SIOUX STANDING ROCK PIPELINE REBELLION TOUCHES DEEP ANCESTRAL ROOTS

The Sioux pipeline rebellion is touching deep personal native American roots for I have been told my great great grandfather was a deeply loved and respected native American chief and the great joy and freedom of riding my paint horse Scout in the Sonoma hills brought me back to memories of a previous lifetime on the great plains ~ where the love of nature was the law of the land and obeying its sacred laws were a way of life. I fully understand the deep love the native American feels for their sacred land and its native inhabitants: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

Honor the sacred.
Honor the Earth, our Mother.
Honor the Elders.
Honor all with whom we
share the Earth:-
Four-leggeds, two-leggeds,
winged ones,
Swimmers, crawlers,
plant and rock people.
Walk in balance and beauty.

Native American Elder

Being with my horse Scout was a magical bonding experience for me in the 1980's for we shared experiences from another lifetime when life was as simple and free as the wind and we were an integral part of it.

 

But riding him at full gallop in the Sonoma hills and vineyards brought me full circle to another lifetime where we were once again a joyous one with nature and celebrating it together.

 

 

I understand at a profound level the love a native American feels for the land and their role as a protector of this sacred life sustaining bond.

 

“The events at Standing Rock also allow Americans to realize who some of the nation’s most important leaders really are,” writes Bill McKibben. “The fight for environmental sanity ~ against pipelines and coal ports and other fossil-fuel infrastructure ~ has increasingly been led by Native Americans, many of whom are in that Dakota camp today.” (Photo: Twitpic/@350)

Bill McKibben writes in the New Yorker of the validity of this modern day Native American uprising which will not go away and speaks with innate authority ~ "They speak with real authority ~ no one else has lived on this continent for the long-term. They see the nation’s history more clearly than anyone else, and its possible future as well. For once, after all these centuries, it’s time to look through their eyes. History offers us no chances to completely erase our mistakes. Occasionally, though, we do get a chance to show we learned something. "

 

McKibben continues ~ One man in the camp last week said it was the most diverse gathering of Native Americans “since the Battle of Greasy Grass,” known to the white world as Little Bighorn. In other words, America’s shameful history with its native inhabitants is echoing across these Dakota riverbanks this late summer and it's gaining momentum.

 

"The U.S. government is wiping out our most important cultural and spiritual areas,” LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, whose great-great grandmother survived the Whitestone Massacre, wrote this week. “And as it erases our footprint from the world, it erases us as a people. These sites must be protected, or our world will end, it is that simple. Our young people have a right to know who they are. They have a right to language, to culture, to tradition. The way they learn these things is through connection to our lands and our history.”  See McKibben article ~ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/09/a-pipeline-fight-and-americas-dark-past/

 

The BIG PICTURE message of this massive Native American uprising is ~ It's Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels ~ and no one speaks more knowingly of this struggle for "energy justice" than native American activist Winona LaDuke seen here being interviewed by Amy Goodman at Standing Rock ~ 10 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmbPw8RT59Y

 

 

Rebecca Solnit, Guardian UK,  who was at Standing Rock for two days calls it only the beginning of a truly transformative moment in our history ~ " What’s happening at Standing Rock is extraordinary and possibly transformative for native rights, Sioux history, and the intersection of the climate movement with indigenous communities… What’s happening at Standing Rock feels like a new civil rights movement that takes place at the confluence of environmental and human rights and grows from the last 60 years of lived experience in popular power and changing the world. This is already a movement with national solidarity ~ there were support demonstrations in San Francisco and Tulsa, Oklahoma, among other places ~ and a national day of action is scheduled for Tuesday… the larger movement that the uprising at Standing Rock has begun, and the connections it strengthens. It’s only a beginning but it’s a spectacular beginning and a reminder that sometimes the future is made by dreamers and warriors who come together unexpectedly."

See Guardian article ~ http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/39123-focus-standing-rock-protests-this-is-only-the-beginning

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then.

Chief Seattle

 

 

And what's in the way of this movement?

Corporate America and its political and financial allegiance to Fossil Fuel ~ along with the obvious support of Hillary Clinton and Donald trump but most certainly not Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein who was also protesting the pipelines at Standing Rock and has already been issued an arrest warrant.

