get into the game and convert their fiat currencies into crypto’s as the blockchain keeps track of ALL transactions. This is exactly what governments want, so now they are working hard to implement the idea through their central banks.

Governments cannot control the decentralized network, but they can control the corporations that setup exchanges to help facilitate the process of purchasing or selling crypto with fiat currencies. The exchanges act as a broker between the parties, which requires that everyone have government issued id. However, people can still trade, buy or sell crypto outside of the exchanges. The downside is that there is no broker, so people will need to trust one another, but it can be done. Outside of the exchanges, anonymity is much easier to maintain and allows people to exchange energy with one another outside of the controls of the system.

Anonymous Gift Card / Credit Card

The system still has a few straggling tools available for people who are looking to exchange energy outside of the system. Anonymous gift cards and credit cards can still be purchased and then shipped to other people. In fact, that is what they are designed to do. It still requires that the individual filling the cards have fiat currency, but for the time being, cash still works. There will come a time where the system will move to a cashless society at which point, an individual will need the mark of the beast in order to fill the cards. At this point, this option will fall away and should be removed from the list. There is also a risk of having the cards frozen by the corporation who issued the cards, ceased by authorities or the potential of being lost or stolen in the mail.

Cash transactions physically or by Snail Mail

There was an old saying that “Cash is king”, but that saying is quickly going away. With the recent events, people are now scared to touch cash in fear of getting sick. Does not matter whether it is a rational fear or not, this is having a huge impact on how many people will accept cash in exchange for goods and services. Cash is the king of anonymity and is why most governments are working hard to get ride of it. They cannot track transactions or control people if they use cash instead of debit or credit cards. Reward cards were invented to help elevate this issue as not only can stores track what was purchased, but it did not matter if it was paid with cash or electronic transfer. The transaction was captured and tied to the individual. Anonymity only works when the cash is used by itself. Cash also has risks as it can be ceased, lost or stolen as well.

Bank Transfers

The world revolves around the infrastructure that banks have developed for all to use. While it may seem like it is a convenient service, it requires being a feudal serf in order to participate and to keeps track of everything. Banks now control how much money you can move per day, must report larger transactions to the government, can cease funds from accounts without due process of law and the banksters steal ‘value’ without people realizing it, through a tool called inflation. Government issued ID is heavily used to validate that the individual is a serf in good standing with the state. Anybody outside of that system is not welcome to enjoy the benefits of their services and are often labeled as terrorists or criminals.

PayPal and other online transaction services

Years ago, I could get a paypal account with just an e-mail address. Now it requires phone numbers and connecting accounts to existing bank accounts. This is their way of validating their customer as phones and bank accounts require that your identification has been validated by an authority. So these services are becoming more and more challenging to use. A work around is to ‘borrow’ somebody’s paypal account, but that requires trust.

The Challenge with websites

Automation and convenience has been one tool that the banksters and government puppets depend on in order to implement tighter and tighter controls. I’ve found through this website development project that it matters not what I want to do, in order to automate the process of collecting energy from people in exchange for participating in the school, I need to use their tools. Those tools dictate the protocols that I can use, which requires that I have a person, government issued ID and other proof that I’m a slave.

In order for me to keep this school going, I will need to find an alternative and that requires some inconvenience, manual record keeping, flexibility, communication and other protocols to make this work. It also requires that others can ‘see’ the value of this decolonization process and are willing to participate. The Pacem Arts website will be setup to help people make that transition by implementing ALL of the above protocols, while acknowledging that over time, some of these protocols will be removed as the system slowly clamps down and makes these alternatives no longer viable.

But what are we truly valuing? Is it the token itself, like gold, money, cryptocurrency, etc, or is it the energy and contribution of the individual? The true value rests with the energy and intent of the individual. When the big money crunch comes, and it will, the economy will stop. Why? Because people don’t acknowledge or recognize that they energy that money represents is their own creative power and influence. People stop creating when the money flow stops, when the solution is to continue creating despite of it. This is the ultimate decolonization of our minds when it comes to money. Money was only ever meant to be a store of energy so that we can do an energy exchange sometime in the future. Well, the greedy figured this out and ended up with all of it. But all of that energy is work already done. It is in the past. We are still standing here capable of adding value to people’s lives despite the greedy stealing all of the past.

The School for the Pacem Arts will also explore community-exchange.org as a way to exchange energy with people around the world as we transition to even more spiritually grounded methods such as gifting, trusting and healing. Since everyone is at a different place in their lives, we will implement all of these different methods of trading energy for energy. My goal is to have my own needs met and at that point, my request for energy will drop. As more people join the school, that will also result in lowering my request for energy in exchange for participating in the school. I already have some very generous individuals helping out and that in turn helps us all. This may feel confusing at first, but with some time, I’m confident that we can work it out and help us all decolonize ourselves from the money system.

Addressing Pervasive Violence

We live in a world that has criminalized certain types of violence, but very much normalized or even legalized vast amounts of covert and overt violence.  Through colonization, it is now socially acceptable and even encouraged to engage in violent behaviour while many would argue that it is not violent at all.  Rather than dispute the semantics of where people draw the line, I want to share the work that I’ve done over the last 20 years to not only navigate this mine field, but also how I set boundaries to protect myself from slipping back into a covert violent life.

I’ve found over the years that there seems to be a lot of confusion and disagreement with my approach, so I pray that exploring this protocol helps bring clarity to those that struggle with my approach in life.  It is also important that I highlight my work to identify violent behaviour that many would consider socially acceptable.  It is my view that we challenges these perceptions at every turn of our lives.

Identifying Violence

There is a lot of information out there that covers this topic very well.  Aside from the obvious overt violent behaviours, exploring the covert abusive relationships is where it gets a bit more tricky.  An individual could easily research the behaviours of psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists or even drill down into gaslighting, blame-shifting, word twisting and a whole host of other techniques.  It matters not whether this is done consciously or not.  The trick is to be consciously aware of these techniques when they come to bear in conversations or relationships.  The scope of this post will not cover these in detail, but rather leave it up to the reader to do their own research.

For me, it required that I go through extensive painful life experiences and training to acknowledge that I engaged in this type of behaviour and that I surrender to be willing to learn the techniques on how I could change my behaviour in order to end the violence and have healthy relationships instead.  It also made me intimately aware of others around me who do engage in these techniques.  When presented, I see these behaviours like bright flashing neon signs.  While it takes practice, over time we can all learn how to see and feel the signs of covert violence and then take appropriate steps to address the violence.

It matters not whether the individual is your self, an intimate partner, family, friends, co-workers, neighbours or even people wearing uniforms of authority.  What I’m about to share applies to everyone and this is where great discomfort comes in for some who study the Pacem Arts with me.

Setting Boundaries

I acknowledge that the colonial trauma that we all experience and are working hard to heal, has resulted in multiple generations passing along trauma for thousands of years.  We are ALL confronted with trauma but some deal with it in different ways.  People naturally would respond to trauma by fighting, fleeing, fawning or freezing.  Two of these responses result in a withdrawing into ones self, while the other two results in turning the trauma around and lashing out at others.  It is the fighting and fawning people that end up being the primary abusers and engaging in all kinds of violence.  Also keep in mind that many of us may fall into more than one category depending on the situation and the other two groups often empower the others, contributing to the problem.

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As a result of all these challenges, our feelings, communications, thoughts, assumptions, life experiences, etc all influence how we see the world and interact with it.  As I explore relationships from this new paradigm, I acknowledge that everyone has trauma to heal.  However, I also acknowledge that free will dictates whether one is willing to do the work or not.  So I look for a few things when dealing with people, while also acknowledging that most everyone will engage in some sort of violence in one form or another throughout my relationship with them.  What I look for is whether they are willing to learn and willing to change.  The attached graphic will highlight this to help with what I’m about to explain.

If an individual has a high willingness to learn and a high willingness to change, chances are high that these individuals are fairly conscious, aware of their shadows, willing to discuss relationship issues openly and explore alternatives or even engage in dispute resolution processes.  With these individuals, when a behaviour manifests that causes harm to another, they are the most flexible and also willing to identify the problem, brainstorm solutions and implement them, triggering changed behaviour, growth and further conscious awareness and insight.  It is these individuals with whom I like to have in my inner circle, who I call elders and I trust greatly to help me with my own journey.  When we engage with one another in an Elders Circle, it is magical, respectful, inspiring, beautiful and amazing.  We may slip up from time to time, but everyone involved is quick to gather together to remedy the situation as all involved recognize the value of addressing issues right away as the relationship is far too valuable to let mistakes or errors jeopardize it.

If an individual has a medium willingness to learn and a medium willingness to change, what I look for is their willingness to do the work, to explore, show up, ask questions, put effort in and do their best to figure out life.  Let me be very clear on this point:  Even though they may engage in violent behaviour from time to time, I tolerate it as they are still open to learning, being confronted and exploring the lessons that those opportunities present for all involved.  I forgive them and pray that the experience provides growth and learning through these experiences.  This is the spirit of the work that we do in Sacred Heart Circle.

