An exceedingly important conversation with stellar people. The Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung also spoke of these fissures in the ancestral tapestry and arrived at the conclusion that the only way humans can truly repair is to re-source with the “archaic” within and the gateway for doing this are processes where psyche (soul) and the soul of Nature meet (which he considered to be the ultimate fissure; human and Nature). For Jung, our own dreaming is just as much an extension of this repair work. My own conclusion, after nearly 40 years of tracking these themes in my own life, is that what is truly numinous about Nature and one’s ancestry is still very much accessible as a reservoir of energy, insight, and sustenance, but it often makes itself known ‘in parallel’ rather than ‘head on.’ It is quiet, like a subterranean river flowing. This subterranean flow, which is inseparable from Nature, doesn’t care about identity politics but rather nourishment. As so eloquently expressed in this conversation, that nourishment can occur through story, community, and literal ‘feasting in the round,’ but I also think there is something to be said for the phenomenon of ancient patterns of connecting and guiding principles being activated in living descendants without necessarily having received these things via direct dispensation or transmission. While the physical bridge can be burned, the spirit bridge isn’t. For instance, the Druids of old (one of the indigenous spiritualities of ancient Europe, somewhat comparable to Shinto in Japan) were crushed under Roman swords on Ynys Môna (Anglesey) in 61 CE, but the “druidic principle” can never truly be destroyed because living in alignment with the seasons, in reverence of Nature, etc., are qualities that emerge as a natural longing from one’s own star-seeded bones. As the late Malidoma Somé once said, “It doesn’t matter how far one has traveled from, or how long one is removed, from the village spirit, something of the spirit is carried like a flame within.” Thanks for this wonderful, thought-provoking conversation. 🙏🏽 p.s. for those interested in some of the primal, ancestral stories of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and ancient Britons e.g. Myrddin (Merlin), Ceridwen, Taliesin, the Tuatha de Danann, Thomas the Rhymer, etc., the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, a mystery school headquartered in Britain, has a three-tiered correspondence course rooted in the ancient stories, plant lore, place-lore of Celtic lands: druidry.org/our-courses
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SUCH an important and beautiful conversation. Thank you all so much.
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An exceedingly important conversation with stellar people. The Swiss psychoanalyst C.G. Jung also spoke of these fissures in the ancestral tapestry and arrived at the conclusion that the only way humans can truly repair is to re-source with the “archaic” within and the gateway for doing this are processes where psyche (soul) and the soul of Nature meet (which he considered to be the ultimate fissure; human and Nature). For Jung, our own dreaming is just as much an extension of this repair work. My own conclusion, after nearly 40 years of tracking these themes in my own life, is that what is truly numinous about Nature and one’s ancestry is still very much accessible as a reservoir of energy, insight, and sustenance, but it often makes itself known ‘in parallel’ rather than ‘head on.’ It is quiet, like a subterranean river flowing. This subterranean flow, which is inseparable from Nature, doesn’t care about identity politics but rather nourishment. As so eloquently expressed in this conversation, that nourishment can occur through story, community, and literal ‘feasting in the round,’ but I also think there is something to be said for the phenomenon of ancient patterns of connecting and guiding principles being activated in living descendants without necessarily having received these things via direct dispensation or transmission. While the physical bridge can be burned, the spirit bridge isn’t. For instance, the Druids of old (one of the indigenous spiritualities of ancient Europe, somewhat comparable to Shinto in Japan) were crushed under Roman swords on Ynys Môna (Anglesey) in 61 CE, but the “druidic principle” can never truly be destroyed because living in alignment with the seasons, in reverence of Nature, etc., are qualities that emerge as a natural longing from one’s own star-seeded bones. As the late Malidoma Somé once said, “It doesn’t matter how far one has traveled from, or how long one is removed, from the village spirit, something of the spirit is carried like a flame within.” Thanks for this wonderful, thought-provoking conversation. 🙏🏽 p.s. for those interested in some of the primal, ancestral stories of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and ancient Britons e.g. Myrddin (Merlin), Ceridwen, Taliesin, the Tuatha de Danann, Thomas the Rhymer, etc., the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, a mystery school headquartered in Britain, has a three-tiered correspondence course rooted in the ancient stories, plant lore, place-lore of Celtic lands: druidry.org/our-courses
thanks for listening and for sharing