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A strange thing or two has recently happened at the Dakota Pipeline assembly, firstly a massive herd of Buffalo came towards the picket line. From almost out of nowhere, just appeared over the hill.

And it gets more interesting....

An Eagle turned up and just sat on a fence right next to some people for an hour.

The Eagle allowed people to touch it, normally they would not get this close or be so docile.

So this must have been some sort of spiritual message, perhaps spirits coming back in the Buffalo and the Eagle to offer support?

I have experienced animal messengers before, most recently an Owl which I knew the meaning of.

The words of the Lakota Chief Crazy Horse said that the colours of all mankind will gather together. This is also a Hopi prophecy.

It is somewhat ironic that this is now happening at Standing Rock on the Lakota lands.

(People of the 4 colours of the medicine wheel – red, yellow, white and black people are joined together, doing something that politics often does the opposite of, divides.)

Not only have 500 tribes have come to support the Sioux peoples, but people of all standings have leant their support. A fantastic show of humanity.

The group Buffalo Springfield made famous a hit 'For what its worth' during the Vietnam war. The lyrics seem to be as relevant now as they ever were. Indeed, we are seeing a new age of people who can see through the snake oil and hogwash they have been sold for generations.

A Hopi prophecy

The events unfolding in the US election campaign are certainly proving 'interesting.'

What they are showing, as in the UK in the summer in the vote to leave the European Union, where the 'remain' side were scare mongering and predicting the sky would fall in type of nonsense if we left, was a false flag. The US situation is also showing the truth, which is being leaked like oil out of a fractured pipe.

So we decided to vote leave the union, rather like the situation in 1776 in the US. However, the sky is still in place and companies have not deserted the country in panic. We took no notice of the naysayers. Just as happened in 1776. The sky is still there.

That's the thing, people are slowly starting to wake up to being 'misled' to put it politely. They refuse to swallow the guff. People journalism means that although there is a news blackout at Standing Rock, ordinary people are journalising and publicising it. 

In a similar vein to the environmental consequences of the pipe at  Standing Rock, there has been in the UK a proposal to expand the London airport which will mean destroying two towns to do it and worse, more noise and pollution from increased flights.

This project has now been given the go ahead, despite much objection, including the grounds of all the extra emissions the extra flights will produce.

Meanwhile on the other hand, Transport for London is proposing an 'ultra low emission zone for road vehicles'. In the same area as the airport. Perhaps as some sort of token payback. How will better air quality be achieved when CO2 production in the area is greatly increased?

You could not make it up. A child can see through the logic.

On the one hand allowing untaxed aircraft to pollute massively, whilst fiddling about at the edges with road vehicles which are already taxed on engine CO2 output is farcical.

Oh and the airport is the LARGEST single polluter of CO2 in the UK.

I mean, the UK is only a small country, that would fit inside Texas 27 times and still have change for a Hamburger or two.

A case of paying for the privilege of polluting, not finding a less damaging solution seems to exist.

Unfortunately we have been conditioned into being a consumer society with reliance on the car and aircraft for travel.

I am not against progress, but do favour doing the least amount of damage we can whilst we seek alternatives that do less harm.

** Much interesting information on the Atlantis connection found and relating to the awakening that is coming.

It is a good measure of a person by how they treat animals they come into contact with.

I often stop and observe these interactions and this barometer of character helps me to form an opinion.

Here's a true story. I love cats and they seem to love me... (That's not me in the pic below)

A Lakota man came upon a stray cat, it moved into his workshop where he made craft items to sell.

So he allowed it to stay and fed it.

The cat slept in the workshop and kept an eye on the place, where he would usually be found in the workshop when the man came to work each morning.

One day the cat was sitting outside of the door, the man started to go in but the cat stayed there.

The man was taken aback and wondered why the cat did not move.

So the man opened the door fully and inside the workshop on the floor was a Rattlesnake.

The cat saved the man's life.

He was repaying the kindness shown. Those of us in tune will know this.

I have been doing some very interesting research on the Atlantis question, it is amazing how the tribes are connected to this and ancient human history.

There is more connected than many people realise.

More to follow soon....

I was looking for some art reference material recently and came across some amazing tattoo works.

Not something I go for but on the examples here the quality is almost photographic. Hope you like them!

I think these are quite amazing when you think of the limited tool of the tattoo gun, it has to be the skill of the artist.

As opposed to cloudy, with a chance of meatballs....

Still looking at Atlantis for you but this came up by chance or was it meant to have? I thought I should investigate. Investigation and coincidence, seem to be things that I can't shake off. Perhaps part of my purpose on this planet.

Elvis Presley at the Sun Studios in Memphis, 1954

Yes folks, Elvis Presley may have left the building in 1977, but he has a spooky connection to the Roswell UFO incident of 1947.

