Hozhooji — Living the Loving Way
By Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh. Edited by Carol Hiltner and Karah Pino
Patricia Anne Davis is an authentic Indigenous medicine person by tribal lineage, initiation, training, and experience. She has held Indigenous wisdom and knowledge [1] for a lifetime. Her soul commitment is to communicate this wisdom and knowledge to support healing of humanity's out-of-balance conditions, through the long-prophesied reawakening of humanity to live in harmony and balance within the natural order. To do this, she must translate not just between the Dineh and English languages, but between two thinking systems.
Hozhooji is, in the sacred Dineh language, a blessingway ceremony for remembering and reawakening to our sacred self-identity as a precious child of creator. It is a celebration of hozho, an all-encompassing concept of holiness and wholeness. The ending ji, means to sing someone back to health.
There are five major Dineh healing ceremonies [2] of which hozhooji (blessingway) and protectionway are two. All ceremonies are for a specific purpose and they all follow the phases of healing to reawaken a person. Literally, hozhooji translates to living the loving way, as a way of life. This means choosing constructive and life-affirming choices.
At this time, I am called to publicly share Indigenous wisdom and knowledge to educate about how humanity can heal itself. This is a challenging task, because it involves more than a translation from one language to another. It requires communicating an entirely different system of thinking-one that most people don't even know exists. A single word in Dineh is an interconnected hieroglyph. To understand this interconnectedness requires a thought reversal process - a reframing from one thinking system to a completely different one.
Comparison of English and Dineh thinking systems
| English |
Dineh |
| Eurocentric, dualistic thinking system |
affirmative, holistic thinking system |
| language developed for commerce |
a sacred language of wholeness |
| used to sustain hierarchy and patriarchy |
used within the natural order context |
| concepts are considered to stand alone |
everything is interconnected |
| powerover |
powerwith |
| win/lose |
win/win |
| dualistic thinking results in conflict, violence, pathology, and disease |
co-creative solutions, peacemaking, and use of creative imagination for collective survival |
For this article, I have found it necessary to create an extensive glossary (of words italicized in the text) to clarify my meaning of the English terms I use, as well as numerous footnoted links to entire documents explaining various concepts. Choose any term and follow the links, and eventually you will have an intellectual understanding of hozhooji (living the loving way) within the English-based thinking system. I use specific words and phrases that accurately distinguish and describe to convey the holistic integrity of the Dineh language thinking system. However, to fully comprehend the Dineh thinking system, you must experience yourself as being within hozho (natural order). Such a correction in thinking leads to curing-rather than coping.
The spiritual lesson for humanity in these crisis times of awakening is to learn that win/lose decisions can only create no-win outcomes for everyone. This tyranny of powerover has been exploiting and victimizing, by using one's five senses as a weapon against one's sacredself and others, to destroy humanity, the environment, and the planet.
It is imperative to initiate the following unifying principle for collective planetary survival: powerwithin is for powerwith others in order to eliminate the need for powerover others. Each person can learn why and how to make win/win decisions and constructive and life-affirming choices for collective wellness restoration. I call this awareness conscienceness (as different from consciousness, in which reality depends on one's perception and is thus subject to dualistic thinking.)
In conscienceness, reality is exact because it is the natural order, and this exactness gives a person authentic power and spiritual authority to reframe tyranny and powerover. No one has powerover the natural order. Authenticity within brings authority, because truth is the only real power and truth is our protection of all that is sacred. Truth is synonymous with natural order, and can be realized by reasoning, which leads to group consensus. The natural order context is a container for understanding that it is not possible to be outside of, or separated from, natural laws.
The principle of living the loving way, as a way of life, is a reverent revolution. This is the cycle in which resources being passed from the elders to the next generation of youth ensure equity in resource distribution-not the conventional idea of the poor periodically rising up to overthrow the elite. Thus, reverent revolution regenerates the next generation, rather than degenerates.
Comparison of reverent revolution and conventional revolution
| reverent revolution |
conventional revolution |
| cycle of resources being passed from the elders to the next generation of youth, ensuring equity in resource distribution |
the poor periodically rising up to overthrow the elite due to inequity |
| collective and intergenerational win/win intention and decision-making |
perpetuation of win/lose decision-making for inequity in resource distribution |
| win/win |
win/lose leads to no win |
| manifests as abundance |
manifests as hunger, poverty, disease, and premature death such as accident, suicide, and homicide |
| each person and every generation uses its inherent gifts for the benefit of every person, his or her family, community, and nation |
forced-choice purchasing of the products and services that support the financially rich |
| resources flow from the elders to the youth |
resources flow toward the financially rich |
| self-reverence and reverence for nature; for the elements of earth, water, fire, and air from which our physical, emotive, intellectual, and spiritual bodies are composed in the natural environment |
doubt, confusion, fear for survival |
To help humanity heal and shift thinking into hozhooji, I have designed the Ceremonial Change Process. [3] The phases of healing actually exist in all Dineh ceremonies, even though they have a specific name and purpose in each. The phases of healing guide us to escape the closed, powerover thinking system designed to set up people for failure. Instead, living within the natural order is a powerwith thinking system to manifest co-creative solutions.
Patricia Anne Davis is a practitioner and diagnostician, as well as an international teacher and consultant, for groups and individuals, of Navajo/Dineh ceremonial healing principles that are cross-cultural, intergenerational, inclusive, and universal in practical application.
206.778.6721, patricia_anne9@hotmail.com, http://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com
Learn more about the Patricia's sacred journey with the Altai Fellowship to Siberia this summer and how to join in Patricia's sacred global grounding ceremony on August 13th, 2011 at http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com
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My calling includes cosmic/planetary interaction with the divine beings who are the guides of humanity1 and are working in a collaborative partnership with humanity to move the stagnant energies that are negatively impacting us.
For expository purposes, as I explain the Ceremonial Change Process, I will use as an example the upcoming Altai Fellowship pilgrimage2 in which I am participating. For the purpose of fulfilling worldwide Indigenous prophecies of the rebalancing of human intention from destructive to constructive within the natural order,3 I am traveling in July/August 2011 to the Altai Mountains4 in the center of Eurasia, under the guidance of these divine beings.
I will facilitate the work of an international group of pilgrims organized by Altai Mir University,5 which has been guided by these divine beings to open an energy portal to access a "reserve" of life force in Altai on August 13th and to transmit the released energy onto the global grid. The transmitted energy will then be grounded by groups around the world to replenish Mother Earth.6
The portal opening expedition and the global grounding of the released energy have been organized within the four phases of the Ceremonial Change Process. We are currently using the process both intra-personally and interpersonally, as well as extending it externally to our global mission. Even though group members are in service to the good of humanity, they are still in a process of curing themselves by changing their thinking system from Eurocentric to natural order. Thus, the general descriptions of the steps apply to them.
I. Naming the out-of-balance condition
The core issue is the root cause that maintains the out-of-balance condition. The core issue for the Altai Fellowship pilgrimage is essentially the same both internally (personally and as a group) and externally. It is the process of awakening that all of humanity is now undergoing.
The core issue is that the construct and language-the thinking system-of every political governing and religious organization throughout history are designed to oppress and enslave people through hierarchy and patriarchy using powerover. They control the world's resources by manipulating thinking. This destructive intention, which uses technology and information with brute force, has been destroying the four sacred elements on the planet: earth-physical, water-emotive, fire-mental, and air-spiritual well being.
Thus, the four "corn-pollen footsteps"7 that represent the reverent revolution in Dineh tradition (child, youth, adult, elder) are distorted and delayed. Delay of human service to creator, to self, and to what is good, beautiful, and true for women, children, and elders-causes suffering. The masculine gender's life task as protector-provider is corrupted to perpetrator and sexual predator in the home, the community, and in the government. Even people of good will get stuck in this system, because it is a closed system and they are born into it.
II. Emptying the obstacles that maintain the root cause
The Eurocentric dualistic thinking system utilizes the concept of consciousness, which results in seeing reality as relative to a person's perception. Thus, each person perceives his or her own perception as right, and fights for his or her rights and religion from that perception. People polarize into adversity, conflict, and war. Curing, as a thought reversal, is reframing from consciousness and perception to conscienceness, in which Indigenous wisdom and knowledge are exact in the natural order. Then there are peacemaking and co-creative solutions.
All Indigenous prophecies-known for centuries-predict that the time of silence and persecution of Indigenous people (who have the wisdom and knowledge of healing ceremonies that lead to curing, not coping) has ended. This is a time of awakening to conscienceness and for breaking silence about exploitation and victimization, which are immoral suppression of a person's soul purpose and life mission.
The divine plan for remembering our sacred place in the universe and reawakening to being humane is to restore the knowledge of cooperation and collaboration between spiritual beings and Earth's humane beings. People who heal suffering are humane. This cooperation will reframe destructive and death-producing choices.
