Land Sovereignty – Emancipation of the Land from the Demesne of the Crown

Posted on July 29, 2022 by White Walking Feather

When I received my spirit name and white eagle feather from the nehewin elder in Treaty 6 territory, the elder shared some profound words with me that night. He told me that I AM the land! That hit me hard and the implications of that simple statement has influenced my work ever since. While I acknowledge that I was working on challenging the Crown on it’s claims over the land, this one statement from an elder shifted my approach significantly.

I started exploring removing land from the demesne of the Crown back in 2020, a few months after I left the land due to my marriage falling apart. I knew that without a person I would not be able to buy land and there is no way I wanted to rent. All of those options were for the feudal serfs, so I had to find another way to support myself. That could only be done by returning to the land. However, I also needed the support of a tribe to do this work. It was also critical that the tribe comprehended and supported that work too. Through the invitation of a dear friend in Ontario, I received that support. After a season of healing, I stood ready to return to the land to restore my own sovereignty and the only way to do that was to free the land as well.

If the elder is correct and I AM the land, then I cannot be free and sovereign until the land is free and sovereign. The Crown’s claim on the land had to be confronted and challenged. In this post I will outline the basic strategy that I took to accomplish this and I will share the details on the private side of this site.

Who AM I?

I invested the last 20+ years trying to answer this question and even wrote the book “Graduating Life with Honours” about the journey too. You can download and read the book from this site. I cannot express enough how important it is that I figure out this question, but more importantly who I am NOT. This is where most people get hung up on comprehending or applying what I speak about in my work. Lots of people are figuring out that they are spiritual beings having a physical experience, but they still hold onto their fictional constructs and function as a feudal serf for reasons to numerous to share here. I believe in my heart, mind, body and spirit that this work requires that we emancipate ourselves from the Crown in order to walk this path. Doing this work while still a feudal serf only results in significant problems.

Know thyself, but also take action on what is known. I emancipated myself from the Crown in April 2008. I celebrated my 16th independence day a few months ago and it is only fitting that this celebration culminate in efforts to emancipate the land. I did this work standing as a Spiritual being in spiritual jurisdiction rather than a man standing as a citizen, slave and feudal serf. I’ve written at length how I did this, but it does require a foundational shift in thought, belief and action!

Burden rests with those who are making the claims

I’ve also written about how important it is to be peaceful. When I emancipated myself in 2008, the key action I took was to walk off the battle field and declare peace. That also required that I maintain the peace at all times. To do that I found a passage in scripture that helps me do that.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. – Matthew 5:25

If I’m always agreeing with people, then there is no fight, no battle. But how do I do that and maintain my own boundaries and confront wickedness? The good news is that in “their” system, the one making the claims is the one that has the burden of proof. So I agree with their claims, but then I put a condition on that agreement. If they can prove their claims, then I will agree AND I provide the burden of proof that needs to be met. This is where research, knowledge and wisdom is applied. Because I’ve spent the last 17 years researching and studying their system, I know what they can or cannot do. So I agree with them and then ask them to prove their claims while outlining the burden. Every time I’ve done this I’ve found instances where they violated statutes, regulations and even violated spiritual law as well. The only reason they get away with what they do is because people like you and I don’t know any different. But when we educate ourselves, we can stand up and testify to what we are witnessing. That is our duty, so I fulfill that duty through conditional acceptance of their claims. I’ve used this approach for years.

Demesne created through genocide, war and lies

Knowing that the Crown came to Turtle Island with the authority to conquer land granted to them by the Pope is an important first step. Studying the Doctrine of Discovery will bring some important points to testify against within the conditional acceptance. It is also important to study the treaties, not only the written versions made by the Crown but also the spoken versions shared by the nations of Turtle Island. There is a huge disparity between the two and it is the dishonour of the Crown that violated those treaties. This all ripples down into more and more detail as the land patents that were issued by the Crown to certify the legitimacy of the title over the land ends up being a fraud as a result of the Crown dishonouring the treaties. If the land patents are not legitimate, then any Fee Simple Tenures that people hold for their private land are also illegitimate, but also the claims the Crown has over “Crown Land”. Their violence, dishonour, greed, lies and deceit are their undoing. All that is required is for us to stand up and confront them on it all.

