puddle ripples

gone

wahkeenasitka — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:58:20 GMT

not here anymore......

losing interest...

wahkeenasitka — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:06:35 GMT

something changed for me, with tribe... facebook took over? i don't know.. after the last few rounds of "tribe fallout", i just lost my connection to this place. i just quit caring so much. i still loiter around here, but it doesn't feel as exciting as it once did. does anyone feel the same? like i just don't care anymore....

tribe.light.ning

wahkeenasitka — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:29:48 GMT

I'm going to keep plugging this... I know we all love and cherish tribe. And on one hand I want nothing but the best for it..... But I have to admit, I'm really excited about the potentials at tribe.light.ning.... It allows features that tribe doesn't allow and has a lot of the good qualities of facebook & myspace & tribe combined without any of the cheesy crap.... Anyway, I'm just putting it out there... Come check it out. There's already a dozen or so people dipping their toes into the site. It may take some time, maybe a few months, for some momentum to build and to lay a solid groundwork. But I really like it, and I feel like it has a lot of potential, so check it out.. xoxo http://tribelight.ning.com/

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wahkeenasitka — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:07:20 GMT

how many of you saw the UFO ship in the sky today????

Tribe : Light'ning .:. a groundswell of conscious co-creative community

wahkeenasitka — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:09:11 GMT

Hi There... I am going to begin putting out the word that I have found another social networking site that I think rivals Facebook & Myspace & Tribe, and may allow us to do everything that all of these sites can do COMBINED..... It has all the best of every social networking site that I've seen, and none of the stupid, high school, cheesy "send gifts to your friends" stuff that facebook has.... It's called Ning :: http://ning.com You can create as many "Social Networks" as you want through Ning, and I just made one.. For us TRIBE REFUGEES...... I called it Tribe-Light.ning check it out ::: http://tribelight.ning.com/ Things about Tribe.light.ning that you should know .:. > It allows every member to have a completely customizable Personal Page, you can edit the background, fonts, you can go crazy on the design the same way as on myspace.. You can upload MP3s, Videos, a gazillion images, text, and every person can have blogs... > It allows every member to have "Friends" and sub-"Groups" (aka Tribes) under the umbrella of the main network. > The Tribe Lightning Network is allowed to be completely customizable by the moderators, which means that any BRILLIANT and INSPIRED creative webdesigning geniuses could make the most stunning social network website and it could consistently be altered when it was time to change things up... (( Which means that I want to ask Dar and Zariat to do the honors, of header creation and CSS skills.. )) You can post pictures, blogs, videos, events, there's a Forum available, you can chat online with anyone that is online at the same time.... It seems to offer an unlimited number of choices, variables and tools to make it completely customizable and creative. JOIN! Let's get the ball rolling.... Let's get everybody on Tribe onto Tribe-Lightning, and we won't have to worry about Tribe falling apart anymore, nor will we have to deal with the fact that facebook is kind of stupid and trite and doesn't allow us to really connect in with each other and express ourselves......... xoxoxo http://tribelight.ning.com/

