Horizons 2019: STEVEN BENALLY "Indigenous Peyote Way of Life"

[@holytime1046]

Great video

[@nicoletted3521]

Thank you Mr. Benally for speaking out for Nature, Medicinal Plants, holistic medicine, the power of attitude & prayer, the power of community, sustainable living, natural healing, and Indigenous ways of life. I recently lost my job, hit financial ruin, lost my vehicle, and retired on Social Security - so I was able to escape city life and move "Back to the Land" in southern WV. Now I'm so much happier being surrounded by Nature, utilizing recycled & filtered rain water, having time to cook & garden & allow the peace of the forest to permeate my being. I listen to Dine and Sioux ceremonial songs in gratitude for the natural world, and I was clapping out loud when you said we should dig through the cement and get back to the ground!!

[@larryyazzie3522]

This is Larry Yazzie who resides in Tucson these days. I awoke early today and said my morning prayer and came upon your speech. I was very much inspired by your thoughts and words. I recently traveled to the peyote garden and attended a prayer service for the medicine. To pray and give thanks for peyote, on the sacred grounds where the Great Spirit placed the medicine, is the most joyful and fulfilling of life experiences. I agree that only in our language do we appreciate the term "holistic". In my experience with English, as my second language, it oftentimes causes me to stand outside of my spiritual life journey. One cannot dissect or compartmentalize peyote in order to appreciate and experience its spirit. In my opinion, our spirituality cannot be analyzed and dissected with our mental faculties. Indigenous peoples are blessed with a natural kinship with that which is termed "nature". Yes, our language allows us to connect with nature the same way we connect with relatives, we address them as Mother Earth, Father Sky, Father Sun, Mother Water as the source of the breath of life in the four directions. In that experience of reverencing life and addressing our deities as relatives, I am strengthened and inspired to seek out joy and the goodness of life. For those special brief moments in ceremony, I experience a healing when my spiritual relatives touch, uplift and heal my soul. In that way, I again become one with "all my Relations". Ahee'ee Shilna'aash.

[@AHERZ]

thank you Kevin for bringing this wonderful souls to speak from their experience and hearts. it's been a while since I was able to sit up around that fire. I soothes my heart to hear somebody speak this way. the world needs more of this. thanks you Mr Benally, your doughter, your family for keeping this wisdom and fireplaces alive

[@NaughtyNavajo]

Very informative and moving! My family and I are fortunate to be part of the Azee Bee Nahgha of Dine Nation.

[@lucasschuster2418]

thank you for sharing such important words. bless you!

[@nantsosie86]

We all part of medicine and that all human needs is healing for hope, sing, pray and love for hugs...

[@abbyspencer4631]

The lectures is awsome

[@ProfessorDex]

Grandfather Medicine has changed my life in every aspect physically spiritually emotionally, I am forever grateful for his teaching and lighting my path on the Red Road. May his medicine reach across every soul who seeks the sacred knowledge and profound healing Wakantanka Tunkashila Mother Maka Pachamamita please pass this blessing i have received to those who need may it reach the hearts and minds and heal their souls Aho MitakuyeOyasin

[@stephenalishtasen1540]

I am eternally blessed to have reconnected to my native roots. I never knew I had Native ancestry until I had a true vision. Not a hallucination! A vision! It is very different and spiritual. I always begins with prayer! I struggle today because I tried to adopt the non-Indian way of life which doesn’t work for me. “Is that normal?” No one on the street saying hello! How are you? … Thank You

[@urbanslim8966]

Everything we use comes from mother earth..every prayer has a connection we all have one creator..

[@stillirise505]

Thank you! Proud member of NAC thank you for sharing..

[@richardblackstar7887]

My grandpa chief told me the same saying nobody is perfect we all make mistakes we aren't better than one another this medicine can help us our everyday life comes from we are all the same

[@MichaelJohnson-dp8wm]

Great speech thank you..me benally..I feel great & heal after listening to u..aho

[@drnrbnta5547]

Diné traditional teaching and the living the lifestyles are the "Way of Life". Ya'ah'teeh means the growth towards the heavens. Peyote is adopted but it does have special healing powers.

[@dexterj7059]

Nizhoni...much respect

[@shannondawes6045]

I am coming home

[@steveweidenbaum943]

Very interesting.

[@stephenalishtasen1540]

This has and is an important consideration and thus prayer should always begin a conversation about all medicine plants. It is spiritual! The medicine plant is the teacher as we all know so we do what we can to protect all our legal God given rights to use the medicine we choose but we need to keep the focus spiritual and not be concerned if someone doesn’t want to pray with us. Let them go their way. We are here to help one another, heal ourselves and help those who want help. Mitakuye Oyacin Stephen Alish Tasen

[@LeffewYazzie]

That's for the words ...

[@MrStaybrown]

Hosting a peyote meeting is expensive. Nowadays everyone wants hundreds of dollars, some people spend $5000.00 by the end of it. I remember 30 years ago the old medicine people said helping people shouldn't cost money and they would conduct ceremonies for a good meal. Greed has made its way in.

[@erickanuho4996]

Wow 5000. Wow.

[@DD-rt9lc]

This sacred spirit plant really helps sooth spondylitis immune system disfunction.. To all earth peaple all over keep strong the new sun is rising.

[@eriggs68]

Ahe'hee to mother medicine for this way of life.

[@jayscroggins.thunderboy3064]

I'm Oglala Lakota, wopila, Tunkasila, canku Luta, Aho heceitu Mitakuye Oyasin ✌🏽

[@larryyazzie3522]

Ya'ateeh Shilna'aash,

[@richardblackstar7887]

I am full bloded comanche NUMUNU

[@QualeQualeson]

Cool. Have you read "Empire of the summer moon"?

[@darwinmitchell7549]

The good red road

[@jimmyredhouse4256]

That's my cheii

[@shaggyclitso472]

Peyote song are from Comanche

[@tranceam]

[@WriterProducerDirector]

Steven God Bless You and your family! Mescaline (one of 5 alkaloids in Peyote could be considered "psychedelic" but to get that affect from the plant you would have to eat your body weight x 30 or more. Western man isolated mescaline in the 1930's sometime. Peyote is medicine. PERIOD.

[@marianmccrea7704]

Nizhoni

[@pedroortega4607]

We’ve been given a criminal mentality. The “O” in hijo translated into son. The dimensions of the “O” in English and “O” in Spanish is the same mentality. People then are objectified with this criminal mentality of the “O”. In the Maya indigenous mentality the “O” is consciousness. Just like the oppressive understanding of the wilderness it’s different in indigenous ways of life “my other me, the trees”.

[@thomassmithjr6670]

Aho'

[@bridgham1]

Its only psychedelic if you over do it. Any medicine can become poison that way.

[@leroythompson1372]

What about in our own language were white peoples

[@leroythompson1372]

Explain in our language we’re not white peoples