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http://www.dreamkeepers.net
YOU DON'T TAKE THE JOURNEY. The journey takes you. Nearly twenty years ago two unlikely and unknowing white journalists--ourselves, or those we thought ourselves to be--set out on what we've come to see now as a spirit-journey, a simultaneous exploration of outer and inner worlds. We thought at the time that we were going out on a magazine assignment after a good "story" - the supposed demise of the last generation of Native American spiritual elders, or Wisdomkeepers.  But something happened to us along the way. We set out on the path of the Wisdomkeepers and we've never quite gotten back. We find ourselves shuttling between worlds, not quite part of either. We've become unwitting and at times unwilling messengers, or "runners," between those worlds. We crossed an invisible boundary, passed through a kind of mystic membrane between what most people think of as North America and what others think of as Great Turtle Island.

These wonderful men and women don't simply preserve the old wisdom. They live it. And, yes, they share it and teach it, too--not only with their words but with their example, their presence, their lives...lives always lived for others, never for themselves.

We make no pretence to being wise or in any way holier than thou. Indeed our very imperfection has saved us time and again. Without it, we'd never have discovered the path of the Wisdomkeepers even existed. From the Wisdomkeepers themselves we've learned that you don't have to be perfect to do holy work. You don't even have to be holy. You can be a couple of contraries, a couple of shape-shifters like ourselves, and still lead a life worthy of being called human. We're not saying we've done it; but we're trying . . .

Harvey Arden and Steve Wall

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