WHAT IS AN “ANCESTRAL PATH”?
We are relational beings with inter subjectivity.
An ancestral constellation goes beyond our personal biographies. We find the epigentic roots within early life experiences and we remain open and curious about the positionality of our energy within all contexts.
We tap into relational networks where distance and intimacy (proximity) is recognised.
This extrapolation into lineage - allows grace.
Acknowlegding wound or shadow, as wholeness - even in cases when we have extremely dynamic energy internally/externally, or are carrying impacts of the traumatic - allows release, liberation.
With conscious practicing into the development of this ancestral lens, we recognise personal & essential identities: position.
We do not get locked into fixed identification, by also recognising path (or realm) as teacher*, offering us fluidity and co-emergence of message being ‘called forth’, during incredible times of transformation.
An ancestral lens also allows space to consider how we recognise and enter into mediation with the systemic.
(*Identity as Path is a very valuable teaching from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel)
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Ancestral is experience, is embedded in gaze, we form it and it forms us, through story and image.
What are the assumed ‘universal images’ which we have inherited, through family, through society, through (supremancy) culture?
‘Universal images’ formed through supremacy cultures are put into question in an ancestral lens.
We welcome plural ways of being and knowlegde. We seek something outside the rational, or reductive. We seek depth containers, which show up in more multiples, than the capacity of our languages allow.
There would be ‘no thing’ and ‘no life’ without ancestral wisdom accumulating, it forms all systems, societies and perspectives.
Every message we receive through our bodies or our psyche, and every relationship in our lives (and the flow of our relationships) - our relationship even with realities themselves - is a message connected with ancestral wisdom.
Dropping into this space becomes a memory practice into collective experience.
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Some of collective memory is embedded into how we interact with transient phenonema, or matter.
(Yes, even the screen you are veiwing this page through, is built through images and relationships of ancestral wisdom.)
We usually discuss ancestral wisdom in the context of holistic, pychospiritual techniques, and wisdoms which are protected through Indigenous worldviews, and cosmologies. It is also present through myth, archetype, symbol, language, poetry, music, art and culture.
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Seeing through the eyes of an Earth Centered or Planetary Cosmology - is a very wide vision - to ‘See through the eyes of The Sacred’, to see through ‘Pluriversal Consciousness’, to see through the harmony of spheres, to see through ‘the third’ (transcendent) or ‘the fourth’ (immanence).
Our gaze is multiple, our psychic template infitinite in parts, from many perspectives all at once, a reflection of our relational cosmology, - Attention is expanded. -
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CHOICE, NAMING
We can find power within what draws or affects our attention, and we find immense power within free will and right to choose how we move forward.
In this praxis we enact on articulating and re-distributing power through our own recognition.
When we are able to name a relation, or a dynamic, we can decide to either hold it, or transform it.
Naming something encases something. Naming defines, describes, contains, contextualises and clarifies.
Naming something, at some ‘far through’ point, also allows us to loose all names, to let all things go into the chaos of entanglement.
Release!
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(DE)CONDITIONINGS
The coping mechanisms and conditionings we all have, often are wrapped around unconscious, unrecognised or disowned loss, where we beleive ourselves to be powerless or without agency, and where we fogot our connection to the natural world. This needs to be greived. There are many generations behind us who did not get to greive what they needed to. This is now our task: to feel.
Our lineages have always adapted through great change and disruption, with resiliency. But the time of ‘surviving’ needs to be looked into. If we are this ‘advanced’ as humans, why do we still relate in such an unbalanced way with power. Why do the systems we live in syphon our agency, and manufacture our consent? That is not leadership, it’s control. This praxis assists the dismantling of us being suseptible to be controlled.
When attention is expanded, we can access agency, to re-member power. Compassionate power, resourced power.
Remembering how to connect to compassionate power, as nature, allows us to access more insight into our conditioning, which we can then consciously evolve.
To suit the current context, and not be living in a reality which is still coloured or dominated by a restrictive form of traps of ‘survival-mode’ against avoidances of unprocessed ancestral traumas, this is a constant process.
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WITNESS & TRANSFORMATION
Within this practice we witness and carry into transformation any unhelpful content that does not bring new life for us anymore, we allow it it’s right to a death & transformation.
Through natural cycles this becomes ‘composting food’ for un-seeded aspects of ancestral power to grow back.
We see unhelpful content as important - a catalyst in breaking into a continual, ultimately freeing, spiralling process.
There are always bondaries in this process as we do not exist in isolation from limitation,
None of us can run from being inexorably tied to The World, and come through this experience as unwounded.
We will always be touched by The World, muddied by it, and in contradictions because of it.
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TOXICITY & TRANSMUTATION
The aim is not to remove all the ‘toxicity’ but to relate to it uniquely. Perhaps to fogive some of the forms of toxicity around us and to see our parts in creating it, or to feel some of it’s context.
This does not mean to adopt the new age spiritual rhetoric of hard-won ‘sovereignty’. Nor does it mean to use a language of ‘higher consciousness’ heirachy. Here we stay supple and earthy. We honour the dark as equal as the light.
You decide when to submerge into world and when to discern yourself some distance.
You decide which parts to leave opaque, for Spirit only. And which parts to allow to become transparent.
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The work is a mixture of internal acceptance and courage towards speaking up for our own value systems.
We transmute pain and suffering by giving it as offerings towards a sacred container.
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PROCESSUAL
Ancestral Belonging, alike depth-analysis, is not a destination, but an ongoing process of learning deep care of our Soul and walking onwards with wide self-containment.
On this path we act with long range vision, becoming future Ancestors.
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My pathway to navigating and unwinding ancestral curses as such began in 2014-2015, through dreaming, synchonicity and materiality as an oracle through 2014 - 2020, in addition to some unclassifiable early life visitations from Spirits. I started working in private practice in 2020 with supervision. In 2022 this expanded into an identity recognising, decolonial & liberation model.
I was always centralising Multiplicities and Darkness, and have spent my whole life seeking healing, freedom and spiritual liberation.