Tuesday, May 12, 2009

An Apache saying

I've been following the series "We Shall Remain" on PBS. Last week they featured Geronimo, and one of his grandsons made this statement: "As Apaches, everything we do is sacred."

I bet there were some viewers who thought: "what makes you so special?"

A fascinating book for me at the moment is Lynne McTaggart's The Intention Experiment. The book shows clearly, through the thousands of scientific experiments cited, how intention can have a profound effect on our world.

Through quantum entanglement we are always interacting with other parts of our universe than the one we are aware of at the present time. Not only have studies shown that people have a direct effect on their environment with the thoughts they focus on, they can also alter their brains which become measurably thicker in areas which receive intense focus.

If everything we think has an impact, then everything we do has a definite effect. We are working with the whole, if only in small ways, at every moment of our existence.

In native culture, you make a prayer before you do anything. In today's parlance, you set an intention. An intention is a specific request, which is then released to a higher energy which orders it to the highest possible outcome.

The Apaches and native peoples remember it; others will have to re-discover it. Everything we do is sacred.