True Story of The Seven Feathers: Macaw Medicine and Awakening

Shaman Jon Rasmussen presents the true spiritual awakening story of his mentor Dr. Geneie Everett, a former critical care nurse who sought healing through Native American ceremonies after a traumatic childhood. Her path began when a desperate prayer for life direction prompted her skeptical aunt to be divinely mandated to procure specific ceremonial items. The bulk of the narrative describes the mysterious acquisition of six Green-Wing Macaw feathers, which were sequentially delivered by various women, often guided by dreams and profound coincidence. Following the guidance of an Apache medicine man, Geneie visited a Lakota healer where she learned of her Native American heritage and underwent intense spiritual tests, including purification rituals in a sweat lodge. The culmination of these events confirmed her destiny as a healer and storyteller, activating her ancestral medicine and necessitating the creation of her seven-feather fan.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the deep dive. Today we are leaving uh the world conventional thought way behind. We're going to explore a truly extraordinary path of spiritual initiation.

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Aaron Powell We are. We're diving into the journey of Jeannie Everett, who was a critical care nurse back in the 1980s, and she just she hit a wall.

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Completely burned out, disconnected, and desperate enough to just walk away from her entire career all in search of, well, authentic healing.

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Aaron Powell And this dive is drawn right from the notes of Shaman Jong Rasmussen. He chronicled her whole decade-long quest, which leads to this incredibly specific Native American initiation called the Seven Feathers.

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Aaron Powell Right. So this isn't just a story about someone, you know, finding themselves. It's a detailed map of what can happen when you demand your true life purpose and the universe actually answers back.

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Aaron Ross Powell And our mission today is really to unpack that process for you. We want you to see how this kind of profound redirection can happen and how guidance can show up in the most unconventional ways.

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Aaron Powell It really is unconventional and it all kicks off at an absolute low point. Jeannie is out in the high desert of Santa Fe, totally broken.

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Yeah, she throws herself onto the ground in what she literally called a temper tantrum.

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And she demands answers from her grandmothers. She says, Show me the path of my life work, or I will end my journey here.

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Aaron Ross Powell I mean, that is a moment of profound crisis. And what's so fascinating is the immediate response. It's not a thought, it's physical.

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Within days of that prayer, she starts waking up. And not just, you know, occasionally.

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No, every single morning, exactly at 4 a.m.

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She has no idea why. But this pattern, this was the silent ignition. It was starting a process through maybe the most unlikely person in her life.

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Okay, let's unpack this because the messenger is maybe the most surprising part of the whole story.

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The agent of her initiation was her aunt. And the way Jeannie described her.

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A smoker, a truck driver type.

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Exactly. Someone who seemed completely, utterly disconnected from Jeannie's world of spirituality or medicine, but the universe chose her.

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And that right there tells you something. The spiritual realm just bypasses our neat little boxes about who is qualified to deliver a message.

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And the whole initiation starts with this bizarre series of phone calls for months. Always from the ant, always with these cryptic demands.

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They were riddles, really.

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The ant would call up and just demand what does seven mean? And Jeannie, you know, she's trying to think her way through it.

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She's applying her intellect. She offers up ideas like the seven chakras or the seven cardinal directions.

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The four compass points, plus earth, the heavens, and the center where it all comes together.

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But that was just Jeannie trying to rationalize something that was completely irrational. And the questions just got weirder.

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Yeah, the ant calls back asking about a nursery rhyme. Something to do with a feather. Then it's what kind of red bird?

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The ant even said she thought the guides might be asking for a parrot. I mean, it's almost comical.

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But this went on for weeks, and it was putting a huge strain on the ant until finally the call comes. The ant is just exhausted.

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And she has the full list: seven red feathers, one blue stone, one black stone, and three white stones.

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But it's the realization that's so stunning.

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The aunt tells Jeannie, I need to sleep. You've been waking me up at 4 a.m. every morning, demanding I get you all this stuff.

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Jeannie is floored. She's like, I never called you. But the aunt is completely insistent. She said the grandmothers were speaking through her.

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And she could hear them giggling, distinctly giggling when she finally got the list right. That little detail. It's so humanizing. It shows the universe answering a desperate prayer with a bit of a sense of humor.

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So the aunt drives from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, and when she gets there, Jeannie sees this undeniable physical change in her.

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This rough, you know, truck driving woman. Her skin looked smooth and healthy.

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Jeannie said she had almost a halo around her, a glow. She looked beautiful. And then with zero instruction, she just perfectly smudges Jeannie right there in the courtyard.

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She was a purified vessel, an activated messenger. The aunt even said she was seeing visions, the whole drive up red feather fans, flashes of blue light.

