“The strength of Bear medicine is the power of introspection. It lies in the West on the great medicine wheel of life. Bear seeks honey, or the sweetness of truth, within the hollow of an old tree…
“Bear enters the womb-cave to hibernate, to digest the year’s experience. It is said that our goals reside in the West also. To accomplish the goals and dreams that we carry, the art of introspection is necessary.
“To become like Bear and enter the safety of the womb-cave, we must attune ourselves to the energies of the Eternal Mother, and receive nourishment from the placenta of the Great Void. The Great Void is the place where all solutions and answers live in harmony with the questions that fill our realities.
“If we choose to believe that there are many questions to life, we must also believe that the answers to these questions reside within us. Each and every being has the capacity to quiet the mind, enter the silence and know.
“Many tribes have called this space of inner-knowing the Dream Lodge, where the death of the illusion of physical reality overlays the expansiveness of eternity. It is in the Dream Lodge that our ancestors sit in Council and advise us regarding alternative pathways that lead to our goals.
“This is the power of Bear. The female receptive energy that for centuries has allowed visionaries, mystics, and shamans to prophecy is contained in this very special Bear energy.
“In India, the cave symbolizes the cave of Brahman. Brahman’s cave is considered to be the pineal gland that sits in the center of the four lobes of the brain…To hibernate, Bear travels to the cave, which is the center of the four lobes where the pineal gland resides. In the cave, Bear seeks answers while dreaming or hibernating. Bear is then reborn in the spring, like the opening of spring flowers.
“For eons, all seekers of the Dreamtime and of visions have walked the path of silence, calming the internal chatter, reaching the place of rites of passage – the channel or pineal gland. From the cave of Bear, you find the pathway to the Dream Lodge and the other levels of imagination or consciousness.”
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heather says:
May 5, 2014
love.
Cheri Miranne says:
May 5, 2014
This was the perfect post for me.and probably for many others in this time of re-balancing the Sacred Feminie and the Sacred Masculine.. Thank You
Karate says:
May 5, 2014
Thank you!
Matamia says:
May 6, 2014
Mahalo for the reminder
Camille says:
May 6, 2014
I was just thinking, I wanted to know what Jamie Sams write about Bear medicine in the medicine cards (I haven’t got my own deck yet). Just thinking that and I read stumble across this post. Thank you!
Lily says:
May 7, 2014
Awww… sweet memories.
I had the honour of doing one of my first Sweat Lodge-Rituals with Bear Medicine.
I need to cuddle with MammaBear today!
Olala says:
May 10, 2014
i got nothing to say
Summer says:
May 15, 2014
Beautiful!
Melanie says:
Jun 11, 2014
I love Bear Medicine. Learning about it is creating an open heart space that keeps my mind from looking over life like a spaceship. This post was great, thank you!
Nick Neider says:
Nov 19, 2015
As always exactly what I needed to hear.
Thank you for inspiring all of us.
Joi says:
May 13, 2020
Love!!!!