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Black Dawn, Bright Day : Indian Prophecies for the Millennium That Reveal the Fate of the Earth

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As a former investigative reporter for Post Newsweek TV Group, I became interested in the late Sun Bear's "Black Dawn/Bright Day", which does a very comprehensive job of explaining the upcoming Earth Changes that Native Americans and other indigenious people from around the world have been predicting for many centuries. Sun Bear begins with an in-depth, informative look at how we have gotten ourselves into the mess we are experiencing: earthquakes increasing in number; destruction of 51 acres of tropical forests every minute; consumption of 35,000 barrels of oil every minute; 1692 acres of productive dry land become desert every hour; 1800 children are dying of starvation every hour; 25,000 die of water shortage or contamination every day; etc.He also presents a fascinating account of Indian prophecies, warnings that are now becoming a reality. One in particular is the Iroquois prophecy about the wrestling match between the serpents. The white and red serpents both have the same goals of domination, conquest, and control of Planet Earth. These two serpents were seen to be wrestling with each other until the rivers boiled and the fish died. Soon the black serpent would come into the battle and defeat the red and white serpents. As the black serpent looked toward the indigenious people of Planet Earth to further his wrath, he would see the coming of the great light of Deganawida and become frightened, flee, and never bother the people again.Through contact with the Great Spirit, Sun Bear learned the white and red serpents represented the United States and the Soviet Union. Through our atomic testing we have literally killed off fish and rivers have boiled. Also through the many years of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union supplied weapons to others in the names of democracy and communism. Now the black serpent represented as the Moslem countries has appeared on the scene and gotten the United States and the Soviet Union into conflicts that still plague our world through terrorism. Sun Bear saw the next stage as war among the Moslems and uses the occupation of Kuwait leading to the Gulf War. Yes, Sun Bear does paint a fact-filled, gloomy picture for Planet Earth; however, he also sees the tremendous benefits of "the cleansing" that will soon occur. He sees this leading to the transformation of a planet plagued by greed, lust, and hate to one eventually of peace, abundance, and love. He already sees the whiteman coming to the Native Americans to learn the ancient ways of Planet Earth and how to restore peace, abundance, and love. Sun Bear shares with us how we can prepare ourselves for survival during the Earth Changes and even shares "safe areas" as he saw them through visions and the experiences of traveling through out the world. I used his map of "safe areas" for the United States for my research on the small towns mentioned in my forthcoming book "Survival Manual for Y2K & Beyond."

Long before, while I lived "back east", I found some wonderful books that have changed my life path, among them, I found Sun Bear. The first book of his I read was "Black Dawn, Bright Day". It struck me, as very powerful and a tad scary, but, to my then naieve self, the "millenium" was sooooo far away it was hard to take as viable, despite my mistrust of [our's most especially] government officials. We had gas shortages, we made it through Viet Nam, we know about the Ozone layer, we have learned -- I believed that they would surely do the "right thing" and fix it before his worse prophecies could materialize. With the recent onset, and increasing intensity, of many natural, and unnatural crises [eliminating "Mother Earth's Parasites i.e. humans], and now "Katrina" coupled with the [not yet declared war in Iraq], I am curious to see just how accurate the predictions were [as a personal aside, around a few months ago, the resident eagles were missing for a long while, and whales have been grounding themselves again, and I couldn't help recall that this was one of the portents Sun Bear spoke of, re: huge changes afoot]. Recently the Eagles have returned, sporadically, and I can only hope that they are letting us know that if we "do the right things" we still may have a good chance of turning things around. What I want to say to potential readers is, at worse, this book is written beautifully, with the late great Sun Bear's voice and wit, and at best, it's a hopeful warning. I'm going to peruse my shelves and /moving boxes right now for a reread myself.

For a long time I had heard and read other individual's positive views on this book: "Black Dawn,Bright Day" by Sun Bear. Finally 3 weeks ago I order the book. I think in my opinion that this book is the best of the Native American prophecies books I had read thus far. In this age when the popular religious fever view seems to be to look forward to escaping the earth and flying off on a cloud...a book such as this that focuses on a spiritual purification of out earth and then it's renewl="The Bright Day" hope instead of it's destruction...is very refreshing. Indeed, there are "some" Judeo-Christian groups who embrace the hope of the renewl of our earth..but they usually lacked the understanding of helping taking care of our earth NOW as part of the plan to one day see the renewl of the earth and they lack the Native American's understanding and view of viewing the animals and nature as being in a kinship with us humans..Unforuantly, instead of viewing the animals and nature in this positive way that the Native Americans do...they (our white culture)tends to view the earth, animals and nature as somehting to exploit selfishly to our own benifit. To me, if we disrespect the creation...then we disrespect the one who create it and all life there upon it..the Creator. This book helps us understand all this and the harm of the "Ladder Approuch" philosophy held in our culture that is ruining our earth. My complaint would likely be that the book towards the back gets a little too doom-ish, in much they way most of these restored earth believing Judeo-Christian groups get. But other than that...I liked it alot.

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Sun Bear has given an excellent account of how we have abused the earth and what the consequences of that abuse will be. He also provides instructions on how to survive those 'consequences'. Sun Bear has great understanding and insight regarding the earth and its resources. It's very sobering reading and not to be taken lightly.....since many of the prophecies are already happening.

