Reach within

There is a whole world inside of us through which we can connect with light, life, wisdom, healing and love and when the world disappoints who knows if the message isn’t to turn within for a while to heal and seek wisdom and comfort.I know when I connect within in prayer I feel more complete, if I allow myself to get into a meditative state I may hear messages and I also can feel connected to past loved ones and ancestors

Today I heard a fascinating interview with an aboriginal man who also studied theology and is a minister, he had some fascinating interpretations of the bible and he spoke also of the aboriginal concept of The Dreaming saying some may call it by the Jungian term collective unconscious but that really it is a highly fluid and interconnected place where past and present interweave, accessible to us at any moment. I think that when Eckhardt Tolle gives some of his lectures he touches on the concept of presence which is where we can find peace from the busy trouble making ego mind that can be so acquisitive and restless within us at times.. Dissatisfied or feeling down why not reach within and to those loving forces that may seem otherworldly and can hold us.

There is so much more to this life than what we can see.. There are presences that love us. There is a meaning and there is also a connection we can develop to what aboriginal people call ‘country’ or our earthly dwelling place.. So much of the religion and spirituality I grew up with was disembodied in fact today having my morning coffee I got chatting to a group of men who had been through a similar Catholic education, we were saying how damaging it was going to single sex schools to be denied a healthy connection with both the opposite sex as well as our sexuality., So sad in so many ways the messages we were told and the way we absorbed shame or disconnection from that instinctual, instinct grounded aspect of our human animal bodies.

Perhaps much of our modern culture is now suffering from this split.. I am trying to heal it in myself.. I know that when I connect with earth, land or country around my home on a daily basis I am better for it.. Its not about doing a brisk walk for me, its about being immersed in nature and watching the birds and wildlife, noticing the clouds and the wind or lack of it, being entranced by reflections on water.. this is what gives to my soul soothing.. It also helps to recharge me as an empath. I can also draw that energy up through the souls of my feet if I walk on earth.. that is always soothing and discharging for me in times of trouble or anxiety.

Aboriginal spirituality really fascinates me. I had a dream in early sobriety of being taking into a dancing healing circle of aboriginal woman, they were all barefoot.. I had a strong sense this was my tribe, I have not found that in real life lately but when I went to Uluru (Ayers Rock) for the first time in 2010 with Phil I cried immediately upon entering that country.. I felt the deep resonances, but also sadly I am disconnected from my ancestral lands.. in both Cornwall and the Netherlands.. I had a chat about Europe and the war with one of the older men I met today.. he was a fascinating source of information, a Jewish German whose family fled in 1937 to Holland (yes what a case of synchronicity). He told me a lot of interesting things about land and language and the evolution of races and countries in Europe.. I am sure my guides even got me to that spot at the markets today at just the right time to meet him.

According to this aboriginal minister this is how The Dreaming works, it connects us to those we have interconnections or will find interconnections with.. I love this concept of The Dreaming, I think I tried to write a poem about it a while back. When I find that poem I will link to it here. Anyway today I had a lovely gift in meeting that man.. . I was putting the focus on my own life today and it really paid off.. today has been a special day and I found outer connections too (along with the inner ones), what a blessing!.