As a result, I’ve studied history, treaties and also the individuals who negotiated the treaties. Those individuals were all paid bonuses for getting the treaties signed, also had conflict of interest as they profited from the process, lied, cheated and manipulated their way through this whole process. They did not maintain the honour of the Crown and engaged in genocide to meet their objectives. While it may have been viewed as appropriate at the time, it is time to right the wrongs and confront the whole system as it is based on a foundation of wickedness. All individuals who represent the Crown in their duties are subject to this level of scrutiny. It is up to each of us to apply that scrutiny. This is done by placing the burden on each of them to prove that they can actually act in dishonour, engage in genocide, lie, cheat, manipulate, steal or engage in actions and behaviours that violate Natural Law; The Law of Love!

Decolonization

The Crown has engaged in colonization for over a thousand years. My ancestors were some of the first to be colonized and is the reason why the colonial system looks ‘white’. But the colonial system is not a color, race or creed, it is an idea, philosophy and a system of control, greed and power, all designed to harvest souls. We are at the stage now where souls are starting to be harvested. The time is now to decolonize ourselves so that we can confront the wickedness that is taking over this world.

The decolonization process is more than removing ourselves from the system. Decolonization requires a foundational shift in thinking, behaving and believing. The colonization process was brutal and violent. The white tribes don’t remember what happened to our ancestors when we were colonized. But the red tribes do remember and it is wise for us to take note of what happened to them over the past few hundred years and acknowledge that this happened to our ancestors too. The multi-generational trauma runs deep and there is a tremendous amount of healing required to decolonize. It changes EVERYTHING!!! I’ve been on this journey for nearly two decades and I’m still healing and decolonizing. I trust the younger generations will have a quicker and easier time of this, but for me it has been a brutal journey that will most likely span the rest of my life.

Why is this so important? Because I’ve found over the years, over and over again, people wanting to leave the system but implement rules and regulations to create a new system – one that functions exactly like the system they just left. If we don’t decolonize we end up getting stuck in a cycle and is the reason why revolution after revolution does not solve the problem. It is because we keep recreating the same systems, surrender our sovereignty to that system and enslaving ourselves. Decolonization requires that we heal so that we can hold the charge of being sovereign, independent and free. It feels like there is no safety and security in doing that, but I’m finding it is more safe and secure than being a citizen, subject, member of a society, etc. There is no documents, paperwork or identification when we decolonize. There is no constitution, rules, regulations, etc when we emancipate ourselves. So how do we navigate relationships, conflict or other challenges? That is what this school is all about, to explore those questions and figure it out through exploration of relationships, love, healing and ceremony.

Land Sovereignty Ceremony

Last summer I located some Crown land and went out, found a location to establish my home fire and built my medicine wheel. Details of that have been shared already on this site. I started a garden and this spring I expanded it even further. Work started on my underground shelter and I’ve continued that work this season as well. In June 2022 I sent out my first letter to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Governor General of Canada, Prime Minister and others. In it I conditionally accepted their claim over the land and asked them to prove their claims in order for the conditions to be removed. I gave them 10 days to respond. After a few weeks I was not in receipt of any response, let alone a valid response from them. I then sent out a notice of default along with a list of facts. I gave them another 10 days to respond and if they failed to respond, then they would be agreeing through tacit acceptance to the facts listed in the notice of default.

