By: Kaia Roman / Source: Mind Body Green

The Huichol people of Mexico are an indigenous tribe living in the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico. They’re also the last North American tribe to maintain their pre-Columbian traditions.

The Huichol continue to live as their ancestors did for thousands of years, in small huts among closely-knit farming villages, relying on their natural surroundings for the majority of their needs.

To this day there are no roads that lead to the Huichol tribe, and the only way to reach them is on foot and by canoe.

American Brant Secunda was only 18-years-old when he set out on foot to discover the tribe for himself after a vivid dream. He was taken in by Don Jose Matsuwa, a highly respected shaman and the man who had appeared in his dream.

He was adopted by Matsuwa as his grandson, and spent the next 12 years completing a shamanic apprenticeship with him. Secunda is the only American (aside from his son Nico) that has been trained by the Huichol in their traditional form of shamanism.

He has dedicated his life to Huichol shamanism ever since.

Though he splits his time between the Huichol and his home in Santa Cruz, Calif., he still works to help the tribe preserve their culture, land, language and customs.

I recently met with Secunda to find out more about the Huichol and to learn about the life of a shaman.

Secunda explained that shamanism is also a way to connect with nature and all of creation, and this power can be harnessed for healing and longevity.

The word shaman comes from the Tungus tribe in Siberia and anthropologists began using the word shamanism to refer to the spiritual practices of indigenous cultures worldwide.

Shamanism may be a widely-known ancient healing tradition, but Secunda will attest that there is so much more to it than that. It is a way of life.

The Huichol are known as a nation of shamans. Much of the population practices shamanism for everyday healing and balancing of the forces of nature around them.

Their lives are deeply rooted in ceremony and tradition. The Huichol are quite physically active, living well past the age of 100. They farm, carry large loads and take long pilgrimages involving several days of mountain trekking.

So I asked Secunda, “What is their secret to longevity?”

Of all the valuable lessons Secunda learned from the Huichol, here are three that we can apply to our lives in the modern world, helping us to live longer and with greater vitality:

1. Huichol Humor: Laughter is truly the best medicine.

In Huichol culture, humor is highly encouraged. Secunda tells me that life in a Huichol village is rich with of practical jokes and full belly laughs from sunrise to sundown.

Beyond the fun and frivolity of laughter, the Huichol believe that laughter keeps the spirit healthy.

The Huichol believe that life should not be taken too seriously and if it is, then health could deteriorate. This belief is backed by science as well.

Researchers at the University of Oxford found that laugher releases feel-good endorphins and significantly increases the pain threshold. Endorphins are also known to relieve stress.

“Perhaps that’s why Huichol shamans are some of the funniest comedians I know,” Secunda said.

2. Fountain of Youth: The secret elixir is nature.

The Huichol spend the majority of their time outdoors — whether it’s farming, walking to sacred sites on pilgrimage, gathering for village ceremonies, or even cooking and eating meals.

The Huichol believe that nature not only surrounds them, but is also part of them. They spend much of their lives caring for their surroundings, both physically and spiritually.

They start each day at sunrise by giving thanks and asking Father Sky for blessings on their village. Throughout the day they practice taking in the healing energy of Mother Earth through their feet as they walk.

At sunset, they ask the Deer Spirit to bring them positive messages in the form of signs in nature.

They sing and dance for rain, pray for a bountiful harvest, and make yearly pilgrimages to powerful places in nature to give offerings and show their gratitude.

It makes sense that all of this time outdoors is good for their health. Studies have consistently shown that exposure to plants and outdoor environments raises white blood cell levels, boosts immunity, and lowers cortisol, which is related to stress.

3. Higher Consciousness: The power of sleep and dreams.

The Huichols believe that we live two lives, one in our waking state and the other in our dreaming state. Both are of great importance in their culture.

Dreams are considered to be a reflection of one’s well-being, and bad dreams are treated as an illness in the same way that headaches or stomachaches would be.

Of all the valuable lessons Secunda learned from the Huichol, here are three that we can apply to our lives in the modern world, helping us to live longer and with greater vitality:

1. Huichol Humor: Laughter is truly the best medicine.

In Huichol culture, humor is highly encouraged. Secunda tells me that life in a Huichol village is rich with of practical jokes and full belly laughs from sunrise to sundown.

Beyond the fun and frivolity of laughter, the Huichol believe that laughter keeps the spirit healthy.