2017 marks the 70^th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash and also the 30^th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Elvis was 12 when Roswell happened.

So you're saying how are those related? In quite a few ways. But there's a twist and we'll put that out for you to look at a bit further down the page. A twist, yes and not in the Chubby Checker sense of the word.

So Elvis lived near to Memphis, of which there is also a place in Egypt called Memphis, where at a place called Abydos, there is an empty Sarcophagus for the Pharaoh Manesh, who died and was buried in Ireland, home of the Celtic people. So what was an ancient Pharaoh doing in Ireland? Well, Thoth, an early Egyptian Pharaoh was an Atlantean.

Ancient Extra Terrestrial found in one of the Pyramids

In one of the Pyramids, a mummified extra terrestrial was found in a burial chamber in recent years. The physical appearance of this creature was as some might ascribe to the Star People, that many Indians have encountered, as I have read in Ardy Sixkiller Clarke's book.

In Abydos, a Pyramid there contains the Abydos lintel panel, shown here, which has many futuristic images on it, although it is verified as being from about 5000BC.

The Abydos lintel panel from 5000 BC!

And strangely enough, the panel has no machining or carving marks, even today that would be very difficult to achieve, but back then they did not have the metallurgy to make the tools to do this work in the first place!

Elvis was 1/16^th Cherokee and we can go back a long way to a Hopi rock glyph of a UFO crash, so a bit of a connection in genetics. The Hopi were given clay tablets of wisdom, much in the way that the Sumerians were given thieir information by the Anunnaki. Nibiru, their home planet is due to make an appearance soon, so could it coincide with 2017 and the Roswell anniversary? I always knew Elvis was 'different'. Now I know why he had that star quality, he was partly one of the 'star people' from another era. Almost like some sort of modern messiah.

The Hopi glyph of a UFO crash, almost the same shape as the Roswell Craft of 1947

Artist rendering of the 1947 Roswell Craft, see the similarity to the Hopi one?

But it gets stranger.

In 1970, a fan gave Elvis Presley as a gift some pieces of materiel he claimed to have found at the Roswell crash site, before the military and police arrived on the scene. Mac Braesel was the rancher who found the original Roswell crash site and debris.

The Elvis artefact, a metal fragment

Braesel is also a name found in Ireland, home of the Celtic people who had strong links to Brazil. The Atlanteans are said to have set up a community in Brazil. Connection? Surely a coincidence that cannot be ignored?

The Atlanteans are said to have passed on certain psychic gifts to the American Indian peoples, plus some spiritual ideas like care of the planet, not harming animals etc.

Now back to Elvis and the gift of the artefact in 1970.

This was a piece of metal about the size of a paperback book, which framed a piece of glass. The metal immediately attracted Elvis to it. The metal seemed to give off a white glow. But it was the glass that was more interesting.

He said looking through it, the world looked more beautiful.

Elvis kept the metal pieces from which the 'glass' was extracted. He thought about having rings made from the metal pieces, but the metal seemed to have its own 'memory' and couldn't be worked with.

I have heard this about Roswell metal too, Jesse Marcel Jr said this about metal he had examined from the crash that his father showed him, it seemed to have 'memory'. Also that it could not be cut, burnt or worked.

Elvis had the glass put into a pair of sunglasses by his personal optician

When he looked through the glasses, he could see the past and the future, Paiute Indians and Buffalo on meadows and also Dinosaurs. He could also see the universe and billions of stars.

He also foresaw his own demise and threw the sunglasses away.

This is not the first time I have heard of this type of glass from out of our world having these sorts of future and past viewing properties.

In a roundabout way, all things are connected as we know.

Lets see if anything returns in July 2017.

In the grand scheme of things the title should be the other way around, Atlantis historically first, but I've got an article on Atlantis I've been researching on and looks to be revealing interesting connections.

I was recently in contact with the author on star people, Ardy Sixkiller Clarke regarding my UFO experiences over the years and was discussing how interconnected a lot of things are to the American Indian heritage, which may not seem to be so on the surface, only when you look at other older cultures do you find the connection.

So to our picture, of a group from England called The Shadows, who in 1960 had their instrumental hit 'Apache'. I was related to the bass guitarist and band founder Jet Harris through an English music hall star, he is on the right. (He lived next door to a late friend of mine who played the Trumpet in a local band I guest with, so that's another connection!)

One of my guitar heroes is Hank Marvin, he is holding the red guitar, second right in the photograph. He was actually born Brian Rankin but changed his name, taking the Marvin part from the full Cherokee singer of the 1950's, Marvin Rainwater.

