"Paul Moore"
I must explain first that my Abenaki name is not Bear Paw; my name is healing-hand-of-the-bear, it’s just that I can’t remember the exact Abenaki words, it’s been to long since I have heard its proper wording…so Bear Paw is a shortened version.
* I was raised by a Native American Grandmother and Mother who were French Canadian Abenaki…My Father was of National Irish heritage and this is were I get my duel citizenship of the USA and Republic of Ireland.
My Grandmother and her relitives migrated to the USA in the late 1800s from Canada, they were just working people, they had no ties or roots to any Abenaki Bands or Tribes, or Chiefs or Elders anymore because of the lack of Abenaki in New England.
The Abenaki, as a whole society, were moved back accross the Canadian border by the USA goverment long before... all of my learning and knowledge was all inclusive in my family unite for traditions and ceremonies; I have never had the fortune of having a Chief, nor will I seek to find one, to have one means that I would have to be go through the government process and then be numbered.
My Grandmother had a fear of being numbered...Native Americans are numbered in the USA and Canada and my Grandmother, with all of her fears and rememberances of abuse for being Native American in Canada and the USA, made all of the relitives promise never to be numbered. I can't break a promise to any one, let alone my Grandmother and Mother.
As a young child, I saw my Grandmother as a very intriguing Woman; she drew people to her because she was a soft-spoken little Lady of four foot ten at her tallest…plus the fact that she was the local Bishop’s head of the healing group in the Springfield Dioceses area of Massachusetts. This unique group was all, or part Native American; besides my Grandmother the rest of the group consisted of four Nuns of Providence and a Priest, all had Native blood running through their veins.
I accompanied my Grandmother’s healing group as long as it didn’t interfere with school, taking my part in every healing…all of this was during the late 1940(s) and the 1950(s). Healing groups during this time span had to operate covertly because the American Catholic Church had a ban on such matters.
The cardinals of the America’s headed by Cardinal Cushing realised that all of the healers were of Native American heritage, Mexican or South Americans, all who had some heritage based in Native American, Inca, Toltec or Mayan culture. Indigenous peoples were still considered as low-life savages even if they could heal all that were ill.
* In 1962 I became a barber and from 1974 until 2003; I owned a hair salon with several emplyees in Massachusetts for 35+ years and during this time I fallowed my Grandmothers last wishes and that was to further what she had taught me and shown me first hand; she told me to go on in school, University, and to learn about people beyond what she had shown and explained, and to learn the power of breath.
Learning the power of breath was the most difficult, more difficult than the many years of studying Psychology and Sociology at the University level. Learning breath and why you should breathe may seem simplistic but not so. Breath is essential in everything, which will be further explained in this book; to give a little view though, breath brings out the feminine energy side, which can make your relationships work, plus it can heal everything.
* In 2003 I moved to England with my wife Lillian and established myself. I had no idea of what to do so I did what I knew best, I reverted back to my Native heritage and all of the education that my Grandmother encouraged me to acquire. I Tutored “Life Coaching” courses for Newcastle College between the years of 2004 to 2006; and being raised in the Native tradition of my Grandmother, lends itself to being one with spirit so I started appearing in front of audiences, listening to my spirit and giving people answers to their life, and closure with those that had left their life…which I still do presently.
* I then had been approached to work on the European continent giving workshops on Native American Visioning, enabling each person so that they can establish a pathway or course of life and to see and interact with their spirit firsthand for guidance, which I still do presently