However, if an individual has a low willingness to learn and a low willingness to change, things become dangerous as the will to acknowledge mistakes, work through issues or even hear what others are sharing becomes significantly diminished.  When an individual slips into this area, their abuse becomes even more toxic as there is typically nothing anyone can do to stop the violence as it often escalates as a protective mechanism.  They have made up their mind and will live their life the way they see fit and if they are violent, there is no way to stop it.  There are plenty of articles written about Battered Spouse Syndrome and I’ve even written an article about Battered Citizen Syndrome to highlight how our love for these individuals is not enough to trigger healing within them.  Hope, interventions and other extreme activities often don’t result in a shift as free will is a reality of this realm.  In my own experience, what I needed to break free from this false ego black hole was to have a life crises which forced me to surrender and make a choice:  change or die.  I pray people don’t need to go that far in order to make the choice, but I’ve found this to be far more common than not.

It is the violence from this group of people that I’ve chosen to take a zero tolerance approach.  The yellow line on the graph is my boundary and also happens to be the threshold between having the will to change or not.  If I feel they have lost the will to learn or change, that means there is no way I could have a reasonable chance of being able to resolve disputes or confront them on their behaviour in order to find healing and remedy when they lash out or make a mistake.  With all the others, I’ve found that I am willing to tolerate mistakes or some abuse as there are ways to resolve them, heal and strengthen the relationship as a result.  But with the people that find themselves in that bottom red square, there is no remedy within my sphere of influence.  Instead I’ve usually been met with abuse, gaslighting and other violent responses.

This is where the controversy comes to play as my boundary is to end that relationship.  I’ve set that boundary because I love myself and I was not put on this earth to be abused or treated in such deplorable ways.  If there is no chance for remedy, then I have no duty or obligation to interact with that individual, no matter what role they have played in my life.  It matters not whether they were my spouse, mother, brother, sister, relative, friend or neighbour.

Let me repeat this point:  I LOVE MYSELF AND NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO VIOLATE ME IN ANY WAY.  My boundary is firm on this point and it should be for each and every single individual on this planet!

I acknowledge that this is very difficult for some people to do because setting this type of boundary requires that we have the ability to process sadness, mourning, loss and other profound feelings that comes from cutting abusive relationships from our lives.  It also requires that I accept and embrace change as these decisions often manifest great disturbance in my life.  By embracing change, I have found that I can navigate life easier and with more fluidity.  Trusting that Creator will help look after me along this journey also helps tremendously.  Many refuse to do this, so they will hold onto those abusive relationships because their willingness to change is low and they struggle as any learning they do conflicts with their unwillingness to change.  This, in turn, drives themselves towards the red square.

In my experience there is also a threshold that people go through as they drop down into the red low learning, low change zone.  Prior to crossing that threshold, there is still some willingness to hear what people are saying and they are willing to make changes, but it is tough.  I’ve used blunt language with these people in the hopes that they can avoid crossing over that threshold.  There are many within the tribe that this has helped and I am grateful.  It is also my experience that once they cross that threshold, there is no way that I can rationalize with them.  By setting the boundary and refusing to spend time with them, I pray that Creator will soften their heart and help them surrender and choose to learn and change once again.  This has happened before in my life as well, where I set boundaries, removing myself from their life and they returned years later, apologizing and asking for reconciliation.

The message I work hard to send is clear:  violence will no longer be tolerated.  Period.  Either an individual embraces the work with the will to learn and change or they don’t.  This approach is supported by Christ’s teachings, specifically Matthew 18:15-17.  Some struggle as they were taught blood is thicker than water, but these are colonial constructs that only perpetuate multi-generational trauma.

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

I’ve also noticed over the years that when I or others stand up to be a witness to the abuser, this ends up being disturbing to all the people associated with the abuser.  It is an interesting phenomenon that people don’t like change and when abusers are confronted, it risks GREAT change within the social relationships of the group, whether it be a family, tribe, corporation or even a government.  People don’t like change and to some degree, they are willing to tolerate violence so that the social order is not disturbed.  I find this actually quit disturbing as it only perpetuates violence and gives violent abusers a sanctuary to continue their abusive ways.  It also discourages people from standing up to be a witness to the abuse of others as they are often judged or attacked for their testimony.  As a result, the witness ends up receiving the vast majority of the attention which is opposite of what should actually be happening.  This happens in the micro as much as it happens in the macro.

In my experience, standing up as a witness to somebodies violence, while they are in a high willingness to learn and a high willingness to change is often met with gratitude, appreciation and full participation to resolve the behaviour.  This makes it very easy to tolerate the violence as it often results in growth.  For the middle group, I’ve found the ground rules and sacred space of the Sacred Heart Circle to be the most effective means of confronting violence.  I do it with gentleness and questions to help guide the individual through the journey of healing, learning, change and growth.  Because of this, I am also willing to tolerate violence.  In my view, I feel this is a manifestation of my own work on violent behaviour, a testimony to the 20 years of work, growth and healing that I’ve done.

