Re: Fate, Destiny and Déjà vu
- From: "tmasthenes13" <tmasthenes13@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:31:59 -0000
--- In ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Susan James" <jamdec@...>
wrote:
Is experiencing deja vu a confirmation that fate or destiny is at work?
Susan James
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Susan,
Your question is quite timely (pun intended) as the déjà vu experience
really plays havoc with our ordinary perception of time as a flow that
goes only one way, from the past into the future.
There's a lot to explore with your question and there are many layers.
In a later post, I will introduce the work of a psychiatrist who has
made a career long study of the déjà vu experience. And if you
consider my post of yesterday, about the time stream of Fate colliding
with the Time stream of Destiny from the future, then déjà vu
experiences may be some of the little eddies or whirlpools that spin
off to the side of the "Main Swirl" of our self-conscious vortex of
the physical body we identify as ourselves.
Consider that eddies can be temporarily flowing in one of two
directions: if they flow backwards in the time stream, we may
experience the classic déjà vu: "This has happened to me before." But
if the eddy is flowing forward in the time swirl, then what is
"already seen" is actually yet to happen and the experience becomes
one of actual pre-cognition, a foretelling of a future event that has
not yet happened.
But for now, I'd like to relate it directly to FC work. Consider the
contrast that Daan van Kampenhout makes in his little book "Images of
the Soul" between regular psychotherapy and shamanic practices, in
which category he puts Constellation work as a newly emerging shamanic
ritual.
He lists seven distinctions in all in a table on page 30, but the
first distinction he makes is germane to your déjà vu question. In
regular psychotherapy, the healing occurs on a timeline, many sessions
over many weeks, months, years --- while in a Constellation the
healing occurs though organization in space, at one time, in one session.
I would say that the healing in regular psychotherapy occurs in
Spaceless Time; while a Constellation occurs in Timeless Space.
Thus, in regular psychotherapy, the process is oriented toward gradual
change over a long time. It simply enshrines our ordinary conception
of time, as "clock and calendar time" --- i.e., something flowing from
the past into the future and the dimension of space itself is
completely irrelevant to the temporal process.
On the other hand, in a Constellation, the focus is always on how the
representatives are organized in Space. Indeed, the very unfolding of
a constellation, from initial heavy and dark entanglement to the
lightening and clearing experience of a resolution is all accomplished
by the spatial relationships that representatives have with each other.
Our sense of the flow of time stops during this process, as past,
present and future all merge into one experience of pure Duration.
The Constellation process actually fulfills the mysterious saying from
the legend of Parsifal and the Holy Grail, when the "pure fool"
Parsifal --- in our terms "phenomenological" Parsifal --- enters the
Grail Castle, sees the ritual, and is told by the more experienced
Grail Knight Guernemanz that: "Here Time becomes Space."
In this realm of Duration, in Timeless Space, déjà vu experiences
might then be seen as a form of what we now popularly call
"synchronicities" or "meaningful coincidences," experiences which only
become meaningful once we step out of the "mentalization" or
"projection/introjection" of "clock and calendar" time.
I wonder what others have experienced of "Time Becoming Space" in
doing Constellation work
Tom
PS As I finish typing this, it is 8:20 AM Pacific time, and I assume
that Stefan Bajon is in the midst of his surgery. Thank you Heather,
for your candle-lighting on Stefan's behalf.
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