DER ROTE PFAD (The red road)

The "Red path" of life is also closely linked to the "Sacred Hoop" sacred circle of life (CANGLESKA WAKAN - medicine wheel of the Lakotas).

The red path is a community (circle of people) who walk hand in hand. People who live in this reality and also people who live between this reality and the spiritual world (spirit world) live together with star creatures, animal creatures, stone creatures, river creatures, tree creatures ( star people, animal people, stone people, river people, tree people).

The tread the red path describes the Lakota "Black Elk" BLACK STAG:

"From there in the north, where the giant lives, to the south, wherever we look, there leads the Red pathThe way of the good, this is the way our people should go.

The black path leads from where the thunder beings live (west) to where the sun always shines (east), a fearful path, a road of trouble and war."

Walking the red path means                                                                             

• to know about sacrifice and suffering, to know that one day you will cross over into the spirit world and you will not be afraid; 
• Know (honour) your ancestors and ancestresses and call on them for support.....(in prayers and ceremonies)                  
• to be a free person, free to travel, free to stand still, free to work, free to act, free to decide, free to follow my teachers, free to follow the religion of our fathers, free to speak, free to think and free to act for myself.

To take the red route, we have God-given rights:

You have the right free to pray, to dance, to think, to protect, to know your mother, to dream, to have visions, to teach and learn, to be happy, to hold (shake up) those who live wrong, to see/recognise the truth, to live with the spirit world.

Our Goal on the Red Way is to live as a free conscious being in harmony and respect for the whole of creation (Wakan Tanka) and to always follow the laws of nature and cosmic cycles (Sacred Hoop) to follow. In connection with the ancestors and the spirit world, we go in search of divine peace in our hearts and try to live in love and harmony with our fellow human beings. In doing so, we always think of the next seven generations who will live on our Mother Earth after us, which is why we should treat all life and the resources of the beautiful Earth Mother with respect and sustainability.

Aho, mitakuye oyasin.