Letter to Dr. Henshaw, Premier Kenny regarding pandemic protocols in Alberta

Dear Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Premier Kenny, Minister LaGrange & Minister Shandro:

I wave my right to be represented as a person.  I owe no service or allegiance as I am not a serf, citizen or a subject of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen in Right of Alberta or The Queen in Right of Canada.  Instead, I AM that I AM and I write to you as a spiritual ambassador as my master is Creator of the Heavens and the Earth.  My expression today is out of love, compassion, empathy and peace as I have deep concerns with the protocols and approach that I have witnessed over the past months and years.

As you all know, the duty of the government is to govern the ‘public’ and balance that with the rights of citizens, their privacy and sovereignty over their bodies and homes.  Some of you even swore an oath and are governed by a code of ethics and professional conduct, which I question whether you are upholding it or not.  When I reflect on the protocols that you are all proposing people use to return to work, educate their children, reconnect with loved ones and end the social distancing imposed by this government, I find myself deeply concerned and troubled by what I find, especially the protocols for children when they return to school.  Those protocols are abusive to children and completely disregard the foundational needs that they and everyone else has:  touch, social interaction & love.

This government has also passed legislation that violates the very principles of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but also the foundational spiritual principles of love, compassion, empathy, peace and prosperity for all, reflecting a questionable moral and ethical foundation for decision making.  I suspect others will challenge you all on the legal aspects, so I will instead address the moral and ethical issues that I see.  

Let us not forget that we are spiritual beings of love.  We were created in the image of God (Gen 1:27) and God is Love (1 John 4:16).  We are love and we need love in order to survive and thrive on this planet.  It is so important to us that it even superceids nourishment in regards to importance and foundational structures of life.  I draw your attention to Harry Harlow’s experiment on infant monkeys In the 1960’s, experiments on new born babies performed by German King Frederick II performed in the 13th Century, experiments on new born babies performed in 1944 in the US as well as experiments performed on children in Residential Schools for decades here in Canada.  

We literally cannot survive without touch, love, compassion and social interaction.  Love is the foundation of Spirit and our capacity to live here.  While it may not be a consideration within your political, medical or scientific protocols, it is indeed the foundation of life and must never be compromised in anything that we do, EVER!  Babies literally wither away and die without touch, love, snuggles, encouraging words from loved ones, etc.  Our youth manifest aggression, frustration, autistic type tendencies and other behaviours as a result of a lack of touch, whether that be from other students, family, friends or mentors.  

What you are currently proposing for school protocols is nothing short of child abuse.    

People literally thrive in an environment of love and this must never be ignored or downplayed, even in the midst of a ‘pandemic’, whether real or contrived.  “Anything that promotes feelings of love and intimacy is healing; anything that promotes isolation, separation, loneliness, loss, hostility, anger, cynicism, depression, alienation, and related feelings often leads to suffering, disease, and premature death from all causes” (Dean Ornish, Love and Survival, p. 29).

You have no right to harm one group of people in order to protect another group.  Your duty is to protect the PUBLIC from harm and the moment you deviate from that duty, or focus on a segment of the public, you violate your oath and mandate.  Let us not forget, the public is an inherently dangerous place and each individual has a duty to protect themselves when entering the public and ensure they do no harm when there.  This is where your duty rests, to help each individual to take personal responsibility for themselves and mitigate risk to others when in public.  That is all!  You have no mandate to do harm to people should they enter the public, period.  Your job is to protect the vulnerable, all the vulnerable and not to do harm to them.  Anything else is discrimination, much like what has been done to the Indigenous and other people of color!  You cannot harm one group of vulnerable people in order to protect another.  This requires a level of creativity measured against compassion, empathy and love in order to find solutions to problems.  Violence, coercion, threats and other state tools are not love and in fact violate spirit in every way!  

Social distancing is a medical procedure and must be governed as such using informed consent!

