Dear Ellen,
I loved your post about energy fields and nature and the deep supports
within all that.
I thought it might be interesting for this CT community to add to
your mountain lion experience.
About three weeks ago, my husband had a surprise diagnosis that he
needed heart surgery urgently. We were both pretty shocked as he is
normally a very fit active man. The same evening whilst preparing for
bed, I heard a lot of noise on the verandah outside our bedroom, so I
opened the door and turned on a light and there staring at me just two
feet away was a large koala bear. In his nervousness he started to
climb up a pole but didn't get a grip so came back to staring from the
ground. I called my husband and we three sat together for a few
minutes until he quietly turned away back into his habitat - our
rainforest garden. We knew that the koala had visited us as a blessing/
healing. Koalas never come close to humans but live high up in the
eucalypts.
Another time I was in session with a male client who was worried about
the possibility of going to prison for an investment offense. Client
was very intense and I was asking support from my ancestors when
suddenly a koala bear climbed down from a palm tree near my studio and
just sat watching us through the glass door whilst we were in the
session - some twenty minutes. My client said that the moment the
koala arrived was the first time his stomach had relaxed. It had been
knotted for three weeks! Another blessing??
And finally another reported to me from a dear friend who has
subsequently died of AIDS. He was in the terminal stages of the
disease, very weak and unable to ever feel warm. He was sitting
outside his little cottage - with closed eyes - with the hope that the
weak winter sun would warm his frail body. Suddenly he felt a very
great warmth in the middle of his chest and thought it was the sun
shining on him. After some minutes my friend opened his eyes and saw a
large poisonous black snake coiled up on his very weak chest. Without
moving a muscle he watched the snake, received his visit without fear
for what seemed like a lifetime by watching his breath and gazing at
the snake. By this time his long illness had taught him patience.
Then the snake uncoiled and left and my friend felt enormous
relaxation. He died three weeks later.
And many thanks for all the wisdom shared here over the years. I am
not a typist but do appreciate much of what I receive.
Bubula Lardi
New South Wales,Australia - the driest continent on the planet with
droughts, bush fires and flooding rains all currently simultaneous!
On 12/02/2009, at 6:55 PM, Ellen Pillard wrote:
Chris, Franz, Dan and all of you, thanks for this discussion,
I would like to share a children's story I heard
while traveling in Turkey last summer.
There is a raging fire sweeping across the land
and the animals turned and ran as fast as they
could away from the flames. There was an ant
with a drop a water on its head going toward the
fire. The fleeing animals said "Stop, you are
going the wrong way." The ant replied, "No, I'm
going to deliver my gift of a drop of water. The rest is up to Him."
It is no coincidence that Turkey is also the
country where the story of Noah's Ark happened
and where that story is still very alive for them.
What these stories suggest to me and what nature
constellations and my own personal experiences in
wild and remote places in my beloved Nevada tell
me is that there are powerful energy fields, or
connections, or something I don't have a name
for, that exist between humans, the animals, the
planet we share, and the greater universe.
The most powerful experience I have had of this
was out hiking by myself in a very remote
mountain area, Mt. Moriah. I was headed back to
my camp. Rounding a bend I saw a mountain lion
in the middle of the trail. Without time enough
be to scared, I said to the mountain lion,
"Excuse me, but I don't think you want to be
there." She turned looked at me for a moment and
leaped gracefully up the rocky slope. Thank you,
mountain lion for protecting me, I will do
everything I can to protect you and you habitat.
What this all leads to is that it will take more
than politics and science to impact what is very
clear, that our climate is warming and that we
will experience continuing extremes with heat and cold and wind and
water.
Ellen Pillard
Reno, NV, USA
At 04:41 PM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
Dear Franz added a
Thanks for the rich and insightful addition to the thread. You have
lot of good information and understanding.emptied
The destruction of the geocentric universe by Kepler/Galileo/Newton
the universe of God and Heaven. The mechanistic universe thatemerged in
its place led to many wonders of technology. But it also created aup our
permanent age of existential angst and despair. E.B. White summed
modern condition:moderately
"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were
happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waistdeep in
tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes themunutterably
sad."enchant my
My youthful interest in alchemy was certainly about wanting to re-
world. Tolkien and Lewis were fantasy writers. Camus The Strangerwas
real. His empty, nihilistic universe gave me insomnia anddepression. The
cabinet containing Newtons alchemical papers held the promise of aCT.
scientifically acceptable route to Narnia.
Switching gears a bit for those who wonder how this is relevant to
Heres the reason I bring this up:country
Unlike Germany or the Netherlands, I am building my practice in a
where Constellations are unknown and clinically unproven toproponents of
the 4 dominant mental health modalities (behavioral, cognitive,of
interpersonal, and chemical).
To start, I have to promote myself as a practitioner and promote
Constellations as a modality. In doing so, I confront another level
obstacle. Not only is the Constellation process unknown, thedominant model
of psychology vehemently contends that the domain in whichConstellations
operate does not exist. According to the best research inneuroscientific
psychology, All behavior (good and bad) has purely physicalcauses, and
anyone who does unusually bad things must have something, howeversubtle,
wrong with his brain.spirit-mind,
The movements of the soul, orders of love, knowing field
systemic entanglements ancestral memory, everything thatpopulates the
world of Constellations has barely any place in the world ofprofessional
psychology. (Jung might invite us in, but Constellations have littlesouls,
acceptance in the U.S. community of Jungian psychologists.)
It is even less fertile plowing the fields of those who believe in
the members of mainstream Christian churches. Our understanding ofsoul is
actually more closely aligned with the neuroscientist than theBishop.
presence as
The challenge to creating a viable practice requires creating my
a healer, creating Constellations as a known entity, andestablishing that
the part of a human being that I work to heal exists. The U.S. isneed to
especially hostile territory for these efforts.
When I was in Holland this fall, I met many facilitators who merely
create their own presence and brand. Constellations as an acceptedmodality
exists enough to support several hundred practitioners.subjective space
Alchemy provides a metaphor for a soul that exists as a
between mind and body. All this simply to be able to crediblyanswer the
question, What do you do?Integration
Dan
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