Science and mystery are a beautiful couple.
And as we have discovered a little more of how our brain functions and how
the right and left sides of the brain are bridged by the nerve filled fibre called
the corpus callosum, we are starting to discover a new story.
‘This new story is healing the ruptures
caused by the story of separation we have
been telling for several hundred years.
Separation was the name of the game.
And now it’s interconnection.’
ON THE WAY TO THE LONG DANCE (2011)
We talk not in terms of one side dominating the other but in terms of the gift of
dynamic polarity through which all creation happens.
Bridges it seems, are necessary to join one thing to another. And it’s not
just the two sides of the brain that are enjoying the recognition of the mutual
necessity of the others existence.
It’s also the rising recognition that we ignore the intelligence of the body and
our neuron filled guts at our peril. And the heart, for so long marginalized to
the unreachable fantasy of romantic love, has also broken free from its
shackles and we are aware of the need to recognize and value our emotional
intelligence.
But, bring them all together, in the delicious threesome of body-heart-mind
working together and the fireworks of intelligence start to explode carving new
neural pathways like shooting stars across the sky.
Shamanism is down to earth and it embraces the heights. It’s practical
and creative.
It’s about relationship.
It’s about what and how we create with life.
This is the mantra of our ceremonies and our work in general. Over the years,
beginning with an overnight ceremony called The Alchemist’s Garden,
alongside Susannah and many others, I have developed a way of being in
ceremony that is real, challenging and full of potent healing medicine.
It’s a way of being with spirit through the body-heart-mind that is a
bridge between old and new, yin and yang and giving and receiving.
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