A Talk with Lakota Elder Wallace Black Elk

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"We must clean up what we put in our children’s minds" -- Wallace Black Elk It was an honor and privilege to spend an hour speaking with Lakota elder Wallace Black Elk, a Sundance chief, co-author of The Sacred Ways of a Lakota and spiritual grandson of the legendary Lakota Holy Man Nicholas Black Elk. Speaking to Grandfather Wallace, as he is respectfully called, it became clear that the 87 years he has been in this body have helped to focus him more clearly on the universal laws that … [Read more...]

From Age-ing to Sage-ing with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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An old paradigm, in which the elderly lived with their extended families and participated in the lives of their loved ones, is long gone. Somehow, the elderly in America are now often forgotten, in the way, warehoused in assembly-line nursing homes, and perceived as drains on the economy. This is the state of affairs at a time when 80 percent of Americans can now expect to live beyond the age of 65, when 75 million baby boomers will reach retirement age in the next 20 years, and when a woman who … [Read more...]