This May 27 - June 7, Jon is leading a very unique trip to Peru in association with the premiere World Odyssey tour company. It starts in the Amazon with longtime mentor and Master Ayahuasqero, Don Ponduro, then to the amazing Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, including ceremony with the Q'ero elders, and the condors of Colca Canyon for a well-rounded journey of great fun, beauty, and transformation.
How the Shamanic Approach is Helping Parents, Children, and Teens
For over several hundred-thousand years and in the natural world, the role of parenting has been to keep a child fed and safe and teach them enough to be responsible until they become adults around the age on average of 13 - 14 years and are ready to run their own lives. This natural impulse runs through every layer of our being - physical, psychological, mythic, and soul level. A powerful ritual would be performed that makes it clear on all levels that the parents were no longer responsible, the young adult's new mother is the Earth, and new Father is the sun and it is time to be responsible for feeding themselves and starting their own family. The ritual helps take this most difficult transition in our lives to the mythic to alleviate the emotional grief of this death and rebirth. When done well, this breaks the threads of limiting wounds, beliefs, and myths that might otherwise be perpetuated from generation to generation and allows for more functional relationships among family members throughout the remainder of their lives. It also allows the young adult the freedom to express even greater knowledge and wisdom than their parents have while retaining gratitude for what they recieved. This is the way the evolutionary process continues to greater and greater complexity. Otherwise, if the child falls short of the parents, and their child falls short and so on from generation to generation, you can see that this leads to devolution. This is similarly true for teacher and student relationships.
With the advent and growth of today's modern society that is upside down in so many ways - see previous posts on the Pachakuti - there is very little support for both parents and children to get through the first 13 years, through the transition, and beyond in a truly functional and more graceful way. In fact, if you really try to do it the original way, you and/or the new adult would probably be put in jail. Add to that the number of children who are extremely sensitive and less likely to tolerate this society as well as their parents may have done in the past, and today it can be very problematic and frustrating for all. And the pressure and expectations of both parents and children today has reached extreme levels, such that no matter what you do, it is hard to feel good enough, or to relax into what should be a very natural and somewhat messy/dramatic process as is true for all beings in this theater. In other words, you are doing just fine, certainly the best you can under the circumstances, so please give yourself and children plenty of credit for navigating some of the roughest seas in the history of parenting. Also recognize, that humanity is shifting in a positive way very rapidly now, so the situation is actually getting much better. In the meantime, perhaps these insights will be useful to you, your children, and young adults.
Following is a breakdown of the typical issues and suggestions from the shaman's approach that have helped many a family.
1. Your young child is not suited or can not tolerate the current education system, which was and is designed mostly to produce factory workers, or factory owners. Your child may be bored with the material, be way ahead or simply not resonant with what is being taught. If your child is a little shaman, then the added sensitivity and visionary capabilities just exacerbate these issues as well as not feeling understood, and being different than all the other children. In my book, Dreaming Your World Into Being, I mention the Sudbury School that I believe is an ideal model for childhood education. To the extent that a teacher or parent can add content that keeps your child interested and fully engaged this will help. And remember, expect or at least allow for the possibility that your child is way smarter and wiser and more evolved/developed/healed than you. So also, spend much time asking and listening to your child's opinion about any and all subjects. I was fortunate to have a teacher in 6th grade, and in a school that thankfully allowed me to skip 5th grade, that secretly provided increasingly advanced workbooks as I progressed very quickly and otherwise caused a lot of disruption in class out of boredom. By the end of 6th grade, I was well through the high school level English and pre-Calculus. Without that and a similar support from my parents, I would at the very least have been diagnosed with every childhood disorder known today. So keep feeding your child's mind and soul with all he or she can devour in whatever form, even if it completely confounds you.
2. Your child is withdrawn, confused or depressed. So are many adults right now, and have only learned or been conditioned to suppress or ignore it. Using the analogy of ocean waves coming onto a beach, at the time of this writing, we are and have been for a couple of years now, in the tumultuous and uncertain time of the whitewater after the wave has crashed. It's hard to know which way is up, left or right, and swimming hard doesn't really help. All there is to do is relax and catch some air when you can. Seemingly unmotivated children are really dialed into this right now. They can't explain it, you can't fix it, and there is nothing wrong with them or with you. It's just that without a clear wave that is supporting the possibility of moving in one direction or another, there is not much to do. Some children may have something to distract them in the meantime, be it sports or video games, or texting, and can just stay engaged with the school learning process, which all acts as kind of a life raft in the white water, just helping stay afloat and breathe. For adults, this might be your current job or other endeavor, obviously feeding and clothing the children being number one. This period between waves can last a number of years, so hang in there. But it certainly helps for you and your child to understand this is what is causing the overwhelming influence that is being experienced, and know that in time it will pass. Whatever your child is doing now to cope, will also pass, and they will still grow to be fine adults - humans are miraculously resilient, adaptable, and self-healing.
