Summary
Stillness Practices
Movement Practices
Reflection and Expression
Larry provided detailed explanations of different plant medicines used in his spiritual practice:
Notes
Transcript
Yesterday, I think I was like so hesitant to get into yoga. So hesitant. Like, I just didn't think I felt a little out of place, you know, just to be honest. But my friend who's like one of the coolest snowboarders that ever rode professionally, he was more of a street rider for Nike. He's one of my really closest dear friends. Benny, Justin. You can look him up. B-E-N-N-E-E. Justin Benny. He has a really good podcast too, by the way.
I was able to devote a lot of time to myself this morning. Not all of it, but a lot of it. In between running some errands and doing some things. And it feels really good to identify some of these things I'm surviving, like what we're teaching right now. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. Oh, there we go. All right. Mushroom. Everybody can see that before day 48 you seven-day alignment challenge By the way again, thank you for being here again.
My name is Larry Schmidt I'm not sure I haven't checked all the chats, but I think some of the usual suspects are here It's exciting to see and I'm proud of you for showing up. That's listen I know it takes guts takes guts to look at things that we don't want to look at and then that's what's important when you're getting to that point That's when you know You know, you're checking your ego at the door.
You walk in with an open mind and an open heart. I always tell people, you've heard this, you know, a parachute doesn't work, you know. It's like an open mind, you know. It's got to be open, you know. And day four, it is a great day, you know, spiritual alignment, reconnecting to yourself. I like talking about spirituality because it isn't just about being the most spiritual. It's It's not that I promise.
So this is what kind of scared me. It was like with the funny yoga thing. I literally went into yoga. I think that's what I was trying to finish kicking and screaming. And my buddy, Justin, he, uh, like I said, he broke every bone in his body. He, he made the cover of snowboard magazine. Um, he was the one jumping over buildings in Boston, things like that. Rep and Nike. He was the first one age 16.
And, uh, you know, Go back to yoga. Yeah, go back to yoga. Thank you. See Eric's kids. Thank you, Eric. So yoga. Listen, I was kicking and screaming going into yoga. I'm like, dude, I don't want to go making all those excuses and I don't have the money and all this crap. He says it's seven days for free and I finally went in and it changed my life. Everything that's been presented to me that I've resisted, even people, they either end up being my best friends, uh,
It either ends up saving my life, it ends up being very good for me. It's funny how resistant I am and I noticed that pattern in me. So it's a good tool now, especially with people. For some reason, if I'm triggered by somebody, which I usually do the triggering, but when I'm actually triggered by somebody, I take a look back, I go, this might be my next homie. That's how I look at it now because that's the pattern I was able to recognize.
Take a look at and release. And then also identifying, man, you know, get out of your own way, Larry. Be coachable. Like, I ask everybody here to be coachable. So I've lived that. Showing up and showing up today is amazing. But spirituality is not escaping life. It's not going, I'm going to check out, drop out, none of those things. It's about learning how to connect with yourself again, to welcome yourself back.
I had to look at myself. I had to be happy being with myself because, again, if I couldn't be happy alone, who would want to be happy with me? It just makes sense. So, again, I just want to thank you for having the courage to come back. It's day four. You haven't quit. Most people start things. Very few people keep showing up. Again, it's just every day showing up. Be proud of that for real because it's
And you don't want to. So, as I layer this in, day one, we spoke about alignment, which is becoming aware of what the issue could be or the challenge or what's that pattern we need to break. Day two was taking responsibility for it. You know, you got to take the power back, just like rage. Day three, mental alignment. That was yesterday, right? Beliefs shape reality. I'm excited to read some of the replies in there and your work that you're doing.
I'm proud of you for that. So, today, before my billy, That's when I get to take a look at that. So I'm excited to read what you've been saying. And then day four is spiritual alignment today. That's reconnecting to self, presence, and purpose. Now I'll rewind a little bit. In our culture, in the Native American ways, and again, I'm a Lakota Sundancer. My lineage comes from Cherokee, Algonquin, Osage.
And lay that's which is up in the Idaho area believe it or not. It's a long story, but my uncle is a chief my great-uncle is a chief on the res in Nespanlem, Washington so With these four directions in life you see four directions here, right? but what we do is tradition if you're a Sundance or as you said a vision quest or um blecha which is a crying for vision and These four days it's kind of funny.