I did not receive any response or valid response from them. At this point many people would then send out a default judgement, but I decided to take a very different approach. Instead I sent out an invitation to participate in ceremony. I setup two ceremonies, the first at the full moon in July and the second during the new moon in July. The first full moon ceremony was to focus on forgiveness, reconciliation and shedding of the old. The second ceremony would focus on bringing in the new, acknowledgement of the sovereignty of the land, our relationship with her and our duty to provide and protect her. The invitations when out and nobody from the Crown showed up to participate, receive forgiveness, healing, etc. The tribe here did participate and through these efforts, I find myself standing as a member of the White Tribes working to decolonize, reconcile our relationship with the land and present ourselves in proper standing within Spiritual Jurisdiction. I feel confident now that I can accept invitations from the Red Tribes to participate in lodge and continue the reconciliation process between our two tribes.

There is now 78 acres of land that is sovereign. This little piece of heaven is called Silent Dancer and I make no claims of ownership over her. I AM a part of her and she is a part of me. My kin, the plants, animals, soil, water and air are a part of the land as I AM. They all help provide for my needs; water, food, shelter and hopefully over time, clothing. My duty is to be a steward, to protect her and help ALL my kin to not only survive but thrive. I own nothing. I make no claims of ownership. My sovereignty is a part of her sovereignty. Now comes the process of continuing the decolonization process to figure out what life is like from this paradigm. Living life in this way is VERY different than the colonial way. The shift between the two is massive. In my experience few will be able to make the shift. But it is important that people do as I believe this is our own spiritual salvation from the system. The colonial system is the system of the beast! It is not broken. It is functioning exactly as designed. It is harvesting souls now and we need to return to our nature or face the harvest. This requires physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing, growth, learning and remembering. This is challenging work. I’ve seen many attempt but few succeed. Why? Perhaps something to discuss in another post.

Next Steps

The details of this journey will be shared in the private side of the website. Lots to discuss but also lots that have already been shared. What I will cover is not new, but will be shared in a way to help people see the step by step process that I took. So far the Crown is leaving me alone and that is all that I want from them. If they show up, I will share updates. It is my experience that they will leave me alone because I’m doing this all from a higher authority and jurisdiction than where they function from. It is my dream to establish islands of sovereign land so that people have a place to establish their own kin domains so that people can return to the land and find peace, sovereignty, prosperity and love. This is how we bring Heaven to Earth and starve the beast at the same time. The beast can only thrive when we feed it. We stop feeding it, it will wither away and die. We don’t have to fight it, go to war or anything like that. We end the war by walking off the battle field and stop participating in the conflict. We end the war by declaring peace!

Protocol when asking of others

Posted on November 1, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Years ago I watched a video from the floor of the US House of Representatives. In that video one representative was asking questions of another and I was struck by the protocol they were using. The one representative would stand up and ask if the gentleman would grant permission for him to ask two questions. The other representative then stood up and granted permission, at which point the first representative then posed his questions.

I know that these protocols were established to acknowledge the sovereignty of each ‘gentleman’ or ‘gentlewoman’ in the house. What struck me though is that even asking a question without permission would be a violation of someones sovereignty. How far have we come where the social norm now is to not only ask questions but also demand or expect that those questions be answered or that people perform specific duties in response to those questions?

I found a similar protocol within the Floor Procedures in the U.S. House of Representatives. While this protocol is in regards to who can speak, it still highlights the profound protocols used to honour and respect the sovereignty of others.

“Once a Member has been recognized by the Speaker (or Chair) to speak, he controls the floor; in general, no other Member may speak without being granted permission to do so by the Member recognized. Another Member who wishes to speak will ask the recognized Member to yield by saying, �Will the gentleman yield to me ?” – Floor Procedures in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Years ago I was taught about the protocol of approaching an elder with tobacco and prints, depending on the scope of the questions or request being made. I was also reminded of this protocol a few weeks ago which has prompting this post. Many people view the tobacco and prints as a ‘gift’, but it is not that at all. What people don’t realize is that when we approach another with a question or request, we are asking them to accept a burden or duty that they currently do not carry. The tobacco and prints are medicine that they can use to help them work through that duty and burden, to bring balance to the one accepting that duty as it does require time, energy and other resources to fulfill. If the elder accepts, he now must go and spend time, pray or do what ever is required to fulfill the request, a burden and duty to fulfill!