3. Your child is defiant, frustrated, and easily angered. As with 2. above, many children are aware that the way adults are running the world for the most part is insane. They thought we would have had it figured out by now when they came in, and we haven't. Would you not at least early on into a situation like this feel the same way? Until you either give up, join the fray, or become and activist or catalyst working toward a solution. Again, they may not have the words or wherewithal to articulate it, which makes it even more frustrating as their parents search for what is wrong and how they can fix it. This simply speaks to adults doing what they can to solve the bigger problem, and again I would suggest a child on every committee, board, and every other important decision making organization and take their opinions and ideas very seriously. And remember, that if the world were still matriarchal, this wouldn't be such a problem in the first place. Also adding to the complexity is that prodigy child that is destined to extreme heights of accomplishment and/or leadership. Like the Mozart's, Da Vinci's, Cleopatra's, and Katherine the Greats of the world, these children could benefit from being sent off to an apprenticeship as early as age 4 or 6 and would thrive. Tougher for the parent - I know, but better for everyone in the long run.
4. Your child is somewhere around the age of 13 - nuff said? Save for the possibility of a boarding school, an apartment down the street, or building their own stone house in the field next door, you must continue to live under the same roof at least for the next 4 years. Your young adult, on every level of their being feels this is strange at best. They are ready to take over, and/or break free of your rule as is natural after millennia of conditioning. Since society at large today sees them yet as children, this adds confusion because they still are conditioned to need you in so many ways, and the cruel world would not be very supportive of them setting out on their own. And there is also not much opportunity to learn to be fully responsible for themselves, as there was in more natural times. The rite of passage into adulthood ritual is critical at this point. If everyone in the household can be made to understand on all levels what is happening, at least there is a chance that the continued cohabitation can be civil, functional, and even graceful. This is also a time of great sadness as mentioned, when the parent/child relationship is ended. Unless of course you have raised an Alexander the Great, in which case you may all be relieved. In either case, making this clear cut at this point on the soul, mythic, and psychological levels, will greatly diminish the need for the young adult to do it the hard way through constant defiance, troublemaking, depression, or even violence.
5. Remember that every soul in a family is unique, and there are varying degrees of all of these experiences. All complicated by influences in and around us now, and from lifetimes and generations ago for each child and parent. This is where the shamanic healing work for all involved - parents, children, and young adults of all ages - including teachers and society at large is tremendously valuable. It is otherwise quite difficult to get there from here. And if your situation is already ideal or close to it, it is still valuable to engage in the mythic work and rituals to ensure it stays that way for the decades of life together to come. Otherwise, there are a thousand different workarounds and ways this can play out, some easier than others.
Nowhere is the current shift in humanity having a greater impact than on our children, young adults, and parenting. I've come to this conclusion after over a decade of working closely with families and my most recent shaman sessions. The families I have worked with as a shaman over the last decade have found it tremendously helpful at the very least to start with the appropriate perspective and a clear understanding of the historical and current factors affecting their experiences in raising children today. The good news is that more and more families across the globe are embracing this new paradigm. I hope that the insights I have shared with you here in summary will be of help regarding what is happening right now, and how to navigate it. And I love nothing more than to do this work with families, so please consider a consultation session to begin with for your particular situation.
1. Formulating the first of our trips to powerful, beautiful, and hidden destinations. Fun, food, beauty, transformational experiences, and deep connection through shamanic ritual. Looking at end of May this year for Peruvian Amazon and Andes to kick off our blackbook travel series. If you are interested in joining me, please email jon@dreamingintbeing.com to let me know and I will keep you informed.
As we come to the close of 2011, I've been tracking a couple of insights that will be great to keep close during 2012 and beyond. Let me start by offering this reminder that shamans do not buy into the myth of the the separation of spirit and matter. For example, to shamans there is nothing more spiritual than biology and the beautiful way it seeks greater and greater complexity. This is of critical importance when it comes to the art of prayer or manifesting for three main reasons. The first reason is that it is through our physical world and body that we experience this drama with its rich contrast. The second is that the extent to which we feel the physical or emotional contrast - pain for example - creates the power behind our prayer or asking signal. And the third reason is that in order to stay healthy, we must recognize, value, and work on the body at leas to the same extent as our soul and mind or consciousness.