I How they correlate with these four days here. And it's fun how you go back in time and you see how oral tradition was important for people to keep their lineage and their word. They had to hide it from people so it wouldn't get stolen from them. And it's funny to see how many things in teachings now when you're learning this stuff correlate with these old ways. It's all connected. So here's my point.
When we set a vision quest, it's pretty humbling. We have our chenupa, which is the peace pipe. We have blankets and pillows, and you get the tarp. No tent, just straight up. We make these prayer ties that go around, and you're in this little six-by-six-foot spot, roughly out in one space, whether the sun hits it and you're fully exposed that way. You can bring as many layers as you want of clothing.
But four days, three nights, no food and water. Nothing. You're there praying the whole time, and you're sitting there, and you watch the sun. It's amazing. It's so humbling. But it's funny. The first day, you're like, I'm aware. This is cool. I'm on the mountain. How beautiful. Look at the deer. Then all of a sudden, you're up all night. Never the food for me, but the water is a trip. Not going with water is very humbling.
That's just my church tradition for our ways. I'm asking, Creator, should I be on that mountain? Is this what you want me to do? Is this my purpose? You know, so, you know, it's kind of fun to share that with you. But again, we're going to get into many other ways. I'm just showing you how I found myself. And there's, like I said, to each his own and her own. So. So what is spiritual alignment? It's not about religion.
It's about not not pretending to be the most enlightened person in the room. We call them spiritual tourists, by the way. Just so you know, William taught me that, one of my teachers from back in the day. If anybody claims to be a shaman, you should run, unless they've got that staff with a jaguar obsidian head on it, and they might have some jewelry and feathers like this, and they look serious, and you can feel their energy.
That's who I consider. If they call me one, then we're good. But be aware. There's a lot of posers out there in this world, so you always want to, that's why I say research everything, especially me, just saying. It's about connection, though. That's what Spirulia is, connection to you and your higher self. That's it. We have this higher self inside us. So the interconnection, you can get there, you know, to self is breath and truth, you know.
Outer connection, there's the nature and life and purpose. So you can align any of those ways. sacred connection to creator presence and meaning you know you can get all these directions you'll get there and spirituality is remembering uh you are more than survival does anybody else feel like they're living in survival mode all the time you just never caught up you're always battling and then finally when you get ahead your legs get cut out from underneath you is it just me or anybody else lived that way before you know i was like an octopus on roller skates and
You know what I'm saying? And keep us unaware to do anything about it until we seek, until we find. Okay? Again, we're on our own, but you don't have to be alone. One of the monikers I have, and we're creating some cool fashion wear here, is you come in here alone, but you walk out as tribe. You're never alone. This is a family you can pick to grow with. and align with and feel safe doing it. So let's move to the next one.
So there is no single doorway. Spiritual practice doesn't have to have one shape. The goal is not to force an experience. It's to simply reconnect. This was so hard for me, man. Like literally very hard for me to just sit the hell still. You know, I have that ADD brain. I Always got to be moving around and that kind of feeling. That's where I was. My body was just... And we think that's just... I don't know what we think that is.
So 10 years and it goes by so fast. It goes by fast. So stillness practices, this actually works. Okay. So it's meditation, breath work. mindful stillness when i go back to prayer doesn't matter what you bring here bring yourself and your creator that's all you got to do that's it you know that's all you need you are the creator too so you'll see it in your life right before your eyes um other ways you heard my story about yoga listen it's my favorite thing to do and i can't wait till i get surgery on this shoulder because
I'm not afraid to say I just turned 57, you know, and, um, all these things I'm talking about have made me younger looking and I have great genes. My mom was so beautiful and so was my father. So, but my mom was just, you know, she never looked her age ever, ever. Um, so yoga, grounding, walk, ceremony, intentional movement, ceremony can just be a meditative walk for 20 minutes. It's so easy to start something like that.
Like, Sometimes I can't work out right now, but I might go on three 20-minute walks a day. And now I'm listening to all my coaching. So I want you to see, too, that I'm doing my homework with Billy and staying accountable, doing all handwritten. This is all detailed stuff, man. It took me like two hours to do some of this. But I'm telling you, when I'm listening, writing, it helps me be a better person to lead everybody.
And reflection and expression, journaling, gratitude, music, plant medicine, nature. These are all things that work. There is no single doorway. Has anybody right now have their escape or a doorway they want to share that they use right now currently? Plant medicine, Jerry. Great question. Plant medicine is, so you probably heard about psychedelic plant medicine, like Joe Rogan just was at the presidential, you know, whatever, the White House, and they're making it faster to be more accessible now that they have all the results.
