Cultural transformation in a time of war
Here, at the beginning of the new calendar year, I sit with all that is in the Dreaming that we call the winter of the cycle of Life-Death-Life. I grieve and praise both the beauty and the loss, of this exquisite Hologram of Beauty that is our Earth. And though it seems our doing, simultaneously, I trust that we too are part of Earth and their dreaming. We are not separate. We are in perilous times, and it is more important than ever to remember ourselves as ones who embody the Dreaming of the Earth. Earth has called me to be a Death Doula for the Great Dying. Cultural transformation and the end of our current paradigm called “modernity”. And, Earth has called me to be a Soul Guide, one who supports people to move through personal transformation, which we could understand as the death of personal paradigms, which are ways of understanding and being in relationship with, the world.
I believe, Earth is always moving towards transformation and renewal- to our eyes, it may look like rupture or being stuck, a dead end or a tragedy. And, like Earth, we are always Whole, regardless of the part we are currently stuck in. Resiliency is part of our nature. I do not offer the solution to our "problem" - what are often labeled problems, I understand as symptoms of disconnection from the Web of Life and the Trauma of Civilization. Both blessing and curse, they are the place where our gold is buried and shaped. The alchemical process of looking into the shadow- the place where we ourselves continue to inhabit and perpetuate the power-over paradigm- with love and welcome and doing the work of digesting, metabolising and integrating the shadow is powerful work! The courage to enter the territory of the personal Core Wound and let those fires make our wounding sacred in order to reveal the very essence of what each of us is here to be and do as part of Earth's Dreaming is becoming the medicine for the collective wound that we hold the holographic frequency of in our own bodies and hearts. Changing the paradigm within and being a death doula to the old within is collective transformation. Letting our hearts grow with possibility, rather than certainty, to enter the portal of not-knowing as we begin this next quarter of a century.
We all long to remember our relationship with all of life, to come home to Earth and know we belong to the More than Human Community. And we all forget, every day! The great forgetting that swept through my ancestors and most likely yours, in the form of christianization, colonialisation and civilisation, was not only a traumatic event of wounding, but an incredible survival strategy. Now, it is imperative that we remember. We must remember how to be in relationship with one another in ways that are generative and not purely destructive. We must remember our ancient ancestors who still practiced the old ways of ritual reciprocity with the Earth, or, the Holy in the Wild, which is what sustains our own lives. We must remember who we truly are and our particular way of loving the world, the shape we were born as and are also to grow into (like an acorn an oak). Remembering is itself creating the fertile ground for the new culture to be born from. Friends, that is a world we will never see. That is a world we will never know. In vision and journey, we can enter the all-time-is-now place, but we will not experience it in these bodies and through our senses. This world, right here, is the one we are given to love. This life, right now, is the one we are given to live. Let us not squander our lives through escaping into fantasy or continually repeating the past. Let us remember!
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