I question the motivation for declaring the pandemic emergency a few months ago.  I question the numbers that came out of this ‘pandemic’.  I question the bills that were passed that infringe on the Charter and violate the moral & ethical foundations of love.  I question the protocols that are being proposed to get people back to work, addressing the food issues that manifested or how dependent on the state that people have become.  

Your mandate should be to teach people how to be completely independent, self-governing, how to mitigate risk, connect with Mother Earth and walk the path of peace.  That cannot happen while you all are dictating how people should live, interact or engage with the public or the government.  You all know what YOUR courts say about ‘informed consent’ and especially when it comes to medical procedures.  How many people getting tested or treated through this state of emergency are receiving unredacted, full disclosure prior to being swabbed or engaging with the medical system?  How many people are informed that they can refuse a medical procedure at any time?  Has anybody contemplated that social distancing is a medical procedure and should also fall under the protocol of ‘informed consent’?  Now that the public health emergency is over, how do you propose to justify the continued protocols for medical procedures against an uninformed public?  How do you justify continuing these medical procedures without giving people ALL the information so that they can make an informed choice or inform them that they can say no at any time?  How do you justify using implied consent and ignorance against the people?  How do you justify harming people in the process?  

ALL life is sacred.  Death is also sacred.  I’ve seen reports of people dying all by themselves, which is the most appalling and morally corrupt manifesting of your protocols throughout this ’emergency’.  I rebuke you all on your violence.  Make no mistake about it, the state can only accomplish things as a result of authority backed by violence and coercion.  I implore you to contemplate peace and love as an alternative.  It may be harder, but the spiritual implications are profound.  The human species has drifted away from love and peace as most people embrace war, authority and violence in order to control others and dictate the social narrative of life.  

It is time that we make the effort to heal our hearts so that we can learn how to love, be compassionate and empathize with ALL of our brothers and sisters.  It is time to end the discrimination that dictates policy and walk away from the desire to dictate how others should live.  Your actions during this pandemic has scared people beyond belief and the covert & overt violence that is unfolding is a manifestation of your policies.  

Love demands that we heal ourselves and hold space for others to do the same.  Love does not use force, coercion or use authority over others.  Love teaches, peacefully confronts, supports one another, engages with empathy, patience, compassion and forgiveness.  I forgive you for the approach you all took during this event.  That does not negate your responsibility and duty!  I ask that you look within your heart, ask yourself the tough questions and explore the moral and ethical foundations of the decisions you are currently making.  

While the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, the needs of the one also outweighs the needs of the many.  Both are valid and a balance must be found.  This whole pandemic approach has failed miserably to find that balance.  Fear has gripped control over love, compassion and empathy.  We must never allow that to happen.  I pray to the Creator to soften your hearts so that you can allow love to help you make balanced, loving decisions within your mandates, but also within your own personal lives.  

We are at a turning point in our lives where we are all being confronted with how we behave and interact with one another.  We can choose war, violence, authority, greed and state governance or we can choose peace, love, freedom, self-governance, healing, compassion and empathy.  The choice is up to each individual and I hope you find within yourselves the capacity to reflect on the outcomes of each and every decision you make or fail to make.  The vast majority of people are completely dependent upon you and seem to support your governance of them.  As such, you are responsible until they find within themselves to accept personal responsibility and accountability for their own lives.  Until then, your duty is to hold space to teach them how to do that.  You are NOT supposed to encourage dependency, but rather independence within the feudal serfs that you govern.  I ask that you govern yourselves accordingly with peace and love.  

Peace to you all.

I AM that I AM
My Spirit name is White Walking Feather
My vessels name is rob and it was born in the pagé family
I AM a headman for my ancestral White Tribe rooted in the Quercy region of France
I AM a co-steward of this land with my Treaty 6 brothers and sisters
I declared peace in 2008!  

A Matter of Integrity

For nearly 20 years I’ve worked hard to walk a path of integrity.  The previous 30+ years was wrote with covert violent behaviours, lying, addictions, depression, suicide attempts, numerous stays in hospital and other traumas that I fully disclosed and shared in my books, writings, etc.  

