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
Thanks for the rich and insightful addition to the thread. You have added a
lot of good information and understanding.
The destruction of the geocentric universe by Kepler/Galileo/Newton emptied
the universe of God and Heaven. The mechanistic universe that emerged in
its place led to many wonders of technology. But it also created a
permanent age of existential angst and despair. E.B. White summed up our
modern condition:
"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately
happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in
tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably
sad."
My youthful interest in alchemy was certainly about wanting to re-enchant my
world. Tolkien and Lewis were fantasy writers. Camus The Stranger was
real. His empty, nihilistic universe gave me insomnia and depression. The
cabinet containing Newtons alchemical papers held the promise of a
scientifically acceptable route to Narnia.
Switching gears a bit for those who wonder how this is relevant to CT.
Heres the reason I bring this up:
Unlike Germany or the Netherlands, I am building my practice in a country
where Constellations are unknown and clinically unproven to proponents of
the 4 dominant mental health modalities (behavioral, cognitive,
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 of
obstacle. Not only is the Constellation process unknown, the dominant model
of psychology vehemently contends that the domain in which Constellations
operate does not exist. According to the best research in neuroscientific
psychology, All behavior (good and bad) has purely physical causes, and
anyone who does unusually bad things must have something, however subtle,
wrong with his brain.
The movements of the soul, orders of love, knowing field spirit-mind,
systemic entanglements ancestral memory, everything that populates the
world of Constellations has barely any place in the world of professional
psychology. (Jung might invite us in, but Constellations have little
acceptance in the U.S. community of Jungian psychologists.)
It is even less fertile plowing the fields of those who believe in souls,
the members of mainstream Christian churches. Our understanding of soul is
actually more closely aligned with the neuroscientist than the Bishop.
The challenge to creating a viable practice requires creating my presence as
a healer, creating Constellations as a known entity, and establishing that
the part of a human being that I work to heal exists. The U.S. is
especially hostile territory for these efforts.
When I was in Holland this fall, I met many facilitators who merely need to
create their own presence and brand. Constellations as an accepted modality
exists enough to support several hundred practitioners.
Alchemy provides a metaphor for a soul that exists as a subjective space
between mind and body. All this simply to be able to credibly answer the
question, What do you do?
Dan
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