Yes, Zoo...I completely understand. When you speak of these things, there is no ego in it. I honestly believe that if you go back far enough in any heritage, there is a background of such things. It has only been less time for natives. Sadly, because so much of it is part of our spiritual practices (religions, you could say) things are carefully guarded. Did you know that until 1978, with the passage of the Indian Freedom of Religion Act, it was illegal for us to practice our own traditional spiritual practices? Just attending ceremonies could cause you to be jailed placed in a mental institution?

There is another aspect of this whole thing that I haven't talked about. In our way, it is often that people get very jealous of people who have certain gifts. There are those who practice ways that are--for lack of any better word--evil. Some of them know the old ways well enough to send harmful things in your direction. It's called "throwing bad medicine". I have had people I didn't even know come up and tell me that someone tried to do that to me, but was unable to harm me directly, so they threw it into my family--as a way to hurt me.
I have had a sense of that for some time know, and I believe what was said. In a way, the crisis that my family has gone through surely felt like a spiritual battle.

You probably haven't read any of my early threads. I knew my mate was having an A because I had a series of dreams over 2 week's time. Wolfie's ancestor (who he inherited his Indian name from) came to me and took me down a path to a river. Wolfie was standing on the banks of the river with his back to us. The old man would point to Wolfie and had a very dissapproving look on his face. Each dream gave a little more detail. One night the old man showed me Wolfie on the bank, talking to a woman--she also had her back to us.

At that point, I told Wolfie that I was dreaming of his g-g-grand trying to show me something that Wolfie was hiding from me. I asked him what was going on and if there was something he should tell me. Wolfie said "no" and covered very well, but I saw fear pass through his eyes for a fraction of a second. The dream that night told me the rest of the story. I woke up, woke Wolfie up, and asked, "are you having an A?". He tells me no, and kindof snorts in disgust that I would even ask. I tell him that makes me confused because his g-g-grandfather showed me that he was and busted him. Wolfie again says no.

Then I went looking, and knew everything I needed to know within hours. If Wolfie ever had any doubts about me "knowing things", he doesn't anymore. To be honest with you, I knew what the end result would be. I never doubted that he would want to come home. I just worried that by the time he got around to figuring it all out, I would have lost all patience and ended things myself.

I don't know why I started this subject in the first place, really. Except for maybe those dreams started close to this time last year.

The most recent dream I had that felt "like that" was dreaming a few nights ago that I was watching and overhearing a conversation between Wolfie and XOW. I think that the conversation actually happened and what I heard was really said. It wasn't anything too worrisome, though.

Anyway, it sounds like there are alot of people in this group with a lot of power. Could be some interesting happenings if we all got together, although I do believe that some of the things we are speaking of travel easily through anything electric/electronic.