a Warrior's SHIELD

Busty Brit

British woman 

"It is good to know what hurts and what ails you.  It (the pain) becomes part of your shield and in battles what you chose to fight identifies targets and areas of concern. The sharpening of spirit and mind is clearly the task of a warrior. Without clarity how would power fit in and find a place to strengthen you? 

The inflicted pain of racism is good for the soul of the work of a true Peace Keeper and the Warriors... How?"  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.15.14

Maasai woman warrior

Faith is a SHIELD

Faith Is More Powerful Than Fear
By Dr. Sinclair Grey III 


Fear has a way of disguising itself so that it appears bigger than faith. In my preacher's voice, 'the devil is a liar.' Faith is more powerful than fear. It's your faith that will open up doors for you to walk through. In a real sense, through faith in God, you are able to do and see the impossible become possible. Let me remind you of some things: It was faith that helped you in your time of need. It was faith that allowed certain blessings to come your way that you weren't even expecting. It was faith that saved you and delivered you. And it was faith that elevated you above your distractions and distractors.

The Bible says, "For God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind." Please don't miss this. Fear is from the enemy, while faith is from God. Remember, fear will keep you locked up while faith has the ability to free you up. The choice is yours. Do you want to be incarcerated by the spirit of fear or do you want to soar with your faith? Oh, I need to drop this important note. Fear seeks out excuses for why things can't and/or won't happen. As I close this message, I urge you to operate under faith and trust in God with everything. 6.24.14

PRACTICE 48: your face your shield

Ojibwe artist Simone McLeod
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I look in your face and remember, "The fighter is the warrior in the dramas we create and encounter, the people and ideas we defend, and the scope of our responsibility in our communities. The warrior is defined by the crudeness of taking life and the difficulty in the details of sustaining and affirming life. It is a choice to be brave. It is a choice to be wise. It is a choice to define who you are and what kind of person you will become. All these things make up minds, and the all of the aspects of a warrior are drawn into his/her shields and embedded within the expressions worn on the face." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.15.14

Warrior Man holding paint brush as if it is a prayer pipe.
May 11 

, 2014

"Beauty will save the world. Brush and paint artist are a powerful weapon." -  Vasil Woodland

PRACTICE 21

FATHER TO HIS SONS

Son, this is from a level of spiritual warriorship not for the faint of heart, or the untrained. This fight is within you, but what will your Medicine, your life dictate for  you to undertake? is the central question to answer. To engage in this dialogue online is senseless. But, to engage in the dialogue is full of good common sense. As you age periodically examine your shield reading and discerning its language. - your father (Gregory E. Woods) 12.13.13

The Teaching  

"The kind of shield that allows only the thought forms of light to enter and returns all darkness and destruction to the sender." ~ Agnes Whistling Elk, elder & Grandmother teacher of author Lynn Andrews  



Sara Dastjani
October 8, 2013 



PRACTICE 19: image of illusion

Big Buttaholics

"The warrior's only shield in war is that he loves peace more than war, and the only creature he should fear is himself. When we fight only in order to fight, we will lose something we will never get back and we destroy much more than we are able to make up in one life. Wars are started in our hearts and it is up to us to make peace to the way out or to become part of war." - Goes with 3 Faces 

modeling nov. 27, 2013
IMAGE of imagination

It is the hidden gun we don't see. It is the illusion we fall prey to advancing upon one we see as vulnerable. Security is all illusion. There is no safe place lest we create it and the 'it' is illusion hiding the weapon that may kill you, or maim or demoralize you. The most difficult trick to unlearn is to believe beauty is what it is on a woman. The success of a woman defending herself is based upon what she convinces the predator, the stalker, the killer to believe and to see.

If I can convince you I will and can kill you you will think of other things and do other things away from me. That is a convincing spirit. Wars and hunts are within the spirit first and end in the body count.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Dawn Wolf)
December 11, 2013

BE STILL TO KNOW

Created To Soar
By Dr. Sinclair Grey III


Have you ever noticed as soon you get your life together haters and drama kings/queens come out of the woods? In other words, they want to crush you, degrade you, and demean you. You're blowing up because the favor of God is all over your life and they are torn up. As my mentor preached years ago, 'you can't control how others feel about you, you just have to feel good about yourself.' Here's the Sinclair remix. When God blesses you, He expects you to soar not remain grounded. I want you to get this into your spirit - if you want to soar, you need to hang with eagles who fly high and leave pigeons alone who are filthy, unclean, and without any guidance.

The Bible says, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper." Please don't miss this. The greater your anointing, the great the hateration. However, it's through the hateration thrown at you that you can tap into some motivation to help you reach your elevation. (Oops, I said something). Never apologize for doing God's will. Never feel the need to justify why you refuse to settle for settling. And never stoop down to the level of haters because you have too much in store for you to waste it on foolishness. Just remember, you were created to soar. 7.11.14

Creation of a World 

Well, there is a spiritual law at work. When any of us project into the universe our intentions those words are a declaration and a challenge. The universe will test every utterance and challenge the integrity and strength of one's intent. It is the way the invisible comes into matter. That is the core of the Adamic story between Eve and Adam in that order. We are mysterious forces in nature and the universe. Small we may be, but our word and our spirit can reach beyond the scope of our presence into the timeless quality of will, intent and integrity into the Beyond, the Unknowable Unknown! 

