MonSno_LeeDra
October 1st, 2009, 10:52 AM
When one looks to the practices of the Native American's one quickly finds that their are as many variants and practices as there are nations and groupings within each nation. Yet one facet that stands out is that layout of stones which is known as the Medicine Wheel.
Some people swear by the wheel and it's contained guidance in the ability to guide and influence people upon thier life path. Other's see it as a life path itself and mannerism of walking upon it. Many are the truths, preceived truths and apparent truths to be learnt upon study of it's design and influences.
The Medicine Wheel is a powerful metaphor for the totality of life. All aspects of creation and consciousness, inclusive of the mineral, plant, animal, human and spirit realms, are contained within the center and eight directions of the medicine wheel. They overlap and interweave to form the whole. It is in the center of the medicine wheel that we find the void, black hole, sacred zero, the chaos at the source of creation, containing all possibilities. Each of the elements - air, fire, water, and earth - is guided and molded by the sacred life force energy contained within the void. It is the source of chi, which is the driving force of all sacred sexuality. Through sacred sexuality, all forms of all things within the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, have been and continue to be created. Life could not exist without the sexual life-force energy of the void, which is the catalyst for all the powers that are found within the 360 degrees of the medicine wheel.
Quote to be found on below referenced link
Yet no single thread can address each facet or componet of the wheel. So I propose to let this thread be a front door to many other sites that one might explore and discover the mysteries of the Medicine Wheel.
http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/wheel.html (http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/wheel.html)
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/bobbiesues/pg8medwhl.html (http://www.angelfire.com/ok/bobbiesues/pg8medwhl.html)
http://www.turtle-island.org/Medicine-Wheel.htm (http://www.turtle-island.org/Medicine-Wheel.htm)
http://www.thewildrose.net/direction.htm (http://www.thewildrose.net/direction.htm)
http://www.nald.ca/CLR/chikiken/page51.htm (http://www.nald.ca/CLR/chikiken/page51.htm)
Message board for discussion of Shamanic practices and Medicine Wheel metholodgy.
http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/ (http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/)
Some people swear by the wheel and it's contained guidance in the ability to guide and influence people upon thier life path. Other's see it as a life path itself and mannerism of walking upon it. Many are the truths, preceived truths and apparent truths to be learnt upon study of it's design and influences.
The Medicine Wheel is a powerful metaphor for the totality of life. All aspects of creation and consciousness, inclusive of the mineral, plant, animal, human and spirit realms, are contained within the center and eight directions of the medicine wheel. They overlap and interweave to form the whole. It is in the center of the medicine wheel that we find the void, black hole, sacred zero, the chaos at the source of creation, containing all possibilities. Each of the elements - air, fire, water, and earth - is guided and molded by the sacred life force energy contained within the void. It is the source of chi, which is the driving force of all sacred sexuality. Through sacred sexuality, all forms of all things within the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, have been and continue to be created. Life could not exist without the sexual life-force energy of the void, which is the catalyst for all the powers that are found within the 360 degrees of the medicine wheel.
Quote to be found on below referenced link
Yet no single thread can address each facet or componet of the wheel. So I propose to let this thread be a front door to many other sites that one might explore and discover the mysteries of the Medicine Wheel.
http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/wheel.html (http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/wheel.html)
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/bobbiesues/pg8medwhl.html (http://www.angelfire.com/ok/bobbiesues/pg8medwhl.html)
http://www.turtle-island.org/Medicine-Wheel.htm (http://www.turtle-island.org/Medicine-Wheel.htm)
http://www.thewildrose.net/direction.htm (http://www.thewildrose.net/direction.htm)
http://www.nald.ca/CLR/chikiken/page51.htm (http://www.nald.ca/CLR/chikiken/page51.htm)
Message board for discussion of Shamanic practices and Medicine Wheel metholodgy.
http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/ (http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/)