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She hands over a box of feathers and stones, but Jeannie feels nothing from them.

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And that's the key. The aunt confirms it. She says those aren't important. This set the stage, it confirmed that the process needed objects with authentic power.

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And those objects began to arrive with this impossible synchronicity. It started exactly 10 days later on December 20th.

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It's like a clock started ticking.

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Ten days after her aunt's visit, Jeannie is at a holiday party. She tells the story, but as if it were her aunt's story, not her own. A woman there immediately comes up to her.

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And gives her the first macaw feather. A beautiful red and blue green wing macaw feather.

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Now, for anyone listening who's a skeptic, you might think, okay, that's a coincidence.

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Sure. But then within the next ten days, five more nearly identical macaw feathers are gifted to her.

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All by different women. In situations that were totally unrelated, the collection was happening at this impossible supernatural speed.

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And it wasn't just physical, it was woven into her dreams, into her visions from childhood.

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Right, there's the snake dream. She's got four feathers laid out, trying to figure out what's next. That night, she dreams about a small black snake.

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A figure from her childhood healing visions.

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Yes. And in the dream, it swallows her arm. The snake is hungry. She actually negotiates with it. Instead of eating your dog, Jackson, the snake agrees to eat a pork roast.

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And the very next morning, a Sunday, Jeannie goes to her mailbox.

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And there's the fifth feather.

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The sixth one was even stranger. A carefully wrapped box just addressed to Jeannie, Santa Fe, Don Jose Loop. Her husband just finds it in the garage. No postmark, no sign of how it got there.

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Aaron Ross Powell, it was sent by a Navajo woman from Arizona. This was all just confirmation that she was operating in a realm of really high spiritual activity now.

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Aaron Ross Powell Absolutely. So with six feathers, she goes to see Cervando, an Apache medicine man known for his work with energetic protection.

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Aaron Ross Powell And Servando takes the feathers, he smudges them, and he immediately knows what they are. He says, this is women's medicine. But he gives her a very stark warning.

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Aaron Ross Powell A critical warning. He says that once a light has been identified, meaning a healer like Jeannie announces herself on the spiritual plane, the dark rushes in to interfere.

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Aaron Ross Powell He's basically describing spiritual warfare and energetic defense. The initiation wasn't going to be a smooth ride.

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And the challenge came immediately. It showed up as these strange, protective events, like a carefully arranged pile of stones appearing at her front door.

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On top of pristine snow, with absolutely no tracks around them, it defies logic.

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The energy was physical. Servando confirmed that her dog Jackson, the one saved in the dream, he lay right down on those stones. He was taking the hit for her, absorbing the negative energy.

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But the energy transfer didn't stop there. Something like pneumonia or even tuberculosis. And then almost overnight, as she starts to get better.

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Her other dog, Nina, gets desperately ill. It was a clear transfer of the illness. And this just underscores the huge energetic cost of what was happening. It was not a game.

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Right. With all of this happening, Jeannie clearly needed to understand who she was on a much deeper ancestral level.

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Servando sends her to a new guide, a Lakota woman named Paula, who takes one look at Jeannie and insists she has a tribe carried in her DNA.

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Even though Jeannie didn't look the part, Paula just knew that this process had to be rooted in her ancestry.

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And Jeannie finally recalls her great-grandmother saying they were part of the seven Cherokee tribes. She always used to say it only takes one drop of blood.

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Paula's guides pinpointed the Choctaw tribe, and Jeannie was able to confirm it. Choctaw and Chickasaw, lineage from her grandfather. Her DNA had basically been activated by the whole process.

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It's incredible. Now, before Jeannie went to see Paula, Servando had actually offered her the seventh feather.

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And she refused it. She knew it was wrong. Why? Because the other six had all come to her through the hands of women. She was following the pattern.

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When she gets to Paula's, the danger is still very real. Paula knows right away that the sixth feather, the one from the Navajo woman, it needs to be purified. Urgeously.

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And there's a reason Paula was the one to help her. There were deep karmic ties at play here.

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A whole backstory. Jeannie had done a past life regression with a Celtic shaman, and it revealed that in a past life, she was a medicine woman whose specific medicine was grieving.

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And Paula, in that same lifetime, was a warrior who had ignored Jeannie's warning and died from it.

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So Paula wasn't just a guide, she was there to pay a karmic debt to make sure Jeannie completed her path safely this time. This is why it was all so high stakes.

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The teachings kept coming. At a powwow, Jeannie started crying when they asked her to dance. She felt like an imposter.

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And Paula addressed that directly by sharing a really important prophecy from the ancestors.

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The prophecy said that the medicine people who would lead this new awakening would be the seventh generation and they would not necessarily be full-blooded.

