The last thing I expected to see on a late October afternoon hiking in a remote canyon of the Four Corners area in northwestern New Mexico was a Native American wisdom keeper walking toward me on the same trail. Yet there he was, standing at the top of the small incline that separated us as our paths converged that day. I’m not sure how long he’d been there. By the time I saw him, he was just waiting, watching me as I stepped carefully among the loose stones on the path. The low sun created a glow that cast a deep shadow across the man’s body. As I held my hand up to block the light from my eyes, I could seea few locks of shoulder-length hair blowing across his face.
He seemed as surprised to see me as I was to see him.The wind carried the sound of his voice toward me as he cupped his hands on either side of his mouth.
“Hello!” he shouted.
“Hello,” I called back. “I didn’t expect to see anyone here this time of day.” Stepping a little closer, I asked, “How long have you been watching me?”
“Not long,” he replied. “I come here to listen to the voices of my ancestors in those caves,” he said, as one arm pointed toward the other side of the canyon.
The path we were following wound through a series of archaeological sites built nearly 11 centuries before by a mysterious clan of people. No one knows where they came from or who they were.
With no evidence of their skills evolving over time, the people that modern natives simply call “the ancient ones” showed up one day in history and brought with them the most advanced technology that would be seen in North America for another thousand years.
From the four-story-tall buildings and perfect stone kivas (round ceremonial structures) buried in the ground to the vast irrigation systems and the sophisticated crops that sustained the people, this place seems to have just appeared one day. And then those who built it were suddenly gone.
They just vanished.
The ancient ones left precious few clues to tell us who they were. With the exception of the rock art on the canyon walls, no written records have ever been found. There are no sites of mass burials or cremations, or weapons of war.
Yet the evidence of their existence is there: hundreds of ancient dwellings in an 11-mile-long, 1-mile-wide canyon in the remote corner of a desolate canyon in northwestern New Mexico.
I’ve gone to this place often to walk, immerse myself in the strange beauty of the open desolation, and feel the past. On that late October afternoon, both the wisdom keeper and I had come to the high desert on the same day for the same reason. As we exchanged our beliefs about the secrets still held there, my new friend shared a story.
“A long time ago, our world was very different from the way we see it today,” the wisdom keeper began.
“There were fewer people, and we lived closer to the land. People knew the language of the rain, the crops, and the Great Creator. They even knew how to speak to the stars and the sky people.
“They were aware that life is sacred and comes from the marriage between Mother Earth and Father Sky. In this time, there was balance and people were happy.”
Remembering The Gifts From Our Ancestors
I felt something very ancient well up inside of me as I heard the man’s peaceful voice echo against the sandstone cliffs that surrounded us. Suddenly, his voice changed to a tone of sadness.
“Then something happened,” he said. “No one really knows why, but people started to forget who they were. In their forgetting, they began to feel separate—separate from the earth, from each other, and even from the one who created them. They were lost and wandered through life with no direction or connection.
In their separation, they believed that they had to fight to survive in this world and defend themselves against the same forces that gave them the life they had learned to live in harmony with and trust. Soon all of their energy was used to protect themselves from the world around them, instead of making peace with the world within them.”
Immediately, the man’s story resonated with me. As I listened to what he was telling me, it sounded as if he were describing human beings today! With the few exceptions of isolated cultures and remote pockets of tradition that remain, our civilization certainly places its focus more on the world around us and less on the world within us.
We spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year defending ourselves from disease and trying to control nature. In doing so, we have perhaps strayed further from our balance with the natural world than ever before. The wisdom keeper had my attention—now the question was, where was he going with his story?
From the four-story-tall buildings and perfect stone kivas (round ceremonial structures) buried in the ground to the vast irrigation systems and the sophisticated crops that sustained the people, this place seems to have just appeared one day. And then those who built it were suddenly gone—they just vanished.
“Even though they had forgotten who they were, somewhere inside of them the gift of their ancestors remained,” he continued. “There was still a memory that lived within them. In their dreams at night they knew that they held the power to heal their bodies, bring rain when they needed to, and speak with their ancestors. They knew that somehow they could find their place in the natural world once again.
“As they tried to remember who they were, they began to build the things outside of their bodies that reminded them of who they were on the inside. As time went on, they even built machines to do their healing, made chemicals to grow their crops, and stretched wires to communicate over long distances. The farther they wandered from their inner power, the more cluttered their outer lives became with the things that they believed would make them happy.”
