Today we had the snake slither into our consciousnees.Hearing about the snake on the call today reminded me of a story a Native teacher of mine Sun Bear.He passed on into the spirit years ago.He was a Chippewa medicine man ,earth profit,rain maker and rainbow warrior.When he looked at you it looked like he was looking into you and beyond you at the same time. Anyway a story he told about in his biography, "Path Of Power" was at a time when he was a younger man and he was walking in the desert one day.All of a sudden as he was walking, he suddenly got the urge to start running.So he started running and running and as he ran, at a moment that he wasn't looking or noticing he suddenly stepped on a poisonous snake.Now this desert was known for it's poisonious snakes.The snake bit him and Sun Bear felt something like an electrical shock go up his leg.In his rational mind he knew that he was in trouble and that it was only moments for the poison to totally incapacitate him and probably kill him out in the hot desert. After a few brief moments though the "medicine" in Sun Bear took over and his running started excelerating.Instead of feeling like he was going to lose consciousness and drop dead , he felt a burst of a tremendous life force course through his body and tremendous strength was running through him.What had happened was that his "medicine body" had decided at a seemingly split second to transmute the poison into a life fuel elixir for his body.Instead of being ravaged and overtaken by a poisonious substance his "body" used it as a life force to supplement and boost his power.