Watcher in the Woods

Watcher in the Woods, 4″ x 10″, acrylic on board

I have been following a story out of North Carolina about a man who saw a Bigfoot. I suspect kinds of sightings may increase, just as “orbs” seem to be seen more and more in photography. Energy is shifting and changing in the world and more and more people are becoming aware of these changes.

The first time I ever saw a Bigfoot, I was around 9 years old. I had just woken up in the middle of the night to see the giant looking in through the window over the bed at me. I was terrified and feared if I even breathed he would reach in and grab me. I moved my bed the next day. It was months later that I had a dream in which I sat on the ground with only a bonfire in front of me. A Bigfoot walked into the light of the fire and I froze, but I wasn’t scared this time. He then picked me up and started pulling my arms off and breaking me up into pieces, he dismember me and threw my body parts into the fire. I was never scared or felt anything as this happened. I would continue to have dreams of Bigfoot after that but I would only see him standing and watching me. It always scared me and I would end up running away from him and then wake up startled. But these dream set me on a quest to understand more about dreams and strange phenomenon. In high school I happened upon a book on shamanism and learn of spirit teachers and dismemberment initiations. All of this just begged me to ask more and more questions.

I was now in my early 20’s and my mom had a friend who was working with some of the Ojibwa Indians, she took me to a Pow-Wow with her so I could meet her teacher and ask him about my dreams. He was very nice man and when I told him about my dreams he simply said, stop running and ask him what he wants. It couldn’t have been a week later and I had another dream where I was sitting at the fire in the darkness again and the Bigfoot walked right up to me and I stayed seated and didn’t run. I asked him “what do you and want?” and he pointed at me, and then moved his hand down towards my feet and I looked down following and saw I was covered in tattoos, layers and layers of symbols. Then he started telling me what the symbols were and what they did.

That was the beginning of my training with him. Most of the time the teachings came in my dreams and I have since learned shamanic journeying and meet him in my journeys as well. I also met other people who knew more about them and shared what insights they had of them. I’ve always had a hard time talking about these experiences; they are spiritual and magical beings and not something I want to trivialize.