Peoples minds have been held in a hypnosis, a kind of enchantment. This enchantment is so pervasive that human beings might be presented with facts that contradict this reality, with clear and indisputable evidence, and the facts are categorically refused. Many will not even dare to look. Some will become defensive and angry, and seek to condemn, name call and to belittle those who challenge this enchantment, ultimately attempting to protect the very system which has hypnotized and traumatized them. There is a name for this.
The remedy, the antidote, the medicine for this enchantment, is our return to wisdom through nature’s sacred template. When we come to ourselves stripped naked of our assumptions, we come to understand that we have been deeply misguided as a society. The wisdom lineages passed down through plant medicine, storytelling, dance, poetry and song have long been decimated and severed for most of us, replaced with a shadow of this beauty. Scientific materialism reigns complete and supreme in western culture. The human spirit has been subjugated in the name of a bleak reality that holds logic, matter and regulation as it’s great trinity.
The gift of intuition, our doorway into mystery wisdom, has been all but forgotten. The very template of this culture is the antithesis of nature’s divine blueprint, a wasteland of shadow, addiction and trauma born out of a great soul separation.
When we allow ourselves to feel into the profound grief and suffering that has resulted from this severing, we break the spell, and a deeper healing may begin. But healing cannot occur until we come to ourselves bare, ready to strip the conditioning and deep indoctrination that each of us has been put through. Healing begins when we are ready to hear the cry of the spirit.
There are many ways to begin the sacred process of untangling ourselves from scientific materialism. Personal reconnection to our unique intuitive soul voice through healing and creation is the path to our remembrance. The paths of storytelling and dance both have played a powerful role in my life, and can become profound ways to reimagine the mythology of our lives. Storyteller Martin Shaw speaks so eloquently to this beautiful re-awakening.
It was this powerful resonance, in part, that brought Jeremy and I together, with our shared love of the human potential to reweave our deepest soul mythologies, and the mythologies of our culture as well. This is a mystery wisdom path.
The path of reclaiming and reimagining the ancient stories buried within the body, mind and consciousness, is medicine. We begin to reorganize the nature of our being, to reconnect to the root of soul and spirit, and to reaffirm the blueprint that is our birthright. Through reconnection to the spirit language of archetype and symbol, we have the potential to weave a new reality from the dust of a dying world. This is the beauty of our lineage, lost to so many. But we have the power to heal and reignite.
I invite you, as always, to ponder these ideas that I have shared with you. I invite you to ask yourself what mythologies you are adhering to, knowingly or unknowingly?
What assumptions have you made? Where is your soul?
Have you listened to the wind today?
Have you watched the sky?