Fay: I know little to help you with this, hopefully others will know more and can advise you. I am not able to make things come me, it just happens. But there may be ways I don't know about. Sorry I can't help. Dodie faynshep wrote: > I have read with much interest all the posts that have to do with things of a spiritual nature. I believe that term covers the spectrum. I understand not telling others for fear of being called crazy. I had an out of body experience 39 years ago when my first daughter was being born and didn't speak of it for 20 years. > I haven't asked for help finding my Choctaw ancestors yet because I felt it was useless and it may be. I feel that without help from the other side from my great-great grandmother, I will never find the information I need written in any book, or on any piece of paper any where. They said she was part Choctaw and that she was raped by a full-blood Choctaw. This was in 1880 and she never married or had any other children besides my great grandfather. The chances of my finding any thing written down any where is "0". Many times I have wished I could be close to my departed ancestors and have been told that they are close to us and wondered if there was any way I could prepare myself in order to be in tune to the quiet promptings that I know are possible. From what I read and hear, I think it is more something that is more a "gift" than something that can be "acquired." > Does anyone have any ideas on this subject? > Fay > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > Home Page: > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm

Halito, All! I rarely join in, but always enjoy reading all the "chat". This is a topic I need to stick my two cents in on. I have "known" things ever since I was a child, but I have never talked about it much. It is something that just comes to me ... not something that I really control. An example: One day I was driving to town, and suddenly had the feeling I MUST go see my grandmother. So, I turned around and went. Because there had been some trouble in the neighborhood, she always kept her door locked even when she was home. When I got there, her car was there; but, the door was locked and there was no answer when I knocked. A deep, powerful feeling came over me that it was important that I get in. I turned the door knob again, and it opened. I found my grandmother had fallen in the bottom of her bedroom closet and could not get up; she was trapped there. If I hadn't come, she could have been there, hurt, for at least several hours, if not days. Grandmother always said you have to be a strong person to walk the good, red road because, most of the time, it was not easy. I hope it is okay for me to take part. I am Cree and French Canadian; but, my man is Choctaw. And, we are learning a lot about the traditional way here. Yokoke! Gladys (Flower Woman) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dodie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:29 PM Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] I Need Help!! > Fay: > I know little to help you with this, hopefully others will know more and can advise you. I am not able to make things come me, it just happens. But there may be ways I don't know about. Sorry I can't help. > Dodie > > faynshep wrote: > > > I have read with much interest all the posts that have to do with things of a spiritual nature. I believe that term covers the spectrum. I understand not telling others for fear of being called crazy. I had an out of body experience 39 years ago when my first daughter was being born and didn't speak of it for 20 years. > > I haven't asked for help finding my Choctaw ancestors yet because I felt it was useless and it may be. I feel that without help from the other side from my great-great grandmother, I will never find the information I need written in any book, or on any piece of paper any where. They said she was part Choctaw and that she was raped by a full-blood Choctaw. This was in 1880 and she never married or had any other children besides my great grandfather. The chances of my finding any thing written down any where is "0". Many times I have wished I could be close to my departed ancestors and have been told that they are close to us and wondered if there was any way I could prepare myself in order to be in tune to the quiet promptings that I know are possible. From what I read and hear, I think it is more something that is more a "gift" than something that can be "acquired." > > Does anyone have any ideas on this subject? > > Fay > > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > > Home Page: > > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm > > ______________________________