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www.shamansociety.org 21 Hosts learn what their temples can do and provide. One host said Each tem- ple is analogous to a computer. Just as a computer has many programs that ac- complish different tasks so temples have multiple functions. They are like power stations many have libraries within their structures most have terma embedded in them and they act as portals. By that I mean I can use my temple as a launch pad to non-ordinary realities times and dimensions. The portal also allows light beings avatars and teachers to come here and assist in our transformation. The Siberian Ossuary To illustrate how one temple came into being Ill explain how the Temple of the Bones came about. I had seen in one of my journeys a Siberian shaman who had a box he called an ossuary. I did not know that word they said look it up on line. It means a box usually about two feet long to hold a persons bones. But why a box for bones and why from Siberia I have no ancestor connection to that region of the world and very little knowledge of Siberia. So I waited until the mystery revealed itself. My mentor and friend Dr. Betty Kovacs was the key. I knew she had traveled the world extensively and I recalled she had made a trip to Siberia. And I wanted to know more specifically about that trip. At one of our lunches she began We traveled to Altai an autonomous region between Mongolia and Siberia. That region is said to be the center of shamans. The village of Kamlak in Altai is where Siberian shamans met. I asked her about ossuaries and bones. She told me that for Siberian shamans there is great power in bones. I came home and journeyed to Altai and a Siberian shaman was there to greet me. He took me inside a yurt he called the Temple of the Bones. He told me that he and his colleagues are standing with us as are the great shamans and spirits of many traditions because the earth and all of humanity has such great needs. Within the teachings that these bones and the temples are housing are many of the solutions. Anyone can journey to the Altai Temple of the Bones that looks like a yurt. Go inside and have yak butter tea and chat about Siberian wisdom with the shamans there. The Powder River Temple The Powder River Temple came about through a series of journeys that started when I reviewed Hank Wesselmans training as my spiritual team suggested. Poised on the edge of the Pacific Ocean the training was at Big Sur in a mag- nificent setting. Giant cliffs crashing surf inspirited land. During one of the journeys I was inwardly dancing around a council fire as a Native American medi- cine man. I could see several other tribal chiefs around the fire. Then I looked across the fire and saw a white man. It was General O. Otis Howard the great- uncle of a friend of mine. I was amazed. I had read General Howards autobi- ography about his work with the Ameri- can Indians in the 1870s. After losing his right arm in the Civil War at the battle of Fair Oaks he was commissioned by President Ulysses S. Grant to make peace with the Indians. Howard made several what had to be very arduous trips to the American West to meet with Chiefs of many tribes including Black Kettle Red Cloud Cochise and Chief Joseph. These fellow warriors grew to trust Howard as an honorable man. As a result Howard was very successful in brokering peace agreements. Indians even gave him many ceremonial objects clubs bead work arrows and tribal clothing much of which is at the Smithsonian or at Howard University. Tragically by the late 1800s the next troop of white soldiers slaughtered the Indians. In his autobiography Howard relates that at the end of his life even though he was a decorated war hero had started the Freedmans Bureau for freed slaves and founded Howard University he felt he had failed the Indians. With that as background I journeyed