Parallels In Civilizations
As I listened, I saw the unmistakable parallels between the people I was hearing about and our civilization today. Our civilization has become steeped in feelings of being powerless to help ourselves or make a better world. So often we feel helpless as we watch our loved ones slip away from us into the clutches of pain and addictions.
We think that we’re powerless to ease the suffering from the horrible diseases that no living thing should ever have to endure. We can only hope for the peace that will bring those we care about safely from the terror of foreign battlefields. And together, we feel insignificant in the presence of a growing nuclear threat as the world aligns itself along the divisions of religious beliefs, bloodlines, and borders.
It seems that the farther we stray from our natural relationship with the earth, our bodies, one another, and God, the emptier we become. In our emptiness, we strive to fill our inner void with “things.”
When we look at the world from this perspective, I cannot help but think of a similar dilemma portrayed in the science-fiction movie Contact. The President’s science advisor (played by Matthew McConaughey) explores the fundamental question that faces every technological society. During a television interview, he asks if we are a better society because of our technology—has it brought us closer together or made us feel more separate?
The question is never really answered in the movie, and the topic could fill an entire book unto itself. However, the point that the advisor is making—when he asks how much of our power we give away to our diversions—is a good one. When we feel that video games, movies, virtual online relationships, and voiceless communication are necessities and they become substitutes for real life and face-to-face contact, this may be signs of a society in trouble.
While electronics and entertainment media certainly seem to make life more interesting, they could also be red flags telling us how far we’ve strayed from our power to live rich, healthy, and meaningful lives.
Additionally, when the focus of our lives becomes how to avoid disease rather than how to live in a healthy way, how to stay out of war rather than how to cooperate in peace, and how to create new weapons rather than how to live in a world where armed conflict has become obsolete, clearly the path we’re on has become one of survival.
In such a mode, no one is truly happy—nobody really “wins.”
When we find ourselves living this way, the obvious thing to do would be to look for another route. And that’s precisely what the divine matrix is about and why I’m sharing this story.
“How does the story end?” I asked the wisdom keeper. “Did the people ever find their power and remember who they were?”
By this time, the sun had disappeared behind the canyon walls, and for the first time I could actually see who I was talking to. The sun-darkened man standing in front of me smiled broadly upon hearing my question. He was quiet for just a moment, and then he whispered, “No one knows because the story isn’t finished. The people who got lost are our ancestors, and we are the ones who are writing the ending. What do you think . . . ?”
Excerpted from The Divine Matrix pages 4 to 8 by Gregg Braden. Copyright © 2007 (Hay House).
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61 responses to “A Message from a Native American Wisdom Keeper”
Thank you for sharing with us. You are greatly appreciated!
You are a great teacher to us as Twin Flames. We appreciate you so much! Also have you sponsored on our site. Mahalo!
Goosebumps.
Thank you
thanks Greg <3
A big thank you for sharing your story, experience and wisdom of the meeting of souls in this ancient realm. I have always thought this world in which we live is an experiment. An opportunity to evolve as a soul through having a human experience. Underneath all of that I have always felt part there of this experiment was in essence to help us in remembering or regain something from our ancient past that perhaps we had forgotten that was essential to our fundamental existence.
So a big thank you again Gregg for sharing because this so resonates with me. I look forward to reading your book to shed further light on something that feels deeply encoded into spiritual DNA.
Thank you for your thoughts.
I am writing this with all due respect – I absolutely adore you.
Very beautiful, struck a chord. Ironically if I hadn’t been using technology I would not have read this. Much food for thought.
The “ether field” is just love: a spectrum of energy of which everything is created. We honor it in different ways.
Dear Gregg…I was wondering if you feel that it is appropriate to use the Divine Name CD while under anesthesia for open heart surgery.
I am creating a CD for what appears to be an eminent open heart surgery. .I recently found out that I have a congenital heart condition that has lead to an extremely stenotic aortic valve. The long and short of it is, according to the allopaths, that I will need an aortic valve replacement. They can not believe that I can stand up from sitting with out fainting….and yet I can dance for 2 hours, work in my natuopathic, homeopathic practice, prepare food for my beloved and self etc. with no symptoms. I am focused on a number of healing modalities including recall, family constellations, homeopathy, naturopathy nutrition, living as if etc. If it is not my time for a miracle in this way…I am open to a surgical miracle. I am a naturopath and homeopath practicing for 40 years…
My beloved is an alternative medical doctor. He has used the divine name CD….they could not play it in his practice because no one could get any work done….He just wanted to make sure that it was appropriate for this application. I will be anesthetized for somewhere between 6 to 8 hours. In addition….if there is another CD that you think would be particularly beneficial… I would appreciate your recommendations.
