Original Beauty
Original Beauty is…
kin adorned with feather, appearing and disappearing translucent colors of the holy. Ancient tree families, kindnesses of Sun…
All of our relatives are here for us, guiding us home to ourselves. Earth’s unfolding is an endless holy array back towards soul. The great welcome sounds out as all forms of animacy, singing into existence as multiplicity, as living complexity, forever interwoven. We are surrounded and engulfed by this sea of welcome, of expression, of endless kindnesses, of Beauty. There is an invisible dance of all relationships holding us.
We can listen with our whole being to perceive and receive it, to be held by, and to follow and act with our animate world.
There is also a happening; a great separation, a postmodern, postcolonial hypnosis. Humans are perhaps the only ones in all of the sea of relationships that have created abstract realities with our minds to take more than we need from this ancient vow of natural reciprocity.
We now know there are tools to begin to piece together this apparent separation, this great forgetting that has been part of postcolonial worlds, and the deep hypnosis of avoidance and ‘abstracting out’. We have Ecosomatics, ritual, dreamwork, story, poetry, grief work, trauma work, wilderness wanders, and so much more, as forms of listening again, receiving again and acting from a felt sense of wholeness, coherence, and aliveness.
In these ways, we can know again how to approach, how to allow, when and how to act… and with reverence for all of life. This way of Listening, and of receiving our kin as earth, earth as body and as place, is our birthright and belonging. In our current time, this kind of listening and seeing, knowing and acting is truly revolutionary!
Each of us has an original design which finds us through this ancient way of listening. This way of being porous, of letting our innate intelligence (much more than our minds) lead the way is our pathway to purpose.
May it be that in this revolution, todo el mundo once again resounds with: “I consent only to the Law of the Heart of Mother Earth” (*) as our true north.
With that, we have been called: to open a school, to gather together on the land, and learn and unlearn together. This calling is our humble offering, a ‘doing our part’ in this world; doing what we can for our times, in an effort to bridge the gap between the living world and the animacy of our good hearts.
Our new school, Living School of Great Welcome is a reshaping, a re-membering as place, and into the great welcome. A place to belong, to feel held, and to be caught by whispers of your original offerings, gifts, and your revolutionary actions in this world.
We trust that our school will support you in being shaped by animacy, reveal and reconnect you to your natural dignity, and also help you become future guides and caretakers of the aliveness and beauty of others.
As Black Elk said, “Everything is always trying to be round.” The magic of this world is waiting for you to receive, to be held, and for you to sing your song back into the world!
(*) Quote by Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining
