Have you ever wondered what happens when life ends? I’m sure you have and believe this or that. There are so many different beliefs or if you prefer religions out there today.
Here is the rub what do Indians of India believe? I may step on some sacred cows here but what the heck! Oh, cows yea the Hindus believe they are sacred and yet people are starving. Just as with the many cows wandering around they have as many gods.
The Buddhist are told once you reach enlightenment you’ve attained everything. Can one really reach such a point? What is enlightenment?
Is it reached in death: reincarnation into nirvana?
Surely some like the Mormons or Latter-day-Saints teach that your own righteousness makes you worthy enough to populate your own planet in the afterlife. You become a god maker.
Some Muslim preach that dying for Allah means you get to have some 79 or something like that virgins as gifts from him? Begs the questions where are they going to come from and how old will they be?
How about Christians? I know that a belief in Christ Jesus means eternal life through his death, burial and resurrection. A belief that we are sinners and in need of a savior.
Indians, also called native Americans -First peoples, natives, or indigenous are separate groups and have their own beliefs too. Now exactly what do we, they believe?
They believe in the great spirit. They believe in doing sweats to purify the spirit as well as cleanse the body and mind.
They have healing ceremonies. And some even are keepers of sacred things. Like fire, the drum, the mountains and trees.
I heard one say that its spiritual and doesn’t matter which race or color you are.
Indians have their own church the Native American Church. Peyote is used to enhance the spiritual experience. As with all things they say that it is open to anyone who wants to join.
Well, there is the teaching though I’m not sure where it came from. The story or belief in the happy hunting ground. Why a hunting ground if we are spirits, do, we hunger? Can one kill a spirit bear or buffalo and what would it taste like?
One would certainly hope that its’ not all hunted out for spirit fur or for spirit housing or other things. Surely no spirit tribal casinos there?
There is the belief that we came from under the earth. Hmm the bible does say that God formed man from the dirt?
When I was growing up, we played in the dirt and got it all over us. Our parents especially mom scolded us sometimes harshly for getting dirty and muddy! Come to think about it weren’t we just playing with parts of our DNA? You think maybe?
Who knows?
Do you know where you will go?
If as people who are spiritual as the firekeeper said don’t it make you wonder about the spiritual hereafter?