A 1961 hit of the Shadows was a nice tune called 'Peace Pipe', one I have as a backing track and play along to. Hank later wrote a nice tune called 'Geronimo' which was recorded in 1964. The Shadows also recorded some Western themes such as 'Shane', Mustang and 'Giant' and the tracks 'The Big Country and High Sierra' featured on Hank's 1969 solo album.

The tune 'Apache' was written by an Australian, Jerry Lordan who in 1963 wrote another tune for the Shadows called 'Atlantis.' A bit of a coincidence here how all these unlinked factors have a common link, to that of the American Indian?

Back to the real Atlantis, a place stated as existing but which 'science' seems to deny. The reason is probably that science although it likes to seek life outside of our planet, denies that life could have come to our planet. It is a brave scientist that sticks their head above the parapet and discusses life, but not as we know it. We know it, it is the Elephant in the Tipi as they say.

From the Sumerian tablet information, we are told we were an 'intervention species', many of the Indian tribes already have been told this information from their own guides, such as that they were brought here to this planet in a craft that separated into seven pieces.

We know more about outer space than we do about our own oceans, as an aside. More than this, we have evidence of Pyramid like structures all over the world, some are under water now, but 'science' can't really explain why the same basic designs appear in such diverse places that were supposedly too far for ancient peoples to travel too?

The Abydos lintel from the Egyptian Pyramids, authenticated as thousands of years old, some surprisingly modern imagery!

Aside from the pyramid construction which modern humans would struggle with at best, why do we have ancient engravings and glyphs carved into very hard rock of depictions of modern astronauts and their craft? Science doesn't have a real answer for this.

Diverting for a brief moment, here's why we humans are unique.

The plain truth is that our second chromosomal pair is fused together, that does not occur on any other creature on the planet. Our 'closest' supposed relative the Chimpanzee is not that close to us, the Alligator is almost genetically as close in the same range as the primate, we look like neither. The 8% difference genetically we have to the Chimpanzee is so great that breeding is not possible. We are talking millions of cells difference here.

We did not come down from the trees and suddenly decide to start walking upright. We are a different animal, literally! Charles Darwin did not have the science that we do now to define the real story.

Back to the story....

The Atlantean people followed many if not all of the ways of the American Indian peoples, who are descended from them that migrated from the 'lost continent'.

The law of one, the meaning of the circle, community, interconnection of all things and respect for animals and life are just some of the directly relatable commonalities to the ancestors.

One other factor is that some of the Southern tribes such as the Cherokee, were given information by deities recorded onto Clay tablets, a medium that was not vulnerable as paper was to disintegrating or when wet, this form of data transmission was also given to the ancient Sumerian peoples by The Anunnaki, and also to the Hopi and the Dogon people of Egypt.

Interesting here that both the Dogon and Hopi have costumes that celebrate the Katsina figures or 'star visitors' and that the Dogon had star maps and information given to them that we have only been able to confirm as correct in the last 50 years, although they had this gift 10,000 years ago. Think of the distance from the Southern states of America to Egypt, thousands of miles, how could this be explained as mere coincidence?

The reason why the American Indian people have a prevalence to psychic abilities and connection to nature is that it is genetic, from the Atlantean times.

There is no 'scientific' explanation as to why the American Indian people have so much contact with star people than other races on the planet do. I think you would find it difficult to find people from the tribes who have not had some or any contact.

In a scientific world that thrives on data, how would science explain that?

Funny old world.

This picture of Water Protectors was posted by Indigenous on Twitter today:

The regalia worn by the horses is incredibly ornate and demonstrates great craftsmanship.  I wondered if there was a special name for these items but they are usually described simply as horse masks. However, there is great significance attached to them as the horses wearing them become Spirit Horses. 

I was intrigued and discovered this article from a couple of years ago with a photo gallery:   Indian Country Today

There is a lovely article and more beautiful horses here: http://www.erikalarsenphoto.com/collections/people-of-the-horse/

Some years ago, my late grandfather was a heraldic artist and I still have some of his reference books on the subject. I like to see how the designs were made, why some elements were placed in the way they were and what the symbols meant.

He often did work on ecclesiastical jobs such as boards they had outside churches and cathedrals which he used to signwrite.

I have been interested in the heraldic type of art but my interest has mainly been the designs of the US military insignia of WW2 both the sleeve insignia for uniforms and the air force squadron patches and the artwork painted on the aircraft, I used to paint my own versions of the old air force squadron patches and plane artwork for my own jackets and for friends of mine.

Years ago a friend of mine sold me an old Thunderbird Squadron patch which he had picked up in the US, it was a more 'native' style of design and I still have that one. I had also seen a Thunderbird symbol on a B17 Flying Fortress nose and I liked the visual style of that.

