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Prophecy for the world’s indigenous Elders is about seeing potentials, and acknowledging the connectedness of all thoughts, feelings, choices,
PROPHECIESactions and flow of energies toward or away from those potentials. Prophecies often reveal choice points, and sometimes the inevitable outcomes of certain choices based on the natural flow of events. As you will see, prophecy is not merely foretelling the future.
Prophecies carried by many indigenous cultures will be revealed here, and you will begin to notice the uncanny commonalities inherent in the stories and teachings of cultures seemingly separated by vast time and geography. Let’s begin with a prophecy that may be familiar to you.
BLACK ELK’S
VISION
By Celinda Reynolds Kaelin ©2004
In 1873, a nine-year-old Lakota (Sioux) boy experienced a powerful vision near the top of Pikes Peak. He was taken through a rainbow door and into a cloud tipi where he encountered six venerable grandfathers. They showed him the future of his people and of the world. When he was an old man, Black Elk shared this vision with the poet and author, John Neihardt, who then wrote Black Elk Speaks (Simon & Schuster,1972). The full transcripts of Black Elk’s vision were later published in The Sixth Grandfather (edited by Raymond De Mallie, University of Nebraska, 1985). In the original transcripts, Black Elk makes it quite clear that his great vision occurred on Pikes Peak. Within this vision, warriors come from the Peak to bring transformation to the world. This is of special significance because the World Council of Elders is headquartered on the Pikes Peak massif.