This website is primarily dedicated to that part of my soul path which is intricately connected with prayers, pilgrimage, and what I learn while I’m on the road. (For a website that is broader in scope, please visit https://cynthiagreb.com/.)
Listening to my intuition, several years ago I began to make journeys around this country. These journeys were not vacations but more like pilgrimages or sacred adventures. The one in 2018 lasted three months and was focused primarily in northern California, Oregon, and Montana. The one in 2022 ended up being six months long, and when tracing the route on a map, looked rather like a huge crooked oval around the continental U.S. Then in early 2024, I completed a shorter journey down to Florida and back. And again in June and July of 2025. And again in December 2025 and January 2026. I am currently planning journeys for 2026.
The following is what my travels typically entail:
- Visiting sacred sites.
- Visiting pre-Columbian sites, such as earth mounds.
- Offering prayers at places of sorrow–especially where there were massacres of Native Americans, and also Black Americans.. There are records of about 100 brutal massacres of indigenous people all around the country. Of these, anywhere from 100-800 women, children, and men were killed. It is also very likely there were countless more massacres about which there are no records.
- Offering prayers at native boarding schools where children had been abducted, taken from their families, communities and tribal nations and placed in residential schools where they were forced to abandon their names, language, customs, and beliefs. These schools were rife with abuse. Many children died from disease, neglect or abuse. It also disrupted the continuity of native culture for many generations.
- Offering prayers where Black Americans, Latinos, Japanese Americans, children, and animals have been harmed or killed.
- Reveling in the peace of Nature.
My next journey is likely to be in May and June and will most likely include the following:
- An exploration of Lenape and Nanticoke communities and their legacy in southern New Jersey and Delaware.
- Ancestral research and connection.
- Learning about the Chincoteague people in Virginia and Maryland.
Meanwhile, I am integrating what I have learned, giving talks and presentations, and leading prayer rituals.
Journey of 2025
Hi everyone.
I was called to do another journey. It ended up being shorter than intended, primarily due to insufficient funds. However, I learned quite a bit, and offered prayers wherever I could. Here are some highlights:
- Visited and offered prayers at the town of Rosewood, Florida, where racial violence destroyed an entire middle class black town, killing quite a few African Americans in the process.
- Learning about the great Seminole leader Osceola and also the Seminole Chief Micanopy.
- Learning about the many enslaved people who escaped and found shelter and community within indigenous villages.
- Learning more about the Muskogee people (Creek), many of whom migrated to Florida and became Seminoles.
- Visited the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida, where Osceola, Micanopy and others were captured and imprisoned after being lured there with talk of peace negotiations. Also a large number of Apache were imprisoned there following their eventual surrender after forty years of brave fighting against U.S. forces trying to take over their land. A number of Plains Indians were also imprisoned there for the “crime” of resisting occupation. of their land. Some of those imprisoned included survivors of the brutal Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
- Offered prayers at New Echota, Georgia, a holding place for the Cherokee prior to their brutal forced walk on the Trail of Tears.
- Visited the earth mounds at Crystal River Archaeological State Park in Florida.
- Tried to visit a shell mound at Cedar Keys in Florida, but it was closed due to hurricane damage.
- Revisited Nikwasi Mound in Franklin, NC and Etowah Mounds in Georgia.
Going on a journey like this is a big commitment. There are many costs involved. If you feel moved to make a donation to this educational/spiritual journey and any of the upcoming ones that will continue to happen, I would be very grateful. Please know that I share much of what I learn and experience—on my blog on this site, on Facebook, in books in process, in occasional videos, and in speaking engagements, presentations, and webinars. I do this both because I want to help educate us all, and because most of our schools do not cover these sorrowful events nor these cultural accomplishments.
I was encouraged by a wise one to create a Go Fund Me for this journey. If you would like to contribute, please click HERE.
Journeys in 2018 and 2022
In 2018, I found myself discovering new things about several tribes/people with whom I was unfamiliar. There was a lot of serendipity, grace, and peace as I slowed down to the “pace of nature,” offered prayer at places of sorrow, and had some unexpected mystical encounters. It was an incredibly rich time.
In 2022, after again receiving a strong message to travel, I chose 6 sacred or significant places I wanted to visit (or in two cases, revisit) and then let myself be guided to everything before, after, and in between those places. Those six places included: the amazing Serpent Mound in Peebles, OH; site of a massacre of Christianized Lenape and Mahican in Gnadenhutten, OH; Wounded Knee, SD; Bear Lodge (aka Devil’s Tower), WY; Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming; and sacred Mt. Shasta in California. Along the way, I ended up discovering many ancient earth mounds and earthworks I’d never heard of before. I learned there were thousands of these mounds. I was continually struck by how inadequate our schools are if such significant creations are never even mentioned to our children. There are also way too many sites of battles and massacres where hundreds of native people were killed—not only men, but always women, children, and babies, too. These events were absolutely horrific and brutal and have also been glossed over in our history classes.