But plant medicines are things like psilocybin, which is called magic mushrooms or psychedelic mushrooms. They've been on churches for thousands of years. You'll see them in the stained glass, you know, the red and white ones, like Alice in Wonderland. Those are the Amaretto mushrooms. psychedelic plant in our in our ways peyote which is a cactus I used to have a picture of one around here somewhere it's upstairs I think but the peyote button you know that's cactus and that grows in the regions between Mexico and Texas sacred ground but it's a high high alkaline plant but it has mescaline in it so it has psychedelic properties usually anything that's bitter and it's even written that way in the Bible
He who ate up the bitter root, you know, everything bitter is very good for you. And there's all these stories of why, how these plants came about. It's always women who find them. Isn't that amazing? That unconditional love. That's why men, I don't think you have to work really hard at that. So, um, ayahuasca, if you've ever heard of ayahuasca, that's a combination of two vines from South America, you know, usually Peru, Columbia, uh,
Mexico, there's a lot of different places where you can gather that. You have to mix two. One has DMT in it, dimethyltrypoly, that's the psychedelic effect. All those things are indigenous to your body. It's in your pineal gland. We produce this stuff, so it's occurring naturally in our body. Bufo, which is the Sonoran frog, that's Bufo avarius. The Sonoran frog is common right here in the Colorado River region.
For some reason, Yeah, they're from there, but you get them in Mexico, more like, forgive me, more like Huaca, right in that area. But they catch these toads that are just in the creeks, and then for some reason, they have naturally occurring 5-MAO-DMT, which is the strongest psychedelic known to man, but it naturally occurs in their glands. And it's still uncertain how the first person figured that out, but to be that first test person,
Took some guts. Anyways, it's a very powerful psychedelic. So how I can correlate it for you, ayahuasca is a plant and you drink this and it goes all night. So you're going to sit for six to eight hours and drink it usually three to four times during the night. Bufo is extracted, hardened, and put into a pipe and you smoke it and you inhale it. And it's zero to ayahuasca in about nine seconds. And it lasts 20 minutes.
So that's a great question. Thank you, Sherry. All right. Let's see. Go back to the presentation here. Where is it? Yeah, here we go. Yeah, I'm glad you asked that question. Next. All right, the power of stillness. Most people never slow down. We live in a constant cycle of noise, distraction, stress, and overthinking, and you're stuck in that survival mode like we just spoke of. And stillness isn't about just stopping your thoughts.
It's about allowing, observing, and releasing. You know, in plant medicine, for example, when I tell people, when it kicks in and you start feeling it, just relax, allow, and release. You know, it's the same thing here, the power of stillness. You can just, you know, just allow, observe. Like Eric and I were just talking about this today because the more amazing things that you keep doing, all these outside negative forces are going to try and counter, counteract that from you.
And so it's, it's frustrating sometimes. So, so what we said is, is it was, it was kind of funny because I'm actually learning a lot. We both are. And We're not reacting to things and we're just getting better because we're practicing. But it's like tuning out. Most people are so focused in on something so tight that it's right there and they keep it in front of their face. But if you pull back and become the observer and go way back and now you're looking above everything, it's like watching a bunch of kitty cats playing with the ball.
You can see what's going on. You see every move and you're like, oh, that's me, that cat right there. Quit doing that, kitty. This is how it looks to me. So you can be an observer of yourself and just say, "Oh, yeah, I've seen that before and I don't whine about that in other people. Maybe I'm projecting and that's me." That's just how I like to get real about it. So going through that, creating space to actually hear yourself.
It's just, you gotta, that's why you just kind of roll with the punches and, uh, Sometimes healing begins in the silence we've been avoiding. So sometimes you've got to shut up just to hear what's going on and tune in that frequency. Become the observer. That's really what it comes down to. With breath, presence, and release, your body holds all this energy and it's been holding a lot. And what happens is that you have all these trapped emotions, your nervous system's overloaded, and these emotions go back in time when you were little because we're stuffers.
We've been stuffers since day one. That's what we've been replicating. We've been teaching, hey, just stuff it. Thank God my dad said, hey, son, you have permission to let your heart out and let people, you know, tell you what you need to talk about so you heal, you know. And this is crazy. And here's how I explain it to people. See, animals, they don't have these problems like we do. Okay. They get rid of it right away.
