Elders Voices Medicine Stories from Gary Black Bear🐻😘

Video of soothing flute song in nature during Elders Legacy Project

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You/we are blessed with the flute Black Bear carved and played me a Lullaby by the river. I Loved it, the birds loved it, and I have a feeling you will Love it too?!

Happy Sunday Brothers and Sisters,

It’s been hard to wait to introduce you to yet another Shaman and Medicine Man!!

I could write three articles on Gary Black Bear alone. However, some of the lessons and Blessings will be for paid subscribers.

You see, meeting up to gather his story was not only a magical sacred connection you’ll read it also is a magical soul contract.

The first synchronicity was from learning I knew his Elder, Grandfather Cal. He was magical too I met him in the late 1990's. He came and taught a group of us how to make a hand drum. Then for a time, Grandfather Cal came to our neck of the woods to run sweat lodges. Now as I’m writing this it hit me the twist and turns to bring me currently living near his hometown and in this City, Black Bear grew up in.

We had so much to talk about and he had so much to show me Our interview went from 1:00 pm until 10:00 pm and I was blessed with a tour of where medicines are!!

Before Sharing Good medicine of what is Possible with strong Prayers from the Heart in coherence with strong spirits of Black Bears’ incredible experiences, some would say Miracles. I would like to introduce you to Gary Black Bear the Carver.

Photo- May 2023 at Mohawk Park Black Bear with two of his flutes.

Black Bear has been a carver since he was eight. Both of the flutes shown above he fashioned from a Vision.

One of the flutes he carved is from White Pine which is a Tree of Peace and it is tuned to the Earth tones he calls it -Ahki Pawagan

The other is carved from Cedar and it is to lift a person up and is a sky flute named - Ahnii Pawagan. He told me,” Pawagan means pipe.” said, “A pipe can be a flute.”

He said, “The flutes are sound frequency healing, tuned into the natural order.”

Black Bear was born and raised in Brantford. His roots are Ojibwa, and his people are from Rainy River by Lake Superior. When I asked him the if Ojibwa is another name for Anishanabee, he replied, “The meaning of Anishanabee is brothers and sisters of the One, the Plants, Animals, Birds, Bees, Fish, Trees and all that is Seen and Unseen.”

The Elders came to mentor him from the Mississaugas of the New Credit, as well as Elders from Sault St. Marie and Six Nations of the Grand, to show him the path of his heart and his gifts as a Medicine Man, Shaman, and Pipe Carrier.

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A portion of significant time in his life was when he was sponsored to go to Australia, six times.

Black Bear was called as a Pipe Carrier along with his other healing skills, to Australia,  over those years he traveled from one end to the other. Sharing stories and Ceremonies with their Nations of Aboriginal Shamans. 
 
Black Bear received a beautiful message that began with a Question in Australia and the answer came when he came back home.

He was speaking by the Mountains in Australia, he said, “You didn’t need a microphone.” The spot they were in boomed out the voices of the Speakers.
He feels the sacredness of the mountain had opened him up to speak from the flow.

When he was finished speaking a  young girl in her late teens beelined it straight to him from the Distance and he could see she was light up, and he said to her, “A little spark hit you eh?”  She asked him, “Who are you?” He took that Question and started asking himself, “Who am I?” That was in 2012.


When he came home he did a Ceremony on the Rez and he heard a male voice on his way home, as clear as day answer his musing,
A side note, he told me, his most prominent way to receive a messages from Creator is through visions, but this time it was through Clairsentience, hearing Spirit’s voice.

Incredible and beautiful message from Spirit;

“You are all of one, One of All,
There is no time, manmade time,
Without time, there can be no space,
Without space, there can be no distance,
Without distance there can be only One.
You are all of One, One of All, You are,
No one beneath you, no one above you,
One of All, All of One - We are.”
 
He said, “All the way home from the Rez (six Nations) I kept hearing the voice with that same message, over and over like a chant.
 
Another time in Australia he was called as a Pipe Carrier to go perform a Miracle for bringing rain. He was honoured to be with six others and a fellow from Montana who is the International Pipe Carrier. 

The news reported it on ABC and the interviewer beforehand had scoffed at it and said, “That can’t be done.”

These pipe carriers prayed and called in the Thunder beings and yes, did it rain, 40 gallon Drum barrels of rain fell all at once in the severe drought and it ended very quickly!

Photo Oct 2023 at Elders Legacy Celebration, Black Bear Gifted me with arrowhead carving, he played his flute there too!


My final Question, “Do you have wisdom to share with the younger generation?”

Black Bear said, “Always remember the inner child is never older than nine. He suggests to walk in nature, smell the breeze, look around, look around, look around and see the Beauty.”
The last part of “look around”, he said came from his Elder Grandfather Cal’s book.
 
My musings at the end of gathering his story were...
 It is good that we live in a time when Indigenous Ceremonies are not against the law like they once were when good medicine can be shared.

How much has the world missed out on?

Peace,
One of All, All of One - We are

I feel privileged to be the one to gather these medicine stories and to be a voice for meaningful times in Black Bear’s life. The original story I wrote for Belonging Brant can be viewed on their website Belonging Brant Elders Stories

If you are in the same mind as me, and feel more eyes should read this good medicine story? You can now be rewarded by sharing! :)

Big Love,

Magical Margarita xo