My thoughts recently was that the Thunderbird was such a powerful iconic image that it would make a good flag design for the American Indian people, for their own flag. It has turned up in crop circle designs too, so the reason for that maybe revealed in time to us.

So I thought about what we could do as an alternative to the 50 state flag and one that is simple and has impact?

Some of the current state flags have ornate detail and having been interested in what I have seen of the diverse designs of jewelry being made by the Navajo and Zuni people recently, there was often simple but effective iconography performed. If I was designing a flag, simple works best.

I have worked in brand identity and design in my work in the last 20 years, so what could I do to provide a simple but effective visual statement I wondered?

I like the First Nation flag and this has the symbology of many aspects of Indian heritage in that. So that was an inspiration, heritage.

I remember from years back looking at versions of the early US flags and seeing the variety of the designs.

For me, a flag has to fulfil a basic shopping list, it has to be colourful, has to have impact and I find the best ones have simplicity. A 'too visually busy' flag distracts the eye.

So a flag for the Thunderbird nation? Had to be a Thunderbird but with some connectivity to the 50 state flag so that the association with the country it came from was obvious but different.

I put together a couple of ideas that might be attractive and have the impact I would find would be fitting the brief, one with stars and one without. It was tricky to fit the stars on and I did it by eye, not by measuring! So apologies if some are not quite right.

I hope that these might be something that might be usable.

A thought on those of you who make items for sale, I have a number of years of experience in marketing , business development and sales and my concern is that the Indian crafters should have some sort of brand symbol that reinforces the statement that this item was made by someone with the heritage of many generations and is therefore authentic and not a copy made elsewhere. Perhaps this design might fit that requirement?

Of course buying directly from the maker is one guarantee, but this icon might help to reinforce the heritage. I like the fact that somebody with that heritage has made an item, it has their vibe in it.

Today was the first day of autumn, according to Google, or Fall as you might call it.

Being such a nice day, I decided to take a walk up the lane and take some photographs. Earlier that morning the Zuni Navajo made ring I had bid on Ebay for arrived and gave it a clean and tried it on, fitted like it was made for me. This one has the Katsina figures below the Thunderbird on each side.

The sun was out and warm and it was a shame to think that the summer had decided to move on. But, the colours that will soon be in the trees should hopefully make up for that.

The wind had a bit of chill in there, but it was such a nice sunny day I enjoyed the walk. In a field I saw a young Fox, it slinked off into the woods, so I left it alone and went back through another part of the woods to recharge myself with pure nature.

I could hear from the road a nest of young birds in the trees, maybe Buzzards as they like the woods to nest in.

On the way back further on, I noticed some nice cloud formations, worth a few pictures. Then a really great cloud formation came into sight, looked like a giant bird, a Thunderbird sky.

I did manage to photograph a Kite some way off in the sky and also some other interesting things that weren't there visible to the eye, but visible on the computer later when I got the photos off! I call these my other frequent flyers.

I came across this Zuni style vintage Navajo Thunderbird and Katsina design ring the other day and was interested to know more as I had not seen the two connected before in a Navajo item.

Being someone who is generally fascinated by all things that are in the sky or fall out of them I wanted to learn more.

I had known from my research that the Katsina people were known of as visitors to some of the southern tribes and dolls were made in their form to educate the children of who these 'spirits' as they were known were.

Katsina Doll model

Going back to the Navajo ring, it was interesting to see Katsina figures on the band, as something from their culture from off this planet being displayed rather than denied which is generally the case these days, in case it creates 'panic.'

Katsina ring by Benny Ration

But I have also seen other similar things to the Katsina or Kachina in the Dogon peoples of Africa, they have representations in their costumes and doll models of pretty much the same forms of the Katsina.

Dogon traditional costume - about 7000 miles east of the Hopi people!

Unfortunately this means I am drawing another conclusion of connectivity, the Dogon lived near where the ancient Pharaohs resided in Egypt. The Dogon were given star maps that only in the last hundred years have been proven correct because we have developed the telescopes to be able to see these stars. The Dogon are said to have been given these maps 10,000 years ago.

Hopi petroglyph of a star craft crash

An interesting adjunct to the Katsina ring is this Navajo Corn Spirit bracelet, I did read about the Navajo and the corn pollen gathering before sunrise and with the Katsina connection, then the Dogon connection, we are able to connect a line back to Egypt and the Pyramids.

Navajo Crop Spirit bracelet

If we connect ancient monuments such as the Pyramids and Stonehenge in England, we only have to go a few miles to the Avebury area of England and the proliferation of crop circles in the wheat fields.

A case of all things being related and connected, as a Mayan / Hopi symbol turned up made in the corn. In Wiltshire.

And this was no easy to fake small design, it was a geometrically perfect design that appeared overnight and was around 300 feet across.

