Hi David and friends,
Many thanks for raising this question about directions. My experience has
revealed that it is not so much the direction that one looks but rather where
one looks from and how one looks. Any change or transformation requires looking
with awareness and love; which is very different to ordinary looking via the
mind. Therefore the first direction is inside not outside. Anchoring
awareness within the heart centre is to connect to love and acceptance, within
the space and gap, in the centre of the heart. I find looking from this space
of emptiness and love actually creates an invisible pathway of light to the
object or ancestor that one looks at. I have noticed that an energy from
within me travels to the ancestor or past and an energy from the ancestor
travels to me at the same time. What I experience is a shifting of forms
within as the two energies pass through each other. Understandings are
revealed as this shift and alignment happens.
If I perceive this positively with love and acceptance I receive everything
that is given from this unknown, into the space of the heart. Then I experience
fullness or an overflowing of heart energy that is filled with gratitude for
what has gone before (past.) I then follow the impulse to give this energy or
pass it on to a future image where this gift may be honored in life. My
understanding is that it is this rhythm of giving and taking with love and
awareness in the gap, that creates a positive and new future. This future is
new and is not tethered to the past.
The inclusion of love in looking and spirit mind movement is the key to
transforming the past into a creative future. This is the inclusion of
something higher or greater than oneself.
I suspect that the past is our unconscious mind. When it erupts in the present
we have the opportunity to greet it with love, awareness and inclusion so as it
may become conscious. The old image in the unconscious lives in the dark. It
comes to light as it becomes consciousness. Now when we look to the future we
look through eyes filled with light. We are able to shine that light into
whatever image we uphold for the future. However my experience of this is that
it is only possible when one is able to remain aware, in the gap of not
knowing. This happens out of a pure trust in the unknown and a holding of that
image in the space of the heart
..and looking with inner eyes at the new
image.
Love to all Sadhana
--- In ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, david@... wrote:
Dear all.
I have been thinking about direction today, the direction
representatives face at the end of constellations. And linked to this
is comments I heard Bert Hellinger say last year that all 'movements
of the soul' are a movement towards physical death, and if I
understand him correctly, he has moved away from those types of
constellations.
So if someone faces their ancestors at the end of a constellation how
does that differ from them having their ancestors at their back and
them looking to the future?
I remember attending many Constellations in Australia facilitated by
Patrick Kavanagh. He would often end constellations with the client
kneeling on the ground with their parents supporting them from behind,
with the client looking forward, supposedly to their future. Is
looking to the future still a 'movement of the soul'?
There is much talk about constellations being future orientated and
solution focussed, miracle questions etc, so if a constallation ends
looking at the past does that matter?
Even though there are notions of the shape of constellations having
time running through them, like with Essen and Blumenstein's thinking
and others, I have always thought that the ancestors are available
now, so they are in the present.
Cheng Lap Fung also wrote about past and future orientations in the
last edition of the Knowing Field, it seems quite close to some of the
work I have seen Albrecht Mahr do about 'taking up your future' in a
space he constructs on the floor of the Constellation space.
Of course we can't force constellations to finish a certain way and we
would not always know what a representative or client is looking at,
or the direction they face. We might have a good sense though.
Any thoughts?
--
David Mathes
Melbourne and Guangzhou
