>> Visualizations for the construction of a Contemplation House on the property over by the stream called Otter Run. Original post: November 5, 2014 Heres what Dustin and I talked about yesterday. Please note: None of this is in concrete. Im just loading this into the Collective Consciousness of members here. We can ruminate on it... let it percolate... think about what will fit for this location... And when we make it, it will BE what it IS ^_^ Heres the convo. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ D: We do have campfires and invite folks to our free gatherings. We have stone cairns that are unexplained on our property. Theres maybe 21 of them in 3 different configurations. My family were the first friends of the colonists, The Onieda Indians. My grandfather is from strong German decent, Aungst. The Hoffman side has much Irish in it and German and Indian. Aungst is also indian. My forefather signed the unknown Declaration of Independence. I live in the middle of the forest, in the middle of nowhere. My neighbors are 3 miles away. Ive been trying to start an Ubuntu community here. D: It will require much adjustment to find that center place where we can all be! Id give up my house and sleep outside, if It would help get this thing going. Too many of us want more, rather than less. Im just happy to be! Oh and maybe get high on life... Which can be as simple as seeing a new place or experiencing a new flavor. We have all (most), even the ones with little, have had a better life than the few of us who suffer everyday with the limitations put on them. We aint got it so bad... I like our farm-raised beef and pork. We raise the Queens pigs here. Gloucestershire Old Spots. D: This valley is credited as being where the Iroquois indians converted from a nomadic tribe to erecting long houses, and they may have settled their first village here. B: wow... We have to find those records then. It would be beautiful to build a Long House on the site with the Elders blessing D: Its only 20 miles from our home that three of my ancestors signed the original Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776, not the famous one but one by the Free Men of Pennsylvania. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Play_Men D: These cairns are on or near our property. My cousin sent me this: Hi Dustin! I have done some research on Cairns....Cairns mark our journey. When we add to a cairn, we help make the marker more significant, to point the way more clearly for others. The cairns show where we have been; journey markers along the trail of life. Leaving a stone on a cairn is a way to ensure our spirits remain after were no longer on the trail. We live on after we,re gone.......This is amazing and so fitting that they are on YOUR land! WOW!! XO. D: Theres perhaps 21 of them and they appear to mark an opening to a cave. They appear to have some form of organization??? It is said that near other cairns found in PA 7.5 to 9 tall bodies are found in tombs with 2 distinct rows of teeth. My cuz says the cairns are guide posts that make the path of life, we need to each add a stone to mark our passing that point in our lives. D: This valley was said to be the first Iroquois Indian village, after the ebola blankets (small pox) from the whitey, the Iroquois died out but the government still used this village to house members of displaced tribes. There is said to be Indian burial grounds near here. I think I found them and maybe older burial grounds too? D: The Iroquois were one of two successful matriarchal societies in the history of man. They chose this valley to convert from a nomadic tribe into living in Long Houses. Ironically, the written Indian religion of today is the Long House religion. That first village was right here on this ground. B: Hmm.. Nice. Theres going to be a lot of talking then right... in respect of those who went before and to get the siting of the buildings right. D: Yes, Ive always had difficulty with those questions, like where to build and so on. B: Maybe even a little building (6 x 8) of remembrance... with traditional carving and painting on the outside of it. Two bench seats [like pews] inside facing each other. And at the far end of the little room... an altar of sorts... shelves... relics... crystals... feathers... a sage smudge, part burned. A shallow clay vessel with water in it. A handwritten leather-bound book of the Histories, as we learn them... hand-made paper. Dim lighting. A place to sit. Contemplate. Connect. Read. Know. BE. Like a little chapel. But with room only for 4 people on two bench seats. Quiet talk. No food. Shoes outside. B: It wants to face north, to the ancestors maybe? It will only get sun on it in the summer time. Thats fine they say. Thats perfectly as it should be. D: Your ceremonial hut should have a rounded roof like a long house. Sweat lodge maybe? B: Ok. You might want to make it a bit bigger too (8x 8 ??). I just saw it as very small, quite low, brownish inside and cozy. Not a sweat lodge in there. I see it as being a bit of a mini-museum - so youd want to protect the artifacts and the history book... some pages are made with deer hide. And with the book, you can take the pages out and add new ones and string the binding back together with the deer hide cord. Its actually a dark brown leather. Thick. It might even be buffalo hide. B: Other uses: Four community Council Elders who cant seem to get on over an issue ~ they go sit together in the contemplation house and listen to their hearts... A mother whose baby wont suckle and is constantly crying... go and seek wisdom in the contemplation house - That sort of thing... A boy who keeps wetting his bed by age 6 and cant seem to help it. He and his father go and sit in the contemplation house. Just quiet. Not talking. But being together side by side. I think it would be good medicine for the property. D: it sound like a healing place B: Definitely! upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Toda_Hut.JPG
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:13:25 +0000
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