All healing occurs when decisions are made to correct thinking from destructive and death-producing choices to constructive and life-affirming choices. This is holy thinking, and it is the only appropriate function of thinking. Thinking that is not for a holy intention is a misuse of thinking. Conscience in this context means the use of thinking for what its proper purpose. Conscience manifests wisdom and knowledge within the natural order (and not consciousness and perception).
The "new group of world servers" (a metaphysical concept from the writings of Alice Bailey), of which the Altai Fellowship is part, is called to change the vibration on the Earth plane to love and peace by learning and teaching how to heal through win/win constructive and life-affirming choices. An awakened person is one who has liberated him- or herself from a deficient self-image. This person knows that spiritual awakening does not require a remediation process toward some distant end state of enlightenment as taught in an inverse thinking system. Every person is already equally "fore-given" a true spiritual self-identity as a precious child of creator.
III. Re-framing into the natural order
The "new group of world servers" that is now meeting and organizing to restore planetary balance and harmony is fulfilling its members' soul purpose by grounding and anchoring spiritual energies. This is what the members of the Altai Fellowship will be doing.
The divine guides of the human race inspire us toward a collective remembering and reawakening of our true spiritual self-identity as precious children of creator in order to fulfill the divine plan on Earth. When we reclaim our inherent divinity and know our sacred place in the universe, we can manifest wisdom and knowledge in the natural order. We then understand the unifying principles that operate to eliminate the need for powerover, not only in political empires, but in our own lives.
IV. Manifesting co-creative solutions
A liberated person can access accurate spiritual information by revelation from his or her own soul and from telepathy with divine beings. Thus, the Altai Fellowship is guided in their activities. A liberated person knows that the interconnectedness of the etheric network is designed to redeem the energies that are held in human destructive intentions. The redeemed energies are released to be used for healing.
When we operate in the affirmative thinking system, we are operating in conscienceness. Indigenous knowledge and wisdom lead to experiencing reality as exact, because the context of spiritual living is in the natural order, undistorted by individual or group perceptions. Instead of conflict, there is group consensus and spiritual morality in win/win decision-making for collective survival and abundance. The trust that is exists as natural order enhances the strength both of group members and the group as a whole.
V. Life application of win/win decision-making for universal practical application of co-creative solutions
We are inspired and guided to restore trust and serve creator, self, and others with powerwithin, to have powerwith the divine in the universe. The way to have powerwithin, and thus have powerwith others for congruent win/win decision-making, is to intend, visualize, affirm, and manifest win/win constructive and life-affirming choices with our sacred self-identity as precious children of creator.
affirmative thinking system-hozho: see blessingway.
authentic-ehozin: holy thinking for balance and harmony within the natural order.
blessingway-hozhooji: ceremony to awaken one to natural order (hozho); choosing constructive and life-affirming choices; healing from intentions and decisions that destroy oneself and others. See living the loving way.
co-creative solution-hoozhooji k'e iina: manifestation of powerwithin, from creator, that radiates love for ourselves in order to have powerwith others for communication and relationship to live the loving way; eliminates the need for powerover.
conscienceness-ntsahakees (distinct from consciousness): spiritual clarity and awareness of the natural order as reality; the concept of holy thinking in the Dineh language.
consciousness-digiis (distinct from conscienceness): reality that depends on one's perception and is thus subject to dualistic thinking.
coping-doo halyaa da (distinct from curing): one does not know how to take care of one's self spiritually; a temporary fix that takes away the sacred self-identity and replaces it with a deficient self-image. Coping does not correct the root cause of out-of-balance conditions.
core issue-te'e'i: spiritual impoverishment perpetuates hunger, poverty, disease, and premature death; the root cause that maintains any out-of-balance condition.
curing-hozho nahasdlii' (distinct from coping): using affirmative thinking within the natural order that corrects the root cause of any out-of-balance condition.
healing-biiji: ceremony and singing that reverses one's way of thinking to shift from giving the body wrong information to knowing how to inform the body of correct information for wellness restoration by reawakening to holy thinking.
humane: choosing life-affirming choices for living the loving way
inverse thinking system-hocho: a thinking system in which reality depends on one's perception and is thus subject to dualistic thinking. See consciousness.
living the loving way-hozhooji: literal translation of the blessingway ceremony as translated by my paternal aunt. It is a way of living in reverent revolution, of making decisions that are constructive and life affirming. See blessingway, reverent revolution.
