The Sacred Directions - Part Four

The Sacred Rainbow Grounds (sometimes referred to as The Square Grounds) are a microcosm of the universe.  Within the elder teachings of the Rainbow Grounds we are taught ‘The Way’ of life.  It is within these teachings that we learn and gain a deeper understanding of the Sacred Directions.

The Sacred Directions give us a type of field to operate within.  Within this semi fixed and yet fluid field many energies flow.  As mentioned earlier the Sacred Directions have energies, the Quarter Directions have energies as well as the Seven Horsemen.  All of these energies greatly affect life on earth.

All things work in unison.  Proper alignment of a sacred site allows for the directions to not be at conflict with other energies.  For instance, at sunrise a unique force enters the earth’s atmosphere.  This energy has the ability to heal, bless and protect any area that is in proper alignment to receive.  A Rainbow Grounds aligned north to south would create a chaotic and eventually diseased place.

However, when a Sacred Square Grounds is aligned east to west it is positioned correctly to receive the powerful rays of light both at sunrise and at sunset.  Many other considerations must be taken into account as well.  It is within this understanding that we develop a strong, healthy place for people, animals, plants and the mineral kingdom.

Many more energies operate in conjunction with the Sacred Directions such as The Four Wind Messengers.  Like the other energies the Four Wind Messengers have energies that are responsible for the wind, rain and more.  Yet, they work within the law of the sacred Directions.  There is a North Wind Messenger as well as east, south and west.

The Four Wind Messengers operate through the Sacred Directions much as the Sacred Elements work through the Sacred Quarter Directions.  Aligning all things according to our understanding of the Sacred Directions creates a sacred place where we are in Right Relationship with all energies.

Right Relationship means that we are working harmoniously with all causal, subtle and physical entities and energies.  We literally create a space every day of our lives.  Every movement, placing of objects, construction of buildings etc. creates a space that either works with or against the Sacred Directions.

Saga Yashkah

The Sacred Directions - Part Three

In our ancient fire ceremonies we have the Four Direction Logs, the Quarter Direction Spaces and the Great Center (center of the Dogwood flower).  This we call Yatiti, others refer to it as the Four Log Fire or Unilateral Cross.  The teachings of Yatiti are a well spring of knowledge about the ancient ways, especially those of the Sacred Directions.

Every part of the fire has a Sacred Direction aspect to it.  For instance, the North facing Log shows us ‘The Way’ of the ancients and the cultural aspects of our Lunar Arbors and Clans.  Between the North and East Log is the Sacred Space of the Ancient Waters.  This open space allows the free movement of the subtle energies of water to flow freely through Yatiti.

The Sacred Quarter Directions of Northeast, Southeast, Southwest and Northwest are the doors through which the sacred Elements of Water, Fire, Earth and Air move.  The first element or parent of all other elements is the Sacred Space, the Great Void or Ether.  It is the space which all other elements have life.  This Sacred Space is within the center of Yatiti and is the Great Space for everything.

Within the Great Center of Yatiti the Four Directions co mingles with the Four Quarter Directions.  The Sacred Directions and the Sacred Elements must be able to move within and out of any structure, sacred ground etc. for there to be harmony.  If not the place becomes chaotic and full of a confused energy.

The Sacred Directions establish an order and placement for all things.  It is within this order that the Ancient Seven Horsemen (known by science as the spectrum of light) energies penetrate the earth’s atmosphere.  For us to work in Right Relationship with the Ancient Seven Horsemen we must be in Right Relationship with the Sacred Directions.

An example of working in Right Relationship with the Sacred Directions is the placement of our Rainbow or Square Grounds.  Our grounds always run east to west.  The Rainbow Grounds are always longer east to west than north to south.  The Zopathla’s arbor is in the west facing east.  The fire is in the center of the Zopathla’s square. 

The east to west placement of the Rainbow Grounds allows us to properly receive the vital energies that course through the atmosphere at sunrise and sunset.  These energies seek a place that allows them to freely flow from east to west without any obstruction.  The entrance therefore must be true west, facing east.  The Sacred Directions show us ‘The Way.’ 

Saga Yashkah   

The Sacred Directions - Part Two

From infant to teen and from adult to old age we are learning.  Most of the learning evolves around the so-called culture we are raised and choose to live in.  We develop speech and its patterns, habits, and customs based on the culture and our relationship to it.  However, most so-called culture seldom, if ever, acknowledges or places the sacred in the Center of its life.

The directions give us clues every hour of every day.  The mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms are a witness to the effect the directions have upon life.  Throughout each of our days we have before us teachers in every kingdom, instructing us in ‘The Way’ of the Sacred Directions.

