Yes, we each have blind spots unique to our personal history and structure and
then there are also collective blind spots or I could say collective cultural
agreements that we are all blind to, we take them for granted as truth. The
very idea of separateness or duality is one! Get it? One. Hahaha....
And for me the connection I see in the historical account is the powerful,
irrational fear of losing guns connected to our independence. The genocide of
the indigenous people and attack on its culture and the manipulation of other
govts I see as a hidden alignment with the imperialistic power that we
supposedly fought to free our self from. It’s like if I hate and reject
David Slade
Arborist
Systemic Coach
Family Constellation Facilitator
On Feb 25, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Chris Walsh chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Nina
I find your urge to cover up as a facilitator very interesting.
Being aware of that energy is very important. I could be very interesting to
give it a representative.
I have seen a facilitator cover up a very obvious perpetrator energy that the
representative was telling them about very clearly. blind spots work at many
levels!
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9420 1425
www.mindfulness.org.au
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 6:31 PM, ninaishtar ninaishtar@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes it's very interesting Barbara.
From my Australian perspective and experience, we as a nation are collective
so fearful of our violent past with our Aboriginal people that we are still
conquering them today but pretending we are not. I believe we are not yet
mature enough to really! acknowledge the truth. There is so much
subconscious fear of what this would actually mean today.
I have left professional positions that were "supposedly" about helping
current day Aboriginal people because my experience is they were really just
covering up the truth. We say the right words but our actions do not show to
me that we have fully looked directly into our origins and accepted them as
they were. We very quickly move to "heal". A quick and panicked grab for the
remedy before we have really seen the full extent and depth of the wound.
We have armed ourselves with a clever denial that is very invested in
keeping the power imbalance intact.. I wonder if that were removed, weaponry
would be "needed" in Australia.
Already in the early days of my systemic constellation work with
organisations I see this turning up. Many if not all of our systems were
established upon this violence and theft.
I also experience as a facilitator the very powerful pull into the cover
up. It's so strong! Having grown up here I witness the influence this has
had on me and I have had a background in equity! It's a challenge to stand
outside of this part of the field. One needs a lot of strength and clarity
as a facilitator when this issue starts to arise.
Constellation work has in my view so much potential for this country and
this deep seated part of our roots. I know many others must sense this too.
I am inspired to hear that you are doing some work in Bristol in October and
I would love to hear how this progresses.
Blessings
Nina
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From: "Barbara Morgan theknowingfield@xxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]"
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 25/02/2018 1:51 PM (GMT+08:00)
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Children and Gun Violence in America
What an interesting subject I didn’t know this about the British involvement
in the arms history of the USA. It made me think about the fact that it
would make sense if you invade and take over land from the indigenous
populations killing many on the way that you as a society would be afraid of
the repercussions and therefore think you need arms to protect yourself.
I saw a similar situation in South Africa when I last visited several years
ago - huge opulent houses which looked liked prisons because they had bars
up at the windows, Alsatian dogs, burglar alarms, barbed wire fences and
prickly bushes.
In the particularly poignant scene I remember there was a line of Black
Africans opposite these houses sitting on the pavement singing. I remember
asking myself who was happier!
With the latest events at the North American Conference last October and the
ensuing articles that came from it on slavery and other themes (appearing in
the latest Knowing Field Journal) maybe the time is ripe to begin looking at
this thorny issue worldwide
We in Britain have so far only scratched the surface but some of us will be
inviting Anngwyn to Bristol in Oct this year to begin looking at this more
deeply for ourselves and would welcome anyone to join us. Please contact me
personally if you wish to go on the mailing list.
Bristol has a strong connection with the history of the slave trade as a
major port involved in shipping the slaves.
Constellations are a powerful tool for helping us begin to address these
very painful issues and face up to our history.
Warm wishes to all
Barbara
Sent from my iPhone
On 23 Feb 2018, at 20:53, Leah leah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Nina,
Thank you for looking into this. An email in my inbox this morning from
Rabbi Michael Lerner speaks to your question: “In a society which has never
acknowledged its violent foundation, from the genocide of Native peoples,
to slavery, the violent overthrow of governments around the world in order
to impose regimes that favor U.S. corporate interests, its brutal war
against the Vietnamese people, its recruitment of young people into a
pre-army ROTC, and its romanticization in movies and T.V. of super weapons
and violence, it is no surprise that it is easy to convince men that "real
men" use weapons and violence to get their way in the world.”
I also wonder about the American Revolution and the creation of the USA.
One of the key factors in the American Revolution was the fight against
British intentions to disarm the colonists – that’s what would have
happened if Britain had won the war. It’s a fascinating piece of history
that I’m not sure many of us picked up in U.S. history in high school. I
remember the focus was mostly that the colonists rebelled due to unfair
taxation. But the British would have disarmed the colonists and created a
permanent standing army. The majority of the colonists believed in the
right to bear arms and that no government or authority should have control
over this right. All of the colonies actually had laws requiring males to
own guns: “Among the Colonial militia statutes, Connecticut's 1650 code
contains one of the clearest expressions of the duty to own a gun: “That
all persons that are above the age of sixteene yeares, except magistrates
and church officers, shall beare arms...; and every male person with this
jurisdiction, above the said age, shall have in continuall readines, a good
muskitt or other gunn, fitt for service, and allowed by the clark of the
band....” (source:
http://www.tulprpc.org/attachments/File/Colonial_Firearms_regulation..pdf)
The USA was not just born from a violent revolution, but the right to bear
arms seems to have been the issue that finally precipitated the full-on
revolt. Another interesting fact: it’s estimated that 15-25% of the
population during the American Revolution (300,000 - 500,000), loyal to the
British crown, migrated and settled in Canada.
The Yale research was shockingly high and has been criticized for including
young adults up to age 19 in a research project on “children”. The CDC
defines “children” as 0-14 years of age. I guess that when you include
young adults, it raises questions of much wider circumstances around the
incidents.
(https://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/01/31/theblaze-fact-checks-abc-did-diane-sawyer-use-misleading-stats-in-2020-report-on-children-and-guns)
I’ve had limited experience with this issue in Constellations. I’m
interested to hear if anyone has any insights from their constellations, or
plans to address it?
Many thanks,
Leah Green
From: <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
"ninaishtar@xxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]"
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 7:05 PM
To: <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Children and Gun Violence in America
Hi Everyone
I am from Western Australia, a new comer still establishing my work in this
field. I am wondering if anyone has done any constellation work that has
touched upon gun violence and children in America? I have been commenting on
an interesting discussion on Facebook about a video of a young American girl
who looks about 10/ 11 receiving her first rifle, it seems from her parents.
She is so overwhelmed with emotion she is in tears. The discussion was
around the culture of American families and hunting. How this girl may have
been experiencing the strong emotion due to the "gift" representing
something like a rite of passage; old enough to be trusted with her first
rifle. The recent protests in America in relation to school massacres
stimulated this topic and sharing.
I just read a 2014 Guardian article about the culture of American families
and hunting. It quotes that 3000 children die each year from hunting
accidents. A Yale University study reports 7000 children are either admitted
to hospital with serious injuries or die from hunting accidents each year in
America. These figures do not of course include street violence, domestic
violence and school massacres. If this behaviour is so strongly apart of the
family institution in America I do wonder what the roots of this are all
about. The right to bear arms and hunt freely even if it's killing and
injuring lots of children, who in fact are not living in a war zone. No
disrespect to American culture but this stuns me.
Any experiences?
Thanks
Nina Ishtar
Denmark Western Australia
MC900023779[1]
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