 

It didn’t take long after the National Guard was activated in North Dakota for militarized law enforcement to descend upon the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Today, mass arrests began as riot gear-clad police attempted to break up Native American opposition to the construction of the pipeline, which has been halted at one location ~ but continues elsewhere. Read update ~ http://indigenous-network.com/breaking-riot-police-begin-mass-arrests-at-dakota-access-pipeline-fb-censors-video/

 

Follow the money ~ After the Obama administration temporarily halted the Dakota Access Pipeline, Real News replays a story examining the substantial financial and political interests backing it ~  4 minute video ~ https://youtu.be/_4a-1rlueV0

 

But this rebellion has now apparently gone global and the Obama administration is once again "going through the motions" of a meaningful response. People across the world stand in solidarity with activists in North Dakota as they continue to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and risk arrest in the process. See Real News video 6 minute update ~ https://youtu.be/1zHgzPDaJ5c

 

Wake up, America ~ there is an extremely strong anti-establishment chord being found in America this election year but the Oligarchy still rules the Democratic Party, which includes both the Clintons, and unfortunately as John Atcheson writes in Common Dreams ~ "The Democratic Party still lives in Davos-land, a place where it’s still possible to believe ~ or at least pretend ~ that serving the ultra-rich and corporations while purporting to represent the people at the same time is anything but a conflict of interest " ~  but the people, including myself, aren’t buying it this election year and the establishment beware ! 

See Transcend article ~ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/09/empire-in-decline-when-the-oligarchy-inherits-the-wind/

 

 

I stand with Amy Goodman and Jill Stein in protecting the Sacred Native American land from the political and corporate interests that control America and fervently hope that Jill Stein will carry this message to the American people in the Presidential debates later this month ~ even if she has to occupy them.

 

This column strikes a deep ancestral chord and I know my great great grandfather would be proud that I am making this public stand.

 

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.

Ancient Indian Proverb

 

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/sioux-standing-rock-pipeline-rebellion.html

 

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a featured guest on many radio and Television programs

GRIM REAPER IN THE SKY / DRONE ASSASSINATIONS WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY

Sooner or later we will all have to come to grips with the collateral psychic damage we have wrought in the Middle East with our Drone assassinations on both innocent victims as well as the perpetrators themselves ~ for chaos reins on both sides when accountability ends: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

 

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”  ~ Paulo Coelho

 

 

Post-Traumatic Stress is a byproduct of combat duty for both the hunted and the hunter ~ but nowhere is that more visible and intense then in Drone warfare when terror arrives unexpectedly from the sky.

 

At that point, Drone warfare becomes intimidation.

 

 

"Sometimes I am so sad that my heart wants to explode," an Afghan man says, speaking directly into the camera. "When your body is intact, your mind is different. You are content. But the moment you are wounded, your soul gets damaged. When your leg is torn off and your gait slows, it also burdens your spirit." The speaker is an unnamed victim of a February 2010 drone strike in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, but he could just as easily be an Iraqi, a Pakistani, a Somali, a Yemeni ~ or for that matter a wounded American combat soldier.

 

But what about the psychic damage and suicidal feelings of the Drone operators and personnel ~ " When we are in our darkest places and we have a lot to worry about and we feel guilty about our past actions, it's really tough to describe what that feeling is like," says Daniel, a whistleblower who took part in drone operations and whose last name is not revealed in National Bird. Speaking of the suicidal feelings that sometimes plagued him while he was involved in killing halfway across the planet, he adds, "Having the image in your head of taking another life is not a good feeling."

 

As Pratap Chatterjee explains in Truth Out ~  "If recent history is any guide, these drones do not just kill terrorists; in their target areas, they also create anxiety, upset, and a desire for revenge in a larger population and so have proven a powerful weapon in spreading terror movements across the Greater Middle East " ~ or create blow back in terms of fanatical retaliation and revenge.  See Article ~

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35738-drone-whistleblowers-step-out-of-the-shadows-in-us-drone-wars-collateral-damage-comes-home

 

 

In addition to those they kill, Washington's terror drones turn out to wound (in ways both physical and psychological) their own operators and the populations who live under their constant surveillance and this is clearly seen in Gavin Hood's excellent film Eye in the Sky.