May you and your loved ones continue to be blessed with radiant health, abiding peace, joy and happiness…..Meridian Grace ND
I’m not certain if you will read this personally, however, through Hospice training on the Big Island of Hawaii
Wonderful story thanks for sharing!
Oh darlin I just found you and I am going to absorb like a sponge all you have to offer…I have a feeling I am in for an incredible journey following you..thanks ❤️❤️
I’ve just finished your book on spontaneous healing and I loved it. I sent it to a friend who is an inmate, and wrongly convicted. The Innocence Project has taken his case, but he’s remained locked up now for 10 years…unjustly. Why? I assume there is something he is supposed to be learning from this but I can’t figure out exactly what? I also have questions about why our belief system is so fear oriented. How did that happen, and why? How long will it take us collectively to fix this? I’m thinking maybe there is group karma. I don’t understand things like the Holocaust, for example, or why babies are born deformed. I DO believe we have a big part in creating our reality, but it seems to me that their are also outside influences, that fate plays a role too. I’d like feedback 🙂 Thanks
Ogni campo di energia contiene un campo di consapevolezza che, in funzione dello stato evolutivo di ciascuno, varia sulla scala dell’essere per frequenza vibratoria: dallo stato di dolore e sopravvivenza di una coscienza vittimistica e separata, allo stato di Gioia e Libertà di una Coscienza Universale. Come le stelle si differenziano per luminosità, il livello e l’intensità di ciascun Campo di Luce costituisce il suo Stato d’Essere. In sostanza: ciascuno E’ la Luce che emana o E’ la Luce che non emana. Il mondo è creato in ogni istante dalla concezione coscienziale che ciascuno ha di se stesso e del mondo. E’ immagine impermanente. E’ l’ombra riflessa dell’attuale Stato d’Essere dell’umanità. Eppure nessuno può amare gli altri o il mondo nemmeno volendo perché, in Realtà, esiste solo l’Uno. Pertanto ciascuno non può amare e perdonare niente e nessuno la fuori ma, attraverso il mondo, può amare e perdonare se stesso, il suo dolore e la propria sofferenza. Così, attraverso la molteplicità delle scelte individuali, tra le dinamiche delle Leggi Universali, lungo il vortice dello spazio e del tempo, tra le vite e le morti, l’Uno si specchia con il tutto, il Reale con l’illusione e il Cerchio si chiude: Essere o Non Essere.
Non sono i sogni ad essere troppo piccoli o grandi ma la paura con cui vengono dimenticati o il coraggio da titani con cui vengono abbracciati ogni giorno. Non c’è maggior onore e gratitudine per un Sognatore, un Creatore, un Sovrano, un Folle, un Amante, un Guerriero o qualunque altra espressione consapevole dell’Amore, del riuscire a rendere VIVI coloro che sono morti. Non è mai stato quello che hai scritto, ma quello che non hai scritto a dire di più caro amico antico..
Per questo, nobile Gregg, fin dal primo istante che ti ho osservato, al di là di ogni verità, ho visto i colori del bambino, l’integrità dell’uomo e il fuoco di uno spirito che vibrano in coerenza con il Suono senza tempo e in risonanza con l’Ottava dell’Amore. E in silenzio ti ho amato e custodito nel Sole che Ora si fa Tuono. E’ Tempo di manifestare, con un suono mai udito, il Finale più straordinario che si sia mai concepito!
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I recently found out that I’m NOT an agnostic because agnostics doubt there’s life after death while I’m certain there is.Otherwise,my spiritual beliefs are Native American Indian plus many [but not all] of Anton La Vey’s beliefs.By the way,not only is this evil thug god Jehovah’s trying to murder my mom just to kill me,but that COWARD’s trying to keep this comment from even being printed!
Beautiful! Sadness and an endless need wells in me with the desire to find my roots, my truth. Thank you!
Thank you
Awesome! Thanks Gregg! Blessings Beloved.
So true. I see walking zombies… People are forgetting who they are. How do you wake others up?? I only know how by role modeling. If there is another way, without preaching or offending another, please let me know.