I acknowledge that many still struggle with my zero tolerance with people in the red zone, but this should never be interpreted as me being callus, insensitive, uncaring or unloving.  I trust that Creator will help them through their journey and I make it very clear that if they want me as a part of that journey, there is a minimum standard of behaviour that is expected from everyone around me.  I’ve worked hard to maintain that minimum standard and it is something that I think we ALL should be establishing.  The message to be sent throughout the world is this:Abusive behaviour, whether overt or covert in nature, is no longer tolerated; by anybody.

This is the premise and standards set for the Pacem Arts and ALL my relationships.  I acknowledge that I live in a rather abusive and violent world and as such my social circle is really small.  However, it is growing because I know in my heart that the people around me acknowledge, appreciate and honour those standards that I’ve set for myself and those that I interact with.  These are my standards and boundaries.  Nobody has the right to convince or intimidate me to move off of those standards, to do so is a violent act.  But for those that honour and respect those boundaries, I have witnessed great love, compassion, growth, empathy, friendship, trust and profound intimacy; exactly what I’m looking for in my life.This all takes a tremendous amount of hard work, profound changes and a willingness to learn new ways of communicating, resolving disputes, having profound conscious awareness, honesty and courage to stand up to those that we love most.  This journey produces a tremendous amount of disturbance, but there is no way to get to this peaceful place without going through the pain, turmoil and profound disruption.  I pray this helps people process the consequences of my actions as I set boundaries that impacts all those around me.  I pray that this helps explain where I am coming from when I do this work.

By holding those in the red zone accountable for their actions, we can help make life uncomfortable enough to surrender and chose to learn and change instead of sitting in a place that is familiar and engage in inappropriate behaviour.  That is, in my view, the most loving act we can express to the violent offenders.  They deserve healing as well; but it must start with them.  We can help by calling them on their shit.What are your thoughts on this topic?  Feel free to comment below.

An introduction to the Pacem Arts

An introduction to the Pacem Arts

We live in challenging times and it appears that the world is at war. While many are choosing to go to war against others in an effort to address their concerns, there is a small group of people who are realizing that the problems we face runs far deeper than we realized and the solutions rest squarely within each individual. There is no blame, but rather a realization that each of us are 100% responsible and accountable for our actions and our participation in the war that has manifested as a result of our ignorance. When we acknowledge this, we find that the solution is not war against our neighbour, but to find peace, knowledge and conscious, spiritual awareness within our selves.

Our history is littered with war, violence, colonization, greed, lust, discrimination, theft, hatred and pain. For thousands of years this has been passed down from generation to generation, to the point where most of us are not even consciously aware of why we struggle so much in our lives.

The Pacem Arts / The Art of Peace is designed to help each individual re-connect with their heart space so that the healing journey can begin. The Sacred Heart Circle is a core principle of the school which creates a safe space for people to be vulnerable and do this profound shadow work. When the student is ready, they are welcome to then start the decolonization process where we challenge generations of assumptions, programming, brainwashing and other chains that tend to keep people attached to the war machine.

The goal is to do the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing so that we can find peace within ourselves. That is where the true peace is found. Politicians and state bureaucrats will never be able to bring peace to the world because they are the war machine and it is not their job. Their peace requires force, violence and coercion, which is not peaceful. True peace is our job and it is found within, especially when we heal ourselves and fully integrate the four parts of our being to the point of balance and being centered. Spiritual awakening then helps us walk a path of non-violence and peaceful non-compliance as we venture towards an evolutionary shift in consciousness. When we reach this point, self-defense is no longer required. We have walked off the battle field.

The Pacem Arts is a unique and disciplined art form designed to help each practitioner heal their heart, discipline their mind, bring conscious awareness to all their relationships, practice healthy and peaceful communication protocols, study history and explore our dependencies so that we can all work towards true independence and explore the richness and prosperity when we build inter-independent relationships with one another.

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Within the framework of this school, we will talk about feelings, traumas, history, relationships, behaviours, boundaries, morality, ethics, spirituality, ceremonies, protocols and even dig into the system and our relationship with it. I would recommend that you start with my book “Graduating Life with Honours”, which is a free download. It lays out the foundation of the school very well. If you want to join, the Sacred Heart Circle is the core of this art form. We cannot do any of the other work without first doing the internal healing work. Others attend the Decolonization Classes at the same time and do well as the content we cover does trigger people, which can then be resolved or discussed in the Sacred Heart Circles.

If you love this work and want to support the school, I graciously accept donations. If you want to support people who cannot afford to train in the school, I’m setting up a sponsorship program to connect practitioners with philanthropists. I also have a public blog, so please feel free to read my public posts to help you get a better feel for what we do here. This school triggers people as we break down the status quo in order to transform ourselves into a new paradigm of life and govern ourselves under the Law of Love. Change is a constant here and it is challenging! If you are up to the challenge, then welcome to the Pacem Arts.

