Lakota Spiritual Leader Arvol Looking Horse: What it Means to be Human and Live a Spiritual Life

Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle, welcomed attendees of the 12th World Wilderness Congress being held in Rapid City, South Dakota, this week. Looking Horse is a revered spiritual leader among the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people and beyond. The congress is being hosted by the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council on behalf of the original peoples of this land. Here Looking Horse describes a lifetime of lessons passed down from his grandparents and revealed in ceremony as a young Lakota man. "Every day we remind ourselves of that seventh generation, for they too should have a beautiful life like us. We talk about the cycle of life knowing that every one of have to find our peace to walk that journey … we call the Red Path. Not to have any ill feelings or bad feelings, but no matter what you have to walk. The elders remind us you have to walk in peace to find peace within yourself. Don’t wait until you are ready to go to see the Creator. Teach your little ones all the virtues that the Great Spirit gave us. It’s about love, compassion, respect, honor. For each person, [each] little one, deserves that." The day earlier he warned of great disruptions hitting the Earth systems due to humankind's neglect of the Earth and all our related species. Story at Deceleration: https://deceleration.news/wild12-arvo...