{"id":2639,"date":"2011-06-07T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2011-06-08T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T13:58:06","slug":"we-must-choose-every-day-how-we-use-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/06\/we-must-choose-every-day-how-we-use-power.html","title":{"rendered":"We must choose every day how we use power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/files\/2011\/06\/Burnum-Burnum.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2641\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/2011\/06\/Burnum-Burnum-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a>When I was presenting at a Mind, Body, Spirit Festival in Sydney some years ago, an imposing Aboriginal healer named Burnum Burnum, his great beard lapping over a blue frock coat, grabbed me as we were leaving the platform together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re one of mine, mate, so I\u2019m going to show you something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He drew me to a corner away from the crowd. \u201cPut out your hand.\u201d When I complied, he quickly placed two dart-like objects in my palm. \u201cDo you know what these are?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are your bones.\u201d Actually, one was a piece of sharpened walrus bone, and the other was fashioned from mulga wood.<\/p>\n<p>The Aboriginal elder\u2019s eyes flashed like fire opals. \u201cThen you know they can be used to kill or to heal. That\u2019s the nature of power. The more of it that\u2019s with us, the more we have to <em>choose <\/em>\u2014 every bloody day \u2014 how we are going to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was presenting at a Mind, Body, Spirit Festival in Sydney some years ago, an imposing Aboriginal healer named Burnum Burnum, his great beard lapping over a blue frock coat, grabbed me as we were leaving the platform together. \u201cYou\u2019re one of mine, mate, so I\u2019m going to show you something.\u201d He drew me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,25,26,21,42],"tags":[280,278,277,279],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-traditions","category-conscious-living","category-life-direction","category-psychic-health","category-shamanism","tag-aborigines","tag-burnum-burnum","tag-pointing-bones","tag-sydney"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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