UNPLUG Workshop

In 2017 I performed a number of presentations to help people work through acknowledging our dependencies and what we can do to become independent. I’m offering this presentation to you now to help explain the type of work that we are doing here in the school. Special thank you to Sweetgrass Sitting Bear for his opening prayers, smudge and friendship!

https://vimeo.com/381819195
UNPLUG – St. Albert – February 28, 2017 – Part 1 of 3
https://vimeo.com/382688905
UNPLUG – St. Albert – February 28, 2017 – Part 2 of 3
https://vimeo.com/382783721
UNPLUG – St. Albert – February 28, 2017 – Part 3 of 3

Ketopower Fitness

I want to acknowledge the hard work and dedication that Claude has put into developing this website but also helping me heal from some health issues over the past month. If you struggle with health issues and need a mentor or coach, Claude can fulfill that role very well. Claude is a facilitator within our Sacred Heart Circles and has fulfilled that role beautifully. With his martial arts training, education, life experience and facilitation skills, I have no hesitation to recommend Claude for those looking for help in their healing journey. – White Walking Feather

About White Walking Feather

About White Walking Feather

White Walking Feather (aka rob in the page family) is an individual whom dedicates his time towards writing books, blogging, teaching and facilitating healing circles while doing his best to live off grid and explore his relationship with Mother Earth. Some people have also called him a knowledge keeper and an elder.

For the first 30+ years of his life, he struggled with depression, addictions and multiple suicide attempts. Despite numerous visits to psychiatric wards in the hospital, it was not until he hit rock bottom that he decided to surrender and try a new approach to life. It is this surrender that helped him heal, learn new communication skills and completely change his approach at life.

These new skills turned his life around and he found success in his IT career, managing projects and dedicating himself to training in the art of Tae Kwon Do where he reached 3rd Dan Black belt and ran his own school for a couple years. As a result of his healing journey, he realized in 2005 that his relationship with the state and other corporate entities was not healthy as they were extremely abusive and violent. This started him down a spiritual path to reconnect with Creator and Mother Earth. In 2007 he moved off grid with his family where they build earthships, gardens, a greenhouse and took every measure they could to be free, independent and healthy.

On April 15, 2008 he declared peace and refused to provide service to the Queen and her lords that control her feudal empire. Since then, he has been invited to speak at public events, online radio shows and was featured in Ben Steward’s third film UNGRIP. He has written a book, released in 2015 and is currently in the middle of writing his second one. For years he has also shared his thoughts freely on social media and blogs. In late 2019 he decided to open up a school as he recognized there are no well rounded training methods to help people navigate the complex web of lies and deceit that surrounds modern social constructs. As a result, the Pacem Arts was created with the intent to utilize training methods learned through the Martial Arts but dedicated to the Pacem Arts instead.

What is Sacred to You?

I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure out why more people are not taking steps to be free.  Then a dear friend shared this video and it became clear to me.  

They are not taking steps to be free because they don’t want to be free.  I agree with the assessment that James Corbett made in this video and if you read my book ‘Graduating Life with Honours, you will find that supported in great detail.  I attached the pdf of the book ‘The Politics of Obedience’ to make it easy for people to find it.  I really do encourage students to read the book.

I’ve been struggling for years trying to figure out why more people are not taking steps to revoke their consent to being governed and taking up the duty of self governance or working hard to rebuild our ancestral tribes.  What is it that scares people so much?  This video and book helped me realize that they are not actually scared, they just don’t want to.

When I realized this ugly truth, it was like a light bulb went off.  While many would argue this point, I think it is an accurate assessment.  I suggest that the vast majority are not consciously aware of why they make the choices they do.  I wonder if this group masks their choices in fear to prevent them from consciously exploring the root causes of their dependencies and trauma.  It is this point where fear and blanket dismissals seems to govern the masses, but only as a mask.  If we dig through the fear, we will find a justification for staying with the tyrant;  benefits and privileges.  

When I take a look at current events, I can now see this playing out and no amount of confrontation is going to shift people from this way of thinking.  They want to fight with one another.  They actually want to belly ache and complain about masks, quarantines, vaccinations and all that stuff, because it distracts them from accepting fully responsibility and accountability for their own life and taking the steps to make it happen. 

People have yet to surrender to Spirit.  Until they do so, this narrative will continue to unfold and deteriorate.

For years I felt a sense of duty to confront people in order to help them make that transition, to bring awareness to their conscious mind and help them take that leap of faith in themselves.  For years I’ve been met with frustration and a stunned disbelief on why those efforts failed so miserably.  I now know why.  Because I’m not helping people in fear overcome, I was dealing with people who already made their choices and were fully committed to the outcomes those choices produced.  

I also felt this overwhelming duty of speaking up and testifying to the violence I saw in order to protect the vulnerable, weak and violated.  Turns out this duty was misguided as I focused on people who, again, had already made that choice.  Through these summer months, I am re-evaluating my approach and will be implementing changes in the coming weeks.

