Read Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt
back in the Age of Aquarius nineteen seventies.
Black Elk, powerful Medicine Man, mystic too.
Parts of the book trails of tears, sorrowful times
saddened me what Black Elk went through.
At the end of the book Black Elk did a rain dance
and the rains fell, according to John G Neihardt.
Night I finished the book had a mystical dream.
On the top of a street I lived near in my youth,
trouble making teenagers gathered wild and rambunctious.
Black Elk appeared looking old, decrepit, weak and helpless.
Teenagers yell, “Make it rain, make it rain, Black Elk!”
Knowing he couldn’t do it, taunting and disrespecting him.
He starts unsteady powwow dance steps, chants weakly,
Teenagers laugh and keep making fun of him.
I say, “Don’t, don’t,” at what they’re doing to ancient-looking Black Elk.
Black Elk keeps dancing and chanting weakly, feeble attempts.
Teenagers keep laughing hysterically, drop to the ground holding their stomachs.
Suddenly massive dark clouds roll in from the four corners of the world,
shocking, apocalyptic sight, day turning into night, end of the world feeling.
Teenagers’ screams pierce the air, terrified death is coming for them.
Smiling and amazed, I gaze at Black Elk, the dark clouds rumbling overhead.
Seconds later I’m standing in the center of the universe
beholding endless planets and stars. Woke up, mind blown,
knew it was more than a dream,
Genuine after death contact with a powerful medicine man.
I think because of empathy.
Bob Boyd
“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
Black Elk
“Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.”
Black Elk
I found this quote after the dream and saw the “four quarters” like the four corners in my dream, suggesting the four quarters might have been significant in Native American Spirituality.
I believe the dream I had of Black Elk was a genuine After Death Communication, ADC. I don’t have mystical or ADC dreams much, just two ADC dreams, and don’t seek to have them or lucid dreams.
As you may or may not know, believe or not believe, dreams are often a conduit for ADCs. Some ADCs involve scents. For example, suddenly the air around you is suffused with a deceased woman’s perfume or a deceased man’s after shave or other scents. There are other ways ADCs happen as well.
I also believe sometimes empathy can draw a deceased person to you in a dream. It’s probably rare, but I believe sometimes it happens. My two ADC dreams were because of empathy.
But, here’s what will puzzle me to my dying day. Houdini made a pact with his wife that if he left the world before her, he would try to contact her form the afterlife.
Surprisingly, the man would could break out of almost anything in this life was never able to contact his wife from the afterlife.