The other thing that I shared was how hard I had to work to walk a path of peace in order to demonstrate that I am a changed man.  I did that work because that is what is required in order to build trust, especially with people who have been victimized by violence and / or abuse.  It took YEARS of work and walking the path in order to demonstrate that I have changed and that I’m not going to resort to my old violent ways.  

Sometimes I make mistakes, but I work hard to remedy those mistakes!  

It has come to my attention that my separation from my wife of 25 years may have irreparably tarnished my reputation and integrity to hold space for those wanting to learn the Pacem Arts, heal and decolonize.  I’ve also been informed by my dear friends that I may not be explaining what happened properly and as such I’m being misunderstood.

In order for me to explain what happened, I must first explain my boundaries.  Please permit me to use an example.  Many alcoholics must refrain from drinking in order to help themselves heal from their addiction.  Any temptation of alcohol around them is often painful, stressful and highly triggering.  People who support the alcoholics will do what they can to avoid drinking around them in order to help them heal.

Being a reformed abuser, I’ve had to set boundaries to avoid abuse and violence, much in the same way alcoholics do with their addictions.  I’ve worked hard to take a zero tolerance stance with abuse because I had to in order to maintain my own health and well being.  Violence and abuse highly triggers me. I feel pain, anxiety and extreme discomfort when people engage in abusive behaviour.  The problem I have is that most people engage in abusive behaviour.  

Much like an ex-alcoholic, I’m sensitive and I work hard to find ways to heal and cope with the behaviours of others so that I don’t engage in those behaviours myself.  I do that by confronting them and seeing if they are able and willing to heal so that they no longer engage in the violence.  Most people are not.  So I walk away, doing my best to remove myself from the violence.  

I’ve gone to the point of even removing myself from the government and corporations as those relationships are abusive as well.  This is NOT an easy path to walk, but I’ve gone to extreme lengths to walk this path as my health and well being is extremely important to me and my relationships with those who fully comprehend the scope of this work that I do.

Many people don’t comprehend and as such they rebuke me with accusations that I throw away relationships far too easily, without realizing that my boundaries are there to protect myself and others.  I end relationships because I don’t want to be abusive or violent but also abused either.  I take a zero tolerance approach as my own health and well being depends on it and so does the salvation of my spirit!  My resolve to walk this path is most likely beyond the comprehension of most people, including my ex-wife.  

This caused great conflict between my ex-wife and I.  She asked me to compromise my firm boundaries in order to maintain some level of relationships with those that she valued.  She felt caught in the middle between me and others as I often refused to have a relationship with them.  This caused great stress and anxiety within her and our relationship.  So much so, that we were unable to find a remedy.  As a result, she asked me to leave.  

I willfully left and left almost everything with her as my love for her is absolute and the last thing I wanted to do is cause her pain and suffering.  If I compromised my own boundaries, I have no doubt that I would have resorted to further violence and started going down a path that I absolutely refused to go.  I’ve been down that path and it is dark, ugly, painful and downright violent.  The most peaceful solution was to remove myself from the situation.  I also walked away from the land that I spent 14 years building and developing.  I left it all to her because I built it for her and my sons.  

I’ve worked hard to be fully transparent and blunt about my journey in life.  I’m no guru and I make no claims to know it all or be an expert of any kind.  I share my journey and my story in the hopes that I can influence others to chose a path of peace, healing and freedom.  While my life may seem extreme, in many ways it is.  What I do well is hold space for others to do the same.  I work hard to build trust so that people can feel safe to be vulnerable and do their work to heal.  

I’ve witnessed many miracles over the years and I know that I make a difference.  However, I am not for everyone.  I am blunt, open and unyielding when it comes to honour, integrity, peace, freedom, prosperity and love.  I am equally unyielding when it comes to violence, coercion, greed, war, theft and other violent behaviours, whether done overtly or covertly.  

