From Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center:
While not the highest peak in Glacier, at 9080 feet, Chief Mountain stands ahead of the other mountains on the eastern edge of the Rockies and looks out over the plains. It can be seen for over a hundred miles away. Lying half in Glacier, half in the Blackfeet Reservation to the east, and just under 5 miles from the border that passes through the Peace Park, the mountain transcends boundaries. For people of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes tribes in the US and Canada, Chief Mountain has helped define their territory for millennia. The prominence and visibility of the mountain provided guidance, shelter, and a landmark for travelers. Named “Ninaistako” by the Blackfeet, the mountain holds great power and ancient knowledge. Use of the mountain for ritual and ceremonial purposes goes back thousands of years. It is a sacred area. Chief Mountain is considered the oldest spirit of any of the mountains and creation stories of the Blackfeet are linked to it.
I will not always be a human being, but.
I will always be of God.
All of us--and everything with us--
are/is of God.
God is not separate from us,
different from us,
other than us.
Everyone and all things are of God,
and are/is God.
God is the ground of all being and non-being,
even non-being IS!
All that IS is God.
Nothing is Not-God.
There is only God.
God is the matrix of the cosmos,
but then, the cosmos is the matrix of the cosmos.
The cosmos is God.
The cosmos is all there is.
Everything is God.
This means a lot of things.
The most significant thing it means,
from my point of view,
is that a lot of appologizing
needs to be done.
From non-native colonizers to natives.
From white people to black people.
From Jews to Palestinians...
all the way down the line.
There is no Us and Them.
No "I and It."
It is all "Thou Art That!"
Life is our opportunity
to see that it is so--
to know that it is so--
and to live as though it is so.
Life not lived like that
is a wasted opportunity.
A shameful thing.
To be realized,
recognized,
and borne throughout eternity.
God and That Which Did Not Know
It Too Was God.
Making amends forever.
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