Reality is Psychic

wahkeenasitka — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:50:04 GMT

Written by Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple, 2008 Reality is Reponsive to Consciousness. We must begin to understand that our reality is shaped by our belief systems, not the other way around. We can create the reality we want, if our belief system is in alignment with our desires. If we want one reality, but our belief system says something else then our reality will create a mirror image of our subconscious beliefs. Reality is a dream mirage that teaches us how to be more in tune with ourself, it is as responsive to our consciousness as food is to our hands. We create what we want in the material realm, whether it be a plate of food or a hand crafted table or an item of clothing, and before we can begin, we must have the idea within our consciousness and begin making choices to create the manifestation of our plan. Whether it be making a journey to a destination, manifesting our new home, finding a new job - we can create what we want because reality is responsive to our desires and our creative energies are what propel us forward in this dance. And if we are confused, or uncertain of what we want, and we believe that we are out of control in reality, we will be shown exactly that it is true. We must own our power as creation masters, learning how to master the subtle dance of creating with our willpower and surrendering to the flow of the "reality support team" - spirits or what we can call the Tao - to help align us and bring to us what we need in perfect timing. In my reality, I live in a reality that says that the Divine presence is constantly supporting me and giving me what I need, and that I have no reason to be afraid or worry about my needs being met, because my needs are always met and I am always able to receive what I need when I need it, so long as I relax into the flow of divine timing. As such, I at peace and am able to be more available to receive gifts of synchronicity when they arise. Synchronistic miracles are a daily reality, and are no more cause for celebration or intrigue than the daily news. Reality has taught me how to trust that I am held and supported, constantly monitered and nurtured. All I need to do is learn how to relax and receive that support. As a result, I have no fears, because every time I have been afraid or worried, I have been shown that it is ungrounded and unnecessary. I just need to trust that reality will support me, and it does. Effortlessly and gracefully. That's not to say that my quadrant of reality is perfect or effortless or graceful, or that there is no work, challenge, or emotional distress to move through. Reality is a mirror of our deepest subconscious, and in that sense, there are always layers that must be examined, and that is where the Shadow self exists, and we all have it, cannot deny its presence, we must learn how to be mindful so as we are not swallowed up by our shadow and are able to walk in integrated balance. But there is a huge fear pandemic sweeping across our nation, and the fear that is being drilled into the minds of the masses, whether it be towards War or towards Economic Crisis, is what creates the situations. The more people believe that we are on the verge of economic ruin, the more the reality will hit our lives. We cannot live in a reality and tell reality that we do not trust it, that we do not trust that we will not survive, that we do not trust each other and the system, and not expect reality to give us exactly what we believe to be true. We cannot live in economic prosperity and healthy ecosystems of sustainability, moving truly into the 21st century level of sustainable technological creative geniusness, until we believe THAT is our future, not a future of endless war, tyranny and economic ruin. When we are in victim consciousness, and believe ourselves to be powerless victims at the hands of a reality that is seen as separate, disparate from ourselves, to which we cannot see our ability to control our situation, then reality shows us that it is true. When we scream to reality telling it that we are powerless victims of injustice, it showers us with experiences that validate our belief. We must believe that we have power over our lives and that we can consciously create what we want, if we have enough willingness to dream courageously, then our reality will show us that it is true, and we will no longer be victims of circumstance, but powerful co-creators of our life. There is no reason why anyone should be sitting at the bottom of a well in misery, waiting for reality to change for them, waiting for someone to save them. We must learn to believe in ourselves, and to believe that reality will nurture us, and trust enough to receive the help and guidance when it arrives. Indigenous Shamanic cultures had a very different experience of reality because they did their best to live in communion with the forces of the 'Tao', with the forces of nature, and to maintain the delicate threads of balance between all the relationships to the supernatural, to the animal, and to the plant kingdoms. Instead of an individualistic, self-centered reality where reality is defined by individual choice, belief system and lifestyle, an Indigenous Shamanic culture was focused on the tribe, the community. And the community upheld a specific perspective of reality, and that reality was maintained through rigorous maintenance by rituals. Rituals were used to maintain cohesiveness within the tribe, and rituals were used to maintain balance with the elemental spirits. As such, a specific reality was experienced by that tribe, and their reality was monumentally radically different than the encroaching European mentality that slowly crept across the planet destroying everything in its path, and told everyone else that their reality perspective was the only valid one. In Indigenous Shamanic realities, reality was imbued with a level of magic and tribal harmony that we lack today because in the modern reality, we no longer choose to believe in these things, and instead believe that skepticism is intelligence, and that we walk alone, instead of dance together as community. It takes time to learn that reality is a psychic phenomenon that is responsive to our consciousness, and that we are constantly in conversation with our surroundings and our experiences. But when we see how reality is talking back to us, through our body, through slips and falls, through broken hearts and broken ribs, we are being reminded to pay attention, to be more mindful and to not fall into unconsciousness, otherwise we will be in suffering. And as attaining happiness and peacefullness is the ultimate goal in life in everyone's subconsciousness, beginning with mindful awareness and honing our belief system is a crucial first step towards the attainment of a centered, balanced existence.

