Oklevueha Native American Church
Sacraments
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The Sacrament Peyote has Its Way. The uninitiated observer calls
it a powerful hallucinogenic. Medicine Persons trained, schooled and experienced
with It know Its Way and rightly call it the Flesh of God. Others
experience Its Way as a passage into a new life with wonderful, fresh
perspectives. Some have transformation of mystifying proportions. The Peyote
Sacrament and Its Way is part of the Great Mystery. Its focused
agenda is for the maturing of the soul. Peyotes unique abilities can
cut through any resistance, whispering to the inquisitive heart a fundamental
question at the core of every soul's experience, What are we?"
Indigenous people of North and South America have a long, rich tradition
of experiencing themselves as part of all that we see. There is no separation
between our surroundings and us. Intelligence is experienced to be in and
through all things...birds, bees, rocks, trees, plants and water...the list
includes all of Creation. It can and does communicate in a myriad of ways
to individuals attuned to their sounds. Balance and harmony could be every
day observations until conquerors from other lands came. Over time, the delicate
balance once perceived as part of the indigenous way of life disappeared.
Peyote is the only Great Spirit gifted plant that Oklevueha Native American
Church utilizes for its Sacrament and / or Eucharist Ceremony.
It was prophesied one day this delicate balance would return and the
indigenous people of this land would rise again to establish the Old Ways.
But severe imbalances do exist at the beginnings of this great time of
fulfillment. It is our Intent to see deeply into our present moment and expand
upon the possibilities for healing, for personal and collective empowerment,
and ultimately a transformation into human abilities unheard of before. Peyote
will richly empower any one willing to take responsibility for their Transforming
Journey. There is no disease, sickness of the body, mind, heart or soul that
cannot be amended with the right actions. That being said, let us begin with
a short overview of the significant Sacrament of Oklevueha Native American
Church.
Peyote it self does not dissolve kidney stones. It will not remove
gallstones, it cannot not clear the arteries and heart of deposits of all
kinds. Peyote does not, it self, cure and mend the asthma of millions or
the diabetes of tens of millions. These modern day plagues are left to a
myriad of other Creator provided medicinal and nutritional plants and grass
that given the chance, work miracles. But from the increased
light added by Peyote and now emanating from the transforming nature of the
soul, 'mountains' will be moved of epic proportions.
Many of the tribal nations today still struggle with white man diseases.
European colonizers came to this land hundreds of years ago...in their filth...as
a plague upon the native inhabitants. It is estimated that their diseases
accounted for up to a 90% loss of indigenous human life within our ancestral
populations. And still today, on tribal lands everywhere, heart disease and
diabetes (diseases unheard of before now) lead the way on a list of
modern diseases whose cause is yet to become common
knowledge. This exists largely in the over 40 population but the children
are also experiencing tremendous challenges. For instance, Lakota children
are committing suicide at an alarming rate. It is the highest of any youth
group in America today.
At the heart of our quest and vision to bring all things into balance
and harmony once again is the personal health of every soul. As a people
with extraordinary powers to shape our environment, how can we assist our
Mother Earth to heal man made pollution if we cannot first clean up our own
piece of the planet? These are not the blessings our ancestors enjoyed. Their
freedom was as a direct result of first...freedom from sickness and disease.
Their Old Ways played a vital role in maintaining this state of Being. Now
after 400 plus years of genocide, the Old Ways are re-emerging. |