The strength of Bear medicine is the power of introspection. It lies on the west on the great medicine wheel of life. Bear medicine provides the impulse to seek honey - the sweetness of truth - within the hollow of the old tree. In winter, the bear enters the womb cave to hibernate - to digest the year's experience. Our goals are said to reside in the west also, and to accomplish those goals & dreams we carry the art of introspection is necessary.To become like the Bear and enter the safety of the womb cave, we must attune ourselves to the Eternal Mother, and receive nourishment from the placenta of The Great Void. The Great Void is the place where all solutions & answers live in harmony with the questions which fill our realities.
If we choose to believe that there are many questions to life, we must also believe that the answers to these questions reside within us. Each and every being has the capacity to quieten the mind, to then enter the silence and know.
Many Native American tribes have described this space of inner knowing as the 'Dream Lodge', where the death of the illusion of physical reality overlays the expansiveness of eternity. It is in the Dream Lodge that the ancestors sit in council and advise us regarding alternative pathways which lead to our goals. This is the power of Bear Medicine.
The female receptive energy which has for centuries permitted visionaries, mystics and shamans to prophesies, is contained in this very special Bear energy. In India, the cave symbolises the cave of Brahma. Brahma's cave is considered to be the pineal gland which sits in the centre of the four lobes of the brain. To hibernate, Bear travels to the cave, which is located in the centre of the four lobes. Once in the cave, Beer seeks answers whilst he/she is dreaming or hibernating.
For eons, all seekers of the Dreamtime and of visions have walked the path of silence, calming the internal chatter, reaching the place of rites of passage - the channel or pineal gland. From the cave of the Bear, you find the pathway to the Dream Lodge and the other levels of imagination of consciousness. With the power of Bear Medicine, you can achieve the power of knowing; to enter into the place of silence and visit the Dream Lodge so that your goals can become material plane realities. This is the strength of Bear.