So if you're one of those, let's say you're an antelope and you're getting chased by a cheetah, if that's what happens. So, you know, everybody's run in, but let's just say for some crazy reason that antelope just sneaks away. Cheetah's tuckered out wherever it goes. The antelope will actually go to a place in the corner and it'll sit there and shake for like 20 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it stops.
It doesn't even remember it was chased because it released all that trauma immediately. It dealt with it right away. We do not do that. We stuff that crap. stuff it and then it becomes trapped emotional energy. When you got this trapped emotional energy, you're not learning how to disconnect that pattern. So then that trapped emotional energy becomes disease. Then that goes to whatever part of the body you haven't dealt with in the form of a cancer or something like that.
That's what they, my experience, you know, I've taken care of people who died of cancer. One of them was my dad. So It's crazy how we've never learned to deal that. And what's more ironically, in my experiences, especially in plant medicine, when I've done, especially ayahuasca, just shaking in ceremony after purging and getting rid of that stuff. And there's a reason why you purge. You're there to purge in these certain medicines.
Because that medicine goes inside you and finds what does not belong to you spiritually, emotionally, physically, eradicates it from your body. It's intelligent. And so that's what you're doing. You're working in that presence to get rid of it. So it's amazing because it's just like it's a help for me. It was because I didn't know how to release that. I didn't have any of that training. you know in a healthy way at least most people drink or they have issues you know um that's why in my opinion those medicines you're not hey man let's go do that again because you're going to integrate that you're going to have a lot of amazing experiences with that but that's one way of getting rid of it or spending time in a cave in darkness you know there's somebody i know that you know gone to a cave for 30 days and you eat and stuff but you're in darkness and in silence
You're going to get to know yourself real well. It's actually a good thing. And here's the whole point. It's about reconnection because, again, you cannot heal while staying disconnected from yourself. And I'm telling you right now, this space that I've created, this was part of my homework assignment, even though I've always had that, but I tightened it up a little bit more. All these things around me like cash next to the money tree, you know,
equipment here i'm sitting on grounding equipment but if i want to stay grounded you know there's a way to stay grounded goals in front of me things that make me happy just tons of things here you know keeps your set and setting in a nice place and you know i kind of went over this already i've talked a little bit about it's 333 here right now by the way but my own awakening includes this listen everything i resisted was everything that was showing up trying to say hey
Look at this at least. You have to try it. Growing up in our house, raising our kids, you didn't get to say, I don't want to eat that. It's like, have you eaten it before? No. Well, we have the one bite rule. So you have to at least try it. Then if you don't like it, you can say you don't like it. So again, reflecting in these lessons and my hypocrisy as people were presenting these amazing opportunities to me that I saw were negative, I opened my mind and said,
Then first it took peyote. So that was good. It helped me humble. That's the thing. It opens your heart. It's just beautiful. Get rid of things that are hurting you that you don't realize. And it was just crazy because one guy that showed up there was a Reiki master and his name is Michael Eakin. He taught me Reiki. He goes, have you ever had Reiki? I'm like, I don't know, dude. So he goes, well, you know, it's like massage, but it isn't.
So he's explaining this energy work and I'm like, Fine, I'll try it. You know, because I'm being coachable. And so the first session, I'm just laying there. And I'm used to getting massages, but this is like energy. So I wasn't quite open-minded. But I had three sessions coming. And finally, since I knew, it became familiar to me, and I looked at it, and I'm like, okay, open your mind, be coachable.
And as soon as I relaxed, I felt the magic of Reiki. And I'm like, you have got to be kidding me. Where has this been? This is crazy. And so I said, do you teach this? He goes, yeah, you know, and it showed me that. At the same time, I found yoga. So all these things, since I had an open mind, were now pouring into my life with convenience and purpose and synchronicity, you know. And the plant was just basically the doorway.
And, yeah, I had to listen, you know. This plant was intriguing to me in all of them where I've sat so many times. So peyote for us is like church. That's every weekend if it's here. No, it is. It's part of our faith in practices. It's Sundance and that plant medicine. That's why people live forever in those cultures because it cleans you out, man. It's really good for you, my opinion only. Not condoning this.
Always conduct your own due diligence and all that. But it just opened me and allowed me to look at myself in a different way without judging myself so I could be open-minded to change for a better way for me. And the more I kept doing it and not resisting, the more better I got and the more opportunities came my way. And all of a sudden, the doorway opened where I found purpose again. There was a time where I took two years off of medicine, too.