The first insight is to engage with your body fully. This means experiencing both pain and pleasure to the fullest extent possible. For example, if you are working out, or had surgery, or some other form of physical pain, before resorting to medications, allow the pain signal to focus the healing energy and provide the power behind your asking for a different experience. I would suggest this also for emotional pain. Likewise, allow yourself to fully experience pleasure. In our upside-down culture, the latter is often the more difficult, and often the subject of my sessions.
So the call to action includes engaging in physical activity that brings you fully into your body; and, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of real physical electrical grounding for which I would guide you to http://www.earthing.com for the information and products that I find most useful.
The second insight came from a tracking I did recently for a client that is also a student of my Q'ero lineage. She was feeling particularly exhausted and emotionally bereft for a number of weeks - and she wasn't the only one experiencing that. As I began to session to track and clear whatever was going on with her, I witnessed every lineage of our non-physical healers, teachers, and benevolent teams of all traditions both Earthly and beyond gathered together in a kind of crisis mode. It appeared they were all focused on solving some critical problem or impending event and in doing so had pulled away much of the focus that we as shamans (in the broadest sense) had gotten used to. It became clear that we needed to ratchet up our engagement with them. For they are not limited in where they can bring their attention and energy, but we need to ask. The old "squeaky wheel gets the grease" scenario.
And the call to action here is to perform more ceremony, ritual, and prayer to your non-physical helpers with the intent being for them to continue to help you and to remind them that you are willing to be of service for whatever crisis is at hand if they need you. And, muster as much emotion as you can to make your plea as powerful as possible.
With Great Love and Respect, and enjoy a richly fulfilling 2012 and beyond! Jon
Truth, Lies, and Our Internal Dialogue - November 2011 Newsletter
As is often the case, In my recent sessions I've noticed a major theme running through our collective consciousness that I wish to share with you. This time it has to do with our internal dialogue and how it relates to our concept of reality, truth, and lies, as well as our language.
There is a tremendous amount of power in the words we choose both internally and externally. In the yogic traditions this is referred to as Matrika Shakti. In my book Dreaming Your World Into Being, I cover how our words directed towards others can be a form of sorcery. This is a result of our ability to influence and be influenced. Using the techniques of shamanism, our goal is to get you into a place of power and freedom, where your ability to be influenced in a negative way, is diminished. But, as the saying goes, we can be our own worst enemy. This is because the words that we are telling ourselves mostly go unnoticed, and are all to often non-serving. For example, let's say that you are walking out of the gym after a workout, and you're thinking or saying to yourself, "I should have worked out harder, or stayed in there longer, that wasn't a very good workout." Chances are that you wouldn't say this to your friend about their workout - would you?
The fact is that the reality or truth, and experiential results, have much more to do with what you tell yourself - your internal dialogue - than it does what actually took place. One of the major tenets within our shamanic training and life is said this way "call off the search for truth and meaning and bring it instead." This is because truth and meaning are not absolute and fixed, but instead fluidly follow our internal dialogue. Abraham-Hicks articulates it as "the truth is over-rated." Always remember that we are talking about experience more than literal form. So if you never set foot in the gym, and you tell yourself "I didn't go into the gym," that is obviously just plain true, but to say "I'm bad and deserve to be punished for not going to the gym" is up for grabs. We also don't need to take this to an extreme of unhealthy delusion, or using it to manipulate someone else for personal gain. Think about this more like encouraging or nudging reality (experience) more in the direction you prefer than in the other direction. In other words, what's done is done, but how it is experienced and manifests going forward is fluid, and is greatly dependant on your internal dialogue about it.
So here is a three step process to mastering your internal dialogue to move truth and reality closer to your preferred experience:
1. Ask yourself if you are having an internal dialogue. 2. Is the dialogue pointing to what you consider to be a fixed truth, or is it moving it towards your preferred experience? 3. Change the dialogue to gently move towards your ideal truth, meaning, and/or experience. Imagine soothing a sensitive child who is being self-critical, or is influenced by another child's hurtful words.
Another of the sayings in shamanism is that all perception is projection. Which is to say that how you perceive an event, it's truth, meaning, or reality, depends on what you are saying to yourself about it. And what others may be saying about it can only influence your internal dialogue if you let it. Another example is you or a friend bought a dress and are on your way to the party. Then the question comes up "do I look good in this dress?". The answer is yes, and that will be the experience at the party - you'll notice that everyone thinks you look fabulous. If you try to be "truthful" in that moment and answer "no", you'll notice everyone at the party whispering to each other as you walk by. Which would you prefer that you or your friend experience?
