Dear Ute, Johanna & David,
Your messages about the Aboriginal ancestors inspired me to research further
and I didn't have far to go because it was on the very same website that
John Payne had given us a few weeks back. Thank you again, John.
I came to this particular article from my own interest in "pushing the
envelope" about the "lost twin" phenomenon. Little did I realize that not only
would the envelope be pushed beyond the conception limit; it was pushed ---
no,
actually PULLED --- beyond that limit, by the phenomenon of the Aboriginal
spirit-child! To quote a sentence:
"paternity is the responsibility of the spirit-child rather than the
father's sexual act. A man's dream determines his fatherhood rather than his
sperm."
You see, there is a vista here that opens up, a vista that so far I have
neither read about nor experienced in FC work: what about existence prior to
conception? If we dare to look at this vista, then it's clear that
reincarnation needs to be included in the progressive evolution and
development of
Constellation work in the 3rd Millennium.
The article is entitled
Spirit-Child: The Aboriginal Experience of Pre-Birth Communication
by Elizabeth Carman and Neil Carman, Ph.D.
_http://www.birthpsychology.com/lifebefore/concept10.html_ ;
(http://www.birthpsychology.com/lifebefore/concept10.html)
It is actually a review of a book that was published in 2000 called:
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Cosmic Cradle: Souls Waiting in the Wings for Birth
by Elizabeth and Neil J. Carman
_http://www.cosmiccradle.com/_ ;(http://www.cosmiccradle.com/)
Cosmic Cradle sheds light on how the life of the soul in a human body is
only part of our experience in a multi-dimensional universe. Stories reveal
how
souls make contact with prospective parents and how gifted individuals
remember planning their journey to Earth.
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Let me quote the beginning of the Aboriginal article and an excerpt from the
middle:
_http://www.birthpsychology.com/lifebefore/concept10.html_ ;
(http://www.birthpsychology.com/lifebefore/concept10.html)
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"Communications with the unborn may be as old as human life itself.
Aboriginal peoples of Australia, a territory slightly larger than the U.S.,
had
unique economic, political, social, and linguistic characteristics. At the
same
time, they shared one extraordinary belief: conceiving a child is founded in a
spiritual event--a "spirit-child" selects his parents and this event enables
biology to take its course. A Forrest River Aborigine, as a prime example,
dreams of a spirit-child playing with his spears or with his wife's paper
bark;
the husband thrusts the spirit-child towards his wife and it enters by her
foot. Conception then proceeds into pregnancy (except in certain cases where
conception occurs several years later).
"The term "spirit-child" roughly equates with the Western concept of the
soul. Aside from that similarity, the Aboriginal pre-conception paradigm
contrasts with science's understanding of pregnancy. The first anthropologists
to
hear Aboriginal pre-conception reports assumed that the spirit-child
pre-empted
the role of male sperm, and labeled this notion "the most elementary belief
concerning the genesis of the individual."
"Even more puzzling, Aborigines held their belief after learning about
biological conception as an accidental collision of sperm and egg. They
contended
that sexual intercourse, though it may prepare the way for the child's entry
into the womb, by itself is not the sole cause of conception--since a
spirit-child is necessary. As elucidated by anthropologist Ashley Montagu(1):
The Aboriginal world is essentially a spiritual world, and material acts are
invested with a spiritual significance... The spiritual origin of children
is the fundamental belief, and among the most important stays of the social
fabric. It is absurd then to think...intercourse could be the cause of a child.
"A contemporary researcher who lived with the Aborigines explains the
spirit-child concept(2):
The new life which has chosen to enter the woman is a complete entity who
has originated at some time in the long distant past, and is immeasurably more
ancient and completely independent of any living person.
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Spiritual Versus Biological Paternity
Daisy M. Bates, more than any other outsider, understood the Broome District
Aborigines. This gentle English woman pitched her camp and lived a nomadic
lifestyle with the Aborigines for nearly forty years.(3) Bates discovered
something unusual about the Aborigines: paternity is the responsibility of the
spirit-child rather than the father's sexual act. A man's dream determines his
fatherhood rather than his sperm. So firm was the spirit-child paradigm
among Broome District Aborigines that no man acknowledged paternity unless he
had
met the spirit-child in his sleeping hours. In one instance, a husband
accepted a child born to his wife during their five-year separation, thereby
ignoring the lapsed time between intercourse and birth.
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For us constellators, the plot really seems to thicken here. We are taught
by Bert Hellinger that the act of sexual intercourse is the pinnacle of human
achievement, that this sexual bonding is greater than love, etc.
But what if it is not true? What if the act of sexual intercourse is but a
means to a greater soul end? And not the "be-all and end-all" of existence
itself as Papa Bert alleges?
And if we allow for reincarnation, doesn't that add a new second dimension
to FC with its merely one-dimensional view of ancestral lines? This 2nd
dimension is like that of a spider weaving its web across the many straight
ancestral lines that flow from the Source.
Among many implications, one is that I could be one of my own ancestors. As
well, I could be an ancestor in someone else's family system.
As Mister Spock would say on Star Trek: "Fascinating!"
Again, Johanna & Ute, thank you for calling our attention to the Aboriginal
ancestors. We all have a lot to learn from them. Hells Bells Hellinger, we
might even be them in a past life! What a Universe!
Thomas
PS
(In light of the discussion a few months back about homosexuality and FC,
may I throw into the gay hopper the idea that the traditional "one dimensional
view of ancestral lines" gives new meaning to the term "straight sex." Nyuk!
Nyuk! Nyuk!)
