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Manyhorses (Frank J. Austin)
A Traditional First Nations Medicine Man's Dream
Traveling throughout Canada for the last 8 years, being involved with a variety of gatherings and in between gatherings, traveling and working solo, I have committed to helping our people. Meeting other medicine men and women who are also committed to helping our people with the residential school teachings and sickness. Good results have been shown in our work helping people. Born to the parents of Donald Austin and Violet Austin, from birth to age 15 I was raised and taught the Ancient Trail by my grandfather and grandmother, Philip and Rosalie Austin. For 10 years I lived in the social structure and used the Trail of Ancient Wisdom to find my way back on the Path. The Wisdom, the Ancient Trail of Absolute Truth I walk and share on my journey, bringing back hope to our peoples and so are other medicine people. We see the struggle our peoples or going through, we can only acknowledge what we see and feel, do what we can, staying in the light of pure love at the same time shifting energy.
We come together at big gatherings and work together the old way on the prairies where their ceremonies still exist. There I found hope for our people because of their ceremonies. So I share the Ancient Trail that is also a piece of the puzzle to help all mankind. We as medicine people carry the symbol of the four colors of our ancestors. The red, the First Nations grandma and grandpa, the black is the black grandfather and grandmother, the white is the white grandfather and grandmother, the yellow is the yellow grandfather and grandmother. The Absolute Truth teaches us that we lived many lifetimes in each race. The grandparents of each race have been our teachers in past lives that have taught us to love, honor, and respect ourselves for who we are - our identity. There is no racism when we realize that we have lived in all races. In our journies when we experience dejavue with a person, place or thing, it is a reminder that we have lived in these places before. When we activate the Christchild with in, in our heart center, we will begin to understand our dejavues. There is wisdom from our past lives in each one of these races we bring into this life to become a better person.
A story my grandmother told me: one time the four Sacred colors lived together in unity. Then they journeyed in all four directions, carrying a flame from the Sacred Fire, that one day will come when the four Nations will meet again, in the hope that they will all come back together into the Sacred Circle, the four Sacred Fires, the unity of all Nations, the place where only love, peace, and unity exists. We are one people. The circle has many meanings, one is that it represents Mother Earth. It's time to fulfill that prophecy my grandmother shared with me. The Four Sacred colors/races will come together again, each bringing their Fire. Once in this circle the four Fires will burn in unity. The Fire represents the Light for those who are lost in the dark. From the center of the circle the teaching of the foundation of the Ancient Trail is shared. The Ancient Trail of our ancestors that brings us to the center of our hearts, pure love. (As we are typing this, four eagles showed up and are flying in a circle in front of us to remind us that in each color of race their is an eagle).
Through my journey helping all people, I was raised to believe we are all brothers and sisters and never to turn everybody away. I walk this way. In the bigger picture we need help to make this prophecy come true, to help our people, our young people, our homeless people, the sick, those who are similated who are racist to their own and continue to deny our spiritual ways. There are cases of denial and racism that is brought to our people that creates division and those by educational background have found their way to the healing foundations from DIA down to most healing organizations right into some of our band offices, who continue to push colonialism and religion, denying in who we truly are as First Nations Spiritual peoples. Ignoring the foundation of the Absolute Truth of our Ancestors of our Ancient Trail that they gave their lives for us to follow. So our people can be one again and healthy. We need to make this happen. We have the wisdom,we need the means and support.
Our children are lost, they have no hope of a future. We are losing our young teenagers to the streets where they find acceptance and support, not realizing in some cases drugs and alcohol becomes the primary pain killer to numb the bad memories they experienced that drove them to the streets. The children are tuned in, they feel the hopelessness in what they experience and seeing the future before there eyes what is happening around them. With all the wars, violence and craziness, the recycling of what has happened for thousands of years in the past and continues to happen today, and they know that. Because history shows that by our past and present actions, we are not civilized. The parents in some cases are single parents and parents in the consumer society today have to work to pay the morgage and all living costs to be comfortable and have no time to be parents. And it has to do with the system in play, the decision makers in authority positions. Teenagers need support, they need to be heard, and what they want to be in the future, provide that support. All teenagers have a dream to be successful. We have to teach the young ones by walking our talk, and show them we care, and love them unconditionally. And allow them to become what they are meant to be. Give them back their identity, their pride, self love, and support to find a way into the system. When our young people are in trouble, our future for our people is in trouble. The children are our most important priority, they are our future. We need help to help them, and we can only do it together. To understand the reason for friction and clash is to understand the foundation of the conflicts is simple to understand the truth alone is manipulative and vunerable that is used and abused. Behind these truths are gods, and each different truth is man made which creates conflict. Based on do's and don'ts to what they think as truth, as Gods truth. As much as we all kneel and pray to the same God with many different names, it causes the conflict, the racism, and the denial. We need to respect each others truth and come together as one to help out our people. It's all about shifting energy to bring back peace to all.