I know this is a big subject, and fully expect this article to create more questions than answer, but I thoroughly enjoy talking about it at length and it detail, so please do not hesitate to email me and/or setup a session around it.
What is the Revolution known as the Return of the Feminine, How is it happening, and What can you do?
Modern humanity is in the middle of a significant shift or revolution that has been spoken of in every relevant prophecy on the planet over the last several thousand years. I will focus on just one of these world prophecies for the purpose of this article. The Q’ero medicine people of Peru, a people who in their isolation have remained untouched by modernity, call this time the Pachakuti. The word in their Quechua language means “world turned over”, and they are referring to the worldviews that shape our experiences and way of life on Earth. These worldviews or mythologies, which become deeply held beliefs, inform our experiences in an even more powerful way than our thoughts do as for example in the placebo effect and law of attraction techniques. At this time, the Pachakuti is referring to turning the world right side-up once again where humanity will revert to a set of worldviews or mythologies and way of life that lead us back to a time of relative peace, health, and sustainability while maintaining the vibrant complexity of our modern lives. They call the time on the other side of this revolution a Millennium of Gold.
For the Q’ero, the first Pachakuti happened to them around 500 years ago, when the Conquistadors brought the worldview set forth in the book of Genesis. What made the biblical story of origin so revolutionary to the Q’ero and virtually all other people on the planet as it spread, was that it was literally opposite or upside-down compared to the stories of origin and life that they had held and observed for tens of thousands of years. Namely, that the Mother Earth produces all that we need to enjoy the drama of life in a very unconditional manner, and that the Feminine gives birth to all, and is essentially “in charge”, and this Creation is ongoing and participatory. In their story, the Masculine plays a supporting role, like the Father Sun that shines heat and light on the Earth unconditionally, to allow Creation to become increasingly complex and therefore continually engaging. In the relationship of man and woman, this translates to woman giving birth to man, woman being in charge of life’s major decisions, and man being of service to woman. And it means that within each individual, the Feminine aspects are served by the Masculine aspects, as noted in the work of Iain McGilchrist where he shows that the left brain is meant to be the emissary or servant of the right brain. It may be helpful to define the Feminine and Masculine at this point.
Let’s start by dispelling the common misconceptions around it. The Feminine is not weak, frail, helpless, dependent, or delicate. On the contrary the true Feminine is powerful like the Oceans, Volcanoes, and Jungles. Its the wild and untamable Mother Nature, that can give you the sweetest flowers, or swallow up and entire city with one eruption. She can turn waste into fertile ground, create new land, and support the ever expanding and evolving forms of life and experiences. She mulches our wastes and gives us food and energy in return without condition. Nature and Creation is based on the Feminine giving birth to, and manifesting ever-changing form, experience, and drama. The Feminine is the Garden of Eden, the Mother, the stones, the plants, the cellular organisms, the reptiles, the animals, the bodies of man and woman, the right side of the brain, Gaia, and the great Void from which it all came forth.
The true and natural Masculine is the warm sunlight that unconditionally serves and supports the Feminine’s wild creativity. It is also the spark, the fire, life force, and both calculating and self-reflective thought. In a sustainable and healthy creative process the Masculine courageously serves the Feminine, which is truly in charge. This is evident in the volcano creating new land, or the jungle spreading and creating fertile ground for the creation of new species. A fearful and wounded Masculine seeks to control the volcano, cut down the rainforest, and suppress the Feminine traits in women and men. This is the Masculine that has been forcing its dominance for centuries now, suppressing the Feminine in many ways, and experiencing the manifestation of this unhealthy relationship. As part of this revolution, the fearful Masculine will no longer be able to maintain this dominance, but will ultimately heal and learn that life is much better for him in the proper relationship with the Feminine.
In is important to make clear that this discussion is not limited to the roles of women and men, but from the entirely broad perspective of the more archetypical characteristics that define the Feminine and Masculine and how they are contained in both genders as well as all of Nature. As an example of the broader perspective, hierarchical and institutionalized religion, science, and technology are constructs of the Masculine. And I can show that this form of religion tends to suppress the Feminine, science seeks to study and understand the Feminine, and technology seeks to manipulate, enhance, or replace the Feminine. These attempts of the fearful Masculine, as impressive as they are to itself – the ego – seem feeble compared to the infinitely brilliant, wild, creative, and untamable Feminine.