Like when I finally sat so many times, I'm like, okay. And I was sun dancing, too. Just blessed beyond belief, my experiences. But I took two years off and I finally integrated all that. And it's just like, wow. Now I don't sit in medicine as much because I don't really need it as much. I learned from it what I did. But I have tune-ups here. And it's good to have tune-ups. You need your checkup from the neck up.
You start feeling that change and you start. It's crazy because when you hit certain points, here's what's going to happen. You're going to commit to this maybe. And people are going to start going, what are you doing? What are you doing? You're weird. You know, those are the crabs in the barrel. Just get ready. They're coming. Probably family. It just works that way. It happened to me. Happened to a lot of people.
People are going to try and steal your dreams because when you start making big decisions, it makes the people who are afraid to make decisions uncomfortable. That's it. That's it. So you've got to Miyagi that and not be there for the punch. You know, Mr. Miyagi says, Daniel-san, best way to avoid punch, not be there for it. And it's coming. You're going to have a big bullseye on you and things are going to get exciting and you start exposing people in that way.
Your strength exposes their weakness. Lack of commitment, see, but you're not that way anymore. You've got a crew that wants to do that with you here. And that's a collective consciousness. And boy, when you start getting multiple people and thinking that vibration, that's when Schmidt starts happening. All right. So ask himself, be honest, like, where have I disconnected myself? Like, dude, in dudettes, I gave my power away so, so, so ridiculously.
I forgot who the hell I was. I was waiting for everybody to tell me who I was. Oh, is this good? Did I do this okay? Old grown man. I was on the SWAT team making gnarly decisions in my 20s. People's lives in my hand. Focused, deliberate. I was a good person, balanced. I get in a couple wrong situations and tell me what I am. Give me identity. It was sad when I had to I stepped back and see that in myself as I became the observer and just went,
No, it's a, that's not me. And I'm, you know what? Screw that. I'm not doing that anymore. And for me and my situation, I knew once I left, it was going to be lonely or, but I was alone in a house full of people anyway. So I'm telling you seven years later, life is good. Did I do the work? Yeah. Was it humbling? Yeah. Was it scary at times? Yeah, it gets scary. But fuck that. You know? That's when you take the power back.
Whoa, man. Think about that. Remember who you are, man. You just know you're here. You're here to rescue yourself. But when you find a community of real people, authentic people, people who are willing to eat the crap, eat that Schmidt sandwich with a smile on your face, take that humility, you know, earn that karma that we've created for ourselves, you know. Overcome that like right now. I kind of feel like a badass a humble badass.
I always forgot about me. I love myself so much more now. That's one. So I always got that. And it feels good when you start loving yourself. And that begins with forgiveness, which is part of this process. All this dirt that you're uncovering on yourself, you're like, you might not like it, but just say, hey, dirt, I'm glad you're here. Good to see you. I acknowledge you. I'm not afraid of you. You know, welcome.
Go ahead. Accept it. When we sun dance, that's what they teach you up there because it's hot and you don't got food and water for four days when you do the actual dance and it's in July. Seven rounds in the sun all day. We try and get done by two and that's up in altitude. And they tell you, just make friends with the sun. And on Vision Quest, when the bugs come out, if you're unlucky there, you get very minimal things there.
resisting it, but say, hey, I see you there. I welcome you there. Aho. You know? Welcome, bugs. Welcome, creepy crawlers. Welcome, two-legged, four-legged. Everything. The stone people, the plant people. You just thank everything, you know? Recognize it. Whether, don't resist it if it feels scary. Just acknowledge it. Say, oh, look. Okay? But just remember who you are underneath the noise. And just choose one thing today.
These are, you know, part of the homework. Choose one spiritual practice today. Keep it simple. Keep it real. It's not about perfection. Any one of these are great choices. If you have something on your own that you want to pioneer, as long as it keeps you centered, that's the whole point. You know, I love walking. Like I said, we'll go for another walk and probably do two more walks today because I'll be listening to
So live it. It must be lived. It's not just the quotes, the crystals and embodied spirituality shows up in how you move in every day. And I'm proud of myself this week because I'm just getting better at holding myself accountable to like today. I'm telling you, as soon as you make a decision, you're going to get that gut check because creator says, hey, you made a promise. I'm going to throw this obstacle at you.
Are you serious? I want to see if you're going to Get through this obstacle and stick on the game plan. And that's just what happens, you know. And like I said, yesterday was crazy. But I identified it. I paused. I breathed. I go, I'm still doing good, man. I'm like, I was going to trip over nothing, man. And so I'm catching myself now. And just remember, don't kick your own booty. Like kindness to yourself is important.
You know, honesty with yourself, be compassionate with yourself, have integrity. You know, it's better just to, I don't know, just to own it. You know, and sometimes I have a quote. It's a hard one, but it's the only thing more powerful than the power of association is the power of disassociation. You might not get people calling you anymore. I alluded to this earlier. That can be a good thing. Because once you don't give them the energy or the power of their attention when they're dogging you or telling you you shouldn't be doing what, you know, all of a sudden they just won't call anymore because you're not giving them permission.
You're all beautiful. Own that. You know, so let's see what else we got here. So here it is. So when you complete this day for right, what reconnects me to yourself? Right. If you're alive, grounded, and present, what spiritual practice support my healing? Whatever it is, journal it. Journal it. When you read, write, and say something 10 times, you have 66% retention. It becomes a part of you. Then you don't have to think about it anymore.
It becomes just a daily normal practice. It becomes reflexive. That's what I'm training myself to do right now. In fact, Eric and I were just talking about this here. It's like, hey, We're going to be making more prayer ties. We've got to do this so it makes sense in our quiet time. When we're spending time, that's a good time to do it. So it's just taking those. The biggest thing, I'll give you some tricks, Billy and those guys.
We had to clean up our space. We had to make it a space that makes us feel good. We had to post it online. It's all accountability. And then describe kind of what it is and then commit. a chunk of time. So mine's 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. Out of those times, I can take an hour out. And that's where nobody distracts me before the world kicks my ass. I can get stuff done. And there's a book called Eat the Frog.
And usually you should do the thing you don't want to do first. That way you have something to look for. It just gets easier in the day. You know, that's just advice from an old goat like me. So, yeah. Choose one spiritual practice today and share your reflection with the group. Reconnect to yourself. The answers are often quieter than the noise. Let's see. Let me get back you all here. I'm sure.
Yeah, you're taking care of your temple. You're getting that physical alignment and then the mental follows, you know. Then they start working together. You know, when we do these prayer ties, I'll close with this because this is pretty cool, you know. That's a lot of praying and it's beautiful. We take a red felt thing. Well, they're the colors of the four directions, you know. And so we take tobacco and
We put it in there and then we have sage and we burn the sage and we take the tobacco. We pray into that and we tie it. And then it goes on a linear string and it's a strand of 405 prayers. We do it two times. It's crazy, man. So powerful. And it's called top top, you know, and you pour, you pray the 16 powers of creation, the four directions, four times. And that's for the animal nation and the keepers of our lives.
And so the keepers of our lives are just like a spider web. We're all connected. We say, which is we are one. But if one of those webs gets frayed, it affects the whole structure. That's what shows us how collected we are. So when you find a community like this and we're all growing and healing together and it keeps expanding, that's something to behold. And it's crazy. We teach this that we carry...
We have two bundles. So like when somebody passes away in our tradition, some of their sacred items go into this red felt. There's tobacco in there, like eagle feathers, just different sacreds in there. And what happens is each person gets to take that bundle home with them if they want to and be with that person because their ashes are in there too. But it's also a metaphor. The two bundles we give our children.
That's what we say. You give your bundles to your children when you're gone. That's the metaphor. But the two bundles are burden and blessings, and they're abundant in anyone you choose. So what are you handing down to your children? What bundle do you want? These oral traditions are crazy and it's all fun to mirror. It's so fun. So I don't know. And then the colors of the directions, just so you know, it's like it represents the yellow people of the East.
So that's the East gate, right? The whites of the North, right? The blacks in the South and the Sorry, the reds to the south and the black. Oh, yeah, reds to the south. For blacks to the south and reds to the east. Or the west. Thank you. Yeah, the red people. And just to share with you another beautiful thing, we have a couple more minutes if we're counting an hour. I don't like to go more than that.
Something I experienced on day two sitting on the mountain up there, one of the times I sat, the colors are important. And you're never going to hear this anywhere else. It's just sacred. But those colors show up in the mountains. So when you look to the east and there's certain times of the day, the east is yellow. And then when the sun's in the west, it's red and white and black. It's crazy. It's just so to see everything and that we are all connected.