There is a rhyme in our country about Magpies. I read a Lakota story about a race amongst the animals and the Magpie won.

They say in our rhyme one for sorrow, two for joy and so the rhyme goes on until twelve magpies, when the rhyme stops or runs out of explanations!

Yesterday I saw an unusual amount of Magpies in a flock over the garden, fourteen in all so I looked for the meaning as I was sure this must be of significance.

There wasn't one explanation that far down the line, a forum did suggest it might be seven for a secret times two, or two secrets not to be told.

So I wondered what that meaning might be, I thought of two things I would like to say but perhaps had better remain secret. Or until they come out at the right time, by themselves.

It might be one facet of the great mystery, that things must unravel in their own time. There are often times I would like to say or do something, but something tells me not to, or I get the feeling I should not. I take the hint and it is for the better, its just recognising when to stay quiet that is the skill.

Often that is the right course of action and things come out in their own time without being forced.

There have been no shortage of animal messengers in the Lakota stories for instance, even some that are otherworldly spirit messengers manifested in a recognised form, perhaps so as not to alarm the recipient.

If you are open to receiving the messages, you will receive them, I had a bird tapping at the window a few months back, signifying I later worked out, the passing of a friend of mine who had been ill for sometime.

The problem with urban living is that we lose touch with these things. Pavements and roads block out the natural vibe coming through from the earth and leads to detachment from nature and natural energy.

You have to be attuned to receiving and who you are doesn't matter, it is whether you have the gift. And also if you are like minded towards people who have historically always had it.

Some amazing Navajo Turquoise Jewelry I found at this shop on Ebay.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Little-Silver-works?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

Fire Opal Silver Thunderbird ring

Reservation life is tough, no question, but I am impressed by the efforts of people to grow their prosperity and build jobs in the face of adversity.

The Rezonomics film on Youtube about Pine Ridge was encouraging, there is also a good Prager University clip by Mike Rowe on Youtube that is good for someone looking to finding an opportunity to help themselves.

I came across a program the other day in Arizona called Reziliance, about something I have been aware of for a while, that is helping the current generation of American Indian young people grow an identity, create awareness of who their people are to the outside world and to be successful and confident. I think this is great.

This seems to fit in with my Point Zero idea that the future starts now and the American Indian people need to have a voice in that process of the future. So what is there to learn?

Ok, from Mike Rowe's film, he makes valid points, seize opportunities, find things that are in the 'skills gap' – there are so many Graduates with IT skills but so few who can fix a tap washer or repair a car. IT doesn't solve everything. So see if you can build a career from an open opportunity.

Like Sitting Bull said, it is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. You might have an arm full of Degrees but if you can't fix a simple thing, does that make you any better than the man with little schooling who can?

Whilst you may have a passion for something and you might consider it as a job, you may need to consider that an opportunity might be a better bet. But don't drop the passion completely, it may be something you can develop as a hobby and bring opportunity in the end in later life, when the conditions are right.

The next bit is something you may not have considered. In England, there is a county called Yorkshire, the people there are a bit 'matter of fact' to put it politely, or blunt, if you want the truth!

They have a saying in Yorkshire, 'Where there's muck, there's brass.' Brass being their term for money. And its true, think about old scrap cars, someone goes around collecting them and selling them on to be recycled, there's brass in that.

As Mike Rowe says and it is something I have known for a long time, it can be about 'being interested in someone else's crap.'

One of the UK's most successful business men is called Alan Sugar. He started to build a business and be successful because he already saw the potential in other people's crap.

He by chance saw someone throwing away rags and asked what they were doing. A man said they had no use for the rags, so Alan offered to take them away and he sold them onto someone who wanted them, so he saw an opportunity to make money from someone else's crap. He went on to found a very successful electronics business years later.

So can the opportunities be applied to Reservation life? Yes. But the American Indian has also different interests at heart. This fits in well, as they can use things that are no longer useful in their current form and rework them into craft items to sell, that means conservation in action, protecting resources and provides a possible revenue opportunity without having necessarily to buy materials.

There is no collective 'brand identity' for the American Indian crafters, there is no registered trade mark that guarantees a piece is made by someone with heritage. I have long said that the future, is the past, is the future. (In my business advice I highlighted this, so that you know that someone with heritage made this and the item is not some rip off made in Asia and presented as 'authentic.')

That means that the American Indian crafter has a rich heritage to draw on in the things they make, but also the opportunity to be inspired to create new designs, let's face it, the symbols and designs that are now regarded as traditional, were new once.

The Navajo people have learned the skills of silver work and the pieces that are being made are either traditionally based or with a new edge, sometimes a combination of the two. A great opportunity to build on their heritage and bring it to new people, hopefully people will then enquire about the origins of the designs and new conversations might lead to new growth.

