One does not have to climb mountains, fast for 40 days and nights, and have a near death experience in order to receive spiritual enlightenment or a vision. If a person drinks for 20 years and then quits, it requires tremendous discipline to change this 'near death' experience and embark on a new path. In other words, whereas it took someone 4 or 8 days to receive a message, it took the alcoholic 20 years - time is relative because it is The Creator's business and The Creator's time. WATE R Water has a spirit. Water as it floods around the boat or around you as you swim or float, is speaking to you.
Water cleanses the physical body, the mind and the spirit.
Bathe in it, drink lots of it, do not take it for granted. When we lose something precious, something happens to our minds. We as native people lost a lot. There is a grieving process in all of this. Anger then replaces the loss which is then expressed in two ways.