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This school is designed for people who have made the conscious choice to withdraw their consent from being governed, are willing to do the work to heal themselves, acquire skills and walk the path of self-governance with the support of a tribe.  This is not an easy path, but it does demonstrate that we can have forms of governance that does not include tyranny, violence, coercion, greed or any of the other frailties and flaws of modern political institutions.  

What do we hold as sacred?

That is the most important question to ask to help people confront themselves and their own participation with the state.  Is the Pope sacred?  How about the Queen, Governor General or even the Prime Minister?  Are we looking at the flesh or the office?  

It is critical that we acknowledge that people in power hold the office as sacred when in fact it is nothing but a fictional construct and leads us directly towards treating these constructs as if they are holy.  They are NOT and should never be treated as such.  They are tools for tyrants and it is our spiritual duty to disconnect ourselves from them and treat them as such:  dead bodies.  Time to bury them and allow the vessels to decompose and release their nutrients for those that are alive.

If you are insulted or take offense to what I just said, then this school is not for you as you are choosing to support the sanctity of your tyrant oppressor.  However, if you agree with what I said, then you are welcome to join us as we explore how we can accomplish freedom from tyranny in a peaceful, non-violent way.  The Politics of Obedience is a good reference to help us in that journey, just as my own books and other writings that I’ve shared in the library.  

You are sacred to me, just as Mother Earth, air, water, plants and animals.  My relationships are also sacred.  I refuse to let tyrants, fictional constructs or abhorrent behaviour desecrate that which is holy.  

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So, you want to join an intentional community

One of my most popular posts on Facebook in months was a simple question:   If a few of us started an eco village around the Edmonton area, who would be interested? 

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A lot of people liked the idea and over 50 people put their hat into the circle.  I feel moved to write about the idea.  My own experience over the last 13 years to work with people on the land has been full of failure, but also some astounding success.  I am no fan of using colonial constructs to build community.  If we are going to decolonize, return to the land and rebuild our ancestral tribes, we must go through a significant amount of healing and decolonization.  Most of the intentional communities that I’ve read or heard stories about, have fail or struggle because some foundational truths are not realized and addressed.  As a result, trauma, co-dependency and colonial constructs seep into the relationships and start to erode the hard work that people have put into the community.  

My school, White Walking Feather’s School for the Pacem Arts, is designed to work on those core fundamentals to help people prepare for life within such communities.  With the deterioration of modern social structures, institutions and relationships, people are now interested in returning to the land, growing their own gardens and working together to provide for our basic needs, social interaction and security.  

I’ve modified the medicine wheel to reflect some of these de-colonization medicines required for us to make this transition. It starts with the green circle in the middle of the wheel, which represents our heart.  By healing, we find space within ourselves to no longer participate in war, violence, force or aggression.  This is why the school is centered on the Sacred Heart Circle and started here first.  By being vulnerable and walking as Spiritual Braves, we confront our past, heal and build profoundly intimate relationships with one another.  If people refuse to do this work, it will be identified early and could safe a lot of problems and heart ache as some people refuse to end the war and declare peace.  It is this type of peaceful relationships that is at the core of any intentional community or tribe.   War has no place here.  By learning the protocols on how to do this work, we significantly increase the probabilities that our relationships within the community or tribe will be successful.  

The blue circle is all about personal knowledge and health.  Of all the investments in the world, these two reap the greatest rewards and can never be taken away from us by others.  When we explore the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual relationships in our lives, we acknowledge the wide scope and depth of our relationships with self, Creator, Mother Earth and everyone else who shares this realm with us.  When we have done significant work to heal ourselves, we are now ready to venture out into the world and explore what community is all about.

When we are invited to learn about a community, it is our responsibility to learn, adapt and grow.  There are four seasons and each season brings with it many challenges and learning opportunities.  That is why it takes a full year to really get to know what the community is all about.  Explore all aspects of the medicine wheel within the community, such as the land, buildings, earth, plants, animals, air, water, energy, waste recycling, collection, storage, ceremony, protocols, etc.  This is an important aspect of the medicine wheel and is often where colonial constructs seep into the organization as the heart centric work has not been done.  When intellect drives the process we will end up with colonized institutional type thinking within the community.  But when we heal and allow spirit and our heart to guide the process, that is when our communities can be strong, vibrant, flexible and resilient. 

After a year of exploring the community, learning and growing, the community then must gather within its Elder’s Circle (purple circle) and make a decision on whether to extend an invitation to invite people into their inner circle.  This is a serious decision as it has a profound impact on the community as a whole.  This whole process is allowing both sides to learn and grow with one another to make sure it is going to be a good fit.  It may also mean suggesting that people explore other tribes or communities as the fit may be better suited with other groups. 