I am no saint or angel either.  If you are looking for a professional teacher or therapist with pieces of paper on the wall, then you are in the wrong place.  I hold space within this school for people who are serious about peace, healing and freedom.  We all have trauma to heal, including myself.  The group here is more than willing to help hold space so that we can do that work.  

Make no mistake, this is work.  Much like the martial arts, we do things over and over again, using repetition to help us learn and heal.  People come and go, depending on their needs.  Sometimes class is empty, often times it is full.  Healing, peace and freedom is the primary goal.  

What I do know is that this work will manifest beautiful things that was never designed or intended.  Much like the martial arts, after years of training, a spiritual enlightenment starts to manifest within the student.  I have no doubt the same will occur within the Pacem Arts as well.  What that looks like is completely up to each individual student.  

I trust that Spirit will guide that process and as such, I focus on the mechanics of healing, peace and freedom.  I trust Spirit will help guide us on the spiritual and tribal manifestations that we are all searching for within our lives.  I’ve learned a lot through this process already, now that the school has been up and running for seven months.  We are young yet, but for those willing to take that leap of faith, I have no doubt that we will get there.  Where are we going?  I have no idea, but I trust in Creator to guide us along the way.  It is the journey that I’m interested in, not the destination.  

If this does not resonate with you, then you are welcome to find others to walk your path with.  I will not apologize for being me, having firm boundaries and doing what I need to do in order to maintain my own health and integrity.  

The Heart is not a pump

I recommend that people read my book ‘Graduating Life with Honours’ because this video will expand on what I spoke about, specifically the power and sacredness of water, but also that we have a torus of energy that makes up our bodies and this doctor explains it all very brilliantly. I hope this helps with our journey in exploring who we are and how we can express ourselves in this world.

Witnessing Fraud, Treason and Genocide

I came back from my trip this week and despite how difficult it was, I am forever grateful!  I was supposed to go to Loon Lake for a ceremony, but only managed to get to English Bay Treaty grounds where I met a Dene Clan Grandmother & elder by the name of Nancy.  She is in her early 80’s, frail but her spirit is strong, sharp and on fire!  The Great Spirit had other plans for us as our efforts to work on the Peace Conference was put aside while other more important matters were presented.    I present a document that Nancy gave me and here is her story:

Nancy told me that the Queen considers her and her people as brothers and sisters, that there was a change in relationship that few people are aware of.  She knew this to be true, and she spent years looking for the proof.  She even spent time digging through archives in New York looking and one day she found it.  A scroll written by Queen Victoria to the ‘New King of Canada’, aka the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.  At that point, she gave me a copy of the letter and I will enclose it here for you all to go over.  

The significance of this letter cannot be understated and I will study it further.  However, her story of what happened to that letter underlines treason, fraud and genocide.  I am working with a dear friend regarding the municipality moving forward with a tax auction for the land she stewards.  When we finish that process I will share those letters, but I want to share the letter I wrote using this new information to help her and others with their land issues.  This is something worthy of discussing in Decolonization class.  Note:  To date, we have received no response from anybody.  

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from:   White Feather <white.walking.feather@gmail.com>
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            Shelby.Lemke@strathcona.ca,
            brennen.tipton@strathcona.ca
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date:  May 19, 2020, 10:51 AM
subject:Auction of 4-21-51-31-NE, plan 3979RS, roll # 1131102004
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Representatives of Queen Elizabeth II, I am writing to you today in  regards to a matter that was brought to my attention a few weeks ago  regarding land! 

I write to you as an ally  of the King Chiefs of Canada, Queen clan mothers and all my Red Tribe  brothers and sisters, the true nations that govern this land under  Spiritual and Natural law, protected by treaty.  I removed myself from  your feudal domain over twelve years ago, I owe no service or tenure to  you or your Queen.  In fact, I declared peace and welcomed your Queen as  my sister, expressing love to her.  I call upon my ancestors de Quercy,  Turtle Island and others across Europe as I stand to reclaim my  traditional and ancestral standing through the ancient customs of my  ancestral White Tribes.