One day during a conversation with a nurse practitioner at a routine doctor visit in Pennsylvania, I realized that the average American knows very little about, not only the history of Native Americans, but the lives they live now and the issues they care about now. For instance, did you know there are 574 federally recognized tribes? That’s a huge number! And native people say there are many, many more that the government doesn’t recognize. Since that conversation in the doctor’s office, part of my mission has become the sharing of what I have learned these past several years. And to that end I have been writing quite a bit (see my blog and stay tuned for a book in process), giving workshops and presentations both in person and online, and speaking at area churches, retirement centers, etc.
Native Americans have been both villified and glorified, but many Americans have never even had a conversation with a Native American. There is so much for each one of us to learn, so many ways to grow, and certainly much to atone for. I want to help facilitate all of these things.
VIDEOS, PODCASTS, and BOOK
Giving inspirational talks has been a part of my life for quite a while now. You can find out about Events, Workshops, Seminars, Talks, and Presentations below. Or you can check out some of my videos. I especially recommend these two: “Living as if the World is Sacred” and “Cultivating a Spirit of Hope.” You can also find inspirational videos of my talks HERE, including “Loving this Earth,” “Angels in our Midst–Human and Otherwise,” and “The Most Important Things Aren’t Things.” Also, listen to podcasts HERE, including: “We All Have a Spiritual Support Team,” “How Can We Birth a New Earth (Or, Co-creating the Shift We Yearn to See),” “The Power of Pilgrimage,” “Transforming Our Fear of Death,” and “Communing with the Spirits.” You can also find me on Facebook. If you’d like to purchase a copy of my book Grief and Grace: Stories at the Intersection of Life and Death, contact me at cynthia@cynthiagreb.com. (You can also order it on Amazon.)
Meanwhile, when you’re feeling discouraged, remember the words of these wise ones:
“The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” ~Chief Seattle
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.” ~Arundhati Roy
Be the Love. Be the Light.
Bless you all,
Cynthia
CONTACT ME
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Please note: All photos on this website are by Cynthia Greb unless otherwise noted. Photographs may be shared as long as Cynthia is given photo credit.
Cover image: This place of great beauty is Bear River in southeastern Idaho. It also happens to be the place where there had been a horrendous massacre of 493 Shoshone men, women, and children.
EVENTS
Recent and Upcoming
- May 10, 2026 Speaking at Circle of Miracles, 10 Beulah Rd., New Britain, PA. 10-11:30 a.m. Navigating the Afterlife.
Cynthia Greb was once a chaplain for two different hospices. At the time, she believed in the Christian concept of proceeding from life to death and immediately on to heaven. After leaving that work, interestingly, she experienced a lot more death closer to home, and she found herself learning that the Afterlife was not so cut and dried as she once believed. Influenced by the indigenous belief in the spirit world, by Buddhist teachings, by experiences with mediums and, notably, by many fascinating dreams, she began to learn that the Afterlife can be rather nuanced. Experiences of the deceased can vary depending on how a person died, what they believed, and perhaps how evolved they were spiritually. Cynthia will come with oodles of stories and dreams to share. This is sure to be a fascinating talk. (You can also join Cynthia for lunch afterwards to continue the conversation!)
Donation to COM appreciated. I will also have signed books for sale: Grief and Grace: Stories at the Intersection of Life and Death. - April 12, 2026 Presentation with Susan Duval Seminars, at Circle of Miracles, 10 Beulah Rd., New Britain, PA: Native People I Have Met from All Over America and What They Have to Teach Us.
Most of what we know about Native Americans comes from a scant lesson or two in school and from movies or TV, or if we’re well-read, from a book or two or three. Probably at least half of all Americans have never met an indigenous American because so many were pushed far away from their original homes. Most Americans don’t realize there are hundreds of tribes across the country. They don’t know how indigenous Americans live now, in the 21st century. They don’t know which traditions, if any, are still practiced. They don’t know about some of the issues which concern them most. And they may have no idea how they can be an ally or what, if anything, can be done to
begin to atone for all the losses, all the broken treaties, all the broken trust.