medicine person-diiyiin dinee' bii yazhi: a sacred and precious child of creator; everyone is a medicine person when using holy thinking to make decisions for constructive and live-affirming choices, by living the loving way, as a way of life.
natural order-hozho: an all-encompassing concept of holiness and wholeness in harmony with the movement of cycles such as seasons, cardinal directions, and moon phases. For collective survival, we must remember and reawaken to hozho-to harmonious living on Mother Earth.
people-dineh: people, as in earth-surface people and five-fingers people.
powerwith: in accordance with the natural order.
powerwithin: see sacred self-identity.
powerwithin to have powerwith-K'e: communication and relationship, knowing one's sacred place in the natural order.
powerover-ba hol chiih: trans-generational unresolved and displaced anger.
precious child of creator-shil baa hozhoonii: knowing that the I am a precious child of creator eternally exists within me. In this context, creator is not capitalized, to differentiate the English meaning of a patriarchal God from the Dineh meaning of the creator's holy breath that gives life and voice.
reverent revolution-a sha bii k'ego: moving clockwise in time and cardinal direction; cycle of resources being passed from the elders to the next generation of youth, ensuring equity in resource distribution
sacred self-identity-diiyiin dine'e': a child of the holy people, who are the ancestors who lived the loving way, as a way of life.
thought reversal: a reframing from one thinking system to an entirely different one. In this context, the reversal is from the English-based closed, Eurocentric thinking system to the Dineh-based manifestation of an open natural order system.
truth-dineh be iina bendii'a': holy thinking arrived at by reasoning to the exactness of the natural order
Note: in Dineh language a traditional healer is a singer-hatali. However, there are diagnosticians and practitioners who are not singers in the strict sense of that definition. The term wisdom keepers in conventional English language means people who use conscience with knowledge (not perception), but may not necessarily be a diagnostician and practitioner.
Footnotes
1 http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/why-are-indigenous-cultures-so-critically-important-to-human-survival-at-this-time/
2 http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/the-five-major-navajodineh-ceremonies/
3 http://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com/ceremonial-change-process/
Sidebar footnotes
1 http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/a-communication-with-the-illuminated-beings-in-altai/
2 http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/
3 http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/power-over-vs-power-with/
4 http://www.altaimir.org/whyaltai.htm
5 http://www.AltaiMir.org
6 http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com/
7 http://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com/walking-in-beauty/
Patricia's presence in Altai this summer serves several purposes in service of Mother Earth:
1) She is providing ceremonial structure to an open group from four continents, called the Altai Fellowship (http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com). On August 13th at the foot of sacred Mt. Bellukha in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, the fellowship will be singing open an energy portal. They will tap into a "reserve" egg of life force that has been prepared by the Brotherhood of Light for Mother Earth in time of need. Over the following week, will transmit the energy onto the global light grid, to be grounded by light workers around the world. Due to border-related travel restrictions, it is not possible for additional people to be at Mt. Belukha to transmit. However, people all over the world are encouraged to ground the energy locally, amplifying their effectiveness by gathering groups. Preparatory ceremony for grounding groups will begin on July 30th. All information is online at http://altaifellowship.wordpress.com.
2) Both formally under the auspices of UNESCO, and informally in gatherings,she is sharing the Ceremonial Change Process in her powerfully experiential way, with local Altai people, educators, and government officials.
3) Through these activities (especially by facilitation of the global grounding groups), she is fulfilling worldwide Indigenous prophecies of the rebalancing of human intention from destructive to constructive within the natural order.
About Carol Hiltner
Carol Hiltner is a Seattle-based author/artist/activist facilitating global survival of and access to traditional wisdom! Carol divides her time between Seattle and Siberia and focuses her efforts on sustaining the sacred land and people of Altai in Siberia, through Altai Mir University, www.AltaiMir.org, a nonprofit organization that she founded. Carol is a professional editor and founder of Altai Books (www.AltaiBooks.com). She is also a prolific visionary artist and author of several books, including two Altai Chronicles: Tablets of Light and Out of Time, as well as many articles for Spirit of Ma'at.
Phone: 206-525-2101 (US)
Email: info@AltaiMir.org
Latest articles by Carol Hiltner in Spirit of Maat:
January, 2012:
Here Is What Alex Sparky Means to Me
July, 2011:
Hozhooji — Living the Loving Way
December, 2010:
Two Masters In LA: How To Be The Complete Human Interviews with Master Zhou and Academician Nicolay Denisov
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