The Huichol believe that life should not be taken too seriously and if it is, then health could deteriorate. This belief is backed by science as well.

Researchers at the University of Oxford found that laugher releases feel-good endorphins and significantly increases the pain threshold. Endorphins are also known to relieve stress.

“Perhaps that’s why Huichol shamans are some of the funniest comedians I know,” Secunda said.

2. Fountain of Youth: The secret elixir is nature.

The Huichol spend the majority of their time outdoors — whether it’s farming, walking to sacred sites on pilgrimage, gathering for village ceremonies, or even cooking and eating meals.

The Huichol believe that nature not only surrounds them, but is also part of them. They spend much of their lives caring for their surroundings, both physically and spiritually.

They start each day at sunrise by giving thanks and asking Father Sky for blessings on their village. Throughout the day they practice taking in the healing energy of Mother Earth through their feet as they walk.

At sunset, they ask the Deer Spirit to bring them positive messages in the form of signs in nature.

They sing and dance for rain, pray for a bountiful harvest, and make yearly pilgrimages to powerful places in nature to give offerings and show their gratitude.

It makes sense that all of this time outdoors is good for their health. Studies have consistently shown that exposure to plants and outdoor environments raises white blood cell levels, boosts immunity, and lowers cortisol, which is related to stress.

3. Higher Consciousness: The power of sleep and dreams.

The Huichols believe that we live two lives, one in our waking state and the other in our dreaming state. Both are of great importance in their culture.

Dreams are considered to be a reflection of one’s well-being, and bad dreams are treated as an illness in the same way that headaches or stomachaches would be.

By: Michelle Walling, CHLC / Source: in5d

What would our world be like today of these top 10 spiritual truths were taught in our schools, in the mainstream media, and in our history books?

How can we change the system to introduce these topics to our future generations? What will the world be like after successfully recognizing these spiritual truths?

1. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Before we came down into this physical body, we planned out the point in time that we would begin to awaken to who and what we are.

The womb of our mother was the tunnel of forgetting, and we knew the challenge of remembering would be tough. The biggest risk we took was never remembering.

We were never disconnected from our source of light, however the connection was stretched very long and thin to reach this part of the universe in density.

Our challenge is to strengthen this connection and to grow our pillar of light in remembrance and recognition of who we truly are.

2. Our souls never die– we just change our focus. As a spark of light from Source, we are infinitely connected to the flow of experience. When it is time to disconnect the cord of life from our physical body, our spark rises up and out of the human physical body.

We take the experience of our lifetime with us, but our focus is changed to a slightly different level of vibration. We still exist as the person we were in human form as well as the many people we have been before.

Every lifetime builds experience and wisdom.

3. Everything is energy vibrating at a certain frequency. All living things on earth have consciousness, even rocks and trees. Every-thing and every-one is connected to a “tree of life” or an infinite energy source.

We can connect to the consciousness of trees and rocks and can carry on conversations with them by tuning in to their particular vibrational frequency.

Our bodies are 90% water and can be programmed and molded to a certain vibrational frequency via thoughts, sound, color, and love.

When we understand vibration, we can understand how alternative and holistic treatments can cure any disease or ailment in the body by changing the water vibration.

4. Our thoughts create our reality. All thoughts are energy which manifest into what we see as reality. Always being aware of your thoughts is one of the first steps in responsible co-creation of your reality.

It is a simple concept but takes awareness and work. If every person on earth changed their thoughts towards peace and freedom there would be no war or tyranny.

Focusing on negative thoughts will create a lower vibrational frequency and focusing on positive thoughts can raise the vibrational frequency. Our reality is a manifestation of what we create through thought patterns.

5. We are the ones we have been waiting for. There are many races and dimensions of beings on the planet at this time. Cherubim angels, Seraphim angels, Archangels, Pleiadians, Orions, Sirians, Arcturians, Anunnaki..…just to name a few.

We volunteered to be here at this time, answering the call from the consciousness of Planet Earth as she cried out for help. We came here from other galaxies, universes, and cosmoses.

Many came here each time there was a chance to achieve a “golden age” after the “fall”. Although those times were not completely successful, they were all preparation for this time.

6. Most of us incarnated here before– many times, in order to prepare for this current lifetime. There are souls who are here to be wayshowers and leaders and there are souls here who just wanted to be here to witness the raising of vibration of the human race in concert with the planet, which will affect the solar system, the universe, the cosmos, and beyond.