This goes beyond the protocol that some tribes use when approaching their elders. What about the modern protocol where people feel free to ask questions of others, placing burdens or duties on them and then expect a specific level of performance or results. If those expectations are not met, shame and guilt is often used towards those who failed to meet those expectations. This modern protocol violates the sovereignty of others and normalizes violence and abuse towards others.

When we ask someone a question or ask for help, it requires that they invest time, energy and perhaps even resources to honour that request. Each of us, when receiving such requests, has a responsibility to ourselves to ensure that we seriously reflect on the request prior to accepting or denying it. Do we have the time, energy, resources, medicine, skills, knowledge, experience, protocol or even the physical, emotional, mental and / or spiritual health to take on such a duty or burden with integrity, honour and respect? Once we acknowledge that, it then helps us to then ‘see’ the other side when we approach someone else to ask them a question or ask for help. The current challenge is that most people have a hard time asking for help due to social shaming and guilt, which must be healed. Whether healed or not, if we can acknowledge that our request has a duty and / or burden attached to it, the weight of the request becomes greater. This then should trigger conscious contemplation on the request, question or interaction with others and how best to honour that interaction.

If we do our due diligence, reflect on our request to ensure that none of it can be done ourselves and fine tune it to minimize the burden on others, then we can identify the medicine required to accompany our request for help and ensure that we honour the time, energy, skills and abilities of those with whom we are approaching. It is important to note that if they say no, we must honour their position and not engage in shame, guilt or other violent manipulations to gain their agreement. If people are asking for help, then it is also our responsibility to carefully reflect and weigh the request to ensure that if we accept it, that we can fulfill that request to the best of our abilities. This duty to honour the request rests on both parties, not just one.

When we challenge the current socially accepted practices, many will see it as being disrespectful and selfish. This is an incorrect assessment as their views are expressed through their own ignorance of the energy and violence behind the current protocols. Bullies will lash out when they feel their power is threatened. When we take back our power and authority, the protocols around that must change as well, otherwise we are not free.

Choosing a Path – Part 7

Posted on July 9, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Since I’ve done this journey before, I’m confident that the choices I’m making will not only work, but allow me to survive the winter. My strategy is simple but can be challenging without the help of the tribe. The shelter I’m building came from an idea that I saw visiting the Ukrainian Village Historical site just outside of Edmonton. The idea was to place logs over a hole and cover with sod. There is no sod here, so I modified the design and decided to use the gravel that I’m excavating to cover the roof and then put a cement cap over top of it all. The idea here is that I need a building that can accomplish a number of features. It must be able to access the thermal mass of the earth to help keep me warm during extreme temperatures in the winter. The building must be able to handle 6 feet of snow on its roof as well as all the snow melt during the spring and summer rains. I also need to make sure the building will not flood and will not burn down during a forest fire.

The site I chose is on top of a hill, so risk of flood is low. To ensure a fast snow melt does not flood me out, I’m going to build a swale around the building that I can then use to collect water or redirect it around and down the hill. Fire protection is done by putting gravel on the roof but also covering any exposed wood with cob. While it is not 100% fire protection, it will provide some protection. The thermal mass of the building will be very high, so I’m confident that it will function fine during the winter. I’ll fire up the stove as soon as I get it enclosed so that I can start drying it out and charging the thermal mass. I also suspect that 6 feet of snow on the roof will provide a warm blanket for the building during the winter and keep me nice and cool during the summer. I’ve worked with and lived in thermal mass buildings for over a decade, so I’m confident that it will perform as I need it to be.

I also wanted a building that will rot and fill in itself when I go, whether I move away or leave this realm. I want to make sure that my foot print is very small. This building is only temporary anyway as I plan to live in it for only a few years, which gives me time to build a more permanent one. Why put in so much effort for a temporary shelter? Because winter comes very quickly. Right now my shelter needs is being supported by the tribe. I’m living in a camper, which is a huge boost as it gives me time to setup a shelter. If I did not have this, my strategy would be a bit different.

