When we get this part of the website developed and functioning properly, I will update this protocol to help people navigate this area.
The intent of the Student Lounge is to provide a centralized space for people to chat via text, voice or video as well as share documents, thoughts, questions, concerns or ideas. The ground rules for this lounge are simple:
- No personal or confidential information should be shared here. Treat this space like a regular student lounge at a collage or university. If you need privacy, connect with people directly.
- Anything discussed here should be treated as confidential.
- No abusive behaviours or language will be tolerated within this space or any other space within this school.
- People are allowed to disagree with one another. We are here to challenge ideas and poor behaviours, not people.
We chose Telegram as it allows for fairly good encryption through a distributed network and is capable of doing voice and text messaging. Zoom has been selected for video messaging as it is the platform being used in other areas of the school. Students will have to setup these products on their devices should they want to participate in the Student Lounge. Good sharing everyone!
Protocol for Elders Council
The Elders have not gathered to create a protocol yet. When we do, we will lay out what the protocol is for contacting Elders, how we can help, etc. Until then, White Walking Feather will respond to messages sent to the Elders and we can figure out how to proceed from that point forward.
With the resignation of the Governor General of Canada yesterday, coal leases along the headwaters of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and a whole bunch of other issues, it was time to confront the Premier and Lieutenant Governor of Alberta on their violence and corruption.
But more importantly, the letter is also an invitation to redeem themselves, reconcile their relationships and bring peace to this land through freedom, respect, honour, love and the highest level of morality and ethics. This is a continuation of the ceremony that started back in October and I will continue to hold as I move forward to return to the land and build a relationship with tawahcâw tawatinaw.
On that note, I read a book that really helped me work on my relationship with myself and the feminine energy in my life. It was a recent gift from a dear friend and sister! Much love and respect for her. Thank you.
Intimate Communion: Awakening your Sexual Essence by David Deida
I share this book because tawahcâw tawatinaw is a powerful feminine energy and I find myself preparing to fully surrender to her energy. It scares me, but yet I also am finding some renewed comfort and love as a result. This book actually helped me with this journey that I’m on, so I recommend it for anyone looking to explore their relationship between the masculine and feminine. I have an interesting exercise for Sacred Heart Circle tomorrow. Hopefully we all can explore these masculine and feminine energies to help facilitate further growth and surrender.
The Sacred Heart Circles have specific ground rules to help create a sacred and safe space for people to do their shadow work. I’m going to highlight the ground rules here, or you can listen to the video and catch them there as well. Please note that the video was done in late 2019 and there have been a few small changes to the circle themselves, but the ground rules remain the same. Most notably, the circle runs for two hours now and the time is currently Saturdays at 6PM MST.
Ground Rules
Treat each other with respect, honour and dignity.
Confidentiality is required, what is said in circle, stays in circle. No sharing on social media, etc.
No recordings.
Turn on your video so that we can see you, helps with communication.
Accept responsibility for yourself and allow others to do the same.
No drugs or alcohol, if under the influence, please don’t enter the sacred space.
Use “I” statements when sharing thoughts or feelings.
One individual talking at a time, no interrupting somebody who is sharing.
Please be on time, don’t be late. Circle gets locked out 5 minutes after we start.
If you accept these ground rules, then you are welcome into the circle. Thank you for helping us all create a space that is sacred and safe for all involved. If anybody turns violent in the circle, I will confront them and if the behaviour continues, that individual will be removed from the circle and potentially even the school. I take a zero tolerance to violence in the circles and school.
Working our physical bodies is an important aspect of finding balance in our lives. This Gym was setup to help people reconnect to their body using protocols from the martial arts. I’ve trained with Grand Master James Lo for 10 years, obtaining a 3rd Dan Black belt in Tae Kwon Do and I also ran my own school for several years. I will be recording warm up exercises, stretching protocols and other techniques that I’ve learned in the martial arts to help students should they be interested in exploring this aspect of life. Martial Arts have been practiced by artists for thousands of years and the knowledge has been handed down from generation to generation. It has also benefited from modern advancements as well. I won’t share the art of war here, but I will explore how we can connect with our bodies using the techniques I learned.
As I say to all new students, take it easy. Listen to your body and don’t try to keep up with the black belts. I don’t want anybody to get hurt and it will take weeks or even months to start conditioning your body so that it can start working out harder, faster and stronger. Ego often results in people getting hurt as they think they can perform like a black belt. It often results in injury and having to withdraw from training. When your body starts to reach the point of proper conditioning to train, we can then slowly push the body, stretch it and teach it how to exceed the capabilities we think it has and find the limits it actually has. This takes years of training. It is a slow process and requires patience, dedication and commitment.