Take a Red Oak; it is much stronger and vibrant if growing on a north facing slop as opposed to a south facing slope.  When harvesting herbs we see a marked difference in the quality and power herbs have when harvested from slopes facing different directions.

The qualities (personalities) are quite different in each of the Sacred Directions of North, East, South and West.  Their subtle energies move through the universe and penetrate the earth’s atmosphere.  It is these energies, which are the personality traits of the directions, that we seek to understand. 

The Sacred Directions are intimately connected with the quarter directions where the Great Elements come from.  For instance, the ancient source of water (its beginning) comes from the Northeast, while fire comes from the Southeast.  The directions are influenced greatly through their relationship with the quarter directions.

Each direction has personality traits that are formed much like ours are.  Each direction has a type of culture that is unique to it.  As an example, the Sacred Direction East Culture helped form, shape and influence the direction East through its unique culture.  The Sacred Direction cultures help us walk a life “In Right Relationship.”

Yatiti tells us a story about the Sacred Directions. Within this story we begin to learn the True nature of an ancient family of ours.  Yatiti shows us that by seeing with our inner eye we will truly understand the ancient cross with its Sacred Four Directions, Four Quarter Directions and the Sacred Grand Center of the Dogwood Blossom.

Saga Yashkah

The Sacred Directions - Part One

 

The directions are sacred according to our Khotani teachings.  They tell us many things about life and show us our place within the Great Center.  It is within the Center of the directions that we seek to reside.  This Center is within the Unilateral Cross (Yatiti).

Everything and everyone is marginally within the Center of the directions.  However, most people operate in ignorance of it and therefore are not in Right Relationship with the Center of the Sacred Four.  Right Relationship begins with understanding of the Sacred Directions.

The directions are both fixed and fluid.  The directions show us a fixed nature when we use a compass to find magnetic north and orient ourselves to the four directions.  Anywhere that we move from one step to thousands of miles the directions remain constant.  Yet, the directions show us their mobile nature as well.

At any moment in time, anywhere in the world we can be centered within the four directions.  From the moment we awake we become a moving being.  Imagine millions of beings all over the world and yet each can be centered within the directions.  This is one aspect of their so-called mobile nature.  From a subtle perspective they are fluid.

Everything that we do in life should take into consideration the relationship between object and the directions.  The Sacred Directions will either flow freely through objects, or find resistance based upon the objects relationship to the directions.  Placement of buildings, the lay of the land, direction water flows all create a relationship.

To understand this relationship we must be aware of the subtle energies of the directions.  The directions are to be understood by their nature.  They have characteristics that give them personality.  These characteristics are their blessings or gifts that they freely give to the earth.  To be aware of them opens us up to understanding and Right Relationship.

This is much like learning the language and customs of another culture.  When we become knowledgeable of a society that is not our own we can develop a Right Relationship with it.  It is very much the same with the Sacred Directions.  By learning the unique characteristics of the directions we understand their culture and how it affects our life.

Saga Yashkah

Today

Everything happens because of today.  There is nothing, absolutely nothing that happens outside of today.  Yesterday is your today, today is your today and tomorrow is your today.  The past had and is a today, the present is a today and the future has and is a today.  Your present state is the today you create for the future.

There is no past or future only today.  We are everything in the moment of today.  Outside of today is a mere illusion.  Today is our present state.  The key is today, for the knowledge of it unlocks the door to ‘The Way of The Ancients’, Sean Dedma.  We are all that we are because of today.

Long ago elders taught that we create a life day to day.  We were given knowledge of how to form the world that we perceived.  Within Sean Dedma we were taught the way of the Teach Allais or Sweat House.  Like many traditional cultures within the Teach Allais we transformed ourselves.  Many things were taught and many separate ceremonies were performed.

Teach Allais gave us many things, however, the greatest knowledge we received was through silence.  The quieting of our mind allows for us to center our self within the Greater Silence.  It is here that we begin to understand that the Infinite is always in a present state of existence.  It is never in the past or future, it always is in the present state of today, all that one wishes to be is today.

When we begin realize that our transformations from week to week, month to month and year to year happen in the today, we will bring forth our greater self.  We will begin to form our thoughts, words and deeds, An Tri Gniomh accordingly and our life will begin to change as we take a new and completely different approach to living.  Today, we can start a new transformation. 

In the moment of time we are in the today.  It is within this and every moment of time that we BECOME.  Every change of being is the becoming of our today.  Every thought, every word and every action, An Tri Gniomh happens in a present state, today.  The knowledge of this is the toll to absolutely change our world.