Detractors are not so much haters as they are spoilers and deeply despondent. They haven't formed their alliances with the higher powers within or outside of their being. For them it is comfortable to be fearful in their mind's eye. It is their illusion, and it is their painful illusions that teaches our will and assertions. Our job and immediate concern is to make right choices! Detractors are not so much haters as they are spoilers and deeply despondent. They haven't formed their alliances with the higher powers within or outside of their being. For them it is comfortable to be fearful in their mind's eye. It is their illusion, and it is their painful illusions that teaches our will and assertions. Our job and immediate concern is to make right choices! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.12.14

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LOOK INTO ME

Ann Taylor squatting in shadows by Ian Cuttler
May 11, 2013

The mysterious mistreatment of ideas and illusions is deliberate in some people's lives because of what they were been filled with in their youth. Fear of being judged as sexy, or powerful somehow has crossed out the play of femininity and been replaced by a too strong male shield. Shields need balance as well as a warrior and a warrioress need to be balanced. One cannot carry shields to battle, or walk in a good way with them if they are not balanced.

Our spiritual shields need not only be for protection. They can tell the story of who we are in our core, our essence. Is elegance a shield? Is beauty a shield? As I get older it is clear that the gift of beauty is also a responsibility and a way of focusing the eye of one's intention upon the core of one's being. Beauty is a gift and a joy to behold! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9.7.13

Amy Taylor by Ian Cutler
May 11, 2013

RAINBOW EAGLE, PEACE SHIELD & PROPHECY

Hope Found in Teachings of an Ancient American Indian Peace Shield
by Rainbow Eagle, Seventh Fire Peace Shield Teacher

I am a native person of Okla-Choctaw heritage, who has been entrusted and honored, in this Seventh Fire, to offer the teachings of an ancient Anishinabe (Ojibwa) Peace Shield of Truth and instructions to the Human Family one last time. The ancient truths of this shield are older than many sources including the Dead Sea Scrolls. Gathering and increasing truth's power to restore and amplify peace upon Mother Earth is the ultimate purpose of the Peace Shield. A bundle was opened in early 1996 in a special ceremony to begin the sacred mission of the Peace Shield. Contained within the bundle is a sacred prayer pipe and large elk hide upon which the Peace Shield is drawn.


"The Seven Fire Prophecy" foretold of this time to the ancient people. Seven prophets spoke of a Fire or Spiritual chapter, which described things, which would happen to the people. The Seventh Prophet said that native ways would be honored and the Elders would again speak. Also shared was, the light skinned race would be given a choice between two roads: destruction or the lighting of the Eighth and final fire, an age of peace, love, joy and oneness. In addition, the Seventh Fire foretold of the signals, which would be given to Native People so they would know when to act for the good of "All Relations." The signals would include environmental concerns, risks to the destruction of humanity, high levels of technology, Earth Changes, and finally Freedom for Native people to participate in their beliefs.


The Peace Shield is a reminder to Native people that in the Seventh Fire it would be their responsibility to assist and help bring the Human Family back together again. "These original truths of the Peace Shield are to be given to the Human Race for the last time so that each person can have what they need to decide the future of our Mother Earth." The Peace Shield teaches the value, beauty, wisdom and wonder of walking into the future with great faith and absolutely no fear. In the past the Peace Shield provided community and personal stability, it now charters for human kind a journey into the blessed future. The Peace Shield brings this challenge to all Earth Walkers - become more aware of and develop respect for all religions and ways of reaching toward the Creator. The peace Shield has a specific circle that honors and holds the energy of those prophets, messengers and spiritual leaders who are the reflections or rays of light that emit the truths and glow of the Great Source/Creator. Unique to the Peace Shield is the bringing of a "sharing table" into the Lodge of the Creator.


At this table, the Human Family can become aware of our neighbors that share this earthly planet. As each person, group and community of believers’ talks with each other, the outcome promised in many prophecies comes nearer. I believe that spirituality lives first in one's personal expression of truth, second, in the choice to find companionship with others and third in the courage and self-discipline to walk one's talk in the next "fire" or dimension of existence. One reminder is presented here for all to consider.


Sacred scrolls and documents will be brought out of their concealment when the people return to spiritual ways, "By Faith Alone." We must take time to reflect upon our native warriors and aborigines who exhibited no fear in purer cultural times. A significant blessing, and gift, of the Peace Shield is its energy to balance oneself and groups. The task of spiritual beings in the Seventh Fire is the balancing or the strengthening of two aspects of our personal outlook on life. Having achieved this balancing of two truths, there develops within our spiritual being a totally new aspect within us. This new aspect, a third dimension of self, can assist and literally propel us into or towards a new reality of life, or step into the future. Many of us are standing at some sort of "Y" in the road. I believe the Peace Shield within us and the Peace Shield(s) by ancient ones can shed light upon our journey back to the side of the Creator and Community. The future will be created by each one of us. Let us all anticipate and prepare, even celebrate our Journey toward new realities of life.


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