Every one of you has one thing in common besides your collective association, you come from a very long line of heritage that stretches back thousands of years in time. We cannot afford for this great culture to be lost. It is rich, diverse, full of wisdom and could help with providing a new blueprint for the future.

Everything starts with an idea. We are only limited by our imagination.

I have lived a city life and a country life and the country life is for me.

Recently I turned down a job in a city, one of the supposed 'benefits' was a view, a view of storage tanks and overlooking a main road. Some benefit. You can keep that one, I thought. Overlooking a landscape, trees and a lake, that's a benefit.

Indeed, my outlook having changed in the recent years means that I now look for things that give me an opportunity to help people, rather than an opportunity for furthering the consumer way of living.

Making a difference in people's lives is more important, a word to someone who may not have much contact with people can brighten their day, it doesn't cost anything to do so but it may make them feel someone cares.

Creating a positive vibe is good, it makes people feel better. Where I live most people know each other by sight, in the urban jungle that changes. I have known of city streets where people who live next door to people don't even know the names of the people next door, they keep themselves to themselves.

That's a sad thing, but seems to be a part of the consumer society.

I feel lucky to be able to go into the forests nearby and just take in the vibe there, it is certainly true that when you lose that connection and appreciation, then you lose something in yourself. Concrete living sucks out the compassion.

Maybe it is just me, but I seem to be able to 'read' a person and what they are like without speaking to them, sometimes I get the negative vibe from talking to them, finding something that doesn't appeal to me or similar just from the vibe that is coming off of them. I wonder how people can live like that? But they do. I limit my contact with these people.

I came across a piece of wisdom from Tecumseh about being thankful and it summed up a lot of things. Even if you don't have a lot of material things, that does not matter, I think appreciating things you cannot own or make is the mark of someone who is authentic.

Looking at a beautiful mountain, landscape vista or sky is something that you can appreciate and as Tecumseh says to be thankful for and I do.

Appreciating nature and wildlife too is good, just because an animal can't speak our language, does not mean it has less value than us. Investing care in an animal gets you appreciation back.

With the right care, animals that might seem hostile can live with close human contact and no harm is done. I think animals pick up auras and it is strange that some animals will come to me where they will not to others, perhaps some people give off bad energy that the animals pickup. Just because they don't speak does not mean they are not perceptive or intelligent.

Its a strange thing but I see coincidences in things from places that historically are so distant as to make you wonder how people thought of them independently?

Take the medicine wheel for instance, I wonder why it also occurs as a Celtic symbol when it is at least 3 thousand miles from America and used in Britain at a time when travel between those countries was not thought possible?

The Medicine wheel

The Celtic wheel

And then we see the American Indian Bull Boat made from Willow strips and Buffalo hide in North America, the same as the Coracle, found in Celtic lands like Wales and Ireland and in Britain, made from the same materials, Willow and hide, thousands of years ago and still today. And the Coracle also appears in India of much the same design.

A Celtic Coracle below

The American Indian Bull Boat

The Indian version of the Coracle below

Taking interconnectedness further, the Hindus in India used the Swastika emblem as a sign for good luck, which also appears in ancient North American Indian use. So again, I wonder how the same idea was arrived at?

The Sanskrit version of the Medicine Wheel perhaps? Very much like the Celtic version below, although thousands of miles apart!

The Celtic swastika design of the serpents eating each other's tails, I thought I had read that the Medicine wheel was 4 serpents or snakes that did the same thing?

It is related to the medicine wheel as that is a circular motion of repeating events, in the Sanskrit version, it follows a course of revolution much as the American Indian medicine wheel follows the same pattern. Everything is circular, night, day, seasons, planetary orbits.

Navajo Thunderbird Brooch with Swastika symbols

This Navajo brooch features the symbol of the Thunderbird and the Swastika symbol, which conveniently drops us into the picture of the US Army 45^th Infantry Division patch which was changed to the Thunderbird from the Swastika, see the picture. The 45^th was known as the Thunderbird Division as a result. The Swastika being dropped as the 45^th Infantry badge in WW2 due to the appropriation by the Third Reich.

The US 45th Infantry Division Thunderbird patch and the previously used Swastika patch

Thunderbird Crop circle in Wiltshire, England near to the Stonehenge monument

Our old favourite phenomena the Crop Circle, mostly found in British Wheat fields does not disappoint us, as we have a Thunderbird design in the wheat about 300 plus feet across and a Celtic Wheel design, like a Medicine wheel which have been found. These are enormous pieces of art which are so perfect, to do these at night without being seen or getting them wrong is near impossible.

So, we have a boat and symbols from three different cultures thousands of miles apart which all seem to coincide. I wonder how these things can coincide, whether they were gifts of knowledge to the peoples or just as a result of chance that three things got designed by different peoples thousands of miles apart? Maybe we will find out in time.