Thank you for sharing…
Minds are joined…
Hold love in our hearts…
That’s a place to start….
We have a lot to learn, and we are racing around avoiding what we need to learn. The ancient Native Americans were so spiritual and had a respect for life and the land. We should have learned from them…..
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep!”
– Rumi
Something we all should be doing everyday…..look within to heal the outside
Midge echo the connection with Mother Earth is very strong
Personally,my spiritual beliefs include mainly Native American plus LaVeyan Satanism
,and Tibetan Buhddism.I want nothing to do with any religioun or belief that depends on some external god deciding whether or not to grant your payer,I ALONE want FULL control of my own life!
What I think is dat I know these people, I study their writings daily almost, I see their faces and I photograph their faces; if you knew you’d think they were not of this world, maybe they weren’t…though their DNA was. They are our Ancestors’ they are us they are a primitive newly developing still evolving into humans species of man perhaps millions of years old. They looked very different then us they look very similar to us they walked like us not on ten toes like us they flew through the world just as their counter parts pteridactyls’ did; they were not human they were our Ancestors of some of a few and of many…
Is it possible to manifest a life totally free of all tragedies so all my loved ones live to whatever ripe old age they’re genetically capable of reaching?
Thank you, you have woken something inside me. I’m now felling my direction. My heart an mind have been trying to bring focus I’ve been feeling the changes
In our Hindu epic story Ramayana, HANUMANJI proved his devotion by tearing open his chest and showing the image of RAM AND SITA whom he worshipped.He was able to lift mountains and fly over the ocean.
peace
I thought the story was familiar! The Divine Matrix, great book. Thank you for sharing!
I love and own all your books
Amazing piece of work!
Thank you for living in our time and being who you are Greg.
I always encourage folks to love peace and let go of hating war. Hard to see past anything when you dislike or predominately dont prefer stuff. Its all about focusing onwhat we prefer!!
Profound
Yes, goosebumps. Thanks Greg.
Thank you
Thank you, dear friend! I know you are doing well. Much love and hugs, Merina
I love your work! Thank you!
Thank you,that is beautiful,and so true. Reading this made my heart sing.
Love this!
The Native Americans were in contact with benign ET races, who came and exchanged their knowledge and wisdom. There are also records of ancient ET’s among the Essenes of Jesus’ time. Our lives are far more mysterious than we know – because today many minds only believe in the material reality. I love Gregg Braden’s books. They open a new perpective.
Thank you Gregg~You wisdom and understanding of ancient truths has touched and inspired us all so much!
The ending is going to be sooooo sweet!
WOW
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BLAG DAR OM <3 <3 <3 I wish you to be our gest in OHRID MACEDONIA. <3 <3 <3
The ancestors would be proud of a great warrior as your self to share your message. Meegwetch
A wonderful story
As I read, I felt you were helping me remember what I have always known and felt. It was nothing new, just a reminder of what I should remember and hold as truth. Thank you! Blessings be upon you for bringing to the forefront of thought what I have known, dos easily forgotten in this day and age!!
Very true, it says in the Bible to respect your elders honor your mother and father with respect and listen with respect that is why they call him the wisdom keeper he has lived long enough to see and know and learn what is true and what is false my grandmother told me always stay in touch with my Heritage and spiritual side and that evil Wood Cross across crosses across lands,which is electricity on wooden telephone poles,technology’s!
Thank you for this excerpt and writing in a way that makes the reader feel present with you on the path, and part of the conversations.
I heard a mentor say, “If you draw near to me, I will draw near to you.” I do agree that we are writing our journey’s still, but ultimately, I believe God wants us to draw near to him so he can draw near to us.
I’ve read and studied all of your work Gregg. My conclusion is that if we come before God earnestly, humbly, while choosing gratitude and love, then we will find healing and restoration. Thank you for always seeking, always sharing and ALWAYS inspiring.
this is beautiful Gregg. Jesus said if your eye be single, then your whole world is full of light. it is possible then to live in a world of your own without any war, poverty, sickness and pain, as long as we keep our minds single on truth.
wionderful truth thank you
Very good–I’ve heard Greg speak in person and in video–he finds connections through science . . .
Thankyou so much for sharing your wisdom – greatly appreciated
How would Gregg design a prayer for the recent terrorist attacks in Dacca and Baghdad?
Thank you.
Monica
Thank you I am an American Native and really love what you are sharing. We need the news to be talking about peace and love and miracles the world would change in one day.