A Mystery
"The worst perpetrators of any crime are those who profit from it the most."
Whether or not anyone agrees with this statement may depend upon the political ideas we favor or those of a society which has thought us into our containers.
But
An excellent way to understand what is or has been happening is to 'follow the money'.
This is a standard and entirely sensible forensic technique.
We all have the ability to trace data back to its source and to accept the resulting information as being a valid reality. If limited to the present moment, this is also a way to sense a profound mystery, the illusion of consciousness, which is an existential thread of a shaman. Tracing information and sensation backwards 'in real time' always brings surprising results.
When confronted with entirely new knowledge some people say that they experience a strong sense of familiarity. Tracing this back to the roots of childhood reveals that learning may often have been more like a re-remembering experience. This and other clues from the subtle world has led people to think that during birth we undergo a process of forgetting. Everything we previously knew of the world has dissipated, floated away, so that our
Spirit, which otherwise would know everything, may experience our
ignorance while, one day, we might experience 'enlightenment' or some other evolutionary effect. In the world of the hyper-rational, such ideas sound like gibberish.
There are however children born into
this world who have been described as 'crystal' by the parents, guardians and minders who know them well. It is seen that they do remember - from birth placing reality back together again with a different flavor and in a different order, the new, fresh sensations and information already known and familiar.
They may try to keep their close connection with their Spirit - the process
probably gives them little choice. They will have very little inclination in
becoming rational and may have a very tough time, socially cursed because of their gifts and sensitivities.
The Consciousness Card in the Family of the Emotions is called 'Inner Child'. The Nomadic Oracle
does not defer in any way to an ascendant path to enlightenment but instead works with and develops an expansion of consciousness at all levels of awareness. It does not envisage a balance or a negation between dualities but instead an ever-adjusting harmony. When 'Inner Child' appears in a reading, it speaks of the need for self-love and self-appreciation as a form of creative protection. It suggests the Reader gives theirself permission to seek healing and nurture the vulnerable inner being, something we all possess as a fundamental quality of our humanity.
What may not be so apparent is why this is not only a 'mental-health essential' but also quite a big responsibility. The emotional 'dramas' from childhood, which at some level beset most adults through an on-going and habitual repression of sensitised aspects of the emotional body, are constrictions in the connection to the life-force. Such constrictions oppose freedom. To deny onesself freedom invariably means that others are likewise effected. In society this is an accumulative energy which creates and recreates the social ego of conformity. In this way it is suggested that we have a responsibility to other people to protect ourselves, effectively from ourselves, in the guise of an unresloved emotional body.
The classic four childhood dramas have been identified as 'The Dominator', 'The Poor Me', 'The Inquisitor', and 'The Aloof'. They would be a brutal way to describe the subtle inner workings of any human being. They are stereotypes and are really descriptions of energies not individuals. In the Family of the Emotions they can be easily understood through the Oracle's method of splitting up energy:
Fire : 'Debt & Domination' Water : 'Snowbird'
Earth : 'Judgement' Air : 'Private Party'
Seen as energies, the members of the Family of the Emotions do not limit themselves to the personal. The effects of an accumulation of unresolved childhood dramas are deeply embedded within the cultural flux.
The Oracle may use these cards to speak of other, deeper personal issues such as absence, loss and grief, the choice to express anger and the need to protect oneself against all forms of debt.
'Judgement'
In the Earth position for its mundane habit of building false hierarchies and empty castles, 'Judgement' is not justice but rather a tendency to imagine that we have
the knowledge and wisdom to form and project judgements about other people. This delusion
probably stems from a fear of being judged and is, ironically, one that
is bound to fail. What we do to others they will certainly feel free to
do to us. If we cannot recognise the stupidity of this diversion of
energy in ourselves and instead seek the support of like-minded friends
then, in the complexities which surround the emotional body and with
the power of an unresolved ego, we can easily create an escalating
spiral of discord, misunderstanding, anger and unhappiness.
If the Oracle wishes to refer to our ability to see the differences without judgement it does so through the card 'Discernment', the Elements & Spirits of Water. The play between these two cards is one of several fine tuned distinctions between the Aspects which is an attribute of illumination for the Nomadic Oracle.
'Snowbird'
For a time, the Snowbird has sought shelter in a cave of frozen emotions. It may not enjoy
the experience of being grounded but is aware that the situation is not only temporary but a necessary condition for its own survival. It is resting in order to rebuild its strength.
The problem for the Snowbird is the loss of any ability to see to the horizon and the resulting lack of perspective. If it remains too long in the cave it may even begin to doubt its previous knowledge of the greater
environment and the existence of others of its kind. Thereafter, the Snowbird’s troubles can only deepen until it forgets the pleasure of flight and freedom. It may lose all contact with the flock. There may come a time when this issue becomes critical.
All birds in the Oracle are
emblems of freedom and the Snowbird is no exception. The second member of the Family of the Emotions is related to Water and indicates a turbulence between the emotions and the mind. In
terms of the childhood dramas it refers to the victim, a
narrow and, of itself, not necessarily accurate interpretation. The
card may also speak of genuine loss and grief or perhaps, of solitude,
loneliness or an inexplicable feeling of absence.
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