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Roots and Reflections Readings"Restoring Life's Missing Pieces Part I"November 5, 2017Reading #1Healer: (shaman terms) someone who undertakes healing journeys for many purposes – one of which is to bring back the missing pieces of our lives that can help restore us to wholeness. From a Western psychological perspective, the shaman’s journey is a metaphor for the role an intercessor takes to travel between our conscious and unconscious realms and help us to bridge them. In real time and through dreams, fables, myths, and fairy tales, cultures personify real, spiritual, and imaginary shamans, mediators, ancestors, and intercessors as mentors, crones, or power animals. In many religions, these figures are called spirits, angels, and deities. The lingering pain and suffering – the dis-ease – that results from “what’s missing” are never merely pathological problems waiting to be fixed. The missing pieces represent spiritual wounds – troubles, puzzles, and mysteries that yearn to be acknowledged and healed, restoring you to wholeness.Quote:“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne DyerCorollary: “Things change when you change.”Reading #2Distraction or the Path“Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is.” - Joseph CampbellEvery step in our life is oriented to finding a precious something that once upon a time was left behind, hidden, lost, forgotten or exiled to a dark place. A sudden inner call to venture out can feel so random, mysterious, blindsiding, tenuous, risky, even terrifying. Why do I feel like this? What’s going on? Where are these intrusive thoughts and memories coming from? Didn’t I put that part of my life behind me? Is this the right time? What do I lose by doing anything about it? What do I gain? What if I do nothing?Other questions arising in moments of dis-ease:What am I doing here?What have I done or not done unto others and myself?What have I avoided, not tried, risked and realized?What’s missing?Who am I in the context of this situation?Reading #3Poem by David WhyteSometimesIf you move carefullyThrough the forestBreathingLike the onesIn the old storiesWho could crossA shimmering bed of dry leavesWithout a sound,You come To a placeWhose only taskIs to trouble youWith tinyBut frightening requestsConceived out of nowhereBut in this placeBeginning to lead everywhere.Requests to stop whatYou are doing right now, AndTo stop what youAre becomingWhile you do it,QuestionsThat can makeOr unmakeA life,QuestionsThat have patientlyWaited for you,Questions That have no rightTo go away.Reading #4The Remember Room The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to and sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are, and who for better or worse, we are becoming… We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need – not all the time surely, but from time to time, to enter that still room within us all, where the past lives on as part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember, the room with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.- Frederick BuechnerReading #5Projecting our GoldWhen we awaken to a new possibility in our lives, we often see it first in another person. A part of us that has been hidden is about to emerge, but it doesn’t go in a straight line from our unconscious to becoming conscious. It travels by way of an intermediary, a host. We project our gold onto someone, and suddenly we’re consumed with that person. The first inkling of this is when the other person appears to be so luminous that he/she glows in the dark. That’s a sure sign that something is changing in us and we are projecting our gold onto the other person.When we observe the things we attribute to the other person, we see our own depth and meaning. Our gold goes first from us to them. Eventually it will come back to us. Projecting our inner gold offers us the best chance for an advance in consciousness.Reading #6Quotes for Remembering the Past, the Self and the Shadow“Life can only be understood backward, but must be lived forward.” Kierkegaard“The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel ProustRing the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen“The quest for truth is to let suffering speak.” – Cornell WestReading #7SeparationYour absence has gone through meLike thread through a needle.Everything I do is stitched with its colour.- W.S. MerwinReading #8The Most Important Things“The most important things are the hardest to say,” writes Stephen King. “The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried… And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”Reading #9Letting GoNobel Peace Prize-winner Dag Hammerskjold: “For all that has been, thanks! To all that shall be – Yes!” ................
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