How does Childhood affect Adult Health and Life Expectancy?
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This amazing interview of Dr. Felitti M.D., the director of the Adverse Childhood Events study, with Stefan Molyneux of www.FreeDomainRadio.com lends a very profound perspective and appreciation of the impact of childhood events on the entirety of our living, adaptive structure and our continuing journey in response to life. This interview lends profound insight on the human journey. If you’d like to take the questionnaire you can find it here.
Tags: Adverse Childhood Events, Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Depression, Dr. Felitti, Drug Abuse, Obesity, Smoking
Guilt or Response-Ability
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John Trudell speaks to our need, as human beings, to regain a clear perception of reality.
Shibui - Living in the Light of Value
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This is an impressive 2-hour talk by Manly P. Hall on the history of the education of free people, from the Greeks onward, and the elements of living in the Light of Value.
Also, a beautiful introduction to the humanizing value of elegant simplicity and esthetic minimalism that the Japanese call “Shibui” and which is central to a way of life that leads to our human flourishing.
This talk is hosted by the Peace Revolution podcast. This is not just “talk,” they are offering education at a very high level and I highly recommend starting with Podcast number ONE and moving up from there.
I invite your comments and invite you to the deliciousness that you are.
And when you’re in doubt, just say, “Shibui!”
Small Seto sake cup.
Tags: classical liberal education, Human Resources, Liberal Education, Living in the Light of Value, Manly Palmer Hall, Peace Revolution podcast, Richard Grove, Shibui, Slavery, slavery in Greece, Value
Hawk & Eagle: Comparing Western and Indigenous Science
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Paula Underwood Spencer’s article A Native American Worldview offers a fascinating look at the Western scientific method as it proceeds in cultures using noun-based languages as compared to the holistic and verb-based view of relatedness and pattern of indigenous cultures. Both bring gifts to us.
There is tremendous wisdom in this article. I hope you enjoy it and invite your comments.
Tags: all my relations, Huadenoshaunee, Iroquois, noun-based language, Oneida, out-of-body, Paula Spencer Underwood, scientific method, shamanism, spirit walking, verb-based language
Tribes of Europe
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This is an excellent 5 minute talk by John Trudell, spoken word artist and musician, former American Indian Movement leader, speaking to the similarity of the European experience of conquest and the imposition of a religious view of reality and the current experience of indigenous peoples in the current, evolving paradigm of global exploitation. I’ll be posting regular, poignant resources that are to-the-point and related to the educational mission of Deep Freedom Now. The last sentence is worth contemplating: “And at some point, the descendants of the tribes of Europe no longer knew what it meant to be a human being. So the descendants of the tribes of Europe, in the end, HAD TO LOVE WHAT THEY FEARED, WHICH WAS THERE TO POSSESS THEM.” John Trudell
Tags: American Indian Movement, cultural conquest, Deep Freedom Now, European, Indigenous, John Trudell, Religious indoctrinaction
ReUniting With Cellular Intelligence Audio
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Dear Friends,
To all of you who joined us for our teleconference call on May 18th and brought your voices and your hearts to our journey into
Deep Freedom Deep Connection:
ReUniting with Cellular Intelligence
Through and Beyond Cultural Trances
THANK YOU! To all of you who weren’t able to join us but accompanied us with your spirit and your longing for freely connecting to YOUR experience: Thank You. To those of you who come here for the first-time: WELCOME! This call is ~1hour and 20 minutes long. You are welcome to download it, listen to it and share it with others.
To Download this call, R-click on the following link and click on save as, and you will be able to save the mp3 file. I hope this supports your Journey.
Deep Freedom Deep Connection Intro Call, May 18, 2010
Tags: Audio Recording, Cellular Intelligence, Colonialism, Deep Freedom Now, Indigenous, Limbic, Olivier Tryba, Post-Conquest, Post-Traumatic
Welcoming Fear, Anger, Jealousy, Grief
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In many cultures we are taught to divide our experience in good and bad, high and low and to disconnect from a whole range of what we are already experiencing. Certain felt states are desirable, others are shameful and guilt-ridden. The devastation that we wreak upon external ecologies are simply reflections of the devastation wrought upon the ecology of our own human spirit. The false dichotomy of “high/low” shatters the world into a forest of splinters that feeds very little.