the macrocosmic ecosystem

wahkeenasitka — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:33:16 GMT

"In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is the focal point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation. The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images." ~~ 'The Society of the Spectacle' by Guy Debord "Empty Yourself and Let the Universe Fill You." ~~ Yogi Tea Bag ======================================= When I was in Atlanta Georgia's airport a little over a year ago, on my way home after a month in Peru, I noticed something striking about the American Perspective on reality. It was best reflected in the constantly reiterated themes on magazine after magazine. In a nutshell... Be Famous. Buy Expensive. Grow a Big Ego. Be the Most Important Person in the World. Make Lots of Money. Improve Your Sex Life. Own Lots of Material Possessions. Look Cool. Live in Completely Unsustainable Ways. Follow Social Conformity. And Make Sure to Be as Pretentious and Luxurious as Possible. This perspective of reality is especially prevalent in places like Manhattan where people are always trying to One-Up each other and have the trendy shoes and the expensive flat. We all know that we have fallen desperately into the most toxic, stress-inducing, earth / spirit / body / disconnected, unsustainable lifestyle ever conceived of in the universe. We're all flailing desperately as a result, and the spirits and bodies of the humans here in our land are crying out for healing. Of course, with the current financial crisis rocking Wall Street and Washington, we "little people" across the country are preparing to get rocked by this economic tsunami wave. This is INEVITABLE and should have been foreseen for years, if not decades. If one is aware of the history behind the major economic crash of 1929, one will learn that the kind of gambling and corruption at the highest levels of our economy that created that depression, has only been vastly improved upon in the last 80 years. Those big whigs at the top levels of our country have only improved their game and as a result, they think they've taken over the world through the powers of global banking dominance and forcing the world to become a Western Economic System. But the world hasn't always been in the grips of a Western Economic System. For more than probably 50,000 years, humans lived without credit cards or mortgages or grocery stores. And it's most obvious in places like Peru, where the people still live in traditional lifestyles, where houses are made of adobe, donkeys & goats graze through the pathways, women and children walk up the mountain side to collect vegetables and greens, where water pathways have been working for generations interweaving down the sides of mountains and cattle graze the mountainside, that there are still people in this world who live dramatically detached from the kinds of Western Economic System Lifestyle Influence that we up here in North America are subject to. But still, these people work hard for nothing, they take what little they can and ride 5 hours switchback down a mountain to the nearest town to sell hand picked items for nothing. And even in the heart of the Amazon jungle now, where a village still lives traditionally as a hunting / gathering tribal community, they need to make and sell trinket items to roving tourists, because now they covet shoes and need little bits of money for things they didn't need a generation previously. The reason why our economic system will collapse is because it must; it is inevitable. Also because an endlessly built house of stacked cards must collapse; gambling is not sustainable. Despite the incredible power and ingenuity behind our system, where we are creating the most advanced technological systems and innovative energy tools, we must Reclaim the Community. Our system will collapse and put us back into the Village. We humans cannot live in this current global western takeover paradigm and call it sustainable. Poor people around the planet will probably be affected by this stock market destabilization, but they have community, they have each other. And if there is one thing we must keep in mind in coming times, it is that we must reclaim the village mentality in order to ride the waves. We must be supportive of one another and bring loving-kindness back into our greedy selfish reality. It is the only way we will be able to be resilient through this impact. Our visionary west coast tribal community is at a very interesting juncture in this entire debacle and I think we have a special role to play in this whole story, and it is yet to be completely developed. We choose each other as a community because of like-mindedness, kindred-spiritedness, daily connection through our daily processes, and through kindred creativity of spirit. We are like an ecosystem of energies, and each sub-community is like an organ system in its relationship to other systems. In the way that the body is made up of different organ systems that relate to each other, by feeding and guiding the processes of the human body through hormones and blood and electrical impulses through the nervous system, we are like pockets of communities that have our home base and travel, creating the broad spectrum west coast visionary system. It is crucial that we not only develop ourselves to our full potential, but develop good energy within our communities to have healthy ecosystems. It is crucial that we think of everything in terms of ecosystems, and how energetic groupings relate to each other. When we look at the human body, we see a collection of small ecosystems that play into patterns that relate to each other and the whole simultaneously. Likewise, in forests, we see how energetic relationships between plants, decay, animals, seeds, water, sunlight and stone all relate to each other and create a vast interwoven network of ecosystemic relationships. The shamanic paradigm is all