The other night we watched a documentary on a modern day horse whisperer, a man who has learned to train horses in a non-violent way that honors and allows for a harmonious and powerful relationship to rise between horse and rider. It brought me to tears to see this beauty.
Once again I pondered how ever single aspect of our western colonialist society from birth to medicine to education, schooling, farming and agriculture, to the way that we treat our infants, letting them cry it out alone at night, and the way that we forget our elders, letting them die alone in places that know nothing about the rebirthing process of death, every aspect of our culture is permeated by a great illness. This illness from my perspective is a misunderstanding of the most fundamental kind, a divorce from ecology and the natural world and nature herself, as a feminine force.
For years this has been the foundation of my work in somatic re-education — about how this paradigm manifests in relationship to how we live inside of our bodies. Our culture knows nothing of working with the natural and cosmic forces that rise and fall - and knows only how to intimidate, dominate, colonize, bully and punish into being. People force themselves into physical practices that only enforce this subconscious mind state. It is violence to its very core. It is divide and conquer. It is black vrs white, it is red vrs blue, it is male vrs female, it is dualistic by nature, and the paradigm refuses to acknowledge the multiplicity of life, reality and nature herself. It is a paradigm that has lost it’s humanity. And it is deeply simplistic to think that it is one person’s fault, one man’s fault, one political parties fault.
They say our nation is great, but a nation founded on domination knows nothing about the sacred order of things. It is the entire system itself that is sick, has been sick since it’s inception, and we all have played our part by keeping our eyes shut and our hearts closed. Let us listen deeply, feel deeply, honor deeply, make sacred again the land and the body and our enemies as well. For as this nation crumbles, and division rises, we must make space for the sacred to rebirth herself and to re awaken in our very bodies. Our future depends upon this simple act of rebirth.