Decolonizing our Spirituality

Keep the faith but strip yourself of beliefs that you have not validated by experience.

Passed through the mould of the religions of the Book, we have been dispossessed of a part of ourselves, been mutilated from our feminine part, from our connection to the whole life, divided by internalized binary commands about good and evil…

Dare to experiment from zero. The beginning is always difficult and requires faith, commitment and generosity, then little by little you gain confidence. Sacred plants and mushrooms are aids, not crutches. They force you to do the work, to look within yourself rather than in others. Next world is being born, dynamiting the old forms. It is Life, Spirit acting with conscious energy and pushing us into uncharted territory.

Let us decolonize our relationship to the world. Diversity is our richness, it gives us an immense power of resilience in times of uncertainty. The old ways are sources of inspiration and have not been totally covered by the Doctrine. It is a good direction to begin with and rediscover Life with other eyes.

For myself I embraced what is left of Druidic religion to walk my personal path. Rituals and ceremonies help us to connect collectively and to celebrate. We need them.

Last collective ceremony was for Imbolc, we felt our connection together in this wood, a stream singing deliciously several meters from us. We did the circle, invoked different entities and directions for this feast celebrating Brigitte and the feminine. We use a lunisolar calendar, including feminine and masculine in our wheel of the year.

Since then, we did not hold any ceremony together. Living now in the countryside in these confinement times, few cars on the road, fine weather, I remember long summers in the countryside when I was young. There were few cars, long warm days, no screens. We were considering the time flowing so slowly, boring out.

Now we have a time window during this confinement to focus on our inner work : praying, meditating, exercising. Time slowed down abruptly.

We have lost our connections to our planet, colonized by machines, screens and abstract written laws. Our native religions have been erased, mocked and belittled by arrogant minds. Our cultures have been borrowed for appropriation to feed the market always hungry of novelties in a forward race toward nothingness. Our languages have been deleted, replaced by clerk words. What is left to us ?

We can still clear up Layer after layer Reaching gold ore In our untouched core

To rebuild what we have lost, we need to dare to believe in ourselves. Symbols and dedication are power tools to reconnect. Native religions did not separate people from the environment (what a ugly word!), symbols and entities. They did not adore the Sun, symbols were doors to other layers unfolding like fractals. They connect to the Sun to be thankful for warm and light and then connect beyond the sun.

On the Druidic path, you have to go in woods and pray, celebrate, connect to living beings and invisible forces, each acting on different planes. I believe like Sri Aurobindo that…

The wall between consciousness and force, impersonality and personality becomes much thinner when one goes behind the veil of matter. If one looks at a working from the side of impersonal force one sees a force or energy at work acting for a purpose or with a result… Satprem — Adventure of Conciousness

Answers to your action depend on your dedication, dedication through every aligned plane of consciousness. I chose this way because this is the way of my People. Any path followed with heart, faith and dedication is fine. We are not only divine but human too, Jesus knew and incarnated it but Christian religion forgot it, even strengthening shadows through denial, often focused more on the suffering than on the resurrection.

Power and responsability are fairly distributed. We recognise the Source too. Druidism has spread out in Christianity through Irish monks, in early Middle Ages, who travelled all over Europe when Christianity was weaker.

Christian religions have had numerous ebb and flows between openings and closings. Half of Humanity, Women lose their place and influence and Nature became a resource for more money.

To the indigenous Irish, the divine feminine was always represented by Nature. She was the rivers, the hills, the green blowing grass, and the snow falling on bare trees. She was all; the animus mundi, the driving, creative force that animates spirit into matter. If God is creator, Goddess is creation. https://readmedium.com/in-the-temple-of-the-mother-goddess-of-ireland-1234bb6ab2d2 Jennifer Tarnacki

Now we can connect collectively to our planet before any doom could happen. As wrote Jack Preston King, we can still rescue the future.