The Stories

My Life Story at this point on my Life Path is that of the Mountains, without "worldly experience". Through my Teachings, regardless of where you are on your Life Path, regardless of the amount of Life Experience, basic Life Stories, concepts and perception evolve. I Gift to you a concept, a perception. As with all Stories, take from them that "works" for you, let the rest blow into the Wind.

The Stories

There are many Stories told within the Circle of Life. These Stories were used among my People to Teach the meanings of Our Life Circles. They were themselves a Way of Understanding among my People, and also between different Peoples. Because my People did not have a written language, these Stoies were memorized and passed down through countless Generations.

The Stories are about Animals and People. You will find these Stories about Bear, Mice, Wolf, Raccoon, Beaver and Elk.The Stories are almost always allegorical in form, and everything in them should be read Symbolically.

Every Story can be symbolically unfolded for you through your own Medicine, Reflections and Seekings. As you do this, you will Learn to see through the eyes of your Brothers and Sisters, and to Share their Perceptions.

Questioning is one of the most vital Paths to Understanding these Stories, which will Teach you of the Circle of Life. When you question, the Circle is turning for you. These Stories are magical Teachers in this way. They are Truths whose Petals can be unfolded by the Seeker without end.

These Stories were ment to be Told, not Written. In this way the Teachers were able to give inflections to particular words to reflect their Symbolic content. For example, the Word "Year" holds many meanings. It reflects the concept of as Cylce, which in turn Symbolizes the Circle of Life and the Universe. Similary, the Word "Way" can mean a simple Path or Direction, but it can also mean an entire Philosophy of Life, a Religion, or of Perceiving.

I want you, my Brothers and Sisters, to know that I too am still Learning about the Way of the Circle of Life. The Understanding of this Way is not found just through the Memorization of Stories and Symbols. It is a Living, Growing Thing that comes from Touching others Lives and Experiencing within each of the Four Great Directions. I Know my own Concepts and Perceptions will change and evolve as I venture out into the World.

The Way of the Circle of Life itself is a Living Thing. It is always Growing and Turning within the People. It is not to be Learned by studying Archaic Rituals or Traditions alone, but by Seeking Understanding and then allowing it to Grow within your own Heart, Mind and Spirit. Within the Life Circle there are many Ancient Stories Taught to me, but there are also new Stories that I have Learned from within my own Understandings and Experience. They are there as Teachings from which you can Learn, and which you can Build upon in your own Way. You too are a Life Circle and the Magic of your Perceivings will be unfolded.

When you have Heard these Stories they now become a part of your Awareness, or Understanding. Stories are like Paths, or Ways. Whenever you Hear a Story, it is as if you were Physically walking down a particular Path that it has created for you. Everything you Perceive upon this Path or around it becomes part of YOUR EXPERIENCE, bouth Individually and Collectively.

Particular Stories have within them many Mirrors which Reflect certain Realities that Exist in all of us. Each one of these Mirrors, when you look into it as a Whole Thing, can be a Teacher for you. Experience the Story, open your Mind, Heart and Spirit as you Walk down its' Path, so that you may look into its' Mirrors and See the many Images that are Reflected there for you.

The Story IS the Life Circle, you ARE the Story, you ARE the Life Circle. The Story causes the Life Circle to Turn as you Turn within it.

These are Lessons to Learn and Learned Lessons to Contemplate.

YOU ARE THE STORY!

White Crow October 1950