See three minute preview ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOqeoj669xg

 

"Washington’s use of invasion, bombings, and murder by drone as its principle weapon against terrorists is mindless. It shows a government devoid of all intelligence, focused on killing alone. Even a fool understands that violence creates terrorists" writes Paul Craig Roberts

 

This anguished poem is by an unnamed Afghan woman whose home was destroyed by a drone is an example:

May God destroy your tank and your drone,
you who’ve destroyed my village, my home.

 

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/grim-reaper-in-sky-drone-assassinations.html

 

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a featured guest on many radio and Television programs.

BERNIE RISES FROM THE ASHES / SHOWS UP BIG IN THE WEST

Like a Phoenix from the ashes, Bernie Sanders rises from mainstream media marginalization and Clinton's Arizona vote suppression trickery to score major victories in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii but the momentum and excitement is just beginning and even mother nature wants on the Bernie express: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

It ain't over till it's over ~ Yogi Berra

 

As Robert McChesney says on The Read News ~ " He's still getting massive support. People are just learning about Bernie Sanders in large parts of the country. It's their first introduction to him. And it's a very positive one. So the future, the immediate future, looks great. Saturday he will likely win blowout wins in Hawaii and Alaska, and Washington State, which is a large state. So then he'll have five consecutive blowout 20, 30, 40-point victories over Hillary Clinton in races going into the all-important Wisconsin race

See video ~ 
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15977

 

 
Watch this candid 20 minute Bernie Sanders interview with Cenk Uygur of the The Young Turks (TYT) tytnetwork.com.

It's well worth your time for this interview gives you a glimpse of the real Bernie as well as his honesty and basic humanness.

See video ~ 20 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFitmOTSok 

 

If you don't think Bernie is blessed ~ even mother nature is sending him omens that it's his turn ~ watch this one minute video of Bernie being visited by a small bird in Portland, Washington during a recent stump speech ~ and the crowds hilarious reaction. See video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV2wCXKgG1E

 

 

Bernie is quickly becoming the only true and likeable alternative for intelligent voters who are tired of War talk and threats, Wall Street excess and patriotic campaign Blatter ~ and want instead someone they can trust and respect for President.

 

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/bernie-rises-from-ashes-shows-up-big-in.html

 

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at  allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a featured guest on many radio and Television programs.

 

 

BAND OF BROTHERS #15 / HEALING WOUNDED HEARTS THROUGH HEART CENTERED ACTION

Once again, the magic of love and gratefulness applied through heart centered action leads eight veterans with PTSD to another choice in their life but also to a greater sense of themselves, their purpose and their ability to give and receive love: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

 

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”  ~ Albert Einstein

 

In my role as a volunteer heart centered consultant, advisor and mentor, I have recently assisted in the transition of eight more combat veterans with PTSD who found the courage to go within and beneath their pain and anguish and found, in the process, their original innocence, joy and delight as well as a need to be in service from that very same place of love and gratitude ~ and all within eight sessions in eight weeks.

 

Make no mistake about this, the keys to the magic kingdom of the soul and soul retrieval is gratefulness ~ and gratefulness and eventually forgiveness begins with our self. Each one of these participants with the assistance of their adjustment counselor complete a Life chart ~ a chart which clearly shows their whole life, relationships and war experience and where they are now.

 

But the life chart also shows the path of their heart and how every love relationship has been a gift in their life quest to reconnect with their original innocence, love and joy. For most of them, childhood emotional trauma has caused them to emotionally check out and they live in emotional darkness ~ reinforced by their military experience ~  a grey disconnected world of aloneness and fear based ego consciousness.

 

I am brought in as a former active duty veteran as well as a fully vetted volunteer advisor and heart centered consultant to help these veterans connect the dots and begin to see their whole life as an inner QUEST to find their lost self and how each love relationship has played its role in accelerating that quest to not only find themselves ~  but to also live and speak their inner truth.

 

From the very first session, they begin the process of thanking the people who have been there in their lives and as they do ~ their buried or numbed out hearts begin to open allowing them to see through different eyes.

