Again, in all these situations, the most unnerving personal challenge is
that the response of the Warrior Quester forces you to confront your own
deep commitments to their vision and practices. In
brief, you find yourself enraged, spewing hateful words, engulfed in
feelings of violent reaction and revenge…you find yourself shrouded in their darkness.
Earthfolk’s first sight of Mother
Earth immediately revealed how blind each of us had
been to our own abuse, denial and ignorance of Her as Living,
and about how our personal, individual actions have
kept Her shrouded in darkness. We immediately saw how blind we were
to the crippled, tortured, savage sense of Warrior’s Quest sexually
violent maleness that possessed us…an insight we gained
as Mother made present to us Her precious Beloved, our Earth
Father.
As we practiced various rituals—such
as the social ritual of nonviolence or the personal ritual of beholding
our lover as beloved—we realized that our practices always
evoke both inner Light and inner
Shadow. One of the reasons we suggest creating an Earthfolk
ritual zone is that you do this by consciously recognizing
that you are striving to transform yourself and that
you are intentionally opening yourself to your inner
light and darkness. In this way, the Earthfolk
ritual zone is a psychologically, emotionally and imaginatively “safe
place.” It is the safe place where you explore being sensually
precious.
What happens through Earthfolk practices is
a
process of both personal and global transformation.
Are you ready to practice living as if I am no one’s enemy?
If you are, discuss this
with someone you trust.
If you’ve been violently attacked or been an attacker,
if you’ve been sexually abused or an abuser,
if you are or have been in professional psychological or spiritual
counseling, discuss with a
trustworthy person how you should approach Earthfolk practices.
Continue—Attention