Every moment in time is a life unto itself.  It is within these lives that we form through perception our life, for as we perceive our self and our world so be it.  An Tri Gniomh is always in a present state, it cannot exist outside of the present moment in time.  Our being and the present state of circumstance we contributed in forming through our today.

Happiness, joy, freedom and peace, like sadness, sorrow, pain and anger found their life within someone’s today.  We knowingly or unknowingly participated in creating the person and circumstances that we live with.  Yes, there were other things that helped in our formation, however we were the designer.

Rather than lash out against the words written here, think.  If there is the slightest possibility that I speak words of truth, then we must of course have a tremendous power.  Outside of the Creative Force who or what carries this kind of energy?  We are all that we can imagine ourselves to be.  Let us become what our Soul moves us towards.

Conn Niul

Our Perception

Our perception of reality is based upon preprogrammed ideologies.  We perceive what we have been bred, programmed and taught to see as truth.  Each of us faces a construct that is not of our True Self, but of another nature.

The preprogramming effects our thought processes; ideas and responses are not our own.  We act out on a grand stage a play written by another.   Humanity for the most part has marched blindly to the beat of a foreign drum. We see what we have been preprogrammed recognize.

If our perception was True we would perceive a world, universe, galaxy, cosmos that differs significantly from that of our delusional minds.  Our world would become open to us, we would begin to observe and truly understand its heartbeat.  Everything would reveal its true nature and we would be free.

Life, to this point, has led you to commune with the sterile, synthetic, artificial processes of a foreign nature opposed to all that is pure, natural and True.  The power lies dormant within our being, subdued by the delusion that we are weak, powerless forms of flesh, denying the resolute processes of Truth.

If...we had a glimpse of the ABSOLUTE, we would throw off the diseased mind and return to ‘The Way’.  If...we saw the Light we would recognize Truth and through recognition destroy the artificial mindset.  If...we Truly Perceived the false paradigm would fall away, leaving a pure crystalline being of certainty.

Our life, our world, our cosmos operates within the pure laws of The One, The Ultimate, The Source.  It is within each of us to open our hearts, minds and bodies to the rays and rhythms of the universe, to throw off the diseases of the mind and open ourselves to that which is infinite.

Today we hear and see a world that is awakening to the Truth.  No more are we willing to accept slavery.  Delusion is being subdued by the rays of Reality.  Truth is expanding into the minds of the ordinary.  Humanity is breaking free and seeing the Light of the One Great Source.

Each...of us has a choice.  Each...of us will be faced with decisions that will change the course of our lives.  Each...of us has a Soul subtly nudging us towards the Light of True perception.  Each...of us faces moment by moment decisions and choices where laid before us are roads leading in opposite directions.

Now...is our time.  Now...is the opportunity to receive.  Now...is the time to open up to Truth and deny the artificial self.  Now...are you and I willing, desiring to perceive things as they are.  Now...we will walk as the ancients once walked, free of delusional thoughts and perceiving for the first time life and The Way of The Tuatha De Danann.

Conn Niul  

      

The Elements Within

In Khotani teaching all of the elements are within each living thing.  Air, fire, water and earth are held within a space, the Great Circle.  The Great Circle is ether, the parent to all other elements.  It is within the Great Circle that we have life. 

In the center of the Great Circle is the origin of its (ether) being.  From Grandmother Spirit flow three great forces known as primal natures.  From these three the Five Great Elements are born; first ether, then air, next fire, followed by water and earth. 

 

The elements, like all things, are made up of three circles; the inner circle, the middle circle and the outer circle.  The inner circle is causal, the middle subtle and the outer is physical.  From the most subtle to the physical the elements make up all living things.

From our ancient Khotani ways we are taught that the elements have characteristics that make up their nature.  Their character is a manifestation of their inner essence.  It is this essence which shows us the signs or path of each element.

You, I and every living thing is a reflection of the nature of elements.  The quality of elements is their personality.  Ajila is fire and has a nature or personality unique to itself just as all other elements have.  Their quality or personality teaches us about them.  It shows us that their nature manifests in different forms.

By reading the signs we learn when something is out of balance with itself.  For instance, Ajila or Fire in the mind is responsible for inspiration and discernment, also known as the discerning of fire.  However, when fire becomes out of balance it jumps its boundary and becomes a problem.  Imbalances such as infections are a sign of high fire that is out of Right Relationship.

Every level of our being mental, vital and physical is in a relationship with the inner, middle and outer elements.  There are mental fires, vital fires and physical fires.  Each element seeks to be in Right Relationship on all levels.  The elements like all things living communicate with us, telling us about who and what they are.  It is our responsibility to stop, listen, learn and live.

