THE FORCE OF THE PRIMAL

WHAT SOUTHERN AFRICAN WISDOMS HAVE TO OFFER THE WEST #4

 

There are many paths to the mystery wisdom exuding from the growing things that surround us, from the color of the sky and from all the Beings of nature.

 

Spiritual Skills arising from the Primal.

The force of the primal manifest as love is the glory of God.

 

Contacting The Field

 

The Field is mostly Unknowable – more was made knowable to indigenous peoples who were the first yogis, sages and mystics.  

 

“Whatever being (Still, Growing, Wild or Talking) comes to be, be it motionless (Still Beings) or moving, derives its being from Field and Knower (The Creator) of the Field. Know this!” Bhagavad Gita

 

Information, knowledge, doubt, denial, disbelief, ego and judgment get in the way of our accessing the Field, our guides and the Divine.

 

God’s voice is heard in quietness and stillness. Beware the noises of ego which drown out the Divine Spirit.

 

"Blessed are the meek..." Jesus

The soft, silent, still voice of the Infinite one is heard when the ego is set aside and the heart is open. This requires purity and faith.

 

The indigenous mind was schooled by their experiences in nature. They have and had an almost "Quantum" like ability to access Non-Local information in the Field.

In the case of the San, wilderness was their Yoga and their Zen until civilization’s temptations intruded. Before that they were mindful mainly of needs, not wants. 

They enjoyed the magic of polarity balance and entrainment in the natural meditation offered by the wildness around them. Nature is a room with many doors and windows to spirit. Nature's power enabled them to find the middle way of the Buddha. They learned to coexist with the difficult, the life threatening, the dark, the negative and the profane with acceptance, realizing it was part of the necessary tension required for the magical to occur. 

 

Balance is achieved by harmonizing polarities. Dualities come into harmony by negotiating a third or middle path, a path not of assimilation but a path of coexistence.

 

The San Bushmen hunter-gatherers naturally adopted a profound connection to Gaia - their Earth Mother. Their spiritual practice of being immersed in nature gave them the the humility, the openness of heart, the purity and the vibration required to travel out of body into the Field during their healing trance dance.  In this way they obtained non-local information, critical for their survival as well as for the protection and healing of the clan. 

 

Magical Powers. The San Out of Body Spirit Trance Dance.

 

San dancers travels out of body to glean non-local information from the Field which can help the clan. The other dancers help those to come out of trance and back into their bodies. They heal when they come out of trance by putting "Num" into those ailing - the same magical energy that enabled them to trance (see last weeks video link.) 

The San are known not only for their hunting and tracking but also for their unique healing abilities. The dance can go on all night and is a profound example of Coherence facilitated by the clan - it takes a village.

With their trance dance and mastery of Num (or Kundalini,) the San Bushmen describe similar energetic phenomena mostly seen in advanced spiritual practitioners such as; heat rising up the spine, creeping sensations, tingling, vibrating, shaking, light experiences, inner sounds and smells, an empty mind ;“my thoughts were nothing in my head”), connection with Self; “I feel my-Self again, out of body experiences and astral travel, paranormal powers, spontaneous movements including adopting yoga-like postures, paralysis, falling and the mastery of fire.

Rock art left by them showed some of the visions they experienced in trance including shape shifting.

Beyond the veil they connected with their ancestors and some, even saw an anthropomorphic representation of the Great Spirit; "when I make myself very small," (San healers to Richard Katz in his book Boiling Energy.)

 

The Medicine Person or "Shaman"(The Seer") and Healing

 

“With our potions and charms we arouse in the sick one’s brain the will to be healthy. Without the strong will to be alive a human can be carried into the valleys of death by even the mildest sickness.” Credo Mutwa

 

 Credo Mutwa a Bantu, Zulu sangoma, or more accurately a sanusi or prophet, was profound in his spiritual teachings. He is talking here about the will to heal combined with the power of placebo and belief which is a love and not a fear vibration. It also occurs, although less so now days, with the old-fashioned Dr. - Patient Relationship and Bedside Manner.

“Some patients, though their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.” Hippocrates

"Only love can generate the healing fire,” Agnes Sanford

 

The San healers teach that in order to heal we must love everyone no matter what we think of them. All medicine men and women, shamans or similar, inspire hope through their charm, charisma, compassion and competence. With their magical divinations or rituals they enhance the power of placebo. 

Allopathic medicine, often unknowingly, does the opposite by invoking a nocebo response often with dismal prognoses or describing every detail of all the mishaps that could occur when obtaining the legally required informed consent for procedures. This may be regarded as a form of medical hex.

It is important to note that there are several basic mechanisms occurring  during diagnosis and healing. 

Diagnosis can be remote or "distant" coming through the Field through trance, divination and dreams.

Healing can arise through the direct affect of placebo on the Inner Healer which is mediated by love and belief.

Distant or remote healing which is separate from placebo comes directly to the Inner Healer through the Field. This Universal Healing Energy is just the Creator's love in disguise mediated through the San or other healers and especially powerful when empty of ego.

Distant healing has been found to be effective in double blind studies where placebo is discounted. It works whether one believes it or not or knows about it or not. 

Unfortunately the same is true for distant hexing. There can be no light without dark. The Field is democratic and value neutral. Both light and dark intentions can be propagated by the Field. 

Distant healing is enhanced by the power of placebo. 

Distant hexing is aggravated by nocebo and enhanced by guilt. For instance, if some one has been unskillful in their actions and feels guilty and knows they have been hexed (nocebo) and has been hexed (distant affect) they can be seriously harmed. 

Those who for religious, guilt reasons feel that because they have wronged God they do not deserve to be healed - most likely will not recover from a serious illness. They have hexed themselves through nocebo - the power of belief to hurt, harm or even kill. 

The Great Spirit, however, does not work this way. Everyone is capable of redemption.