For those who lead by example, our schooling never stops. We had many “classes” to take in order to prepare to master ourselves in this incarnation.

The scope of the effect this event will have on all of creation is one of the biggest secrets of all. Some say that the incarnation cycle has ended and this lifetime is the opportunity to release ourselves from the wheel of karma, or the need to balance our actions.

7. We are never alone. We could not exist here without help from our spirit guides and angels, or high vibrational beings of light who made agreements with us to help steer us on the path toward the goal of ascension.

They exist in another vibrational level or dimension higher than ours- thus most of us cannot see them. They are always with us and are waiting patiently for us to ask for help, as we live on a free will planet.

They abide by laws of interference because of our free will, but if we ask with our highest and best interest they do have creative ways of manifesting what you ask for. Most guidance comes from within- through a process of telepathy where you get an idea in your head. Messages can also come from other people- those who can tap into that vibrational level in order to hear what they have to say.

8. Time is an illusion. We have a past and we have already been to the future. The majority of our energy particles (our souls) exist in a place of “no time”. Time is created in order to experience and is part of the controlled experiment. Meditation or “going within” is the key to returning to the place of “no time” where all the answers lie.

9. Ascension does not involve going anywhere. It is a state of being, a focus of awareness and consciousness into a higher vibrational frequency.

It is what we were created for- to “go forth and experience”, and return the experiences back to Source in an infinite loop of co-creation and mastery.

The main reward of incarnating in the depths of “hell” at this time is rising like the phoenix from the ashes into the bliss and light of love. This is achieved by being love itself.

10. Love is all there is. Finding and reconnecting to love again is the most important thing we can do as humans. Source is unconditional love, and we are sparks of source- which means we are also love.

Therefore we are that we seek. Loving ourselves unconditionally is the key to returning to source.

Change starts with each individual person recognizing these truths. We are not responsible for trying to convince others of our own truth, but instead all we have to do is to “be” truth and the rest will follow.

How do we do this? Be the example by speaking your truth, and watch the world change before your eyes.

By becoming responsible for ourselves, our thoughts, and our actions, we will have made one great leap toward the future of our children and the future of humanity as spiritual beings on a human journey.

We have the greatest opportunity ever in the history of the earth to be the best version of a human being we can be. It is simply up to us as to how glorious we create the future of humanity existing on the spaceship we call Earth.

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By: Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa / Source: Spirit Voyage

(Editor’s Note: The following was written for Ad Purkh Kaur on the 17th day after the passing of her husband Hari Simran Singh.)

Sat nam Ad Purkh Kaur,

Today I also noticed that it was the 17th day since Hari Simran Singh’s soul began the next part of its journey. Since you asked, I am grateful to share some thoughts from Yogi Bhajan’s teachings about this process.

Death happens when the breath stops. The physical body no longer has any power to move or to grow, and it begins to decay. The subtle consciousness of the soul begins to separate from the physical body.

But for the first 3-4 days, the consciousness can “hang out” around the body. It may have some kind of attachment still – to the body and to the life.

What Yogi Bhajan calls “privileged souls” have a chance to travel around and say good-bye to those they love, or to visit places that are sacred to them before they leave the earth plane.

In either event, the subtle consciousness maintains a connection to the physical body in those first few days. This is why, in the Sikh tradition, we cremate the body and chant Akal.

To help the soul let go of its attachment to the physical life it had and to be willing to move on.

The next part of the 17 days, the soul has to cross the electromagnetic field of the earth and begin its journey into the realm of the Blue Ethers.

There are four levels of the blue ethers before one experiences absolute and perfect Union with the Divine. Those who have a spiritual teacher or guide get help at this point.

The first blue ether is where the assessment takes place. What were you sent for? How did you do? We all judge ourselves instantly at the time of death. The first blue ether allows a soul a chance to really sit and re-evaluate.

In fact, if there are lessons that did not get finished during life, the soul has a chance, during the 17 days, to complete those lessons under his or her spiritual guide.

This completion of the lessons takes place either in the first or second blue ether, depending on the ripeness of the soul. In the first blue ether, the soul can purify itself.

In the second blue ether, it can continue to get deeper learning. If the soul graduates to the second blue ether, it also has a chance to become a guide for other souls. It can reach out from that place and help others.

The third blue ether is the most refined ether that the human being can access while alive. Deep meditation can open us up to the third blue ether.

