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posted July 18, 2005 08:23 AM         

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This weekend hubby and I went to the Chirichaua National forest. It's not far from us. We needed a quick get-away so we camped over-night in the park. I'll try to post some photos. This is a geeeeeoooooorrrrrgggggouuusss area!
Except, I didn't feel a spiritual connection of any kind all weekend. I tried to listen, appreciate, connect... Nothing. I've been like this for about two weeks. Spiritually dead. How can that happen in a place like this?

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posted July 18, 2005 09:43 PM         

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Did you have high expectations of the place?

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posted July 19, 2005 11:39 AM         

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Philbird, a few years ago I was working with kids who are at risk with gangs and other forms of violence on Rosebud reservation in South Dakota. The country though somewhat desolate was incredible. I mean there is Mt Rushmore and the Crazy Horse monument, the Badlands....yet with all of that, I felt an overwhelming sadness, and depression whenever I was there. I thought how can feel so spiritually unconnected in this strange mystical place?? Later I realized that I was strongly experiencing the oppression of the Sioux nation and it's people. Our government took the best of the land there and left the Sioux with the most desolate of it. The reservations are filled with shanty-like housing for the most part. The people are beaten down through generation after generation of oppression. It is so very sad.....that's what I was feeling.
I don't know anything about the area that you visited. But, I know that it was very difficult to find a spiritual connection where I was. It came only after I partook in some of the Sioux ceremonies...not everyone is allowed to do that...I was honored by it and finally was able to connect again through some of their rituals and talking with some of their wise ones...elders.
Hope you feel better soon....

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posted July 19, 2005 12:56 PM         

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I posted in FFA. "Suggestions..." I think since I have been like this for about two weeks or so, it was something like the quiet before the storm. Our decision to chuck it all is revitilizing! The expectations I had when we went there were just to have some peace and quiet. Well, there were screaming kids everywhere! That could have been it. They did eventually move on, but not for most of the weekend.

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