Thank you all,
This conversation draws me in and your questions and contributions make me feel
at home.
I saw the "orders" in constellations often "used" to confirm our cultural
concepts and the conversation around questions of "order" a source of power
struggles.
It seems there is a crack developing in our collective blind spot in our
constellation world as much as in the world at large, a crack deep enough that
the light (from the future) can come in.
Otto Scharmer's work "Leading from the Emerging Future" and his concept of
"presencing" might be of interest here.
http://ottoscharmer.com/images/general/Ego_to_Eco_Intro.pdf
The Presencing Institute offers a Free Global Online Course between the 7th
January and 18th February to create a space for change makers all over the
world, across sectors, systems, cultures, and generations to connect, co-sense
and co-create the emerging future.
https://www.presencing.com/engage/blog/ulab-announcing-live-sessions-and-global-hubs#sthash.r6j5kOu4.dpuf
As Leonard Cohen said: "Forget your perfect 'ordering', the crack is where the
light gets in"
A happy holiday season to you all
Brigitte
Sent from my iPad
On 21 Dec 2014, at 6:32 am, Alison Fornes maitreya71@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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'
heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 1:02 PM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Backgrounder on Interstellar
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
--
It is the courageous heart that loves. It is the loving heart that heals.
alisonfornes.com