In indigenous cultures with intact initiatory and wisdom traditions, initiates learn that “high/low” is a false dichotomy. The warrior learns to weep. The heights are not divorced from the depths. The eagle does not fly without the termite surrendering the wood back to the mouths of those who, in turn, feed the eagle.
The premise of every modern political, religious, economic, medical, “therapeutic” racket out there is that “we are going to take you from the low to the high.” i.e. “we’ve got an escape hatch to your current experience.”
When we embrace what we rejected as “low,” we discover that the “high” we have been seeking IS just as alienated as the “low” from what I AM from the beginning; not the self we imagined ourselves to be, innocently, as the defense we developed to survive as babes in disconnective culture.
To discover true, living relationship begins with the courage to sit with our own, personal, EMBODIED textures of self-disconnection. What is it that you are experiencing that you have been taught, from generation to generation, to NOT experience, to avoid? What is the cost of actually EXPERIENCING them? Of Feeling them? What taboos would you violate to simply welcome, for example, your Fear, Anger, Jealousy and Grief without reflexively acting OUT OF them? Who taught you NOT to experience them? Why?
“Fear, anger, jealousy, rage,” these are the labels we affix to all that we most willingly act OUT OF, yet refuse to venture INTO. Notice how many cultures have a taboo around EXPERIENCING the texture of a whole panoply of experiences we are already EXPERIENCING. “Fear, anger, jealousy, rage,” these are the names we put on the dimensions of our experience which we so hurriedly, as if in a panic, learn to suppress (by pretending to be “spiritual” and thus “above” these low human emotions, and thus at perpetual “self-war”), repress (by stifling the feeling yet feeling profound shame & guilt for having even felt it momentarily and having to hold it at bay) or express (by generating pain and drama in the lives of those around us, especially the ones closest to us), but dare not simply FEEL, as many of us were taught not to feel these from our very first day.
Would you like the quick path beyond fear? Dare to FEEL it! Because fear FELT isn’t fear. Fear, anger, jealousy, grief are the resistance to what you’re already feeling, they are the named doorways that shut us out from the HEART of our experience. You MAY open them! You may walk through the wall of taboos of every racket in your culture. Only YOUR permission is needed. Next time you feel Fear, Anger, Jealousy or Grief arise, WELCOME THEM! Know that each is a doorway to your FELT, i.e. LIVED experience!
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Tags: Anger, Ant, Eagle, Expression, Fear, Feeling, Grief, Indigenous culture, Jealousy, Repression, Self-Alienation, Suppression, Warrior, Warriors Cry
Rebirth: the Death of a Fiction
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We can look in our lives. We can look in the world, listen to our brothers and sisters; human, animal, fish, amphibian, trees. Pain runs deep, doesn’t it? But what is it? Pain is the avoidance of our experience. It’s the illusion that we, as individuals and as a culture, can transform out of the defense mechanisms of the Manufactured Self.
This is like having a rotting house and applying a better coat of paint. It’s like these forests in Colorado that fed the Ute, Shoshoni, Arapahoe and Cheyenne peoples for thousands of years, with a lifestyle that the white man disdained as slothful because the First Peoples weren’t busting ass for some task master from dawn to dusk, trying to survive. The white man came, took the gold and cut the forests to feed the mills, then mono-cropped it. Now that forest is dying. In many places it is 85% dead. And the white man is going to “fix” it again. He’s going to “put it to good use” and replant it, too, just like he did last time, except better, always better, always “improving,” with his solutions generating the next problems.
We have this same relationship with our inner wilderness: a constant effort to conquer ourselves, regardless of how we feel, to improve what we profoundly do not know. What I call the journey of the Idiot Hero.
A day comes when we face the pain, we face the rot, we face the reality of our lived experience. A day comes when we notice that we have held the one who shows up in our mirror hostage to our ideas of him - and that she is none of those ideas. He is dying trying to breathe life into those ideas, and dying in a way that feeds little else but the fiction of himself. That is the day that we divest ourselves of our own hype and drop the search for a bigger, gentler, wiser hype. That is emptiness, and it devastates the fantasies a lot of us, of all colors and cultures, are running around in these days. That day is a painful day, and it’s the day that True Healing begins. It’s the day when we’ll learn to live out of something larger than a 1 inch area of our left Temporal-Parietal lobe. Suddenly we notice that there is a body, that there is a heart, gut, genitals, legs, the backside of our bodies, and that they are not just there to be USED, they have their own intelligence, they have been sensing and feeling our lives all along. That can be painful. It is also profoundly enlivening. Our entire civilization is heading toward that day. We know that not only our imagined world, but also our imagined selves will be undone.
