Letter to our Western-born leader
Dear David,
You have given me some good advice, which I will do my best to learn from going forward. I'm dutifully chipping away at my problems. Thank you! I have so much to learn: I embrace beneficial growth and change in this big adventure of life.
As part of your work, years ago you ordained my husband and me as tepahtianimeh.
You told us both in front of the altar with the rest of our group that we are your colleagues.
You then proceeded to share more of your knowledge from your time with don Lucio the best you can, requested by some of our colleagues.
Now, you can't take back your ordaining of us.
Bright and clear in my heart, as if it happened yesterday, is that day in April 2003 when our maestro, don Lucio Campos, emotionally received Adam and me in his consultorio. He commanded me to stay true to my dreams, to the deep meaning of my experience of lightning strike, to my work with candles and their flames, to the visions I have and my connection with Sky and Fire. He said he knew me from the clouds, and he insisted on initiating us both as weather workers right away. Later, he fortified us by admonishing us to remain steady on our path no matter what.
As you know, my husband and I are not bound by any contracts with you.
For several years now, you have made clear that you require that I agree that my dreams are meaningless except for as psychological indicators of my own problems. You know I will not lie about my view of this.
You have told me that, because of this refusal to betray my personal experiences with Divine, you see me as unfit to serve in your group as a weather worker and tepahtiani. (Of course, I see that you certainly shouldn't be required to invite anyone to your ceremonies who you don’t want to welcome.)
In addition to our own dreams that we find meaningful, our healing patients have dreams about their healing on the nights before their appointments. These dream-learnings are usually very helpful and meaningful, and they seem clearly to all of us to be more than mere psychology.
Clearly and with sadness, I notice you and I don't see eye to eye. Given your view and experience that dreams mean nothing relevant to path and work—that instead, they are only psychological phenomena—you see us parting ways. Dreams are very important to me and my relationship with my work as a tradition-holder. You tell me dreams are irrelevant to our work except to observe as a psychologist might. My dreams are more to me than that: they help me and guide me in healing my patients and relating in a good way to my traditional work. You have made clear you do not experience this yourself with dreams.
And my dreams and experiences have brought some things to my door that need to be done. Namely, the path don Lucio gave to you and to us is alive and transforming. Adam and I are working with dreams, and we’re working in a new way (perhaps really an old way) with Sacred Earth.
Sacred Earth has visited with powerful visions and strong instructions. Part of me would love to go on vacation right now! But the adventure of life has other plans.
I am beginning to embark on making offerings to Earth in sorrow and reciprocation for the impacts we human beings have made. Of course, I would love to collaborate with you about this, if we were working together well.
Sincerely,