I have been invited as a brother by the  nehewin  King Chief, dene & nehewin Queen clan mothers, and many of my Red  Tribe brothers and sisters across this land.  They gifted me, through  sacred ceremony, a white eagle feather and the spirit name of White  Walking Feather. They welcome me into their homes to break bread in  friendship and peace, into their sweats and sacred ceremonies and I do  the same for them.  I am an Eagle Feather holder, ally and sovereign  brother and sister to them, who are also sovereign.  Your Queen’s  ancestor, Queen Victoria, made a bargain with the Red Tribes of Turtle  Island (Canada) that binds you and your Queen today.  She made a nation  to nation agreement bound by the international law of sovereigns. 

The  Two Row Wampum belt treaty and Royal Proclamation of 1763 are a few  important agreements, but the Bargain, the year 1665 comes the year  1835, is of particular concern.  This agreement was hidden from the King  Chief of Canada (Red Tribes).  It was intercepted by your predecessors,  agents, servants and / or ministers when Queen Victoria sent the King  Chief of Canada the sealed document.  It was hidden in the archives in  New York for over 170+ years.  Nancy, a Dene clan mother, found that  document and petitioned for it to be delivered as originally intended.   After years of work, it was finally delivered to her, with the Queen’s  seal ripped off.  Your predecessors are complicit by allowing or  participating in the conspiracy to intercept and hide that Bargain.  The  Queens mail was stolen, the seal tampered with, and those individuals  went to great lengths to hide the document.  These actions are grounds  for treason against the Queen and at that time was punishable by death.   Those that perpetuate the fraud and treason today, whether they are  aware of it or not, are also guilty of treason and fraud as they are  complicit in perpetuating the original act.

This  land has not been ceded.  You and your predecessors have engaged in  genocide against your Queen’s brothers and sisters, which is a direct  attack against the Queen and her family.  You have lied to them, tricked  them and impoverished them into perpetual poverty.  These are serious  crimes against your sovereign that have been proven over and over again  in your own courts. 

The sovereign queen  that currently stewards the land in question works hard to honour the  land, her Red Tribe brothers and sisters, the Two Row Wampum belt treaty  as well as revive her ancestral tribal customs, traditions and  ceremony.  She too is an ally of our Red Tribe brothers and sisters and  an ally to myself, making her a sister and family to your Queen.  Your  actions against the land is a direct attack against your sovereign and  her family.

The Bargain of 1835 stipulated  that the Red Tribes were to make the townships, not you or your  predecessors.  I attach a copy of the Bargain and I call upon you all to  put yourself back into honour and peace.  Remove this land from the  demesne of the Queen in Right of Alberta and / or the Queen in Right of  Canada, acknowledge the true Kings and Queens of this land, honour the  agreements that your Queen is bound to honour.  Declare peace, cease and  desist your claims against land that is not yours, restore honour to  the Queen by fulfilling the agreements that were made.

The  Queen Clan Mothers have had enough of your violence, genocide and war,  as have I.  I stand beside them as an ally and a witness to your actions  as you are all trying to invalidate the Bargain by ensuring there is no  “Indian in the country” and that there is no longer “water in the lakes  and run in the rivers and Creeks, and the green grass grows”.  We will  not permit that to happen.  I stand as a witness to your genocide,  treason, fraud, violence and war.  Your sovereign commanded you to bring  peace.  I welcome and encourage peace and your withdrawal from this  land and return it to being governed by the Clan Mothers, sisters of  your sovereign, is a condition of that peace.  It is time to cease and  desist and acknowledge the true nations of this land!  If you cannot  find it within your hearts to do what is right, I know Nancy would be  more than happy to come down and read the Bargain to you in her native  tongue of Dene. 

I also put you all on notice:  I  stand as a witness to your treason, fraud and genocide.  I will testify  every chance I get, for as long as you engage in treason, fraud and  crimes against humanity, for as long as my vessel breaths air and for as  long as the Red Tribes walk upon this land, the water flows, sun shines  and green grass grows.  I stand as an ally and Headman for my ancient  ancestral tribes.