Cynthia Greb did not grow up in a traditional Native community, but she feels a passion to share what she has learned while living on reservations, visiting many indigenous communities—in both North America and South, and listening to indigenous elders, young people, and others. For instance, what did she learn while living with an elder on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, and while visiting a friend’s Cheyenne reservation? And what did she learn from a young Yurok woman and several traditional Cherokee young people? And what did she learn from a Ute elder? And in the pueblos of New Mexico? And while visiting Pine Ridge Reservation? And in the rainforests of Ecuador?
Cynthia will share photos from across America and scores of first-person stories. And all participants will leave with a handout which tells how they can help and where they can learn more. Cost: $33. To register, go HERE. - January 10, 2026: Presentation at North Wales Library, North Wales, PA: Intrigue at Sacred Sites: Help Solve the Mysteries!
- October 26, 2025 Speaking at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA: Bringing Peace to the Spirits
- September 21, 2025 Speaking at Pebble Hill Church, Doylestown, PA: Praying for the Spirits at Carlisle. I will be sharing about my three experiences at the site of the infamous boarding school for Native American children and teens at Carlisle, PA. After the talk, we will collectively do a prayer ritual to assist the spirits of those children who died in such a sad way.
- March 23, 2025 Teaching at Newtown Friends, Newtown, PA: Spiritual Beliefs and Practices of Indigenous Americans in the United States
- January 19, 2025 Speaking at The Celebration, Santa Fe, NM (via Zoom): Can Ancient Wisdom Help Us Navigate Our Present and Create a Better Future?
- December 8, 2024 Speaking at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA: My Unfolding Journey with Sky Woman
- September 19, 2024 Online seminar. Sacred Roadtripping. $30 To register, please contact me via email at cynthiagreb@gmail.com.
- August 20, 2024 Presentation at Abington House, Foulkeways at Gwynedd, PA. Learning about the Tribal Nations of Turtle Island: First Person Stories
- August 13, 2024 Seminar for Susan Duval Seminars, Doylestown, PA. Sacred Roadtripping: Inspiration & Tips for Sacred Travel in the U.S.A.
- July 16, 2024 Presentation at Abington House, Foulkeways at Gwynedd, PA. What do Mississippi, Manayunk & Monongahela have in common? Exploring Indigenous Place Names
- July 8, 2024 Presentation at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, PA. The Mystery of America’s Earth Mounds: Melding Academic & Indigenous Knowledge with Personal Experience
- June 28, 2024 Presentation at Abington House, Foulkeways at Gwynedd, PA. A Brief Overview of the Lenape
- May 4, 2024 Presentation at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, PA. Exploring Native America in the 21st Century: One Woman’s Journey
- April 28, 2024 Speak at Pebble Hill Interfaith Church, Doylestown, PA. We Are Beings of Light
- March 24, 2024 Speak at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA. Sacred Journey 101: Being Guided to Where You Need to Be
- February 12, 2024 Guest speaker on the KickAss Boomer Podcast How Cynthia Greb Found Her Calling: A Journey into the Heart of Native American Culture!
- November 5, 2023 Speak at Pebble Hill Interfaith Church, Doylestown, PA. Becoming Allies with Native Americans
- October 29, 2023 Speak at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA. All Souls Day: Guiding Spirits Home
- March 26, 2023 Speak at Pebble HIll Interfaith Church, Doylestown, PA. Beauty, Mystery & Grace on the Road
- March 12, 2023 Speak at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA. Prayer & Ceremony on the Road
- February 26, 2023 Seminar for Susan Duval Seminars, Doylestown, PA. America’s Mysterious Earth Mounds: Melding Academic and Indigenous Knowledge with Intuition and Personal Experience
- February 5, 2023 Speak at Pebble Hill Church, Doylestown, PA. The Art and Practice of Pilgrimage
- January 4, 2023 Speak for the Lansdale-Philly Psychic Development Group. Mystical Mt. Shasta
- November 2, 2022 Online class. Introduction to Earth Mounds and Other Ancient Sites of Turtle Island
- October 30, 2022 Speaking at The Celebration, Santa Fe, NM. Communing with the Spirits
- August 13, 2022 Speak at the Lansdale-Philly Psychic Development Group. Honoring Ancient Native American Sites and Spirits
- May 29, 2022 The Celebration, Santa Fe, NM. We All Have a Spiritual Support Team
- May 8, 2022 Speak at Pebble Hill Church, Doylestown, PA. How Would Our World Be Different if We Honored a Mother God?
- April 24, 2022 Speak at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA. Loving This Earth
- December 5, 2021 Speak at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA. The Most Important Things Aren’t Things
- September 5, 2021 Speak at Circle of Miracles, New Britain, PA. Being Light!
***To contact Cynthia Greb about a presentation or speaking engagement, email her at cynthia@cynthiagreb.com.***
