Though the circle has been marginalized to survive within Western cultures, within native traditions it has remained the ceremonial core that has held their lineage together. In recent years a number of indigenous teachers and visionaries have started releasing the teachings of the sacred circle, as held in their traditions, in valiant attempts to rebalance the world.

There are a number of native myths that speak of the breaking and the reunification of the circle. In Hopi oral tradition, the story says that once the truth was a whole body of knowledge known by all beings – people, animals, stones, plants, there was no separation. Then an imbalance came. The circle was broken and the whole truth divided. Each clan was given responsibility for a portion of the truth. They were instructed to care for this truth until such time as they could remember their wholeness and reunite the circle.

Of course, after a period of time, the clans forgot that they carried only a fraction of the truth, and began to think they carried the whole truth. They began hording it, protecting it, trying to impose it on others. Their spirituality became religions that divided them and caused disrespect for other ways of life. They began dividing up the land and claiming the clans of the animals, plants and stones for themselves. Scarcity began to dwell among the people. Masala, the messenger of the Hopi people, prophesied that there would come an eleventh hour when all the people would have to choose: to remain divided and destroy themselves and the planet, or to reunite and restore the balance of life. Certainly we are at that hour.