I believe your credibility is in tact. When I mentioned it's a woman thing, I did not mean men were excluded. Women are more open about it I think. Medicine men have this gift. I had a feeling the Cherokee were not the only Indians had this ability. Dodie Crazy Diamond wrote: > I am a man. I have many experiences of a spiritual and /or psychic nature, > also. Through my mother I have a Sicilian folk-healer connection as my > great-grandmother was very skilled in healing herbs and spells. Also through > my mother's line is the Choctaw line by way of the Varnados(and French). > They used to say it was the Strickland line from Ulster(No. Ireland) that > had "the touch", which, for me at least, is the same line the Varnado line > comes through. I feel strongly, however, that some of that "touch" comes > from the Choctaw line. It's almost as if the ancestors are telling me this. > Then also there is the spirit of place. I live in Robert, LA between Hammond > and Covington, less than 30 miles from where the old Lacombe Choctaw > community was. Perhaps, in my case it is a blending of all these lines. We > are all who came before us. At a place north of here, near Amite, LA, at an > old market gathering place for the local tribes long ago, I had a past life > flash from a well-worn to a polish rock that fit my hand perfectly in two > ways. It is a gray rock, maybe granite. I knew I had held this stone in a > previous life. It was given to me by a lady, without my asking and as my > only payment, whose house I had tried to calm because of a spirit that was > not making itself known, but just being very obviously there. She still had > some uneasiness later and was contacting folks in California about it. She > would smell the lady's perfume. I could sense her in a rocking chair sewing > in a room. > Well, there goes my credibility. Wee-hoo! > Kevin Frindik > Please note I have another e-mail address now. It is [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Dodie <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 7:20 AM > Subject: [CHAHTA] Question > > >I am 1/8 Cherokee so I am on a Cherokee list. The subject of dreams have > >come up. Most of the people have dreams that come true and they know at > >the time they are like predictions. My mother who was Cherokee was > >amazing at this. I have this gift also but not as strongly as my mother. > >Have any of you had this experience? Trying to decided if it is a > >Cherokee thing or if others have this gift also. I am am much more > >Chahta than Cherokee and consider myself Chahta so naturally wonder if > >our people have this gift also. My father never did this, but it seems > >to be more a woman thing anyway. > >Dodie > > > > > >==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > >Choctaw Home Page: > >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > Home Page: > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm