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August 14,2017
Lys Burden, 310 Willow Street, Port Townsend, Washington 98368
We purchased our house in Port Townsend in 2005 and moved helgri{t lE.Aarf_umn of 2010. I
love to study geography and geology, and as part of any move to i'ndw pfa65l'enjoy learning
about the natural history of the land.
In the spring of 2015, I was very excited to discover there were large, ephemeral kettte ponds on
Black Point. I wanted to visit them, but learned they were very off limits to the public because
they were part of a huge planned development and were intended to be used for waste water
storage. It seemed to be a horrible travesty and tragedy for the landscape. Then I learned through
my participation in the Native Connections Action Group at the Unitarian Fellowship they were
very sacred places, and their springtime waters had been highly valued fresh water near the
beach for their shellfish gathering and fishing activities. They were very special places to our
indigenous friends.
These discoveries made a little more clear experiences that I had in the spring of 2014, after I
spent a couple of nights at a friend's house in Brinnon at Black Point. Let me preface this story
with the fact that since moving to the Pacific Northwest, I have become incredibly aware of the
spirits of this land and have had to learn how to deal with this awareness through spiritual
healing and training.
To continue with my experiences in Brinnon, that Friday night I had very fitful sleep, with the
word, "Twana" pervading my consciousness every time I woke up, which was about hourly. At 4
am, I finally verbally acknowledged that I understood that the Twana had lived here, and then I
got unintemipted sleep. Later, on Sunday, my two companions and I did a little drumming and
journeying, as we were spiritual healing students of a practitioner in Seattle.
As were leaving Brinnon on Sunday afternoon, I felt that we were bringing something with us,
but I couldn't figure out what, and after travelling over Mt. Walker, the feeling passed. Three
days later, I woke up in my own bed with a tremendous feeling of fear and with the image that I
was a young indigenous woman with a baby son and my husband was out searching for another
place for us to hide... we were being hunted! I know from my training I am vulnerable in a state
of fear, so I consciously quieted this feeling into a state of loving peacefulness and went back to
sleep. Then, I woke up with a HUGE rush of energy blasting from the top of my head. . . very
unsettling... but an experience I have had before and known in the trade as a spiritual attachment
(or in older European terms, a possession).
In a later healing session to encourage this attachment to leave my energy system and go where
he needed to transcend to, we discovered he was a Twana leader from the early 1800's who had
attached because he was so concerned about something that was going to happen to the local
area, and he wanted to protect the land. And now we know the end of the story, he so desperately
wanted to save the kettles that he tried embodying into a modern day woman of much less
importance and power, but who was "available" to further his cause. And so it is... Thank you!