So in the end we find everything is circular...

Meteorites

The Hopi Indians used to refer to Meteorites as 'Diamonds from the sky,' the Sioux even kept records of the sightings and falls of these space rocks. The rarest type of specimen to fall on this planet are the Pallasites which are made up of metals and crystals. At left is an Olivine crystal from a Meteorite, these can be Green, Yellow or Brown depending on the heat they are exposed to.

Here is an example of a Pallasite which has mostly Iron and a some Nickel with Olivine crystals. Now, these elements also appear on Earth but not combined together as in this piece.

This should be one of the most exciting rocks you might ever see, as this came from a planet like ours, 'out there' somewhere in the Cosmos.

The Pallasite forms from Volcanic activity or where the planet has high heat on the surface that melts and forms the elements together as it cools. That this sample has the same elements that occur on Earth is remarkable, it means somewhere out there may be a planet or planets like ours which may be life bearing.

It could also mean that our planet came from way out there and at the time of the big commotion 4 billion years ago, we got ejected to another place. Now, if that place where our planet existed may have like ours the possibility of life, one can speculate how far advanced that may be especially if it had a big head start on us.

Perhaps this is why we have experienced stellar visitors who come to see how we are living.

This piece of Pallasite like other pieces has been around in the galaxy for billions of years and before that as a comet for untold amounts of time.

I use a piece of the Brenham Pallasite recovered from Kansas as a dowsing pendulum, it is very accurate and I chose it to use because it had been out there in space for so long that it had been on some great journey before ending up here. It may have picked up the 'vibe of the universe' on its travels.

The dowsing object should not be used for personal gain, like predicting lottery numbers or gambling, this can backfire on the user if so used and also the usability may be lost too. I don't know what universal force seems to direct the object I use but it has the answers.

In the Pallasite, the Olivine can be either yellow, green or brown, I call the Meteorite Olivine 'Space Diamond' and it is valuable in its own right because it came from outside of our planet to it, I did manage to obtain some small pieces as scrap which I am using in jewelry on some ring mounts.

So are Meteorites radioactive? Strangely not, considering they have been around in space gathering you would think cosmic radiation for so long.

One American Indian I would have loved to have met would have been Floyd Westerman.

A man of very great talent on many levels in acting, music, Indian cultural affairs and sculpture.

He was a man with a lot of common sense and wisdom to pass on to anyone prepared to listen. I've found his quotations very useful and relevant.

I think that we were lucky to have seen his like but sad that he is no longer able to give us more of his creative output.

This is a short entry as the man who really has done the important talking was Floyd and thankfully his words live on as does his creative legacy in pictures, music and video.

I was thinking that the jigsaw puzzle reminded me of how a Tribe works, all the pieces have to fit together for it to work and it made me think of the shape of the pieces in another way.

It occurred to me that the pieces were like people, which had hollows where knowledge may be lacking and protrusions where the knowledge was specialised and greater.

People vary in what they know, but everyone has something to contribute that someone else may not have.

Specialist knowledge is also very valuable within a collection of people as the Tribe model demonstrates.

I think that because the collective knowledge is enhanced by the greater pool of potential ability to be drawn on.

It reminded me of some wisdom where it was said a man and a woman were like a bow and an arrow, not as effective apart, but effective combined.

Combinations seem to produce more effective results than solo efforts mostly.

I think that the lesson here is that when certain things are lost or discarded, that the 'tribe' or people suffers and that can be skills and knowledge lost or forgotten.

When what might be called standards or expectations slip, then the  effectiveness suffers. too

In my country this started to happen after WW2, the people had had enough of years of rationing of goods and restrictions and were looking for better times with the victory in 1945.

But this did not happen as the Cold War started out of the ashes of WW2 almost immediately.

I think as a reaction to the strictures of 1939-45 and rationing which was not ended until 1954, that the people went a bit 'freedom mad'. The attitude against regulation meant some adopted a lifestyle that broke away from standards of living, behaviour and personal views which had been a hangover from the Victorian era some 50 years before.

With this, there was also a decline in religious following and respect for authority occurred slowly, but noticeably. In subsequent generations, a loss of respect or appreciation of the relevance of grandparents and older people also ensued.

Rather than being a 'glued together' set of people as in the Indian Tribe, in our country, there has been a gradual disintegration of society.

The colour of wisdom is grey hair and there is something that both the Indian and the Westerner have in common, that the importance of the older people must be brought back to prominence. I have often mixed with people maybe 20 or more years older than me, I find them interesting and their experiences and lives have given me much to draw on and learn from, but I am probably a bit of an exception to many people my age.

