Bear - Introspection Prayer - Bear . . . Invite me Into the cave, where silence surrounds the answers you gave.

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. In the winter, when the Ice

Queen reigns and the face of death is upon the Earth. 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 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 prophesy is contained in this very special Bear

energy. In India, the cave symbolizes the cave of Brahma. Brahma's cave is

considered to be the pineal gland that sits in the center of the four lobes

of the brain.

If one were to imagine an overview of the head, the top of it would be a

circle. The South would be the forehead, the North the back of the skull,

the West would be the right brain, and the East the left brain.

Bear is in the West, the intuitive side, the right brain. To hibernate, Bear

travels to the cave, which is the center of the four loves where the pineal

gland resides, In the cave, Bear seeks answers while he/she is 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, claming 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. In

choosing Bear, the power of knowing has invited you to enter the silence and

become acquainted with the Dream Lodge, so that your goals may become

concrete realities. This is the strength of Bear.