Lightning Medicine: Rare white buffalo calf named
In this June 27, 2011 photo, a rare white buffalo, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, is shown at the Lakota Buffalo Ranch near Greenville, Texas. The baby buffalo was born to Arby Little Soldier's herd on May 12. At least 5,000 people are expected to attend his official naming ceremony in Greenville on Wednesday. Photo: The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth / AP Arby Little Soldier, the great-great-grandson of Sitting Bull, rides past school children after a naming ceremony for a white buffalo in Greenville, Texas Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The rare buffalo, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, was born to the Texas herd last month and holds a special place in Native American culture. Photo: LM Otero / AP Matthew Branch, 9, of Grapevine, Texas, stands on a fence and looks at a rare white buffalo and it's herd after a Native American naming ceremony in Greenville, Texas Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The buffalo, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, was born to the Texas herd last month and holds a special place in Native American culture. Photo: LM Otero / AP Edwin Benson, a Mandan-Hidatsa Native American, of Twin Buttes, North Dakota, salutes as a plane flies over before a naming ceremony for a white buffalo in Greenville, Texas Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The buffalo, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, was born to the Texas herd last month and holds a special place in Native American culture. Photo: LM Otero / AP Arby Little Soldier, right, and his son Tyler Little Soldier perform a ritual in a corral before a rare white buffalo and his herd was let in to roam about after a Native American naming ceremony in Greenville, Texas Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The rare white buffalo, named Lightning Medicine Cloud, was born to the Texas herd last month and holds a special place in Native American culture.Black Spiritual Month - News
Flag-flying patriotism, a steady Native American drum beat and scorching heat provided the backdrop for the spiritual event that drew about 2000. The calf was named Lightning Medicine Cloud — a reference to the thunderstorm that marked the arrival of
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The one-night performance at Café Culture is part of these artists' three-month tour which also includes the Mystic Garden Gathering of the Tribes in Southern Oregon, and Burning Man in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. "At the Café Culture concert,
In Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (Rutgers 2004), Krin Gabbard illustrates how the spiritual, emotional, and musical aspects of the black life force have been absorbed, appropriated, or exploited by white culture.
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Down to the River.
For those of you who follow Project Conversion regularly, you know what the Lumber River is and why I visit. The river is my holy ground, a sanctuary, my spiritual forge…
A black, winding, mirror.
I’m going to the river this morning to prepare for the last half of this year. This month, June, is not what I expected. I was not ready for its challenges. In fact, the whole month is a shadow of what the end of the year will look like. As with any adventure however, the hero often faces his first great test far before he is ready.
June is truly a void, the Fringe. I lost my spiritual compass and while I believe I navigated the churning waves fairly well, I know things are different.
I’m different.
Something happened yesterday which punctuated this reality.
My walking staff, a steady companion for nearly three years, snapped in half.
What are some attributes of a walking staff?
Help with balance Protection GuidancePerhaps yours bears additional meaning, and once mine cracked in half, the symbology of the act galvanized my feeling for the whole month. My temper returned this month, my impatience reared its ugly head…I felt the old me rising to the surface and I believe it’s because I was unexpectedly rudderless this month.
Each religion thus far provided what my now broken staff once did: Balance, protection, guidance. I am a spiritual rogue, but I’m not ready complete independence yet. There is so much to learn and master, so much ground to explore.
I need two things now in order to continue this journey:
A new staff To face myselfI will perform both of these tasks at the river. The black, still water is like a curved obsidian blade. Will I be able to face what I see? Will I find a worthy staff to bring me out of the dark swamp? I don’t know. What I do know is that I cannot leave the river until I complete the task (or until my wife bugs me to come home). I’m not going to discover enlightenment, the divine, or some great spiritual experience/truth. That doesn’t mean I reject these as possible useful phenomena. What it means is that I’m going for one simple reason: clarity.
The clarity of emptiness. Anything else is gravy.
I want to start July as if it were January. A clean slate. Pure and ready for inscription from the months ahead.
This is my Jesus in the desert, Siddhartha under the bodhi tree, Baha’u'llah in the Black Pit, the Hindu rishis in the wilderness, Zarathushtra in the wilderness. The rest of the year depends upon success at the dark waters.
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