I think we are facing difficult times and the Indian people must not lose their 'community glue', or the passing on of their heritage, knowledge and abilities.

It is difficult with many modern day distractions, but history is a very important subject, if we forget the mistakes we only end up making them again.

I see the jigsaw puzzle as representing the ying and yang interlocking pieces that we all must bring to a society.

I am finding  a lot of interest in spiritual awareness and of people being able to see through the 'Sage brush' and see the truth and how things are or could be.

There is much enlightenment coming out of people now that it is quite amazing when I think back to maybe 20 years ago and a lot of this being spoken of now was 'underground' and you were looked down on for saying it, or judged as mad for holding certain views.

My observation is that people are starting to see through the deceptions and slowly moving forward to a new place. About time!

I recalled a Chief saying that the great mystery is just that, because you can't know it all.

It all remains a puzzle, so to speak.

We have come back full circle to where I started, with a puzzle.

I think that as we live our lives, we collect pieces of knowledge and build a bigger picture that is revealed and we can only truly see at the end of things, when we are ready to transition to something higher.

Many of us find we are asking what our purpose is, maybe to learn a bit more each life and build that ultimate picture. 

I came across some great Navajo Turquoise jewelry pictures today, reminded me of my late Commanche friend who had a turquoise ring. Hope you'll find these amazing.

Great advert for the 'home' product, this is a great way to provide skills, jobs and keep alive the traditional designs.

A Totem Pole design inlaid bracelet would look fantastic in this style.

It is nice when you buy from the American Indian traders who often name the artisan who made your item.

It really does make for a special item that you know was made by someone with a long heritage and is not an impersonal mass produced item made in the far East. I hope that collectors will recognise the individuals and seek out their pieces as with other artists.

This is a beautiful selection of unique Turquoise pieces, I love these fantastic colours.

They look like the colour combination results I used to get from my experiments with in a design program called Fractal Design in the 90's that worked within Adobe Photoshop.

Rings a plenty, there's a lot of great skill in here, I used to work for a company that did inlay work using wood veneers and real shell pieces so I know how tricky this work can be. The Navajo artists certainly have a way with making these superb pieces.

Thunderbird ring, I think this is a Zuni style inlay pattern, looks really stylish and modern in some ways but classical too,  I love the Thunderbird design.

Another nice Thunderbird ring made by Mike Arviso with Kingman Turquoise stone

Here's the last one, superb inlay made of Nevada Creek Turquoise, made by Ella Cowboy and Richard E. Hoskie.

Sorry, I had to buy this one.. it was so nice and I am helping support the Navajo artists which is very important too.

I was reading the Encounters with star people book written by Ardy Sixkiller Clark recently and came across a story that seemed to be straight out of a Hollywood studio. But that story might actually have been factual and bears some resemblance to the Hollywood TV series 'The Invaders'

The premise of the Invaders being that aliens are visiting Earth in human form, but they have to 'regenerate' every few hours to stop them reverting back to their original form. Although this was not in the story Ardy told, it was the visitation and deposit of entities at a remote area that got my interest.

The entities in Ardy's account from her witness were described by a first hand witness to Ardy and maybe what the Indian people know as 'Skin walkers' and everyone else as 'shape shifters. They looked human like but were not human.

In Ardy's book, she mentions a meeting with a man she refers to by the pseudonym of Leland, who lived near the Nebraska border who was her witness.

Leland had seen many disk shaped objects depositing saloon cars full of human looking people to the ground near where he lived, the cars then drove off to the Highway and later returned with only the driver in to be collected by the flying craft.

The cars were then taken back aboard the 'ships' which left the area.

Leland even helped one of the 'cars' when it had a flat tyre. It is a very interesting story and I have been in contact with Ardy to share some of my experiences of similar things.

In my own area, I have observed visually and on film, later on the computer, silver disk objects and other phenomena which do not have rational explanation other than what they really are. These have been daylight sightings, the night sightings are visible.

I have been cataloguing these sightings, photographs and lately videos since 1999 in this area. Here's a daylight one I couldn't see at the time, but is visible 'on camera' and computer.

This picture is from an area where Big Cats exist although their existence is disputed largely, they are ones that have survived being released  into the wild after the 1976 Wild Animals legislation became law. There have been links to Big Cats and Disk objects sightings in the same areas documented. I have them on film and seen by eye witnesses. These are Puma type cats which are black.

Here below are two recent examples of night 'visitors'

As you will see, two very different craft but from film clips next to each other. I have on some stills from an earlier daylight  movie which had a fleet of 10 silver disk objects recorded.

Near where I used to live before moving to this area, was a historic piece of ground from the Bronze Age and I saw a lot of activity there, these things seem to like historic places. Where I live now also has historic connections and was a piece of disputed territory.