The third blue ether is the realm of the master and the angel. So while alive, people who develop the consciousness of a master or an angel (and Hari Simran Singh definitely had the radiance of an angel) have penetrated through to the third blue ether with their meditative mind.

In the process of death, such a soul could navigate those first two ethers fairly easily during the 17 days, and may end up at the third blue ether if it has truly completed all its lessons.

The third blue ether is the realm of the realized, enlightened soul. A soul who can reach out and touch other souls to guide them in the past, present or future.

A soul that graduates to the third blue ether has a choice to make. That soul can decide to reincarnate again – for the purpose of serving humanity.

Or it can chose to go onto the fourth blue ether and just be Pure Radiance. But such a soul will never reincarnate on earth again once it enters the fourth blue ether.

The fourth blue ether is reserved for those incredible amazing Lights that guide humanity with their pure radiance. Like Guru Nanak. Like Christ. Like Buddha. Like Yogi Bhajan.

These souls will never take form again. But their consciousness is so clear and so realized, that they radiate from the fourth blue ether across the centuries giving guidance, hope and love to humanity.

After the fourth blue ether, there is just Pure Union. No separation. Absolute Oneness. And that is the end of the soul’s journey across time and space.

During the 17 days – the process is:

1. Can the soul detach from the body within the first few days? Can it penetrate through the electro-magnetic field of the earth and begin to experience the blue ethers? The chanting we do and the chanting the soul does helps it through this initial process.

2. Does the soul have a guide to help on the journey through the blue ethers?

3. Are there lessons that the soul did not finish in life that it can finish during the 17 days under the guidance of its spiritual teacher in the blue ethers?

4. What blue ether does the soul eventually come to rest in? The first blue ether – they are already deciding their next incarnation based on their debts and the lessons they still have to learn.

5. The second blue ether – they are learning deep lessons, they are guiding others, and they will come back when the time is right.

6. The third blue ether – they are realized beings and simply there to support and guide others. They are deciding whether to come back to guide others in the form of a human, or go on to the fourth blue ether and just guide as Light, Love and Presence.

7. The fourth blue ether – they are sooooo realized they never have to take form again. Their Light is so huge – it will create guidance for souls across a vast range of time.

8. Merged.

This is my best understanding today of this process. Here are some quotes and notes I have in my files on death and the Blue Ethers from the Siri Singh Sahib.

If you want to energetically understand the blue ethers, you can specially meditate on the 34-37th Paurees of Japji Sahib, which are Guru Nanak’s descriptions of these realms.

Death and the Blue Ethers

From the teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan

“When your mind will be dead, it won’t think or imagine. The mind will go to the Universal Mind. The physical body – all the five tattvas –go to the five tattvas.

The auric body will go to the light. The pranic body will go to the prana. But the subtle body will carry the soul and shall process to the blue ethers. It is a conscious act.” April 2, 1981.

“It takes many thousands and hundreds of thousand of years, trillions of years, for this soul to come out of the third layer of the blue ether. It is not a small thing.

A spot of earth waits millions of years that one day, a man of God will put his foot on it. It takes thousands of years fora mountain to get the wind to work and create a little cave where a man of God will take shelter for a minute. It’s a whole planning.” – July 11, 1975.

“What kind of body a man shall have, what kind of destiny and fate shall challenge it – is all performed at the stage called the third blue ether.” July 9, 1990.

Some things about the blue ethers from the teachings of Yogi Bhajan:

1. The soul begins its journey from the third blue ether.

2. In meditation, we can journey to the third blue ether.

3. The first blue ether is to purify. “The receptivity of the cleansing of the soul to get ready to go back.” (3/22/82) “Where the soul goes for purification.” (7/9/90.)

4. The second blue ether is to get guidance or to guide. “The receptivity of the cleansing to be there and to supervise all other promising souls.” (3/22/83) “Rest and get ready and the account is settled.”(7/9/90)

5. The third blue ether is to become a realized being. “The light of the soul which has to vibrate to relate to all souls, future of that past and that of now, to be liberated.” (3/22/83) “Where transmission to project out or project in is decided.” (7/9/90)

6. The fourth blue ether is to become a super guide from the most Infinite, radiant aspect of consciousness – and it is not on the earth. “The lighted self.” (3/22/83). “It’s the fourth ether from where the soul never returns.” (7/9/90)

7. The fifth stage is Union. “God, Itself.”(3/22/83).

This is my best understanding of these teachings today. I hope this gives you some comfort. Sending you much Divine Love. Ek Ong Kaar Kaur