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The myth holds that everything that comes to be
belongs to the world, ‘the Between’,
which is that realm defined by its being between
earth and sky. Each entity is constituted by being
a unique variation on this coming together of
earth and sky, and each holds the Between from
its own unique locale and perspective. This generation
of everything manifests the generative energy
that we call life (and love); and every kind of
living generativity is the result of this constant
and interactive marriage between earth and sky.
Such cosmic generativity is reproduced in miniature
by our own generativity whether sexual, reproductive,
economic, playful, care giving or creative. Energy
healing reactivates this generative energy in
each of us insofar as we are a particular and
unique knot tied off by this wedding of earth
and sky. The Between, the be-twined world, is
the place wherein all these knots of love keep
turning round themselves and knitting themselves
generatively together, for example in kinship
and social relations and material productivity.
However, with the coming of city states 7000 years
ago, the sky started to gain a disproportionate
and oppressive status. States need speed, progressive
extension, assertive dominion, top-down organization,
religious order and brute force to keep the populace
under control and functioning efficiently. As
our culture is starting to become aware, with
the ascendancy of such an over-accentuated sky
came the dominance of a similarly distorted and
extreme masculinity. For example, 2500 years ago
in Classical Greece, Apollonian religion gained
ascendancy and was centred on Apollo, who was
a god of pure light (sky), straight and true.
The Apollonian genesis myth tells of how Apollo
expelled or killed off all creatureliness and
femininity in the divinities of earlier Greek
religions, such as the Dionysian that was much
closer to the earth. The West, with its religions,
especially took up this mission of increasingly
suppressing the earth in order to accentuate the
sky and thus lost almost completely the understanding
of the body, nature, generativity, femininity,
social spirit and empathy. The latter eventually
could be justified only as mere sources of energy
mined to empower ever more sky-like social organizations,
cultures, economies and technologies.The result
is that our contemporary societies have become
fixated on the uppermost levels of the Between
world, those as close to the sky as possible,
but have lost almost all of the earthy and middle
levels of life and nature. We live all a buzz
at light speed, on dangerously high precipices,
business risk-taking is our guiding duty and our
mission is perpetual expansion and ever-increasing
efficiency and power. Even most of our meditative
practices take us to sky-high states in order
to make us better able to contribute to this buzz
and to making our work energy more efficient and
productive. We only access the generative, loving
and creative in order to improve our heady and
bloodless systems and unearthly domains. As a
result, this overbearing and extreme sky became
as distorted and un-natural as it made be the
earth, and their marriage almost destroyed.
Energy
healing is a practice that reconnects us to the
earth and reintegrates these super high levels
of sky-oriented energy. "Grounding"
helps bring our obsessive skyness back into an
increasingly balanced entwining and enknotting
with the earth, restoring both sky, Between and
the earth. It accesses once again their wedding
and our own resultant generativity.
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Generative
energy has nothing else to do but generate, regenerate, produce
love for one's own life and for those who come into its sphere,
and for nature and the world as a whole. It only wants to
heal, regenerate, be gener-ous or help grow. In contrast,
mere physical energy forces change from the outside, pushing,
pulling and imposing external shapes. Grounding shows us how
to bring this generative energy more fully into ourselves
and others by reconnecting to its source in the marriage of
earth and sky. Part of this breakthrough was to see that for
us sky-obsessed peoples, concentrating on our bodily base,
what has been called the first two chakras, centre of gravity
and pelvic core can help us rebalance all the excessive and
maddening sky-energy that surrounds every part of our current
lives. All that needs be done to let this perpetual love of
earth and sky become central to us again is to continually
draw it back into our own mid-bodied ground. This technique
focuses our energies into the Earth, reawakening the generativity
of the body, helping to allow the earth to rise up to the
sky and regenerate the living knot between earth and sky that
wants to be centred there. Grounding restores the knot of
earth and sky into which we are born and that we try continually
to reproduce in miniature throughout our lives.
Earth localizes us while sky extends our reach, one condenses
while the other expends and expands, one gathers us back in
while the other stretches and spreads us out, one shrinks
into its own thickening and sheltering depths while the other
into the ever-thinning and extending extensions of height
and breadth. We are most generative and when we are able to
spread ourselves with ease while remaining anchored and rooted,
fold our being into others because we stay gathered in and
solid, expend ourselves because that same movement feeds back
into itself strengthening our ground like a tree's roots do
its spreading limbs. With grounding, the earth comes forth
as a cool thick dew, or a moist and plasma-like medium and
background to meet the sky’s airy brightness and the
spread and diversity of its powers and lights.
Grounding is as simple as learning to bring the sky energy
that wants to brighten everything under the sun down to meet
the earth energy that wants to only to rise up and gather
everything into itself. However, it takes constant practice
to make this generative core of our life central again because,
with each grounding meditation, we have to learn to work through,
soften, and rebalance the extreme modes of
sky-high life to which we've been habituate in order to survive
in our current worlds. Because we have been permeated by our
culture, each of us has had to habitually help carry forward
this historical over-stress on sky, and, as a result, we have
had learn to dominate ourselves and others by repressing our
own earthy and loving traits. Not only has this led to suppressing
our generativity but to our torturing and maiming ourselves
by forcefully disciplining and over-controlling every part
of our earth-connected bodies. It's not surprising that this
self-destructiveness can lead to unnecessary sickness and
degeneration, nor surprising that it can be reversed by the
regenerative love and health of earth and sky.
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