There is a Deeper Intelligence inviting us into a Deeper Freedom. Human beings living in cultures of conquest are almost wholly defended from that Deeper Intelligence. Our lives are devoted to making IMAGES of that intelligence so that we can avoid EXPERIENCING it, not only religious images, but scientific images, too. Our culture is based in reducing ourselves and everything else to a mental object. We were taught to worship a so-called God manufactured out of endless narratives of genocide, and some of us discovered that that “God” is dead. Indeed He is. As are all the “Gods” & “Goddesses” that we try to replace him with, in the conviction that divinity is something outside of a “ Manufactured Self” that needs to obey “God” because it is fundamentally “wrong.” What remains for many to discover is that the “Self” that got manufactured in the image of that “God” is just as dead; another mental fiction that devours Life to try to make itself real. A change of clothes doesn’t change the inner reality. It doesn’t matter whether you put on a roman collar, saffron robes, a wizard’s hat or buckskins and beadwork.
There is a Beingness that we are made of and which does not require us to manufacture it. Our very Being is the expression of an intelligence that spontaneously and continuously BIRTHS what we cannot manufacture - and yet we persist in manufacturing part-by-part while we wallow in the toxicity manufactured out of our ignorance of Whole Intelligence. We want to take and get, even though our rapaciousness leaves us with much less than what a simple stopping, noticing, connecting and receiving is offering us continually.
When we can say, as my friend Michael Skye said to me in my last post, “Thank you for your willingness to be with your pain and to love me” then we come to the possibility of true relationship. This is the crux of the matter right now, isn’t it? Because right now, as we ARE, in togetherness there is pain, isn’t there? We love somebody, we want to enjoy their company, offer them the best we can, and then we see all the mechanisms of this disconnective “self” get triggered and engage. We experience how profoundly we resist connection. If we are willing to be with this pain that we carry from a long ways back, that we inherit from many generations, only then can we speak of crossing the threshold of a Loving that might eventually allow us to know each other as “People,” beyond some momentary senti-mentality.
This is a long journey. Maybe we will know each other, some day, as People in whose company we can offer more than momentary “wanting” and then long-winded tolerance. That starts with a new relationship to our own experience. An end to correction and a beginning to connection. It’s like planting seeds in the heart, and not just seeds for ourselves and the people we are with; seeds to human Life and ALL of Life thousands of generations forward. When we are willing to take this journey, not to “get” something, but to make a humble, simple offering to the Beauty of the Life within and without, then we will know how profoundly good it is to be just as we are; and we will offer Life within us a bigger adventure than trying to corral it into our idea of ourselves and the world.
And we can be gentle with this offering, too. Not yanking parts of ourselves out to offer up, but waiting and stopping - maybe a few minutes, hours, days and even years. This offering does not come from our idea of offering, it comes from Life. We don’t “make” it, it comes through us. It is the offering that Life makes to Life through the Life in us. First offer yourself the opportunity to know Life. Then we can set aside our heroism and our mutual tolerance. Maybe that offering requires that you shut the door and offer yourself a little protection, make yourself a sacred place where you can stop and let Life find its harmony again inside of you. Maybe that offering for your people is going to ask you to stop doing all the things you’ve been doing for all those people, all those things you thought made you “good”; a good daughter, son, brother, sister, mother, father, husband, wife, lover, boss, employee, teacher, student, etc. And when you stop, then you’ll FEEL, guaranteed, and your first trained program will be to DO something about what you feel. That’s why this culture doesn’t stop. We’re obsessed with doing because if we stop doing we realize that we’re caught in habits that numb pain but don’t give us joy. My invitation to you is, when you FEEL something inside that you are ashamed of, or want to “spiritualize” away, or want to react and express something to someone about: go back to FEELING, follow the stream of those feelings all the way up to the headwaters of your life, then up the springs of your ancestry and FEEL, just FEEL.