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Because, Paula explained, the full bloods were often too sick. She mentioned things like alcoholism. They were too burdened to carry the full weight of the medicine. The path was for those with the activated DNA, no matter what they looked like.

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And that realization is what paved the way for the final test in the sweat lodge.

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Led by Ray, Paula's husband, a very strict man whose own teacher was Servando. So the power in that space was immense.

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And you could feel it immediately.

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Which created a massive energetic conflict. Ray's own spirit guides were past enemies of the Choctaw. The clash was so intense, Ray had to stop everything.

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You reluctantly let Jeannie's ancestors proceed, but he warned her.

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So Ray tells her to hold her feathers. He brings in this massive, glowing red hot rock.

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And for the ultimate test, Ray tells her to lay her irreplaceable macaw feathers right on top of that searing hot rock.

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She was sure they'd just vaporize, that her whole journey would end right there.

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But they were completely unharmed, not even a scorch mark.

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And Ray knew immediately. He said tobacco and the pipe, those weren't her medicine. The feathers themselves were the sacred tool, protected by her lineage.

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The test was complete. Her path was confirmed. And now the grandmother started directing her on a global scale.

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She's told to travel with her feathers and ends up in New Zealand for her husband's work. And the confirmations just keep coming.

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A man just walks up to her and gifts her an ancient Maori weapon, a patu. He says a Maori shaman told him to give it to a woman arriving from the West.

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It was a confirmation that her activation, her medicine, it transcended any single tribal boundary. It was universal.

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And it was in New Zealand that the central message of her new path finally came through. A woman was channeling for her.

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And the grandmothers came through rocking and giggling again, and they delivered the mandate.

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It's not about fiscal medicine anymore. That's an old memory now. Your medicine is about healing the soul and the heart.

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And that connects everything. It's why she had to leave being a critical care nurse. She wasn't meant to mend bodies, she was meant to mend spiritual trauma.

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So to fully understand the tools she'd been given, she sought out a man named Joseph in the Picurius Pueblo.

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And Joseph gives her the final piece of the puzzle, the meaning of the macaw. He says bird tribes are messengers between worlds, but macaws are the ambassadors. They have voice. Their intelligence is like the highest order.

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And the colors of the feathers confirmed her new mission. But blue.

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Blue is the fifth chakra, the throat. Speaking your truth, storytelling.

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The message was crystal clear. You cannot stay a student forever. It is your responsibility to talk it as well. The healing required her voice.

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Joseph also gave her a crucial piece of strategy based on how macaws behave. The macaw flies above the eagle, its main predator.

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Which teaches that the best defense isn't to fight back, it's to get above the problem.

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What a powerful, tangible strategy for any kind of conflict in your life.

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The whole bundle was finally completed in Vancouver at an aviary. A woman named Joanne gave her one last long central feather.

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And Joanne points out that all seven feathers probably came from a single green-wing macaw, a species found near Machu Picchu. And critically, she mentions that these birds are nearly androgynous.

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A perfect symbol for Jeannie's own journey of balancing her male and female energies.

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So what does this all mean? This entire dramatic decade-long quest. What was the final purpose?

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Well, it meant the preparation was over. The tools were ready.

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Her vision was intensely symbolic. She sees this huge chasm she can't cross, she fails, and then she flies up like a bird.

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And from up there, looking down, she sees all the different medicines of the world, Apache, Lakota, Celtic, everything, as different colors. And they all merge into a single rainbow.

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And the rainbow doesn't just sit there, it forms a spiral going up. Bearhart started crying. He told her he had witnessed the exact same vision and that she was now on the lonely path.

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The path that integrates all the medicines into one.

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The very last step was to make the physical tool. With a Lakota Road chief named Marvin, she created a flat fan, not the traditional kind, to represent the breadth of her medicine.

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Marvin wrapped each of the seven feathers with tobacco and red cloth and assigned each one a specific prayer for the past, the future, the present, for anything you want, for family, the planet.

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And the last one for the great mystery, for the unmanifest.

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And Jeannie's legacy is the culmination of all of this. She went from being a nurse to getting her doctorate in an energy medicine, writing about altered states of consciousness. She now works with the restorative gardens, with healing, all focused on the soul and the heart, just like the grandmothers demanded.

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So this deep dive, it shows that when Jeannie demanded her purpose, the answer was, well, it was anything but easy. It was not linear. It involved activating her DNA, fulfilling someone else's karma, a literal transfer of illness, and a test by fire.

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Which brings up a pretty big question for you, the listener. What does this story tell you about the true cost, the commitment required, when the universe finally answers your biggest, most desperate call for purpose? Think about that macaws lesson. What problem in your own life is asking you not to fight it, but to simply rise above it?