Here's Johnny

Some of us get their Jim Jarmusch moments in life, like meeting Nobody in Deadman. Others enjoy a Carlos Castaneda connection. We've just had ours. Meet Johhny. Johnny is in the second half of life. Johnny works the pump at Eagle Plains gas station (this picture). Johnny is native (we did not take his photo). Johnny refueled our journey in more ways than one. July 3rd was the half way mark of our trip. Eagle Plains was the half way mark on the Dempster. Johnny admitted he was caught between a rock and a hard place, a double bind. On one side, the ideology of the bottom line. On the other, family and harmony. He’s working his way north, back to Inuvik, selling gas. He has to work one to return to the other. I asked him about the drilling going on around Eagle plains. He said there's everything in these hills, nickels, uranium. The Canadian treasury is empty. As for the Uranium, the tribes won't let them drill. Lightning looks for gold in the ground and then strikes, sending out trace particles to plants, the animals eat the plants and then we, the people, we eat the animals. That way, what's in the ground is shared by everyone. Lightning wants it that way. When I asked Johnny where I could learn more he said I was half way there and that now, at 41, I was changing direction (Uturn?), beginning a new journey of converting the knowledge I had gleaned on the first part, into wisdom. I would now start the long road to becoming an elder, like him. He gave me his email, told me to keep in touch. You really want to share this info, I asked? He said we are all one people. I told him that we had taken Manny to get baptized in the arctic ocean. He said that Manny had touched the great healer, The Arctic Ocean was grandmother. He went back inside and wrote the following on a piece of paper for Manny and then recited it, touching Manny's feet on the counter (He said a bunch of other stuff that I will relate later):

“This rabbit warrior has touched the grandmother of all healing. This one will be able to go deep within of self and other. This one will seek a healing discipline. Those who touch North ride the black stallion into the dark, the void where the answers live. They walk through, only then can we walk with them. For every question they have, they alone carry the answer. This healing warrior will guide those who are lost to the doorway where answers live.
The little warrior has touched the place where dreams sleep. This warrior will dream the dreamers and be a dreamer of many answers. Will become the dreamwalker.
North will be the strongest, will begin to understand the sound of all the universe, the vibration of all the universe
As you have followed your heart the imprint has been passed to your dreamwalker and will let the heart lead, not the head.
This healing warrior will be a heart talker not a head talker and many, many times truth hurts but this will be a guiding principle.
Nurture, and find growth
Harness, and lose the gift


Lonedancer
Eagle Plains
Yukon
July 3/07