Thanks for your question Alison. I had an experience with this topic
this past Tuesday. A friend from our kabbalistic healing study group led a
healing ceremony atop Stone Mountain for the anniversary of the massacre at
Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in what is now
South Dakota, in the U.S. After experiencing the US government breaking a
treaty several different ways, including finding gold on the land and many
settlers illegally entering and occupying the land, the Sioux began to protest
using the ceremony of the Ghost Dance, which was intended to rid the land of
outsiders. US soldiers shot and killed up to 300 unarmed men, women and
children.
[For those who don’t know: Stone Mountain, Georgia is where the Ku Klux
Klan white supremacist group was revived in 1915. It’s now a privately owned
park. The granite dome has the largest relief carving in the world, which
depicts three Confederate leaders of the U.S. Civil War.]
We called in the directions, offered some prayers, chanting and
drumming, and tuned in to the healing ceremonies simultaneously taking place
around the world. I had an insight related to the cycle of victims and
perpetrators as I sensed the descendants of the Sioux who had been killed. I
found myself bowing to their dignity in finding ways to go on in life without
avenging the acts perpetrated by officials of the now dominant nation in which
they lived. I knew I could not begin to understand what this struggle must be
like for them. Sometimes with issues like these I think of Hellinger
describing huge forces moving that are larger than what our human minds are
capable of holding.
I also sensed the polarizing associations I have in myself around
humility, poverty and suffering being tied to superiority (the meek shall
inherit the earth), as well as the equally distorted programming around
dominance, winning and conquest being tied to success (it’s a dog-eat-dog
world). I’ve always been guided and inspired by the dignity of Martin Luther
King Jr. who was born in downtown Atlanta, a short distance from Stone
Mountain. His commitment to non-violent social justice is a monumental
resource for me. I feel the threads of these energies moving around me and in
the city where I live and I feel there is a time coming when these issues will
become more present in the Constellation work in this community.
Thank you again Alison for the seed crystal for the Constellate Peace
events. We’ll hold one here in Atlanta on King Day, January 18th.
peace,
Chuck Cogliandro
Decatur, GA U.S.