I am in no position to dictate protocol, how communities are formed, built, etc.  In fact, I suspect that when billions of us go through this protocol we will end up with millions of different types of solutions and that is a good thing to do.  Our environment, ancestors, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, challenges, etc will all form different and unique solutions that we can share with one another openly on social media and other forums.  

My new book:  UNGRIP – A Sacred Transformation, will take the reader through this protocol as I’m writing my book to follow this idea.  If people are willing and able to work with me, I am open to the challenge.  This is not ‘my’ community or tribe.  I am a facilitator to help people work through these protocols.  I claim no ownership and refuse to have co-dependent relationships with people.  I am looking for people willing to build their own independence and work on having a healthy, respectful and equal relationship with me and others within the group.  

We will have dispute resolution protocols and other techniques to help people work through any challenges that may come up.  That is the whole spirit and intent of the school.  If this interests you, then you can sign up at the lowest level to start reading my book, at the Sacred Heart Circle level to start your heart centric journey, or as a student to really dig into the meat and potatoes of what it’s going to take to participate fully within a community and decolonize.  

I fully suspect that when people do this work, our own communities and tribes will start to manifest naturally as spirit moves us to work together!  Each of you will gravitate towards each other and your community and tribes will form organically, as they should!  If this resonates with you, then I encourage you to join the school and lets get to work!  

I am running a whole bunch of classes over the coming months to help with this process.  I’ll be posting a calendar shortly!  Please check in with me in a few days if the classes interest you.  I was scheduled to go to Blood reserve to teach classes this spring, but due to the pandemic, that is off.  So I’m going to do this work online instead.  

Our Nature is Tribal

As governments around the world continue to lock down their populations, fear seems to be the main weapon being used against the people.  In Edmonton, police are stopping people and giving $1000 tickets to occupants of the vehicle if they have different addresses on their ID.  People are being ticketed for walking by themselves in the park or being on the beach.  This is not about a pandemic, this is about control, fear and tyranny.  

Why are we in a position like this now?  I would suggest that we have moved away from our nature and live life far beyond where we are supposed to be.  We abandoned our tribal ways of life in exchange for being a herd.  In the process we abandoned our duty within our tribe and asked that privileged people rule over us within that herd.  As such, those leaders guide the herd as they see fit and the herd must follow.  

We are then confronted with disease that sweeps through the herd.  Disease is a natural event governed by natural law.  Its design is to thin herds, especially the sick and weak.  The scavengers and predators also prey upon the herd to help keep it moving and strong.  But our herds don’t move.  They sit in one spot, cities.  As such, these herds end up consuming all the resources of that spot and must ship food and other materials in from the country side.  They then consume and turn that one spot into toxic waste due to the accumulation of waste, pollution and other environmental issues.  

Herds are supposed to be constantly on the move.  Some tribes would follow the herds and as such are used to picking up camp and following the herds.  But with our modern herds being in one location, these people want to move around, so they travel where ever they can.  Some of us don’t like traveling.  Our ancestral tribes remained relatively in the same spot, small and in harmony with our surrounding environment.  

But people don’t live like that any more.  We gave up our ancestral ways in favor of being in a herd and that causes sickness, tyranny, stress, anxiety and slavery.  While we remain in herds, we will be farmed like cattle and only when we leave the herd and start rebuilding our ancestral tribes will we find health, freedom and peace.  

This requires healing, learning, knowledge, experience, teachings, relationships, trust and spiritual family.  This is not an easy path as most people want to bring their herd mentality into the tribe and that will not work.  Colonization is a violent, abusive and brainwashing protocol to remove people from the tribe to integrate them into a herd.  If we want to reverse that trend, we must find peaceful, loving, decolonization protocols to help people heal so that they can embrace their nature.

When we do that, the trauma will heal and we will find that we have time to spend with others.  The stress will be significantly less as we find the tribe can support our needs while we participate in supporting the needs of others.  Nobody gets left behind because the tribe is small enough where everyone is included, cared for and a valued member of the tribe.  People can come and go if they choose, but protocol is important as this changes the dynamics of the tribe.  

I’m exploring these protocols and relationships in my new book, which you can read here on my Patreon page.  By healing ourselves, we are no longer manipulated or trapped by fear, the foundational weapon that tyrannical governments use to control people.  

I don’t buy the story being spoon feed by media and government.  I still see their end game being rolled out before our eyes and the majority of people support it.  I don’t.  I refuse to comply with their tyranny.  I declare peace and I will govern myself so that I don’t fall into the war that is being played out.  This is indeed war, World War III!  This is not a war of bullets, yet.  Instead, this is a war of ideas, control, manipulation, propaganda and tyranny.  Their weapon is fear.  They know people better than the people know themselves.  

