Ivy Sea Online: De-stress and re-connect with Ancestor Wisdom Practices (part one)

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De-stress and Re-connect with the Power of Sacred Wisdom Practices

Several trends that continue to gain momentum center around reconnecting with Spirit, wisdom and the Sacred. For some people, that means recommitting to a church, while others incorporate teachings from shamanism, aboriginal wisdom, Goddess-culture, Nature, or other spiritual pathways into their everyday routines.

That interest in reconnecting with the Sacred has risen during the same period that brought us Enron, 9/11, war, thieving executives, and psychopath-corporations* in which "nothing is sacred" is no coincidence.

This renewed seeking demonstrates the gap left open by too many centuries of "half-Spirit" practices that honored and over-emphasized the archetypal Masculine, or Divine Father, and essentially dishonored and vehemently suppressed the archetypal Feminine, or Divine Mother.

This lop-sided focus is not without its costs, not the least of which are cultures of extreme violence, cruelty, greed, striving, corporate dominance, environmental plunder, and radical imbalance that trickle down to infect people in the same way. Archetypal Father without Divine Mother is anti-Christ — power without mercy, with results far from the common good.

When we bring the two together — Divine Father reunited with Divine Mother — and allow "the two to become one", our individual lives and our communal or cultural realities can come into a healthier, more balanced whole that honors and integrates the best traits of both our archetypal Masculine and Feminine. There are various practices that help to foster this Divine reunion in and through us.

Our wisest ancestors knew this, which is why you'll find reference to this concept in all major faith and wisdom traditions (albeit more mischievously hidden in some), from the teachings of Jesus to those of the Buddha and the Sufis, to the wisdom of tribal shamans and medicine elders, and certainly in cultures that pre-dated all of these.

Unfortunately, perhaps one of the saddest and most harmful consequences of the dominating, separatist, Patriarchal approach to religion has been the forced detachment from Spirit and all that connected us with Divine wisdom — in which a few select persons (who often had less than admirable agendas) had to mediate for us, and all that connected us directly with Spirit and the Sacred was discouraged, shunned, destroyed, or murdered.**

While our small minds might resist this in favor of staying rigidly protective of our dogmatic beliefs, our hearts and souls will yearn for unification between Father and Mother, because it is the state of our highest wisdom and greatest potential. God wants us to be whole.

We are grateful that our elders and ancestors left us such a rich legacy of wisdom teachings and resources to help us find our way back to wholeness. By tapping into the wisdom and practices that they have left for us, we can renew them, and become renewed by them.

To read more about some of the specific practices that can help you reconnect with Sacred and Ancestor wisdom, read "Practices for de-stressing and re-connecting with the Sacred Wisdom of your Ancestors."

Footnotes:

* The concept of "corporation as psychopath" is persuasively presented (and, some would say, proven) in the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by Joel Bakan; and the movie on the same theme — The Corporation — by Bakan and two of his colleagues. The works are drawing admirable reviews from both sides of the globalization argument, which in itself is telling. Read the book, see the movie, decide for yourself, and act accordingly. Find out more at the official movie web site.

** The lineage of this renunciation and matricide is easily available to those who wish to read about it, but it is not within the scope of this article to delve more deeply into it.