TOPIC
The power of story has largely been stripped from the people by institution after institution knowing that controlling the story controls the people.
What fi we take back our story?
What if we connect the last 200 years of Australia’s story to the 60,000 year story the indigenous peoples of Australia hold?
What does this look like and how can it be written in a way that unifies us as one people?
This is another opportunity of the voice.
Can we listen and learn the ancient stories of Australia?
The stories that carry infinite knowledge when coinciding with a listening and alignment with nature.
How will they inform our actions in the world?
How will we learn from ourselves through these ancient understandings?
Come and join us for a discussion of our sacred story and ways in which we might begin to write it.
REFLECTION
What is inspired when we hear the words: sacred story?
Myth, legend, being around the fire with friends, under the stars, good feelings, tales of self experience, tales coming from the land, stories being passed on over generations, story time during the early days of primary school, dreamtime stories, aliveness, wonder, etc.
We have an idea of sacred story but there is still a void between the story and the sacredness. We have lost the understanding of the power of story or though we can feel it when we hear them? Where has it gone and how do we reclaim it?
Our story has been lost. Scattered to the winds of violent storms, stripping us of the lineage of understanding our divine connection to the universe and our sacred belonging to the earth.
We as humans were all indigenous to the land and as kingdoms grew to nations, to empires, these ancient stories fed dissent into the agenda of the kings and queens of fear and were inconvenient in the continual growth of their armies used to conquer more lands, and resources.
Our ancient story is inherently inconvenient to vampires who are empty of souls attempting to quench their thirst with an everlasting appetite for more.
The practice of stripping an indigenous people of their story has been used by colonial powers for centuries. It is an effective tool in controlling the population. Undermine their beliefs and their sacred stories, remove their language, their ritual, control and traumatise with brutal violence and remove their will, remove their power. A domesticated human with no strong beliefs and values is easy to control with fear and scarcity.
With no will or spirit a human becomes an empty vessel seeking to be filled. Just like a thirsty vampire who feeds upon life and holds no reflection. Perhaps no ability to reflect upon themselves either, so caught up in anxious ptsd they ravenously react to stimulus and therefore hold no freedom or power. Cursed by the removal of their story.
Some of us create our own stories or attach ourselves to religious narratives that can have positive affects upon how we act within society but even the institutions of religion have stripped others of their stories and demanded of them to subscribe to their own.
Perhaps as humans we feel threatened by other stories, other worldviews.
Nick Cave says in a podcast with Louie Theroux that those who feel righteously entitled to dismantle other’s beliefs is utterly inhuman. A story that inspires a human to respect and love their neighbour is beneficial belief even if it includes a fluffy cloudy and luxurious afterlife.
So here we are today, stripped of our sacred ancient stories by various dominating entities colonising us, followed by a second wave of religious persecution and replacement of story until we reach Nietzsche’s ‘god is dead’ as materialism takes over and any story or belief that involves fantasy is reduced to the imagination of a fool.
Left with materialism and our own authoring there is a fracturing of the greater story and the emergence of the individual, greed and quantitative values. A world in which a corporation headed by a single worshipped billionaire holds more wealth and power than most of the nations in the world.
Our anxious need for meaning, belief and story has fed this materialistic worldview to the point in which we are eating our own habitat to extinction.
We need to connect to our ancient sacred stories that guide an alignment with the earth and the universe. We need it to save our existence.
How do we do this?
In Australia we have a phenomenal opportunity to connect with one of the last relatively intact indigenous cultures of the world that holds the stories that contain the knowledge of 60,000 years of humans existence upon the earth within this universe. We could start by listening to them and voting ‘yes’ at the upcoming constitutional referendum. This is a start.
However, we mustn’t proxy the entirety of our agency to that of a centralised institution. Vote ‘yes’ but do your own authoring.
We discovered that listening and creativity have a huge role to play in the process of writing our new story. Listening to the earth, the early morning breeze, the new moon, our dreams and imagination, our intuition, joy and fears. These are all colours from which we will paint the first noticing of our nature and where it exists.
There are esoteric tools that have survived the purge of story such as the tarot, the Kabbalah, astrology, numerology, the enneagram, the tree of life, alchemy, and spiritual practices that aid in helping us objectively observe ourselves. Much of this has been tossed into the basement of woo woo. Mostly due to the literal predictive interpretations of the use of these tools, but that is more demonstrative of our vampiric curse, our contracted consciousness, anxiously bound by time and space, threatened by scarcity and driven by a forgotten pain. Unable to objectively see ourselves reflected by these tools.
We must still the air of the mind, the waters of emotion, the earth of our body and fire of our spirits before we can see the still image of ourselves upon the lake’s surface.
In Sinead O’Connor’s song Famine she talks of the English empire’s traumatic colonisation of Ireland and how the Irish having been stripped of their history and language are left with pain but no remembering which has lead to alcohol abuse, violence and other dysfunctions with their society. She sings that in order for healing to happen, there must be a remembering, a grieving, followed by a forgiving and this process brings knowledge and understanding. Filling the gaps of the story and reconnecting with the sacred story once again.
Presently we have forgotten the sacredness of story and in its unconscious nature it very much behaves as a shadow entity pulling the strings from behind the curtain of ignorance.
‘The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.’
Roger - The Usual Suspects.
Our unconscious stories are devilish in that they enslave us and wreak havoc upon our lives. Therefore the first step in reclaiming our story is to understand its power. Once this is achieved we must remember and grieve the loss and space between. The remembering and grieving delivers us to the wisdom of forgiveness where the dam of emotions have broken and reached a steady flow and we begin to understand our human stumbling from the ancient scope of knowledge that expands our entire existence passed down through oral traditions and songs.
This is an exciting time to live. A time where we reclaim our sacred story and with it our magic.
Thank you
Love
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