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All men were made by the
same Great Spirit
Chief.
They are all brothers.
The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people
should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
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John Cali |
How It Started
On May 24, 1992,
as the sun broke through the misty silvery stillness of the
California mountains, a familiar figure appeared to me. He
identified himself as Chief Joseph. He was familiar because
he'd been lingering on the periphery of my awareness for six
years. But I never knew who he was. Now I did.
In one of his
many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the
legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Tribe in what is now
the U.S. state of Oregon.
Chief Joseph
lived from about 1840 until September 21, 1904. During the
1877 Nez Perce War and until his death, Joseph was one of
the tribe's prominent leaders. An eloquent speaker and
statesman, he was a strong advocate of American Indian
rights, the equality of all people, and deep reverence for
our Mother Earth and all her inhabitants.
In May 1992, I
was experiencing some pretty hefty challenges in my personal
and spiritual life. (Or, to use Joseph's definition of
challenges, opportunities for remembering who I am.) He
offered to help me. I said, "Sure, I can use all the
help I can get!"
And so it began.
Joseph and I continued like that, one-on-one, for several
years. We dealt mostly with my personal issues. We also
worked privately with a small circle of close friends. But
we did nothing publicly.
Then, toward the
end of 1995, Joseph asked if I'd consider channeling
publicly for others, especially since it had been so helpful
to me. I said, "No, I don't think so." But one
thing led to another. And, ultimately, Joseph prevailed. So
we started doing private sessions for others outside my
small circle.
When I first
started communicating with Joseph, I was a real novice at
that sort of thing. And I was sometimes uneasy when I
channeled him.
But as I became
more comfortable in my own abilities and in the abilities of
Spirit, my powers of communication (or channeling) became
greater. The more I channeled Joseph, the more I discovered
I was able to access the higher aspects of this entity I'd
known as Chief Joseph. I was able to reach into what you
might call the "Joseph soul group," a group of
spirits who are clearly a highly evolved and powerful family
of teachers.
Today I see
myself as a "point of focus," for this evolved
group we now call simply "Joseph" or "Chief
Joseph." The group certainly includes the wise being we
know as the spirit of the historical Chief Joseph, and I
consider him the "spokesman" for the group. But
now the group also includes other spirit and angelic beings.
Occasionally
during our channeling, especially in private readings,
Joseph will use the "I" or "me." I’ve
come to realize that is when the single spirit of Chief
Joseph is speaking. Most often, however, Joseph uses
"we" or "us," signifying it's the group
speaking, not just Chief Joseph.
In 1996 we
started publishing Sentinels of the Sky Newsletter:
Conversations With Chief Joseph and John Cali, now known as
the Chief Joseph Newsletter.
I can't say it
was an easy journey in the beginning. But it was fun and
fulfilling, and it still is. More importantly, though, this
journey has brought many people (including me) closer to
remembering who we really are, and why we are here. It's
helped us feel better about being human. And it's helped us
know we are spirit beings in human form, and to rejoice in
that knowing.
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