The video was recorded in 2007 when I was testing for my 3rd Dan Black belt. We don’t have new students doing this for several reasons. Firstly, their body has not been trained and conditioned, much like what I just shared with you. The second is even more critical in that the mind has not been trained either. Doubt, fear and anxiety prevent us from achieving these types of results, even though our bodies are capable of performing far beyond what we think it can. Our minds are often the barriers that we have to overcome. This applies to the Martial Arts as much as the Pacem Arts. It is my hope that we can help that process here in the Pacem Arts by using some techniques from the Martial Arts to overcome these self limiting beliefs.
Also note that I’m not there to watch, observe or correct you. So this still requires that you take full responsibility for your training and do your best to be consciously aware of what I’m sharing. It is no replacement for having an instructor or trainer in the room there with you as they can see things you cannot. As such, the gym is setup to be an introduction and I encourage people to go out and find an instructor near you to help. It does not matter if it is Tae Kwon Do, other martial arts, yoga or sports in general. The goal is to get out and move our bodies, connect with them and explore what they are actually capable of performing while we also discipline the mind at the same time.
Below is a series of videos that are found on line and covers specific areas to help people through the content being presented on this website. Without comprehending these basics, it may be challenging to move forward with the concepts and principles being discussed in the classes or other videos. This information is here to help people ‘see’ the relationship they currently have with the state and its fictional constructs, so that we can navigate out of it and establish different peaceful relationships.
The Causes and Effects of the 2008 Financial Crisis
This is an example of the unlawful conversions that the financial institutions do to convert promissory notes into asset classes that are traded on the open market. It is also an example of how the original agreement can be question and why asking the original corporation that signed the agreement if they can prove they still owe it or sold it, would go a long way towards making it problematic for them to prove that their claim that the debt payments are owed to them or some other third party that the home owner has no contract, duty or obligation.
I say this is unlawful because usury is a violation of spiritual law. The problem is that the earthly masters have made it ‘legal’ despite its unlawful nature. I personally avoid these people at all costs.
In this guided meditation, we invite Owl to connect with us and share its knowledge and spiritual wisdom. May we connect with the spirit of Owl to help us navigate life and to peer deep into ourselves, but also see past the noise and observe what is really going on around us. Sit back, relax and welcome Owl in this meditation and explore what Owl has to show us.
This picture was taken by me on my birthday in 2019 and owl let me get to within 6 feet. I am honoured and humbled that owl was patient and trusting with me.
The Pacem Arts relies heavily on knowledge, training, experience, healing and wisdom. This library is designed to provide as much information as possible on all areas of study, whether it be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. To help sort through the high volume of information, categories have been used.
The Core will contain key and foundational videos, recordings or documents that every student should go through prior to moving on with other content. Without the basic teachings, it is common for people to get confused or misinterpret the work being done. This is especially true of people want to work towards decolonization and freedom. It is recommended that people attend the Sacred Heart Circles and start here.
The Decolonization category will hold all recordings and documents that come out of the Decolonization classes. The majority of them will be audio recordings, but there will be some documents from time to time.
The Sanctuary is where meditations and other spiritually related material will be placed. This is a space where and individual can come to listen to those meditations or find other local or external resources to help with their spiritual journey.
The Gym will hold videos to help us connect to our physical body through breathing exercises, warm ups, stretching and other physical activities based on the ancient teachings of the martial arts.
The Repository will contain miscellaneous documents, URL’s to external websites, videos, audios and other resources that are important to the study of the Pacem Arts.
There will be two blogs, one for the public and another just for students. Both blogs will be accessible within the library and the public blog will also be accessible on the home page for the public to view. Students will have access to both as current events, specific insights, teachings, etc is shared through the blogs to help challenge or facilitate training in the Pacem Arts.
Exploring the difference between rights and responsibilities is a profound concept when exploring how we can decolonize ourselves. Isaac Murdock made a public post a few days ago on Facebook, which spawned this discussion. You can connect with Isaac and his post on this link.
I encourage people to go visit Isaac as I like his teachings and I learn much from him. This class also had a lot of profound things being said, but I wanted to highlight something that Danielle said at the very end. Her words spawned an idea on how I can explain the principles I’m trying to express.
“We each have an innate response that either fight, flight, freeze or fawn, in the moment, but if you can catch yourself, if you can catch that split second where there is a choice to be made, if you can catch it, it is very, very very subtle, very muted, very quick and it goes by in a second, but if you can catch it there is always a choice. In certain moments of that experience, I was able to pinpoint certain moments of choice.” D.L.
Recorded on February 28, 2021