 

They all have access to these self-healing steps in my updated Kindle Book RADICAL THERAPY, SURRENDER TO LOVE AND HEAL YOURSELF IN SEVEN  SESSIONS (not seven years). Here is the Kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Therapy-Surrender-Yourself-Sessions-ebook/dp/B00JGE5VQE

Here's a link to the YouTube sessions of the self-healing process I teach ~ Watch, in the first 20 minutes, how Marina conquers her deepest fear and demonstrates that beneath her pain and fear is boundless joy, See video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12MoNnwPKg&feature=youtu.be

 

In the third tenet of my PhD dissertation, The Unified Field, I describe the process by which psychic pain can over-ride joy and how most people are afraid of or mistrust their deepest joy ~ It would appear that the pain of not feeling loved for oneself and being seemingly separated from our original state of soul consciousness and the Unified Field is of such deep psychic proportions that, early in childhood, processes are triggered in the hypothalamus which result in a left brain imbalance and dominance as well as the denial, mistrust and forgetting of our connection to the Unified Field and the love and joy and a state of soul consciousness deepest within us. It is from this dark tunnel of pain, aloneness, despair and apparent death that the ego and ego consciousness is born - for survival and protection purposes only. As such, death or the idea of death, is an illusion measured by the limits of our consciousness. It is within that cocoon that the innocent and loving child awaits its turn to be seen and released from its own bondage.

Think of the ego as a protective cocoon that is eventually meant to be shed. The Unified Field can be visualized as a grid of great luminosity joining all living beings within its energy field of love. The words of Longfellow would seem appropriate in describing this all-encompassing field or grid: "The thread of all sustaining beauty that runs through all and doth all unite.

So after sharing their life charts with the group and taking accountability for their life and the decisions they alone have made to run away from love and joy and hide in a cocoon of ego consciousness ~ they all are ready to meet their real coach (the trapped child within) through a guided visualization and begin the process of listening and responding to their own inner guidance but by this time they all at least sense  that deepest within them is love and joy.

 

Here are two of the questions they asked the child during this exercise ~ followed by their answer.

 

5. Is there joy beneath my pain ?

    D ~ Yes

    T ~ Yes

    G ~ Yes

    M ~ Yes

    W ~ Yes

    M ~ Yes

    A ~ Yes

       J ~ Yes, of course.

 

6. How important is this work ?  Why?

    D ~ Very Important,  it's Life and Death

    T ~ Yes, so I can join the human race (Universe)

    G ~ Extremely, It's the only way I can find peace

    M ~ It's most important, I need it

    W ~ Very, It is the most important, it's the path to love myself

    M ~ Very, It's life and death

    A ~ Very, it's important to fully live

       J ~ Very, it will change me forever.

 

In session six, they experience the Death Exercise where each has a chance to clearly see their life as a quest and experience how many people really knew them. Then each one of them experiences a mock death and each one has the chance to feel the love as well as extend that love to one another within the group. For some of them, this is the first time they have experienced themselves being loved for who they really are as well as extending their own love toward others.

 

The last session is all about listening and responding to their inner direction and fully claiming the gift of themselves ~ which is the prime purpose of this self-healing empowering workshop. We now have close to 95 combat veteran graduates with Band of Brothers #16 commencing this week. The graduating Band of Brothers meet once a month in after care to share their experiences as well as welcome the new graduates.

 

And finally here's a breakdown on what each member of Band of Brothers #15 gained from these sessions in their own words.

 

D ~ "I created a veteran family that loves and emotionally supports me."

T~ "I learned to speak from my heart"

G ~ "I have reached a state of inner peace and ease in all situations"

W ~ "I have learned to love and express myself and feel immense feelings of joy"

M ~ "I trust this inner process of listening to myself and learning from within"

A ~ " I'm more focused and less controlled by fear"

M ~ "I've learned to listen to and trust myself"

J ~ "I know I have another choice of behavior and there is joy beneath my pain "

 

It is really so obvious that many of these active duty Veterans want another choice versus drugs in their rehabilitation. The Healing the Wounded Heart program with its emphasis on healing soul damage through gratefulness and heart centered action is a beacon of light in the seemingly impenetrable darkness of PTSD.

 

Perhaps with the upcoming 100th graduate of the Band of Brothers HWH program ~ the VA will realize (similar to the story of the 100th monkey that tipped the balance of monkey consciousness) that the time has come to recognize that a heart centered approach to Veterans rehabilitation has an important role to play in returning our veterans to useful, intentioned and fulfilling lives.

 

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”   ~ Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

 

Allen L Roland, Ph.D

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/band-of-brothers-15-healing-wounded.html

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at  allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans Today and  guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net