When we can make a little room for our pain, then we’ll be able to make a little room for ourselves, and then each other. When we cease to resist our experience of pain, as it arises inside of us, even when we’re all alone with no physical discomfort, we discover that pain actually IS resistance. In that willingness to cease resisting pain, we suddenly discover that pain is like a doorway that keeps us shut out of the core of our experience. When we open the door we label “pain,” what’s behind it is not “pain” but fundamentally vital. Then we discover that Deep Joy is not only possible, it is indigenous (in the genus) to our humanity, when we allow it’s Living Intelligence. Try it. Experience it for yourself. In that willingness to EXPERIENCE our experience, our journey in search of Freedom FROM turns into a Celebration of Freedom FOR our People, all of them, even the hard-nut cases like ourselves!
Dare to FEEL the Reality WITHIN and beyond who you imagine (image-in) your “self” to be, and within and through what you imagine your pain to be. You are an expression of a Living Intelligence that is much Wiser, more Sensual, Intelligent, Generous, Creative and Kind than your idea of your “self.”
©2009 Olivier Tryba
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The Wise Woman & The Zen Master
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This morning I went for my walk. The lesson for me was about teaching. Although it may appear that the teacher invites the student, it is really the student who invites the teacher. Both are teaching, both are learning, but to “be” the teacher in the ceremony is different from “being” the student - for the ceremony of learning and unlearning. If, to use the Lakota term, we cross ceremonies, then there is no power in the ceremony. If we’re both the teacher and both the student, then little is taught and less is learned and unlearned. If the distinction between teacher and student is clear then both can learn, both can teach. If the student tries to be the teacher, then teaching doesn’t happen.
Of course, we can speak of Learning Circles, which are also powerful. But that is not what I am speaking of here. I am talking about one person transmitting to another. Mentorship. Guidance.
When Great Teaching happens, it requires a Great Student, someone who has not simply accumulated the hodge-podge of impressions, experiences, methods, aphorisms, and practices that we all gather over a lifetime. The Great Student realizes the importance of Emptying. The Great Student doesn’t show up with a cup half-filled with Pepsi, coffee or orange juice when they come to taste the water at the fountain. The Great Student also realizes it doesn’t matter if the cup is fancy or simple. What matters is that the cup be simply a cup; clean & empty, ready to receive.
In the United States and in Europe this teacher-student role has lost its sacredness in most instances. We are conditioned over so many years to “learning” from so-called teachers who never asked our permission to teach us, that when we finally choose someone to learn from, we often continue in the same dynamic of resistance. Because we don’t know our hearts as organs of knowing and connection, our relationship to teaching is mostly mental. We think about the ideas being presented. We sift through the ones that appeal to us and the ones that don’t. Essentially, with this kind of “learning,” nothing changes. We take away and leave behind everything that reinforces our already-established prejudices. We want to feel “good.” We resist feeling our existence deeply. With this approach, we not only become even further estranged from our own experience, we now have new vocabulary to use to reinforce this estrangement and redecorate it as “knowing something.” There is no real invitation on the part of the student to the teacher. Because the teacher is seen as an “authority,” in the Western sense, she is also seen as a threat, as someone to be challenged. There is no sense of creating a sacred relationship. When we are stuck in a mental approach to life developed under an authority model that operates with threat and withdrawal, our primary approaches to a teacher is to either submit or to challenge them. Neither of these approaches invites true learning. And, of course, we have questions. With time we get a sense that Life is an invitation into mastery, which is why we seek out teachers.
Typically, when we go, we have a sense of what we’d like to “get” from a teacher. We not only have the “illness,” so to speak, but we also have the “remedy” that we want the teacher to apply. In essence, we want the teacher to do with what we have accumulated what we have not been able to do with it. If the teacher shows us that our “illness” is not an illness and that perhaps our “remedy” is the only illness, we often object. We want the teacher to understand what it is that we want to “get.” But to get something is very different from receiving. Getting is very linear and predatory; I want to USE the teacher to fulfill MY need, and I KNOW what it is that I need, although I can’t figure out why I’m still so confused!
True teaching, true learning, and true unlearning is not about getting anything. It is just like true love: if you love someone because of what you “get” from them, your love is already doomed from the start. So the proper relationship to a teacher is what we can GIVE to them. And the greatest gift that we can bring to a teacher and a relationship is Emptiness. This giving is what allows us to receive beyond the dimensions of our preconceptions.
