I took no offense, Dodie. I can't get a non-threatening matter-of-fact sound in my e-mail. There was no ill will meant or felt. Peace, Kevin/CD 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 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] Question >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 > > >==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== >Home Page: >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm

I'm really glad you shared this with us. My ex husband has this to some degree. I don't know if he has Indian or not, he is a major racist what ever he is. His mother once said she thought there might be Indian blood on her side. This really makes me curious why some men do have this gift but not as many as women. Wonder if men just tune it out when they are young. I have the opinion that everyone probably has this but throughout the ages it has been lost by being surpressed by the dominate society. Where Indians have always excepted these things as natural and live closer the natural type of life. We haven't surpressed as many thing. Couse this is just my opinion with no fact to back it up. Dodie Crazy Diamond wrote: > I took no offense, Dodie. I can't get a non-threatening matter-of-fact sound > in my e-mail. There > was no ill will meant or felt. > Peace, > Kevin/CD > 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 7:06 PM > Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] Question > > >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 > > > > > >==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > >Home Page: > >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L: > Send msg. to [email protected] > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" without the quotes > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures.......