I AM that I AM
My Spirit name is White Walking Feather
My vessels name is rob and it was born in the pagé family de quercy
Headman of my ancient white tribes, granted to me by my ancestors

First Nation Prophecy Unfolding

I saw this video today and resonate with it deeply as it speaks to the spirit of what we are doing here within this school.  May Spirit guide us along this journey. 

“this is narrated by Isaac Murdoch….one of the people who have put together the incredible land based language camp “Nimkii Aazhibikong” in Northern Ontario. https://nimkiiaazhibikong.com” – Catherine

Power vs Force

In the Pacem Arts, knowing the difference between these two is significantly important. I’ve not read the book, but I am aware of the basic principles shared in David R. Hawkins book “Power vs Force”. It is a good first step to comprehending why we focus so much time and energy in the Sacred Heart Circle. The whole point is to heal ourselves so that we can start to embrace the higher levels of consciousness and not get trapped in the trauma, pain, fear, guilt and shame. We cannot build tribe or find peace unless we do this work first!

I duplicated the chart from Hawkin’s book Power vs Force to help students with their studies of these principles. I will also share muscle testing in the circles as this is something that I’m familiar with as I’ve done this type of self check for years.

While the original video that I found on Youtube sadly disappeared, this one comes close to describing the book at a high level. I encourage everyone to go through this video or even pick up the book and explore the significance behind the ideas being expressed here. In the end, this is just a tool and how we embrace these principles will help determine our progress as we Graduate Life with Honours and progress through the Pacem Arts. I do not endorse the author of this video, but agree with his assessment of the book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJKUm5QyMYw

The Discipline of Peace

One of the first justifications for me training in the martial arts was to learn how to discipline my mind.  I was struggling with depression and my early recovery at the time and I needed help to quiet my mind and to ground myself so that I could explore this new aspect that I found:  feelings.  My intellect often drowned out my feelings and that caused all kinds of heart ache and pain.  Martial Arts was one way that I found to quiet my mind.  But I also found out that it allowed me to connect with my body in ways I never contemplated before.

By spending 9+ hours a week on nothing but 100% focus on my body, I was able to build a relationship that ripples throughout my life to this very day.  More importantly, it also helped me to listen to my body as it has a lot to say.  My body has feelings and those feelings were important to acknowledge.  This required a tremendous amount of discipline to obtain that level of relationship, especially considering how strong my intellect was at the time.

This is one area where martial artists excel as their training provides a great deal of discipline that can be applied to all areas of life, not just to the training.  This discipline helps when we are in stressful situations as we depend on calm, balanced and focused responses, rather than off the handle reactions that can often escalate situations unnecessarily.  Our job is to deescalate in order to prevent war, not to provoke others or ourselves into war.

In class we would practice that discipline in everything we do.  EVERYTHING.  Even when we are lined up to start or end class, when our master asked us to stand at attention, we were to control ourselves to the point where we did not move a muscle.  Try it some time.  Try standing still, absolutely still for a few minutes.  No wave in our stance.  No fidgeting.  No scratching that itch.  No wandering eyes.  No responding to distractions of any kind.  Without training, most people would not be able to do that.  It took me several years before I could discipline my mind to not chase after squirrels (distractions).  

The Pacem Arts will require an equal or even higher level of discipline.  As we move into a new paradigm, there is going to be a lot of distractions going on around ourselves.  There will be plenty of triggers to entice us into war with others.  If we are going to be effective Pacem Artists, we must work on our discipline and remain focused on what the work that Spirit needs us to do.  

We don’t have the benefits of being in a martial arts class to work on this as we are spread throughout the land.  But we can work on it while we are together in class.  We need each other to hold ourselves accountable.  We can provide feedback for one another as most of our actions and behaviours are often unconscious.  By bringing these into our conscious awareness we can work on it.  This requires time, dedication and a burning desire to be peaceful and free.

As in the martial arts classes, we can duplicate some of those protocols here.  I had absolute respect for my Tae Kwon Do Master.  He had knowledge that I wanted to learn, so I was prepared to surrender and learn it his way.  I bowed to him out of respect. I also bowed to my fellow students as I could not learn without them there too.  I bowed to the gym as we could not train without the facility.  Showing respect to everyone and everything is a custom and sacred medicine of the Yellow Tribes of Asia.  There was no talking back or challenging the Master.  It was his way or the door.  

We don’t have the privilege of time any more.  World events are escalating and it is time we step up our training as we will be required to help others in short order.  We need to work on our discipline to ensure that we can master this new art form.  As in the martial arts, there were rules for training.  If we used Tae Kwon Do outside of the class, we were kicked out.  We were NOT allowed to go to war or hurt other people with the knowledge that we were taught.

In the Pacem Arts, if you use this knowledge to attack or hurt other people, I will kick you out and not invite or allow you back in.  I will take a zero tolerance on this point.  I know that people attending were at war and working hard to remove themselves from the war.  I know that we are decolonizing ourselves and that takes time.  However, I am asking all students to have the discipline to refrain from violence of any type while training with me.  This is going to be hard work, but if you cannot control yourself, then I cannot help you.  

By training with me, we must all dedicate ourselves to being peaceful at all times.  This is an art form of honour, respect and dignity for all, including ourselves.  The Pacem Arts brings with it a tremendous duty, which can feel daunting.  With training, experience, guidance and patience, we can work through it all.  

I’m asking students to work on their self discipline every day.  Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, hands by your sides, head up, shoulders back and eyes straight ahead.  Stand there for 5 minutes and work your way up to 15 minutes.  Focus your thoughts on that one spot in front of you.  Your mind is going to go crazy and your body is going to freak out.  Build that discipline so that you can govern both.  Without that level of discipline, how can we expect to handle ourselves when we are triggered by stressful events around us?

If you need more help, join a martial arts class, preferably one that teaches the art rather than the sport.  There is a huge difference between the two.   

In our Pacem Arts classes, I demand respect, honour, patience, honesty, integrity and an indomitable spirit.  If you cannot honour that code of conduct in class or in life, then you will not be welcome into our sacred space.  

We may disagree with what others are doing or saying, but we still must respect and honour them, their spirit, path and journey.  

Ownership is a weapon of war

Ownership has no place in the Pacem Arts due to its violence and desecration of all that is sacred.

I see this playing out all the time and a lot of it is soooo subtle, most people don’t even see it.  However, we feel it when somebody violates another individual, whether it is physical, emotional, mental or spiritual violence.  Our bodies, spirit, mind and feelings are gifts from Creator and as such they are all sacred and ours to explore.  

In order for me to be peaceful, I must acknowledge the sacredness of others, whether they are my brothers & sisters or my cousins like the plants, animals, water, air, soil or Mother Earth herself.  That means learning how to ask for consent rather than just taking what I want.  The implications are profound.

My body is in my possession, a gift from Creator.  It is my responsibility to honour the sacredness of who I am.  As such, I place boundaries around me so that I can maintain that sacredness.  If others violate that sacredness, you will be called out or find yourself kicked out of my circles.  If I violate that sacredness, then I often find myself struggling or in pain.

This means that I cannot force myself onto others, even my wife.  She is sacred too and I refuse to use shame, guilt, coercion, covert violence or even overt violence to manipulate or control her.  She is not my property.  I do not ‘own’ her and I work hard to remember that every single day.  My relationship must be honourable, consensual and peaceful in order for me to respect that which is sacred; her, me and our relationship together.

When my wife was pregnant, those spiritual beings growing inside of her were sacred too.  Neither of us ‘owned’ the baby, even when still inside of her body.  What we are responsible for though, is to steward, raise and be responsible for their development into independence.  To violate their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being would violate that which is sacred.  

