[alanfoulkes]

This is the last of the conversations in the Summit. I have personally found them all stimulating and inspiring , raising for me many questions about how we can all work, both internally and externally, to play our part in Birthing the New Earth.

The final question I want to put forward here in the Community Forum is:

HOW DO WE ADDRESS CORPORATES AND GOVERNMENTS THAT DO NOT WANT CHANGE, AND ENSURE THAT THE TIPPING POINT OF AWARENESS FALLS TO THE SIDE OF TAKING POSITIVE ACTION….AND DOES NOT FALL BACK INTO BUSINESS AS USUAL?

[alanfoulkes]

I found this a fascinating and inspiring conversation. A number of questions sprung to mind, but the one I want to put forward as we come towards the end of this Summit is:

HOW CAN WE PERSONALLY CONTRIBUTE TO SPREAD COLLECTIVE AWAKENING, TO ENABLE THE GLOBAL EMERGENCY TO BE SUCCESSFULLY ADDRESSED?

[alanfoulkes]

I thought a number of important issues came out of this conversation. The one I would like to highlight to start off discussion relates to the shadow which I think that sometimes we are reluctant to acknowledge.

THE CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR SHADOW WORK BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE. HAVE YOU ANY THOUGHTS ON HOW A NATION OR INDIVIDUAL MIGHT PURSUE THIS?

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[alanfoulkes]

Just to pick up some comments from you Lisa and Mick. Yes, I see also an essential key to a New Earth is moving away from the cult of the individual and towards the building of community.

I do see personally the potential for a community to be able to hold the darkness, this is a basis for I believe for peer support. Peer support groups, for example for people going through spiritual emergence run by groups such as the Spiritual Crisis Network, have been very successful in helping people to progress along difficult journeys in which the shadow has had to be faced.

A final point I would like to make about community is for the need for it not to be exclusive. Communities need to be open for new people to join and crucially need to reach out to other communities. The Spiritual Emergence Community for example needs to find a language and ways to reach out to the wider community to communicate and spread its essential perspective.

[alanfoulkes]

Hi Annabel, I totally agree with what you are saying re: respecting and involving, and learning from indigenous people. I feel that this is one of the themes that has arisen from the various discussions in this Summit.

[alanfoulkes]

Also Annabel, that was a great image in your dreams. Yes we are also indigenous too, and maybe that is why stone circles, dolmens, and Holy Wells draw us so powerfully to them.

We hold the knowledge within us to tackle the Global Crisis, many years of ego driven economy, nationalism, female oppression and capitalism put it to sleep, but now aided also by first nation indigenous people, is time for it to re-awaken as an essential tool to build a New Earth.

Oh dear, I feel like I am making speeches!!

[alanfoulkes]

Great Annabel. I love what you are saying. Yes, let’s create these ripples and enjoy ourselves while we do it!

[alanfoulkes]

Hi Lisa, to add one more comment to more previous reply.

Yes Community is essential, and maybe community and love are the two strongest forces we have to tackle the Crisis and build the New Earth.

[alanfoulkes]

I Lisa, thank you so much for these thoughts. I do not feel capable of giving a comprehensive reply to all these points you raise and I will be really interested to hear others’ responses to the issues you raise here. I will do my best here to offer my thoughts.

To the first question about the need or not for a guide to a be a container and hold some through the process of trauma. My views on this are it depends very much on the individual situation. Some people may have the resources, the self esteem and confidence, to work though the trauma without an external guide. I believe that the most important guide is the guide within. That said a level of external guidance or support to help us to reflect is always valuable.

However, others maybe because of the level of trauma experienced or lack of love and support in their life, and low self esteem and confidence, may need a guide to enable them to be able to listen to their inner guide and have the resources to process successfully the trauma.

As regarding the journey of the Dark Night on a Global sense, I think this it is be its very nature an interactive one that needs to take place on so many levels. So many traumas and in balances (for example as you point out the healing and re-birth of the feminine, the trauma of colonialism and racism, of ecoside and mass extinction to name a few) need to be addressed this. Yes this does feel like alchemic process.

[alanfoulkes]

Hi Anja, yes I can relate to what you say her. It is so easy to ignore the shadow work, and I believe that this work is crucial both for our own development, and to enable us to take effective action towards positive change.

Yes everyday busy life seems to be pulling us away from this. I don’t pretend to have the answers but perhaps just even putting aside a smallish amount of time, say 30 minutes a day, to meditate or contemplate these issues, can make a difference.

[alanfoulkes]

Yes Annabel, I really liked Kilmartin…I was there in September…and like Wet Kennet, Silbury Hill, Avebury, the monuments seem to have a special relationship with the whole local landscape. Another reminder that everything is connected.

[alanfoulkes]

Sounds a great trip Annabel. Another form of “sacred tourism” I enjoy is visiting stone circles and long barrows. I went on a great trip in the Summer visiting them in Scotland, including on Orkney. I find myself though being particularly drawn back to Avebury, and the Rollright Stones.

[alanfoulkes]

Good stuff Mick. Like wise, I will be getting mine out and planning some trips out.

[alanfoulkes]

You raise important issues here I think Jacqui. Re: individual healing we need I believe to ensure we listen very thoroughly before any offering of solutions. However, there becomes a point for the need for movement rather than being permanently stuck. On a global Crisis front I feel we need to act now and the inner and outer work need to be concurrent……and yes we might not know exactly how to act but need to try to organically go with the flow and be open to what action might unfold. Think this makes sense?!

[alanfoulkes]

Just to pick up Ambrosia and Anja on your comments. I think that this conversation shows the importance of fun and humour, and how powerful they can be to help address serious issues. Fun, dance, and expression are so life enhancing but do not get the credit they deserve in western culture where they seem to be trivialised.

Changing the world for the better should be a gas!!!