Without a tribe, I would take this stepped approach.

Top priority is to build a small shelter to handle the elements. This shelter would accommodate my needs for a few days while I build a larger shelter to handle my summer needs.
The summer shelter is a bit larger but still very basic and can be built in a few days. Once this shelter is built, I would then start work on a winter shelter.
This is the stage I’m at right now. Tribe allowed me to skip these first two steps. When starting in the spring, I only have a few short months to get the winter shelter built. The goal here is to not only survive a winter but have a shelter for a few years to buy time to build my permanent shelter.
Permanent shelter would then be designed to survive for the rest of my life, have room for visitors, family, friends or even tribe members. More importantly, I need room so that I can pay it forward and provide shelter for others who are starting out so that they too can skip the first two steps and jump right to the third step.

When people are being forced out of their homes due to mortgage foreclosures, tax notices, war, famine, etc, we will need to find a way to provide shelters for people off all the grids. The price of lumber has sky rocketed, which makes it nearly impossible for people to build shelters the traditional way. How do we build shelters without the resources of the grid? We do it by looked back at how our ancestors did it 100+ years ago. I am doing this work to explore what it is like, how long it takes, effort, cost and feasibility. If I fail, the tribe has indicated that they have room for me for the winter. So the risk is much lower than if I was on my own. I’m confident that I could be living in my new shelter by August. I’m hoping to be into it before the UNGRIP Boot Camp on August 9-13.

Tribe is important during times like this. I encourage people to setup their Sacred Heart Circles as this is how tribe is formed; by being vulnerable and working through our shadows together. We will be discussing these topics at length during the boot camp. I encourage people to sign up if even a little bit of this resonates with you. I have a feeling that we will need ideas like this in the coming years, especially as the tyranny progresses to march along. Being able to survive and thrive in extreme climates like the north will be a huge benefit for those willing to do the work.

It is also important to have the knowledge and skills to be able to build shelters when we UNGRIP from the state and no longer have a person to interface with the coming mark of the beast. These passports, social credit scores, etc are all designed to enslave people and when we take a stand and remove ourselves from them, we also remove ourselves from their supply chain, goods and services. That leaves each individual responsible for fending for themselves and knowing how to do that without stores is going to be a critical skill to have.

Peace Garden

Posted on March 24, 2021 by White Walking Feather

In the spring of 2020, I recorded a series of videos to help people navigate through the challenging times we are facing. I shared my 15+ years of experience living off grid and explored what it would take to remove my dependency from the grid and obtain true independence. Below is a series of videos that covers six topics. It is an introduction into the type of work that is required to reconcile our relationship with Mother Earth, Creator and empower ourselves to build independence and say no to those that would entice us into slavery. Welcome to the Peace Garden and it is recommended that this be viewed as an introduction into the Pacem Arts.

Food Sovereignty

The premise of this video is to explore what steps an individual can take to not only remove their dependency on the corporate industrial food complex, which is toxic and extremely unhealthy for life in general, but also to rebuild our relationship with the spiritual beings on this planet that are here to serve, nourish, cloth and protect us.

Water Sovereignty

Water is life and through pollution and corporate efforts to control and capitalize on water, it is no longer being viewed as a basic human need. People are completely dependent on the state and corporate empire to provide them with water to drink, bath and cook with. It is time that we explore how we can take back the responsibility for providing for our own needs and water is near the top of that list.

Shelter Sovereignty

It may seem odd to people, but in this area of the world, shelter is the top need we have. We can survive weeks without food and days without water, but only hours without shelter. So this is the top priority when exploring how to return to the land while removing ourselves from the grip of the banksters, government thugs and truly connecting with our duty and responsibility for providing for our shelter needs ourselves.