Scientists have recorded the exact moment that a sperm joins with the egg and the flash of light that is produced!  In my view, that is the very moment that spirit joins the flesh for its journey in this physical realm.  At that moment, the cell that was contributed by the woman and the cell contributed by the man no longer belongs to either, but instead is a gift to the new spiritual being coming into this world.  

To claim ownership over that being, violate it’s body, kill it or even to enslave it to the state through registration is an act of war and violates the very spirit of that young being.  

We are caught in an epidemic of thinking that king and country owns our bodies and knows best.  People feel compelled to hand over title of their off spring to the state.  Police, Child Protective Services, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, courts and many others claim jurisdiction over the vulnerable, ignorant or young.  Title being the weapon of choice to solidify control and ownership over our bodies.  This becomes a weapon of choice when couples have a dispute as they fight over property, children, etc.  

All of these components desecrate that which is sacred.  Life is sacred.  Life cannot be owned as it all belongs to Creator.  My body is not my own.  It too belongs to Creator and it is my job to look after it.  As such, I must govern myself to ensure others have the opportunity and support to do the same.  To force my will upon others, claim ownership or impose a jurisdiction on others is war, violence and a desecration of all that is holy.  

The Importance of Ceremony

Meadow – Winter Solstice 2019

One of our dear friends and member of our tribe is having a baby.  She is living off grid and doing a traditional home birth and asked Carey and I to help her.  She is starting labour and could get deep into delivery any moment.  When that happens, we will be called away and could be gone for several days.  Carey’s roll within this beautiful ceremony is to help her with the baby.  My roll is to smudge the perimeter of the house, hold the space and protect them all.  The divine masculine and feminine have specific rolls to fulfill in one of the most beautiful ceremonies any of us could witness and experience.  

Everything in life is sacred and as such, deserves that we approach it as a ceremony.  It reminds us of the sacredness and having protocols to keep its sacredness is equally important.  

I’m humbled as I’ve been asked to hold that sacred space by many people over the past few years.  As I develop ceremonies, spirit moves people to reach out to me.  Some of these ceremonies are new as nobody has ever worked on decolonization protocols since this experience is so new to us all.  Spirit moved me to make a ceremony to four corner the land and I’ve performed this ceremony several times for friends in Alberta and Ontario.  I’ve also performed spiritual ceremonies to help people within their wedding ceremonies too.  

I’ve been working on ceremony in my life for years now.  When ever a slaughter an animal or even harvest a plant, I work hard to ask for permission from their spirit first and I leave tobacco in exchange so that I’m not taking but rather making a trade.  There are small but important things that we can do to bring balance back to our actions and behaviours within our lives.  I grow our own tobacco specifically for this purpose and it was taught to me by the nehewin people of Treaty 6.  The tobacco I use is traditional indigenous ceremonial tobacco from the pueblo people in the southern end of Turtle Island. It is sacred medicine.  The sweetgrass grows on our land and the sage is from around here as well.  We have no cedar here, but people give us cedar to round out the four medicines on the medicine wheel.  

Holding ceremony and space for a baby being born is new to me, but I honour the trust and power of what is unfolding.  The divine masculine energy flows through me stronger than ever before as I start to explore what that actually means.  Holding that space in a healthy way is humbling and inspiring.  It helps the divine feminine feel safe, comfortable and secure so that she can engage in the most powerful transfer of energy ever seen on this planet.  The merging of spirit and land to allow another spiritual being to manifest here THROUGH her body.  She is a portal between the spiritual realm and the physical realm.  The divine feminine is sacred and special to be able to hold the space for such an awesome transformation.  It is my duty to hold the space so that she can do her work!

I will be away from the school for a few days, but I will return.  We will dig into these conversations deeply as we explore the spiritual aspects within the school’s curriculum.  I won’t speak or disclose who are what happens, but instead we will explore the deeper meaning, duty and power associated with ceremony within our lives so that we can hold the space and bring balance back to our existence here.

As we finish the ceremony of the winter solstice, may Creator bless each of you with peace, freedom, prosperity, joy and love as we embark on a new solar year and a period of birth and renewal.  It is all fitting together as you can see!