Yona Unega

 

Everything is Essence

 

We are all an essence.  The physical part of our being is nothing more than a shadow of our True Self or the True Human Being.  However, we tend to place our emphasis on what appears to be the most tangible.  All that we hear, feel, see, taste and smell demands our attention to the detriment of everything else.

What is it that moves our being?  What is it that remains after the physical dissolves?  These are questions that most people answer with an opinion influenced by their religious belief.  Bottom line, most everyone believes that some part of us lives on into eternity.

In Khotani teaching we recognize that all things are manifestations of their greater Self.  For instance, we are an image of our Creator Unetlvnvhi.  What do we mean by this?  Our beginning starts with a spark.  The origin of our spark is the Creators Fire.  From this spark comes our fire.

Everything in life begins with a spark from the Creators Fire, also known as Acherra Wanaka (The White Fire).  Minerals, plants, animals and humans all have an inner fire to their being.  This inner fire is our essence.  Upon physical death our fire returns to its source, Creators Fire.

We see and understand that through our related fires everything is linked.  Therefore, in Khotani teaching we are literally brothers, sisters, etc. with all living things via a common Creator.  My Creator is also you’re Creator and the Creator of everything.  The Creator of all is our common parent.

When a rock dissolves, a tree ceases to exist or an animal or human dies their essence returns to its Source.  At the Source (The Grand Center) our fires once again become a part of the Creator’s Fire.  However, all throughout our physical existence our fire remains constant.  It always is.

The fire is our essence, which is our Soul.  Our Soul is on a journey walking through a physical life.  The Earth that we walk on, just like the water that is Her blood has an essence that is their life force.  Mineral, plant, animal, human and Earth all have an essence.  It is who and what we are and it is eternal.

Yona Unega



       

The Path of Life and An Tri Gniomh

I was working with someone the other day regarding things of a deeply spiritual nature.  This individual has had several experiences with regard to spiritual phenomena.  His experiences are real to him and yet mainstream science explains them away.  Is it because they have never had an experience?

Why do some people have encounters and others don’t?  Why are some people visited by benevolent entities while others are tormented by dark forces?  These were some of the questions he asked.  After years of praying and pondering over these things he was still seeking answers.

 

The answer was given long ago in this short dialog between student and master.  Student, “if every person has two dogs fighting in them which one is the strongest?”  Master, “The one that you feed.”  

The path of life is made up of many things.  The basics of the formula are 1) our Souls evolution, 2) past life experiences/choices and 3) present life experiences/choices.  These three are the result of our present conditions in life.  However, your present situation can be changed.

Actions are one of or combination's of our thoughts, words and deeds (walking in it).  They are referred to as An Tri Gniomh, The Three Deeds.  There is thought action, mental action and deed action. All past actions are planted seeds that produced offspring, your current conditions.  All present actions are seeds that will produce offspring, your future conditions.

Imagine a circle with the four directions placed around it. North on top, South on bottom etc.  One complete circle represents one life.  Some circles are very large and take a considerable amount of time to travel their course; North to East, to South, to West and back to North.  Other circles are very small and take a fraction of a second to travel. 

Every moment has a complete life and all actions, An Tri Gniomh are within moments.  Some of our actions manifest and live their entire life within seconds.  Others can take weeks, months or even years.  Yet, each action contributes to a larger circle of life that is built block upon block.  However, all things can be manipulated and ultimately changed.

What has An Tri Gniomh got to do with someone having visitations, everything.  Remember, An Tri Gniomh consists of thoughts, words and deeds.  These actions show that we are in a state of something.  For instance, someone who thinks, speaks and walks in peace draws to themselves peace energy. 

Entities live off of energy.  Their food comes from our thoughts, words and deeds.  They are drawn to that which they can live off of.  Every thought, every word and every deed is food for something in life.  We knowingly or unknowingly draw to us life forces that contribute to our current condition.

Following a universal law these forces or entities travel to their food source.  They diligently seek energy to sustain and strengthen their existence.  We literally become beacons, advertising our menus.  We are a 24 hour full service establishment.

However, An Tri Gniomh applies to the physical world as well.  We draw unto ourselves people of like kind.  Remember the three aspects of the formula in paragraph four.  This is important for someone will declare that they have nothing in common with the one they mistakenly married. 

Every aspect of our lives we have helped to build (remember the formula).  Throughout numerous lifetimes we have built our lives through the natural law of An Tri Gniomh.  This did not happen over night.  Yet, we have the formula to affect change.

Right now or at any moment you can decide to change the way you think, speak and act.  Right now you can apply An Tri Gniomh and start planting seeds that will be your future harvest.  It is really that simple.  Changing our thoughts affects our spoken words and together they birth our deeds.   

Conn Niul