Energy Sovereignty

This video discusses my experiences exploring how I could become energy independent. When people talk about living off grid, the first thing they think of is solar panels, but this topic goes far beyond electricity and explore energy in general. This includes electricity, but also heating our homes, storing energy and how to manage it when we are no longer dependent on the industrial energy mafia.

Waste Sovereignty

Waste sovereignty may seem like an odd topic, but the goal here is to modify our behaviours so that we don’t produce any waste. This is a monumental challenge given the industrialized system that we have built around us, which generates a tremendous amount of waste. By exploring the waste we produce, we can find areas where we can modify how we live and find more gentle ways to walk upon the earth.

Personal Sovereignty

The last of this series of videos, I explore what it will take to remove our dependencies on external authority and accept responsibility for self-governance. This is a complex topic, which is explored in far more detail in other courses and offerings on this site. But this video is a good introduction to the topic as we examine the journey of maturity, self responsibility and even building inter-independent relationships with others who are also on this path.

When you are done these videos, I recommend you watch the UNPLUG workshop as it expands on these principles and prepares the student for the Journey Towards Truth modules. I hope you enjoyed these videos.

Doing what it takes …

Posted on June 26, 2020 by White Walking Feather

For years people have asked me how they can grow food without land and while living in the city. For years I have talked about building relationships and connecting with people who have land.

Not many are willing to make significant changes in their lives in order to do what it takes! I suspect it is fear and a lack of knowledge that keeps people stuck. So ironically, I find myself in a situation this year where I have no land and I’m confronted with growing food during a period where food shortages are a clear and present danger for the majority if people.

What did I do? I I built relationships and approached people who have land. I’m working with two families this year and spending a lot of time on these relationships. I’m also helping both of them as they did not have gardens and was not sure how to proceed. So in exchange of sharing the food, I’m teaching them how to garden.

The picture above is the garden here in town which was nothing but a lawn about 6 weeks ago. It is about 1000 square feet, taking up the majority if the back yard. The other family owns an acreage out of town and they now have a 2000+ square foot garden as well (third picture).

In both of these gardens we have about 1100 hills of potatoes (total), carrots, peas, lettuce, cucumbers, dill, beats, radish, sunflowers, spinach, turnip, zucchini, pumpkin, onions and a few other plants. On top of that, I am teaching them how to harvest wild foods as there is plenty of that growing around, available for anybody to harvest.

I’m harvesting food for me and others through a win/win relationship with multiple families, all while having no land of my own to steward. Teaching others how to steward is proving to be rewarding as well. Having two gardens is also spreading the risk as the failure of one garden due to hail or other natural events does not mean 100% failure of our crops. I’m rather enjoying this approach.

If you live in the city or a small town, have no land and still want to grow your own food, there is plenty of opportunities to do that! Get out there, get your hands dirty and let’s get to work. There is no reason why people should go hungry. That duty and responsibility is up to the individual. For those that have the ability and will, our duty is to then feed those that do not have the ability and confront those who lack the will!

All of this requires the capacity to build healthy relationships with other people, with Mother Earth and the knowledge helps too! The knowledge is out there, being shared by people all over the world. What most people are missing is the courage to reach out to other people, talk to them and work on building relationships so that they can share with one another. The Pacem Arts can help people heal and practice what it takes to build those relationships.

I pray that my example here inspires others to do the same. It is VERY possible to be food independent without owning land. There are people out there wanting to learn and share. Be creative! There is literally food all around us. People die of starvation in a sea of food. What we are lacking is the knowledge, will and ability to see it for what it is. We have been hoodwinked into thinking that only that which we find in a store is actually food. That context is absolutely false. Expanding our palette and minds, we will find food all around us and be able to harvest it, store it and nourish our bodies when others are starving. We are then in a position to help them and ensure nobody goes hungry, especially when the food system collapses and the financial system melts down.

It is not even July yet and we are eating out of the garden and preserving food for winter for two families!!! Doing what it takes!

So, you want to join an intentional community

Posted on April 20, 2020 by White Walking Feather

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?

Uploaded by Mikael Häggström, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.