This emptiness is simple like a clean cup. This is the Grace that the Student bestows to the Teacher. It is the very Essence of Great Teaching, Great Learning & Great Unlearning. This is the way in which the student teaches the teacher and invites the teacher to be Great and learn and unlearn with the student. Then something greater than “teacher” and “student” can appear in this Emptiness.
A Zen Master once told me about his time in Japan:
There was a Japanese woman in her nineties who had devoted her entire life to practicing Zen. She had studied with two of Japan’s greatest Zen masters and, when her second teacher died, she wanted to find another teacher. She was very wise, kind and sharp. She embodied the essence of Zen. She could have been a Zen master herself. In Japan at the time, women were not ordained as “Roshi,” the term for Zen masters. She personified the highest level of awareness. Any Zen master at the time would have been honored to receive her as a student. To be around her was to be blessed and encouraged. So the Zen community was very curious as to whom such an esteemed Zen practitioner would pick as her teacher after her late teacher’s death.
Much to everyone’s surprise, she picked one of the youngest and most-recently ordained zen masters and asked to become his student. This “zen master” could have easily asked to become HER student. The young Zen Master’s teachings were simple and some people even complained that he lacked an understanding of the finer nuances. Some Zen students asked the older, very experienced and wise lady how, after so many years under the tutelage of such amazing, fierce, wise and funny teachers as her late Zen masters, she could stand for such simple teaching. She replied, “The greatest gift that I can bring to this teacher is to receive him fully. And I desire to receive him fully.”
Indeed, the young Zen Master’s teachings deepened tremendously and with great speed, to the extent that even seasoned Zen Masters began to hear of the power of his teaching and the speed at which it matured. The Wise Lady also felt rewarded in studying with him. Eventually he was asked by the community of Zen Masters to lead an important ceremony for other Zen Masters, that usually only very old and seasoned Roshis were asked to lead. Before it he spoke of those who had initiated him; his Zen Masters. He honored them, their teachings, and their communities over the years. Then, to everybody’s surprise, he explained how this elderly lady had been his greatest teacher and that even though she had said very little to him over her years of studying with him, she had taken him to the next level of learning, unlearning and receiving. He explained how, at first, he was somewhat embarrassed that such an esteemed student would have picked him to study with. He, too, had studied under her teachers and was well aware of their power, insight, directness and ferocity. He also knew that he could not imitate them. He knew that this woman was of the same caliber and temper as his teachers. He, too, wondered at how such a sage woman could tolerate the simplicity of his teaching. He explained that although his teachers had led him to Realization, the Wise Woman had shown him how to Make it Real and available for others.
He learned to open to life as fully as she opened to him. He credited her with teaching him how to ripen into Being Alive WITH everything.
So we can learn the power of not crossing ceremonies. Learn to “catch” the medicine from where you are at. If you are a student then YOU are in the position of power. Know that the greatness of ANY teaching you receive is limited by YOUR Emptiness, YOUR willingness to receive with a simple, clean cup. The power of Great Teaching rests with you! The power of Great Teachers rests with you! Thus, if you have the good fortune of running into someone willing to teach you; have pity on them! They are at your mercy. And without your mercy for them, without your emptiness, there is no place for any treasure that they might offer you to be recognized and realized within yourself.
This way of Emptiness is at the heart of all ancient cultures and medicine ways. The Great Circle of Life is not only whole, it is also Empty. She who brings the Emptiness invites Life to Flower Anew.
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Rediscovering The Authority of the Heart
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All of the crises that loom large on the front pages of the daily paper and the crises that tear our families apart, have driven our cancer rates from 1 out of 4 people in the U.S. getting cancer when I started out in health care twenty years ago to 1 out of 2 today, the environmental crisis, the monetary crisis, political crises, etc. can be broken down to one thing:
A Crisis of False Authority
If you’re like many people, the word “authority” probably makes you cringe. What does “authority” mean to you? What is your experience of authority? What is the nature of “authority” in your culture and society? Generally, in the Western world, “authority” has a connotation of threat. We speak of “the authorities,” often associated with people who have weapons strapped to their sides. We can look at the “authority” of the law, or political systems. These decisions, whether agreed to by a majority of the electorate, or promoted by a majority of the legislators, are also implemented by force upon those in disagreement.