We are losing alot of our women and men to the streets and onto the highways. Some are never found and never heard from again. Helping our sisters who survived, they talk how nobody listens to them, nobody understands them, nobody loves them. The untold stories, they drown with alcohol and drugs and run right into what they are running away from. When they are young, they are desired on the streets. When they get old and are not desired, they become lonely and come home with that lifes teachings, if they survive, and they become elders. That is the foundation they become a teacher from. Teach them Absolute Truth about their experiences, once resolved, they will help many. One of the prophecies my grandparents shared with me, was that the new comers who come to us will bring us "white powder", (crack, cocaine, heroin) that will hurt our people, is happening now. In my journeys I have come across other First Nations who tell about the same prophecy of the "white powder". You can tell the future from your childrens behavior which is taught by role modeling of the social structures teachings.
We as medicine people who carry the Wisdom of our Ancestors, know what to do to help. In order to heal the First Nations, the red, we must heal the black man, we must heal the white man, we must heal the oriental man and bring all their traditional healers to the Sacred circle, a unity of healers to bring back our people to save our childrens future, so everyone can be safe.
To successfully make a difference with our people, a large gathering for a minimum of 7 days is needed. The unity of nations, the four Sacred Fires, must come together. A Gathering of this magnitude will take a lot of money to make it happen. We need a location that has access from all directions for people to come. Invitations will be given to scientists, journalists, doctors, organized religions, prime ministers and our chiefs, who must attend to learn about our Ancestors Trails, the Wisdom that is needed to turn things around. They will learn about self love, energy flow, and how to move human energy in the body, how to work with universal energy that is all around us. This is where we also will learn about prayers and traditional medicine. Science and spirituality are not separate. Science is very important when you work with the Absolute Truth and human energy. We are living energy in a body of water and minerals, receiving and transmitting thoughtform. To understand our personal foundation Absolute Truth will teach you and give you the eyes to see and to understand and recognize Wisdom. And what is needed is the Gathering of all Nations to understand the Absolute Truth, the soul foundation to all things.
This unity of Nations and the sharing of the Wisdom of the oral knowledge, the foundation of Absolute Truth that has been passed down for thousands of years, will be documented to show the public that we do have a strong faith in the Creator, to show the new comers that this wisdom still exists, many of us still walk it and talk it.
In these gatherings I have been involved for the last 8 years, I know the organizers, the frontline workers that give with their heart everything they got to make it the best possible and is safe and secure for all those who attend the Gatherings. The frontline workers go through people who are in authority position who do not understand our ways. In denial, the authorities in position continue to push colonialism, and it works right down the chain. The obstacles and conditions our frontline workers have to work through and make the best of what is given to help our people in a traditional way, is limited to the funding allowed. Lets not forget to honor those who support the Gatherings and make it a success. If everybody jumped on board, there will be a time when we can sleep easy at night, knowing that all our loved ones are safe, no matter where they are.
At this Gathering to honor the four colors will be a grand entry, the Cree Nation, and all other tribes will be carrying drums for the four directions in their ceremonies. Introductions of the frontlineworkers and all the helpers who put this Gathering together and those who donate, all invited guests, speakers, elders, chiefs, healers, residential school survivers, the elders and wisdom keepers from the four directions, and our teachers, will be introduced. Our children will be introduced as our future. A woman, granddaughter, and a grandmother will be introduced and represented as life givers and teachers. The boys and girls will turn into grandmothers and grandfathers introducing the grandfather as a wisdom carrier also.
The impact that this gathering will have in the present will shift the futures energy like a domino effect. We have a chance to save our childrens and grandchildrens future. No matter what you believe in, you will come from your heart, and be respected for it. Its all about self love, self honor and self respect, its all about the human energy, we are all connected.
We have discussed this with chiefs and organizers on the prairies who are very interested to be totally involved in organizing a big gathering of the four Sacred colors, the unity of Nations. The organizers and chiefs who have been involved in the previous gatherings in the prairies who know what to do will come together to make this a success.
The obstacles mentioned are concerns I was asked to mention, and I agree. It is not to create conflict, only speaking the Absolute Truth to the problems that needs to be resolved through education in attending these gatherings to understand what it is all about. We have an open door policy to all race, gender and religion. We are not here to judge, we are only helpers.
Everything will be accounted for and documented. This way we as the healers and organizers are in full control of putting a gathering together that will guarantee results for all mankinds and Mother Earth's future benefit. By the demand of the people who come there, we can make this an annual yearly event.
If there is good samaritans or organizations out there who wish to support and donate to this worthy cause, I will direct you to the organizers contact number.
Frank J. Austin (Manyhorses)
1250 847 5653 for further information
September 3, 2008
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