But we're in that time now. We're between the first light of a new day
and the sunrise. The sunrise is about to come and when it comes up
everyone is going to see it. But you know how it is in the village
there's a few people that get up early, and there are some that sleep
until noon. I'm probably one of those that sleeps until noon.

They said when that Eagle lands on the moon, the powers will begin to
come back to us. As an alcoholic person, I feel that one of our
greatest diseases is alcoholism. Within seven days of the time of the
Eagle landing on the moon, the first Native alcoholism program was
started on an Apache reservation in Arizona. Within seven days of the
time the Eagle landed on the moon, the Freedom of Indian Religion Act
was introduced into the United States Congress. Eventually it was
passed in November of 1978, signed by President Carter, making the
song that Kevin [Kevin Locke, a famous Indian Baha'i who spends his
time travelling around the world sharing the North American Indian
culture through dance and music] sang legal to sing in every state of
the United States. It was punishable at one time to go to jail for 10
years and/or a $10,000 fine for singing a song or doing a suat. This
was changed in 1978Š the legislation was introduced in 1969, less than
seven days after the Eagle landed on the moon. These are the physical
manifestations of the spiritual prophecies that we have.

So he said at this time you're going to see that things will speed up,
that people on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren
will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for
children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster. The
elders advised us that as things speed up, you yourself should slow
down. The faster things go, the slower you go. Because there's going
to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a third time. The
Great Spirit has been shaking the earth two times: the First and
Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human family, to remind
us that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We
had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that
would have brought peace on earth, but we missed that.

Tonight they were talking on the news about the sign for the Third
Shaking of the Earth. I heard it while sitting in the airport after I
missed my plane. They said they're going to build what the elders
called the "house in the sky". In the 1950's they talked about this:
they will build a house and throw it in the sky. When you see people
living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit
is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand, but with both
hands. Many of you of Native background may have heard "the spirits
will warn you twice, but the third time you stand alone." We've had
two warnings, the first two World Wars, but now we stand alone in the
third one. As it says in the Baha'i Writings, there will be no-one
protected. When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to
shake the Earth a third time and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes,
upon them it is going to drop.

They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great
that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out,
and in the prophecies these are called "villages of stone", or
"prairies of stone". And they said the stone will grow up from the
ground and you will not be able to see beyond the village. At the
center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people,
and they will walk as "hollow" shells upon a "prairie of stone". They
said "hollow shells" which means they will have lost any of their
traditional understandings; they will be empty within. They said after
the Eagle lands on the moon some of these people will begin to leave
these "prairies of stone" and come home and take up some of the old
ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day. But
many will not. And they said there's going to come a time when in the
morning the sun is going to rise and this village of stone will be
there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from the
ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those
villages of stone when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn
to steam also because they never woke up and left the village. And
this used to bother me when I was a young man. I used to ask the
elders, "Isn't there anything we can do?" And they said, well, it's
just that way that if a person does not have the spiritual eyes to
see, it's very hard to show them. Or if they don't have the ears to
hear, it's very hard to speak with them. We wish that we could go get
them all but we can't. It's just that some are not going to wake up.
But some will wake up .

And so they say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth.
It's not going to be a good thing to see but we will survive it. We
will survive it.

And when we survive it, then there's going to be another attempt to
make a circle of the human beings on the earth. And this time the
Native people will not have to petition to join but will be invited to
enter the circle because they say the attitude towards us will have
changed by then, and people will let us into the circle and all the
four colors of the four directions will share their wisdom, and there
will be a peace on earth. This is coming close. A lot of times when I
share this message of the prophecies, people say, "Can't we change it?
Could we stop it?" The answer is yes. The prophecies are always
"either/or". We could have come together way back there in 1565, and
we could have had a great civilization, but we didn't. Always along
the path of these prophecies, we could have come together. We still
could. If we could stop the racial and religious disharmony, we would
not have to go through this third shaking. The elders say the chance
of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like it's pretty slim, too. But
they say what we can do is we can "cushion" it. The word we use is
"cushion". We can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad. How do we do
this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite us. The
Hopis in their prophecies say there will be a religion that comes
here. Maybe it will be true and bring unity, or maybe it will not be
true and not bring unity. If it does not bring unity, a second
religion will come, and the people of this religion are known in the
Hopi language as the Bahani, the people of Baha. Ni means "people of".
So I was looking for the people of Baha. I wondered who the people of
Baha were. I was a Baha'i for quite a while before somebody told me
that baha'i means "people of Bahà". I thought, "0 my God!" Here I was
looking for it all these years and I never even noticed it! And I
found it! I was stubborn and didn't want to become a "Baha'i but my
grandfather who passed away, you know he must have found out about it
in the next realm because he came back to me four times to tell me,
"Hey, look at that again, look at that again. Look one more time."
Bahà, it means "light or glory". Baha'i means "follower of the light",
or the "people of Bahà". We've been waiting for these people for a
long time. They say they will bring a Teaching that will unite the
earth. So we need to share this Teaching. They say the fire will come
from the North. So here we are, in a circle, in the North, talking
about the Bahànis, the "people of Bahà", and the teachings of
Baha'u'llah.

When I heard about these [prophecies], none of them made any sense.
Now most of it has come to pass. Last I heard on the news, they said
the "house in the sky" will be put up in 1996. It was going to be put
up sooner, but it's been postponed for four years. Maybe it will be
postponed again. But in not too long it's going to go up. The earth as
we know it is going to change.

Each of us carry, I believe, a sacred drop of light. In the Indian
teachings, they say it takes nine ancestors to agree before conception
can occur. Nine ancestors of the husband and the wife have to come
together in the spiritual realm and say; "We will bring life," before
a woman can become pregnant. At that time the soul is born.