Indigeneity

                                      Tishman Environment and Design Center

One of the benefits of isolation due to the pandemic is all of the Virtual offerings.  Many experiences that would normally require travel and housing costs ran virtually.  This reduces costs and allows participants

To experience first-hand how we can connect energetically.  A pilgrimage following the lineage of Mary Magdalene’s path in Provence, France raised issues of Indigeneity for me.

Every human being has Indigenous roots.  The challenge is that so many have become disconnected from them.  Mobility, Domestication and Cultural Appropriation inhibit the practices that connect us to the earth, animals, plants, trees and all energetic beings.  During an Ancestral Healing class I recently took, the facilitators asked how many of us were born in the United States.  All of us were.  By the fourth generation none of the 100 participants’ ancestors were born here.  While many brought shamanic traditions practiced by Indigenous relatives, few of the practices survived here. 

Perhaps the planned and practiced genocide by the Indigenous people living in the Americas caused people to hesitate about practicing their own traditions.  Puritanical domestication left little room for escaping accusations of witchcraft.  Monotheism challenged the notion of the divine within and the quantum understanding of all of creation being energetically connected-a foundational premise of all Indigenous cultures.  Throughout this life feeling connected to the earth and Native Spirituality, my Indigenous roots are important to me.  The integration of these experiences and reflections, I decided to research and discover all that I can about my Indigenous roots.