In men and woman, the Feminine is primarily the body, heart, gut, and soul, and the Masculine is the left brain. In many ways, the Feminine is considered more knowledgeable and wise than the Masculine. The Feminine is the emotional IQ, the feelings, the intuition, and the heart. The Masculine is the mind seeking to understand and be consoled, and in its ideal state receives and sends nerve impulses that serve the body, heart, and soul, and fulfill the creative impulse of the Feminine. The Masculine can hold and serve up information when necessary. But information is simply knowing that water is H2O, while knowledge is being able to make it rain, and wisdom is knowing whether or not it is good to make it rain right now or not. The ability to make it rain takes place within the body and emotions, which is like the engine that propels a boat, or our asking forward, while the mind is the rudder that is steered into position.
The truly sustainable and healthy balance of Feminine and Masculine is driven by the wisdom of the heart and body, and served by the capabilities of the left side of the brain and brawn. A truly healthy balance of the two within us and all around us would be about 80% Feminine, and 20% Masculine in my estimation (not 50/50). Creation would have the Feminine mostly in charge and making the big decisions, running the societies, commerce, schools, families, and virtually everything. The truly courageous Masculine would be able to serve the Feminine in that capacity with great respect, and accept his place whether called upon to serve or not.
Clearly over the last several thousand years for some areas and cultures and over the last 500 years for the majority of world cultures, the roles of Masculine and Feminine have been reversed with disastrous consequences. My guess is that the less than courageous masculine men who could no longer handle being of service to the wild, unpredictable, and untamable feminine women, or were cast out completely, developed schemes to divide and conquer the women and thus gain undue capability to get what they otherwise would not. Consider the possibility that those men concocted stories, claimed them to be told by the Creator “Himself” so as to be irrefutable, and developed marketing organizations and armies that would ensure that this story would become the widely accepted or forced-upon de facto truth of all those that have bought into it consciously or unconsciously.
This may have happened in various parts of the world, but the one most notable and impactful, the book of Genesis, has formed the basis of the three major world religions and numerous offshoots. It is very antagonistic towards the Feminine, and women. At the risk of oversimplifying such a big story, I will describe it in a nutshell. Let me be clear, that this is not an attack on the wisdom, benevolence, beliefs, and traditions of the entirety of religious and spiritual texts and the various mythologies, religions, and spiritual traditions of the world, but simply an analysis of one theory of how the Feminine may have lost it’s rightful dominance. There are some religions and spiritual traditions today who are supportive of the Return of the Feminine.
The very basic elements of the story, in its current edited form, say that God created everything and then created Man in his image. Then Man gave birth to Woman from one of his ribs, and Man maintained dominion over the whole Garden of this Creation, including Woman, all of it meant to serve the Man and God. Then Woman in her wild and irrational nature was convinced by the serpent, the animal closest to the Earth and most revered by natural humans to be representative of self-healing, to taste the fruit of knowledge and power that God had told her not to taste. It happens that virtually every culture on the planet at the time considered knowledge and personal power to be a good thing, just like we still do today. But just to make Woman look even worse, she completely tricked and tempted Man to go against God’s rule as well, and taste the fruit. Therefore, it was entirely woman’s fault that they would be kicked out of the original beautiful and abundant Garden of Creation and cursed to live in a harsh world of thorns and thistles and a lot of hard work to ever get anything they needed or wanted. Now people could point to this “Word of God” to suppress, condemn, control, and even burn at the stake women and turn them against each other. And in fact all things Feminine including Nature, became the harsh enemy of Man, or if successful in his conquest, one form or another of reluctant slave or servant to Him.
This story, as with most mythologies, was spread so effectively across the globe, that eventually it wasn’t even necessary to read it or hear about it, as it became woven into the majority of human consciousness. And like the hundred-monkey effect, the fear-based warrior-Masculine zeitgeist became a strong influence on how most men treated women, or more accurately how the Masculine has attempted to control the Feminine in all ways. There are so many examples of how this plays out including how it has changed the form and function of our brain. For example, making a calculated decision that serves a short-term and limited goal, instead of a compassionate decision that serves a long-term and broader goal. Look at the way most of today’s profit-driven industries and markets are run to see evidence of this. One corporation that has recently begun to shift publicly to embrace the more Feminine approach of social responsibility in business is Starbucks. Their founder and CEO recently articulated this on CNBC.