Heal thy self, that way fear can no longer control or manipulate oneself.  They depend on traumatized people to want to be protected by a parent.  The people are the children, the state is the parent.  As long as people remain children, they state will feel obligated to parent them.  However, when we heal and learn how to stand as adults, the relationship changes and that is how we can change the world.  We do it by healing ourselves and taking on the duty to fully self-govern.  

That requires that we provide supports around ourselves to accomplish that goal.  We need to re-connect with our ancestral tribal structures.  This too requires healthy individuals to start this journey.  When the tribes get to a sufficient size, then the capacity to take on the sick, elderly, young, etc can be fully realized.  We need to get moving on these ideas as the state will soon loose it’s capacity to look after those who are vulnerable.  In fact, it is already starting as reports are coming in where staff are abandoning seniors residence resulting in dead bodies, feces and starving seniors (Montreal Gazette)

By practicing the Pacem Arts, we provide ourselves with the healing, tools and tribal protocols we all need to start returning to our home fires and building healthy relationships with those around us.  We can then walk away from the battle field governed by the state and start to fix the foundational issues that have plagued mankind for thousands of years.  I truly believe we are ready for this next evolutionary process in our consciousness.  This requires Christ level consciousness and it is now time.  

Join us in circle and go through the material that I’ve put up so far.  I’m confident that when we surrender our violent ways and do the hard work to heal, that we can overcome what ever unfolds around us.  Read my books if that helps too!  Print them out and make notes along the way.  I welcome those who want to surrender their old ways and explore what these new relationships may look like.  I don’t have the answers as what will unfold will be co-created by us all.  But I am willing to hold space for that creative process to unfold.  I welcome it.  

Peace, healing, good health and love to you all.

Note:  The picture is from a tribe in Europe.  Even our European ancestors lived as tribes before we too were colonized.  Our indigenous brothers and sisters have a lot that they can teach us, if we are open to remember all that we lost through the trauma of colonization.

Testify, one of our greatest gifts

Time is, by far, the greatest gift we can give somebody else, but to share how we feel is a close second.  A dear friend just shared publicly how she felt about me holding space for her healing journey.  It is powerful and I felt moved to share it with those who are not sure whether or not to take that leap and join.  I hope this helps.  I also added a few more that I have received over the past few years.  May their words find space to help you on your own journey.

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“Rob is one of the few people I have ever felt comfortable sharing my  healing journey with. Not just because he has been through it and has  come out the other side with a robust understanding of healing, or even  just because he walks the talk, but also because  he communicates with such respect when he calls me on my shit…which  is a huge part of what I have had to heal from. The truth is, most of  what we experience, we have a role in creating. And I needed to learn to  keep myself out of abusive situations. When I would get back into those  relationships, I was immediately called out with compassion and  supported to ensure I could be free of those patterns and people. 

It’s  rare to meet someone who understands the truly painful process that  healing our relationships is. It’s not all light and good vibes. It’s  dark. It’s painful. And it’s completely worth it to come out the other  side. Though I would add it’s a continual process. 

I  know what a difference it has made in my life to have Rob hold space  for me to talk, sometimes to cry, and sometimes to push me to learn,  work and grow. ” – Natalie Pepin

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“Coming together to hold space where it’s okay to be vulnerable as  men is one of the best medicines. Being able to express our weaknesses  and being completely open to understanding that we are not alone in the fear that we are inadequate. This retreat allowed for this to happen.  Admitting to yourself that it’s okay to cry and okay to be hurt is something more of us as humans need to do. Because if we don’t and we walk around like we are always “strong”, then that eventually manifests into physical medical sickness. Let it out and don’t hold that garbage.  This retreat will allow that process to begin. Challenge yourself to something that no other man is willing to do. Learn to love freely and openly.” – Sweetgrass Sitting Bear (Benjamin Badger – Kehewin First  Nations) [testimony regarding Men’s Retreat] 

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“I was very pleased and excited to hear that White Walking Feather is offering mentoring, for those that are willing to do the work. I am  so grateful for all the work he has done, and continues to do. He has  knowledge and wisdom that he shares openly in his books and blogs. How  generous is that? A couple years ago, I had a visit from Child  Protective Services. It did not go well. I didn’t handle things in a good way. They were pushing me, to have my daughter released into their  system. I called WWF immediately. I was shaken. Scared. Knowing that he would understand my situation. Living off grid. Trying to live  peacefully. WWF helped me draw up a letter, mentored me, helped me to grasp and understand what needed to be done, and why. He spoke to my heart. Please know that YOU must do the work. I have heard nothing back from CPS. They heard me. In my experience, he won’t candy coat things for you. Sometimes you have to get into the trenches, and do the work. I have a great respect for that. I thank you WWF from the bottom of my heart for offering all the tools and knowledge you have shared with us.  With much respect and love” – A Northern Earth Mother