about sustaining healthy balance between the energetic, psychic and spiritual relationships within the village, within human bodies, and between humans and the spirit realms governing nature and the cosmos. It is with the Shamanic Perspective that I work from and envision the ideal state of community, self and earth balance. In that regards, it is crucial that we look at our communities as an ecosystem and do the best we can to maintain health and balance within the community. I would like to speak broadly and say that I witness addiction as a major plague in our communities, and it is something that when looked upon from the outside perspective, the way White people view the Native Americans and their struggle with Alcoholism as a disgrace, then we must turn that magnifying glass upon ourselves and begin gleaning valuable wisdom that will help aid our community sustain balance and resilience when the impact of economic shift happens in our reality. From vast personal experience with my own body-based experience and observing my relationships with beloveds and friends, we in the visionary community are really at a forefront on many levels because we are trying so hard to push the envelope of conscious evolution in terms of conscious spirituality, conscious lifestyle, conscious sexuality & relationship, alternative renewable resources and housing, and alternative economic paradigms. We are so much more open to trying the new, alternative options, and are the doorway for the collective consciousness to receive the hit when the hundredth monkey affects the populace like dominos. But it is so important that we really look at our community, ourselves, and our relationship to the WHOLE, to the whole village, and that means the global perspective, the economic paradigm that dominates our lives and the lifestyle perspectives that our subconsciousness is constantly battered with. Our subconsciousness is very programable and we are very susceptible to outside influences that want to dominate our minds and force us to make choices that are not coming from within. This is the nature of propaganda; it is mind control. And the mass media that dominates our reality, and our internet, wants us to be fashionable, unsustainable, uber-famous, self-centered and completely immature. We are all susceptible to this kind of influence, we are not impervious to its affects, and its toxicity has turned us into wannabe rock-stars, and we need to heal this toxicity in the community ecosystem. We could reclaim true shamanic rituals that help bring the community together, back into wholeness, rather than splinter us further apart from each other back into our egoic rock-star selves. This is the work of we. I don't want to be too dogmatic or preachy, but I can't help but feel some sense of frustration with a visionary community that I see flailing between visionary creativity and addiction, between peak experiences and sacred rituals versus empty rituals, alcoholism and hard drug use, flaunting luxurious excessivity, and elitism. I know that we all have it in our heart & soul to embody the highest ideals of heart-won happiness and bringing this out of balance world back into balance, but how are we going to do that within the collective consciousness when our priorities are selfish and focused on self-gratification? We all have needs, and the greatest need of all is to find inner balance, on all levels; emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual. But in our community, I have witnessed simultaneously great protuberances of out-of-balance, as well as sublime moments where peak breakthroughs in the collective consciousness arise to meet our highest ideals of love and healing. We need to keep our eyes on the prize and work towards the embodiment of these opportunities within our community, and more and more I see we are. I had a dream recently in which I was at a huge party with the global / west coast visionary psychedelic crew. The psychedelic party had developed into a multi-level dream-come-true psychedelic rollercoaster ride of fun; it was like a multi-floored theme park of beauty and fun, filled with water slides and rooms oozing love. For the true embodiment of joy and creativity, it was a dream-come-true. And as I was running through the complex, I found Luke Brown and he stood by my side as I began leaping in the air and stayed hovering several feet in the air for a minute at a time, videotaping me. It was an interesting moment to remember, because as I understand it, our dreams do have a prophetic ability and in that sense, I feel that we are developing higher levels of personal empowerment to bring to the collective community; for fun, but it cannot be for self-glorification ~ otherwise our community will become nothing more than an image, a Spectacle. We cannot hope to embody these ideals for ourself and horde the goods; we must be generous, sharing, loving, community minded people. But I would like to stress the importance of loving-kindness and being conscious towards ones health. How can we have healthy relationships with ourselves and our community if we are not being conscious towards our energy and our body? I want to strongly encourage everyone to practice tools of self-cultivation, inner balance and bringing kindness into the community. We are at the forefront of the visionary tribe's potential to blend ancient shamanic community-centered healing & cultivation skills to the modern paradigm and adapt our modern culture into one that is both modern, visionary and innovative as well as grounded in ancient wisdoms that keep us grounded, healthy and happy. I want to encourage us all to do our best to be self-nurturing and learn how to be grounded peacekeepers that can be clear, empty vessels to allow the reception of divine essence into our spirit-body selves. Because we will need to be grounded, loving, supportive community minded beings in order to re-embody the village mind into our lives.

