Thank you all! For me, too, this is a refreshing and enriching and resonant
discussion.
I wonder if it is connected to another question I've been wondering about,
regarding "orders" as in orders of love, and "place" as in, your place on
what can be seen as a hierarchy based on linear order.
I am running into places within the constellations community where it feels
like the concept of "order" feels like "you're not in your place".
An example of this comes in the question of seniority and experience. As a
relatively new constellations facilitator, my "place" is as a little one,
yet given this concept of circular/spiral/non-linear hierarchies, how do we
make sense of ones true place? Perhaps it's ever shifting?
No answers here, just questions.
In the spirit of the season,
Alison
On Saturday, December 20, 2014, 'Blossoming Heart Intuitive Arts'
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This is such a refreshing dialogue as it encompasses so much of what I’ve
experienced living in different cultures and in breaking down the
Eurocentric perspective of life, death, afterlife, etc.
I’m reminded of a northern tribe who greet newborn children as
“grandmother” or “great grandfather” and such, recognizing that the
ancestor has reincarnated in the next generation, and they give the respect
of that soul’s wisdom from previous times to love and support the family in
different ways. The mystery is unknowable ultimately but I trust older
cultures in ways of understanding spiritual truths that Christianity tried
to destroy.
In my family, they are a white Christian background but apparently when I
was born there was an immediate recognition that “she’s one of us” and I
continually remind my mother of my great grandfather since the day I was
born and in how I treat people and what I care about. It’s beyond belief
systems.
Thank you for initiating this conversation and having us step out of a
linear truth….
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Yes! Yes! Yes, yes! You have spoken much of what my own experience has
been. If we can affect things several generations back, then surely our
work can be modeled to look at all souls in the system as interactive.
These simple knowings are not contained within the Western Enlightenment
culture that has risen from both science and Christianity. Western
minds are set to think within parameters that confine us too often to
accept what has been seen through Western eyes. It is possible to step back
and have the deep understanding that in fact it is only one way of seeing
life systemically.
I love the way you have expressed this. Also within us is an ability to
see the world in several ways all at once. We do not need to limit
ourselves to one perception. All have a validity. It is not that one is
good and the other bad. They are simply different. This is a deep truth
that has entered my life in the last month on a personal basis. This is not
sitting on the fence but rather being poised in a position to see several
pastures at one time and to be able to glean from each of them what it is
we need and to integrate those things.
In Canada we are coming to the beginning of the new sun for the year and
also will celebrate Christmas. The contradiction that in the south you are
celebrating the height of the sun is easily integrated into our
understanding. So it is with perspectives. All is true and all can be
integrated!
The Christian in me says have a blessed Christmas and the indigenous part
of me says glory in the gift of the sun. May all things come to you as you
need them. Much love, Anni
