Processes for Possible Exploration

I. Bringing Forth What Is Within Us

Inspired by a line from The Secret Gospel of Thomas in the Dead Sea Scrolls:

This theme of “What needs to be brought forth” can be the topic of a collective or community constellation, and can also be done with mini-constellations in small groups or breakout rooms.

II. Resonant Exploration into “What Is Missing” in Certain Groups and People

Is there some resonant movement that connects with others, which we might access and provide through subtle sensing and Constellations work?

Can we use our representative capacities and subtle sensing capacities to access ‘what is missing’, and perhaps even be able to ‘supply’ that in Constellations space?

III. Amplifying Weak Signals from the Emerging Future

The future often comes in whispers — new ideas may take years to take root in the culture, or they can be buried underneath present patterns.

There are ways that open to or represent some of the threads of the incoming creative future in ritual or constellation spaces, giving them the opportunity to ground more or weave together in these intentional spaces This connects with "Close your eyes and hold onto the dream."

Some of these processes may involve “long exposures” — staying open like cameras used to photograph faint stars.

IV. Constellating Themes Around ‘Leverage’

One of the evolutionary challenges that we are facing is: “How can a group that welcomes diversity challenge a monoculture (often fascist-like) block that has high coherence and high focus?”

There is power in diversity, but diversity often leads to lack of unified capacity to focus and act in an effective collective manner like the monoculture blocks can.

And, what to do when that unified block is acting from an unjust and entitled place? Article connecting sexual misconduct to the entitlement mentality of patriarchy

Terry Real, a couples therapist, describes how he sees two main themes in difficult couples:

• Shame — Shame often responds to empathy.
• Grandiosity — This does not respond to, and can be worsened by, empathy. Here, he says that leverage is needed to stop the persistence of entitled attitudes and behaviors.

Areas to Explore:

• What is an evolutionary response to monoculture’s power?
• What kind of coordinating intelligence is needed to unite people without them losing their individuality and sovereignty?
• Where can we find the leverage to effectively intervene with entitled dominance?

V. Stem Cells, Alchemy, and Prima Materia

Three key aspects of alchemy involve:

• Holding the tension of opposites in a strong container, allowing a Third Thing to be formed as a result….
• The concept of the Prima Materia, the fundamental material which is worked with as part of an alchemical process.
• The Lapis (Philosopher’s Stone).

Biologically, stem cells are cells that can form any type of tissue, depending on the signal that they receive. Before we were even embryos, we were a clump of cells that had not differentiated — all the same. At a certain point in our development, something gave signals for some of those cells to become one layer of the body, and some to become another.

Alchemical processes involve accessing and working with what they call “Prima Materia” — which is in a state ‘before form was implanted’. This is analogous to pluripotential stem cells that can form many possible cell types.

Can we engage in processes where we access ‘stem cell’ consciousness, like the alchemists may have done?

And, if so, can something new develop if we align to a creative evolutionary frequency from this ‘undifferentiated state’? Can it grow us into a new structure, a new form, into something new and needed now? Into The Lapis — something that has the power to transform that which appears base and useless into something of beauty and value?

I would like to find out….

VI. Exploring “The Trance”: Entanglements? Enchantments? Something Else?

People can get caught up in collective fields of limited or dangerous thinking and action. Much of that seems to be happening in the USA and in other parts of the world. (I had this experience in the recent constellation!)

What are the nature of such states? What is needed to wake people up and break a trance state?

We can take a particular situation and explore this theme through Constellations and other processes — entering through either a personal experience, or directly into the collective.

More on this here

VII. Relating to Archetypal Sources of Power While Staying Human

Carl Jung went to Germany in the early 1930’s and described it as: “archetypes (not humans) are walking the streets”.

In a talk on alchemy and therapy, Nathan Schwartz-Salant proposed that “The borderline sector of the personality is most vulnerable to the eruption and takeover by archetypes”.

The borderline sector of our personality is the one that splits the world into ‘good’ and ‘bad’, that does not have much complexity in it, and can get ‘taken over’ by powerful collective forces (Holy War, Purification, etc). These forces can provide a kind of superpower, stronger than the usual operating personality.

These questions seem incredibly relevant now…

VIII. Working with Jungian concepts of Shadow, Projection, and Induction

Shadow

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." C.G. Jung

What things need to be made conscious with respect to some of the present collective, and personal, challenges?

What happens when we constellate this for a particular person or particular theme?

Projection

Projection includes projecting our own authority onto others and feeling relatively small and young in comparison.

“The primary task of adult education is to reclaim the God-archetype that we have projected outwards” C.G. Jung

Can we explore ways that we project our power onto authority figures (which used to be onto “God”, and now is often onto some political figure or celebrity) and see if there are ways to reclaim some of that for ourselves through representation, Constellations or...?

Exploring “Induction”

Jung described the same in his “The Psychology of the Transference”.

Can we attend to this as it shows up in our group space ?

IX. Applying Homeopathic and/or Acupuncture Principles to Collective Issues

Can we ‘represent remedies’ in constellation work, or find the “acupuncture points” in a system that need attention so that the qi (life and love) can flow more fully?

X. Soul Retrieval: Retrieving Some Lost Fragments of the Soul of (America)

This theme appeals to me — if we spend some time with this, we might be able to develop processes to explore this….

Also, along shamanic lines, I am curious about exploring Psychopomp as Metaphor. The function of a psychopomp is to assist spirits that are ‘in the wrong realm’ to return back to where they belong — to ‘their right place’.

Does this have any relevance for what is happening today?

XI. Family, Collective, or Nature Constellations

To explore areas of the personal or collective field that needs attention.

• Opening to what wants to come in.
• Opening to what needs to be seen and felt from the past.

XII. Resource-Rich Constellations

In Resource-Rich Constellations, we invite a pocket of resources for a person or situation, like an incubator or hyperbaric chamber. At times, they enable some of the participants to experience powerful transpersonal energies that may be valuable to them personally — a kind of evolutionary process.