snagged from livejournal

wahkeenasitka — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:28 GMT

"Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand it as a cosmic joke you will never be able to understand the ultimate mystery. I am all for jokes, I am all for laughter." - Osho In the first Adam book, Dreamhealer, he mentions that children naturally laugh about 160-180 times a day. That adults sincerely laugh perhaps 2 - 4 times a day. Then he listed a quote by .. I forget, Ghandi or Chopra or someone, (paraphrased, because I lent the book to someone) "For optimum health, drink water, get sleep, and have three good, deep belly-laughs a day." "We are wanting you to know that life is for entertainment purposes only. Taking anything too seriously is almost always the hard way around. In every situation there is always room for more fun, more play, more laughter, and above all more feeling good. Lighten up, that's the whole point. "

Mistake-Ability

wahkeenasitka — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:09:33 GMT

by Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple :: 2008 We make mistakes. We are human beings; imperfect, unconscious some of the time, selfish and not thinking wisely always. Other human beings tend to look at us and make judgments about our lack of integrity. This I have come to accept is one of the primary rules or by-laws about living as a human being; that you must come to accept that other people will judge you. I feel that ultimately we all want peace of mind, which comes through a sense of integrity. But sometimes our integrity slips, and we act out of lack; we steal, we tell lies, we cut someone short, we fall through with our agreement, we don't do the dishes, we are late, etc.. The human story is one of drama, the drama of our experience, and our shared experience with other people. So many times, the story of "the drama" is a continuing saga of people frustrated with each other's lack of integrity; judging each other, holding each other accountable, and creating grudges. Thus creating psychic energies that have to be dealt with, healed, released, and oftentimes painfully evolved through. We are imperfect human beings, we make mistakes, and we want to be loved. We want to be loved and accepted because ultimately it makes us happy and feel good about life and ourselves. Being loved gives us a sense of wholeness that we often feel we lack, and we look to the relationships in our lives to bring us that state of wholeness and completion in our being. But then those that love us, witness our lack of wholeness, witness our lack of integrity and our mistake-ability, and begin judging us and withdrawing their love bit by bit. We feel hurt, we feel abandoned, we feel betrayed, we feel confused, we feel judged. We become angry and seek vengeance on those we loved. Withdrawing into the caverns of ourselves, we erect boundaries, self-protective measures, elaborate booby-traps to detect invading heart predators who might try and come too close to our vulnerability. Our hearts have created complex, unexplainable methods of sabotaging ourselves from receiving the love we desperately desire. We project our insecurities onto those around us, blaming others for our fears and we lose sense of our ownership for our experience. But we still want to be loved. We want to find that bridge back into the realm of blissful radiance. We want to feel nurtured and cared for. We want to relax into feeling connected to those we care about. We seek the perfect energetic relationship connection. We look for the bridge out of our cavern, so that we may walk from our heart into the heart of another. But we do so with fear, knowing they will witness our lack of integrity; our mistake-ability. Ultimately afraid of not being accepted keeps us separated, with our hearts torn and broken, looking for that bridge forever. We cannot hope to be loved and accepted under conditions that we act a certain way, look a certain way, maintain rigid compliance to a set of behavioral patterns, follow rules, maintain responsibilities and schedules. Because we cannot be loved & accepted when we are trying to fit another person's image of what being perfect looks like. Since we are shamelessly, imperfectly human beings, we will always fall through somewhere, and despite our best attempts at lying and covering up our weaknesses, our mistake-ability will be discovered - it is only a matter of time. So, it's time to be honest, mostly with ourselves. We have to be able to love and accept ourselves, despite our lack of integrity, despite our mistake-ability, because we will never be perfect and we will never appear perfect to another human being. Being glorified and put on pedestals of adoration does not equal being a perfect human being. Being enlightened does not mean you are perfect, it means you have attained a state of self-knowledge and can channel divine source-love to others from a space of compassion. An enlightened person loves and accepts themself, because they know they will never be perfect, knowing that in order to have peace of mind and to attain mindfulness clarity, they must love and accept themselves as they are; with their mistake-ability. No one will ever be perfect, so why hold others to standards and levels of expectation you cannot hope yourself to attain? Some people feel that you must put others through intense scrutiny, examining all the layers, waiting for that booby-trap moment where they show their lack of integrity, so you can judge them and mark them as imperfect; and thus not enlightened, not perfect, not equal with Jesus Christ, and not good enough to be loved. The truth is, we are all good enough to be loved. When we decide to accept someone else as they are, despite their emotional process, despite their lack of integrity, despite their mistake-ability, we bring them into our hearts with unconditional love. This is the salve that mends our desperate, broken, torn hearts. We must be willing to be compassionate towards another person, letting go of the need to expect another person to be perfect, in order to be worthy of being loved. When we drop judgments and witness another person as they are, still able to express our perspective of imbalance, when we are able to nurturingly care for those we are in relations with; we embody the beauty of the Divine Mother. Forgiveness is the crucial key in this relationship, forgiving ourselves, accepting ourselves and loving ourselves as we are in totality - we are thus able to forgive others, accept others, with unconditional compassion. When we enter into this realm of unconditional acceptance and non-judgmental compassion towards those we are in relations with, we are re-creating the sacred circle of wholeness with those we are surrounded with. We are reaching out and co-creating the magic of a unified love field, a circle of positive energy, where people feel comfortable being their free:ky selves, accepted as they are. Where people come together to celebrate the bliss of community, the support and love of people who see each other and accept each other despite our mistake-abilities, and give each other the hope and nourishment that our soul longs for. We come home, and we relax into the peaceful surrender of being received, being met, being nurtured, and being seen for who we are. Thus our heart weeps joy, and we know for fact within every cell of our bodies that love is the true medicine.

this one goes out to the LADIES

wahkeenasitka — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:17:40 GMT

to every amazing divine creatrix embodied goddess channel of creation and inspiration.... my deep gratitude, LOVE and humble appreciation goes out to every one of you... popularity contests aside, ego stroking aside, cliques and clusters of creatrix configurations aside.... I SEE YOU. BECOMING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF. There is nothing more beautiful in this world right now than the rebirthing renaissance of all of you gorgeous women who are stepping fully into your authentic being, power, and creative divinity. I salute every one of you. With admiration for your utterly unique vibratory frequency and the gifts you carry into the world. you are too many to name. too beautiful not to rejoice, and we are becoming the next generation of the redefinition of what a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN is. Our culture has some seriously fucked up notions of what a beautiful, attractive, desirable woman is.. We are the ones who are recreating that entire perception. A beautiful woman is one who stands firmly planted in her divine feminine creatrix power, channelling her inspired beauty into the world.. Your artwork, your jewelry, your clothing, your dance, your collaberations, your powerful singing voice, your fully embodied SEXUAL POWER, your spirit, your AUTHENTICITY... This is the new beautiful woman.. We are creating new definitions of feminine beauty that are not based on appearance, weakness, cattiness and submission to MAN. Step up, Step up! That we may honor you, That the world may honor you interwoven into WE. That we may midwife the rebirthing of ALL WOMEN into their authenticity, their beauty, their creativity, their sexual power, their joy... We are stepping into our power, so that every woman has the courage, and fearlessly embodies their authentic self. I raise my fist in salute to you and offer you a deep bow of namaste from the core of my being. /wahkeena sitka