This book is truly one of the BEST. It will raise your consciousness of the way we're living. And at the same time treating that which is providing us with life. I have ordered extras to pass out to try and help others have the same light bulb moment. I believe that nature has had ENOUGH of our craziness as far as the way we have treated earth mother. This book breaks it down to exactly what we've been doing all over this planet. We are not going to survive if this madness continues. PLEASE read and pass it on. We must change our ways in order for our future generation to have a chance.

An awakening of what God had intended for us to do as his children and with our mother earth. This book can answer questions as to why all the wars, suffering, and plagues and a chance to replenish ourselves.

1. Many tribes speak of earth changes

2. The Ojibwa saw the coming of the European to the American Continent. They saw the kind of hats they would wear. They were told the Europeans would come in a sacred manner and the Ojibwa were to accept the knowledge given them. As a result the Ojibwa greeted the Europeans as brother and gave gifts of friendship, to walk as "brothers and sisters on the land". The Ojibwa had a prophecy that after 100 year that "Life would continue on the planet", "there would be human survivors"., "they would receive a higher level of conscience", " and take care of the earth in a sacred way", "and take a sacred path and harmony with the earth". The Ojibwa believe before any great catastrophe occurs, the great spirit warns them in advance to flee, "that powerful destructive forces were going to happen", "they sense it and act" .

3. There will be a time when the most dangerous place will be near nuclear and industrial chemical plants

4. All major cities will experience a breakdown in service: great piles of garbage will pile up in the streets, electronic equipment will stop working because of storms and earthquakes, water mains will be broken, and there will be no gasoline.

5. Police band together to "take whatever they wanted", "the brothers of the Gun".

6. Cities were hit with major epidemics caused by bad water, toxic chemicals, and other things

7. Wheat crops that had a residue like rust, "disease among crops that could not be controlled". Historically, the potato famine was cause by a bacteria that cause rot.

8. Diseases will be a cause of great destruction

9. Iran will be destroyed by earthquakes and its neighbors.

10. Germany will return to its spiritual way

11. The cleansing of the earth is need to restore the earth. Evil and destructive actions by man have caused the calamities.

12. The earth will hold back her increase: one area will be too hot and the other too cold.

13. Rivers will change their course

14. There has been and will be a major earthquake in Missouri.

15. The trees will start to die

16. People will not be able to go outside of their homes because of toxins in the air, possibly radioactive fall out.

17. Humanity is being given a great opportunity to make a major breakthrough in consciousness and awareness and be part of the bright day.

18. There are many teachers among us , now.

19. This is a time of cleansing on many levels.

20. Mount Saint Helens and Mount Rainer will erupt and the land will be swept clear to the ocean.

21. Chief Seattle said, "One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover - Our God is the same God. You may think now that you own him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of Man, and his compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This Earth is precious to him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator", "but in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over the this land and over the red man."

22. The United States and Russia will be in political and military conflict with Moslem nations. The Moslems will get the US and Russian in wars: Afghanistan and Lebanon. The battlefield will affect oil availability to nations and war costs and inflation will weaken world currencies.

23. Volcanoes will erupt.

24. There will be a pole shift and violent weather patterns and a new ice age.

25. The waters of the ocean will rise as a result of a large object moving near the earth, there will be severe flooding in certain regions, the blue star Katchina.

26. The Hopi have tablets of stone.

27. The landing on the moon signal a turning point for the Indian, he would receive legal rights and liberties never before granted or recognized.

28. Black slavery protests would continue to manifest in the form of civil disobedience, disorder, and riots.

My Mom gave this book to me a long time ago , I started trying to keep up with the recording of the " earth changes " that happen when they happen, he predicts these occurences in this book , in the back of the copy of this book we have there is a map and all the earth changes that he predicted there telling you what will occur in certain areas , I am amazed to look back and see that everything he predicted has come to pass , so many that I could not keep up on marking each event on the map, have found markings in there as far back as 1996 . He even predicted the conflicts in the middle east . I think Sun Bear passed away around the year 1991, long before any of this occured , so if being able to predict the future events makes you a prophet then most certainly he would qualify because everything he predicted has come to pass, The great thing about his book is he doesnt just preach gloom and doom but speaks of the " bright day " that will come after all the changes occur . I hope that prediction comes true too . This is a good read, buy it and it will help you to put perspective on why things that are happening are and also help you to prepare your self and your family for things to come and help you to become more aware if you are not already of the damage that's been done to the earths ecosystem and understand why the cleansing (earth changes ) were inevitable .

Interesting book; first read it a long time ago, and recently bought it for a friend.
Good "just in case" advice.

We found this book to be very informative of what to expect and why, if/when the end times begin. We treat Sun Bear's book as a primer, or simple guide to direct ourselves into a safe area of the country. We have been planning a move, but after reading his book we have used his ideas to help us select an area that will provide the necessary natural supplies and shelter. This book is a must read for the novice researcher of end times. When used with other unrelated non-indian sources,ie Lori Toye's map called "I am america", one can draw their own conclusions as to Sun Bears advise. bob and sue