Another example is the rampant cutting down of rainforests to put in tidy plantations or cattle farms, and keep communities protected from Nature. And the most obvious and far reaching example is Woman’s rights across the globe, other than the few remaining matriarchal societies, from where in 300 AD the Council of Trent took 22 days of deliberation to determine whether or not woman could be recognized as having souls, all the way to today where even the most advanced of the upside-down societies still don’t give woman equal pay and opportunity. Look at disease in the body, and environmental issues. These are all a result of the Universe providing evidence (ask and it is given) to support the upside down story or mythology that the Feminine is bad, and Mother Nature is out to get us (thorns and thistles). The warrior Masculine sends armies out to fight epic wars over limited resources or religion, because they don’t know how, or choose not to live in cooperation with each other and nature in a sustainable manner - something women know how to do, and choose to do by their inherent natural knowledge, wisdom, nurturing, and compassion. And it doesn’t help that in the story, Creation was finished on the sixth day, so nothing you can do but hoard what there is of it before somebody else gets it.
Another form of the warrior Masculine dominating the Feminine can be found in the Institutionalized suppression of the meek. Since the first Pachakuti, this has been highly valued as a sign of strength and success, and the answer has been that if you don’t like it, then just do whatever you can to become one of us – in other words, if you don’t like being suppressed, then become the suppressor. For example, if you are a woman working for a company in just about any industry, and you don’t like being treated as a second-class citizen, then fight your way to the top, and take over as the warrior-Masculine in charge. Or if you are working hard in the lower ranks of the company, but aren’t paid enough, again, do whatever it takes to become an executive. This is what I believe is behind the latest protests that started as the name Occupy Wall Street. They are trying to bring greater awareness and change to a society where the underlying premise is that if you don’t like being part of the 99%, then do whatever it takes to become the 1%. The supporters of such a system are failing to see that all 7 billion humans can’t and wouldn’t necessarily want to become the 1%. Additionally, whatever the 1% can do to support a more thriving 99% will ultimately benefit everybody, including their own deeply held goals for the kind of world and life they want to experience.
The days of the fearful warrior Masculine dominated story are coming to a close to the benefit of all. Every legitimate prophecy speaks of this time. Prophets have come to teach and lead and have attempted to show a way back to the original Garden of Creation, the Return of the Feminine into its place of power, value, and true balance. A Millennium of Gold, or A Thousand Years of Peace would follow this. The warrior-Masculine has done everything it can to discredit and persecute those leaders, or twist their teachings to support its agenda and rule. There is still an active “Office of the Inquisition” in Peru, run by the same order that burned Joan of Arc at the stake among countless others. Recently, fourteen shamans in the Peruvian Amazon were murdered in the name of religion.
It is important to make the distinction as well that the ultimate solution is not about women becoming masters of the “man’s” game, but instead women throwing out the unsustainable, unhealthy, and war-like “man’s” game altogether, and replacing it with a truly powerful, sustainable, healthy, wise, and powerful woman’s approach. Yes, this is nothing short of revolutionary. The deal here is that we can be ahead of this revolution, and with some guts and a lot of healing work and re-organization, have it be more of a graceful and peaceful revolution. Or, we can do it the hard way and wait for the all-powerful Mother Nature and Feminine to just force the warrior-Masculine into submission and do our best to pick up the pieces when it’s over.
So as you look around yourself and at the news, recognize all that is happening in the context of this overriding correction or re-balancing known as the Return of the Feminine. You will see some warrior-Masculine men, women, and organizations with the courage to embrace this return and make the necessary changes with grace and respect. And you will see some warrior-Masculine men, women, and organizations desperately trying to hold on to the dying paradigm, kicking and screaming, taking their ball with them, and even willing to destroy the playing field on their way out. All this while trying to convince all who might listen and be influenced that it’s in their best interest to stay the course and keep the warrior-Masculine in charge. It is also very important to take the approach of soothing, educating, and healing this fearful Masculine, as opposed to engaging in an way that justifies the worldview that feels unsafe to him.
Our work as Shamans, Healers, Teachers, Parents, and Leaders is to exemplify and be available with our gifts to those who choose courage and grace over fear and obstinacy, and be unattached to how it all unfolds. Start with your personal journey of healing, empowerment, and freedom from the myths and stories of the past to return to the natural balance of the Feminine and Masculine within. And make that a part of the way you walk in the world and make daily decisions. And if you are in a position of leadership, then favor those decisions that empower others to come into balance. We can trace every significant problem in the world to the suppression of the Feminine. Therefore, the return of the Feminine is the essential foundation of any and all solutions.
