Gladys, Jump in anytime. The only way to learn is to ask questions and talk about them. -----Original Message----- From: Gladys M. Warren <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 5:44 AM Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] I Need Help!! >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 >> >> ______________________________ > > >==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== >Home Page: >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.htm >