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Smith College Tiffany Bell Kim Larsen 195 Tenth Avenue New Walker Art Museum Curt Belshe Linda Levit York, NY 10011 MIT List Visual Arts Center Maurice Berger Daniel Libeskind Collezione Maramotti Elena Berriolo Dacia Maraini 2 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT: Consciousness and Contact –The Awakening– PUBLISHER & EDITOR: Mia Feroleto Mia Feroleto 4 The Making of a Chief Lucio Pozzi 6 Solitary Float The Slippage Between Present and Past (Jed Perl) Elana Freeland 9 The Age of the Machine Has Arrived Too Soon: Through a Rudolf Steiner Lens Peter Champoux 12 Mending the Hoop of Life Laura Bruno 17 Signs of Life Tobin Eckian 21 Paintings Alan Steinfeld 24 Consciousness and Contact and Challenges Art History James Tunney 31 A Mystic Vision of the Future: Common Cause Jeffrey Mishlove 44 Jeffrey Mishlove interview with James Tunney Nº2 Leah Poller 50 The Portrait: Mirror of the Soul Alfred Lambremont Webre 54 Universe-Multiverse-Omniverse Leading Discoveries from the Omniverse Daniel Rothbart 58 Flotilla - A Floating Installation in Oakdale Lake Sev Tok 62 What´s it Gonna Take? Michele Rinne 64 Early Efforts at Space Travel and Contact Ray Grasse 67 A Mystic Looks at the Astral and the Afterlife: Conversations whit Shelly Trimmer Joan Bird 71 How Tepees Returned to Pine Butte: Lessons in Cultural Diversity Norman Anton Sollie 76 Half Here, Half There Richard Fox 79 The Origin of GOD: Digging in the Roots of the Tree of Life Annie Wenger-Nabigon 82 Expanded Consciousness through Immersion in Indigenous Knowledges Joe Krawczk 84 The Tower Lucinda Laughing Eagle Morel 88 Consciousness and Contact on Pine Ridge Rachel Portesi 90 Hair Portraits Mia Feroleto 92 2020 Consciousness in the Black Hills: The Heart of the World Lucio Pozzi | Portrait 2 CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTACT: THE AWAKENING 3 Mia Feroleto The Making of a un day, September 20th, 2020 opened as a day of crystal, clear The day before, Lula Red Cloud, the matriarch of the family, told me that blue sky. Saturday in Rapid City had been gray, not from a lack of I was now a family member and gave me the task of bringing the buf- sunshine, but from the smoke that had drifted to South DakotaChief falo berries to the traditional celebratory feast planned for the following from the California fires that are currently destroying millions of day. After Henry was made chief, a give-away was orchestrated by Lula acres of land, countless homes and wildlife beyond measure. and several other family members who assist her in her many roles as matriarch. My name was called—I thought as a sign to give out copies Sunday was the day that Henry Red Cloud was made a chief of the S of the New Observations magazine issue on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Oglala Sioux Tribe. Henry is a fifth-generation direct descendant of Issue #135. Instead, Gloria Red Cloud wrapped me in a star quilt of tra- Mahpiya Luta (Chief Red Cloud), one of the last Lakota war chiefs, and ditional colors of red, black, white and yellow that represent the colors of a signer of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Henry has been a protector of the people of planet Earth. I was given the opportunity to say a few words, the Lakota Oyate for decades and a teacher of renewable energy and thanking Lula and the Red Cloud family for this honor and for their extraor- sustainable building for almost twenty years. He teaches a “New Way dinary contribution to protecting and sustaining Mother Earth. to Honor the Old Ways” to students from more than 50 tribes across the Northern Plains and far beyond. The expansion of consciousness that Henry Red Cloud experienced to assume his new role as a chief and role model for his people cannot Over the last two years, he readied himself through four phases of prepa- be understated. The extraordinary legacy of his family and his leader- ration to take on greater responsibilities; his efforts culminated this last ship in stewarding to fruition the prediction of Chief Red Cloud and the weekend when more than 100 people gathered at Bear Butte, South 7th Generation prophecy in our present times is the task that Henry has Dakota, the sacred vision quest area, and participated in his “Making of taken on. All colors of people, just as in my star quilt, are now called to a Chief Ceremony.” come together to protect the Earth and our environment, as old ways col- The Ceremony was organized by Lula Red Cloud, the Matriarch and lapse and new sustainable ways are created in their place. oldest woman of the Red Cloud family, together with other members of I would like to thank all of the contributors to New Observations the Red Cloud family. Leonard Crow Dog, the great spiritual leader of magazine, Issue #136, Consciousness and Contact: The Awakening. American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Lakota people led the cer- Our contributors include James Tunney, Jeffrey Mishlove, Ray Grasse, emony. Chief John Spotted Tail, Chief of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, the Lucinda Morel, Michele Rhinne, Richard Fox, Alan Steinfeld, Tobin direct descendant of the legendary Chief Spotted Tail, placed the bonnet Eckian, Laura Bruno, Elana Freeland, Annie Wenger-Nabigon, Alfred upon Henry’s head.