We can also look at people who are “authoritative,” generally meaning that they have earned expertise, often within professional associations, acknowledged by their peers. Often times the decisions of these “authoritative experts” are then implemented, legislated or otherwise forced on people who are deemed “inexpert” and thus are divested of their right to make decisions on their own. Protocols such as childhood vaccination, education, fluoridation of water, taxation, regulation, etc. are all predicated on the fact that somebody’s supposed expertise supersedes other people’s rights and they have armed people to make sure that it stays that way, even when the results aren’t that great.
When we begin to examine this so-called “authority” we begin to see that a lot of our problems are generated by the so-called “solutions” of this model of authority. We discover our political leaders to be corrupt and elect new leaders with supposedly opposite views, only to see things continue in the same direction we objected to. We experience a crisis of authority.
In my travels amongst indigenous people I lived among people who had a very different notion of authority. In many indigenous languages, the word that we translate as “chief” actually means “one who speaks to the heart,” or “one who speaks beautifully,” or “one who speaks to me,” or simply “the speaker.” But what has been pointed out repeatedly is that chiefs have no authority OVER others. In the measure that they speak TO the authority that resides in the heart-mind of a person, to that measure they are a chief. In the Iroquois Confederacy of Six Nations, for example, chiefs could be deposed simply by someone whom they spoke for saying “he does not speak for me.” And many societies in the Americas functioned this way, built large, complex civilizations with larger cities than in the rest of the world, massive alterations to the landscape that actually increased species rather than diminished them, sophisticated mathematics, architecture, astrology, agriculture and cosmology.
When I point this out to people in the West, they often point out that this is anarchy, or the absence of rulers, and then proceed to equate this with disorder. But the truth is that it is panarchy, where the experience of individuals within a culture comes from a premise of connectedness. This is not some utopian heaven, just a departure point that’s far more conducive to the proposal of enjoying life together. Many of these societies operated with Speakers, not rulers and at levels of harmonic, spontaneous order that is largely inconceivable to us. We have no experience of human relationships this way. We have no experience of authority, of positive KNOWING from anywhere except the hundred of opinions voicing themselves in our minds at one time. We are not raised to act with authority from the place of connection, only to obey an external authority which, if we rebel, we then replace with an internal authority that still treats our being as the object of its will.
When we examine this word “authority,” we discover that it is related to authenticity and to authorship with roots in the Latin auctor, which is “one who causes to grow.” This is the nature of True Authority: it fosters growth, it supports life. It respects the Authorship of every Individual in connection with the totality of Living.
The nature of false authority is “one who can force obedience.”
But to discover True Authority is not simply a philosophical position. It implies a functioning Brain-Heart-Mind. The heart, as countless sages have pointed out throughout the millennia, is the organ of KNOWING; of positive, connective KNOWING, the verb, the experience. In contrast to the brain which, in the part devoted to cognition, serves as a sort of hard drive populated by the thoughts we are exposed to and then reconfigure, the heart is an organ which knows positively, in the Present, while also opening in connection to an experience that it is not confining to an expected outcome. To put it another way, the heart is willing to know connectively while having the courage to not-know.
Now science is finally catching up with the already-known. The field of neuro-cardiology is studying the link between the brain and the heart. This field is being revolutionized by reports from heart transplant patients that they are experiencing memories, cravings, likes & dislikes from their donors’ lives. We now know that the heart is the organ of intelligence that, when properly connected, modulates the brain intelligence on multiple levels: electrically, electromagnetically, sensing the hormonal levels in the bloodstream, etc.
What keeps us from knowing True Authority is what keeps us from Knowing from our Hearts. What shuts us out of our hearts is our conditioned refusal to FEEL everything that arises in our experience. We are conditioned by parents who fear our emotions and our needs and then we internalize this fear. The nature of this fear is not an idea, it is actually a neural loop. It’s a pathway in our nervous system that signals alarm each time we feel something that has the felt sense that our parents reacted to with anger, violence, withdrawal or other behaviors that DISCONNECTED us from them.
At a very early age we learn to NOT listen to our hearts due to this disconnection.
We CAN, however reawaken this heart-centered intelligence, which is a felt-intelligence, by embracing the totality of the felt-experience we are having.
Let me know what questions arise for you and what this article reflects back in your experience.
Tags: Authority, Authorship, Brain-Heart-Mind, Crisis, Heart Authority, Heart Intelligence, Heart-Mind, Indigenous Wisdom, Neurocardiology, Panarchy