Posted by songsfortheotherkind
(here)
It never fails to fascinate me how these heteronomous systems are accepted without question. Two of my sons are part Aboriginal, I grew up with an almost full blood Aboriginal aunt and spent a great deal of time involved in the Aboriginal culture here in Oz for various reasons. I've had more contact with the modern women who are stepping up to be the elders and leaders than the traditional side of things and here is why: the women talk about the effects of a culture that had such a rigid taboo system that for 50,000 years it
prevented any evolution whatsoever. This is a good thing? 50,000 years of stasis? The women I have spoken to express how they fully understand why the 'invasion' happened- as one of them said to me 'well,
something needed to happen because our culture was utterly stuck'.
The traditional Aboriginal culture was steeped in such taboo, fear and control that I can't begin to express it. Pointing the bone *still can kill* in the outback communities, so powerful are the mental and spiritual control systems. I spent time in the outback and saw the incredible damage and control mechanisms within both their own and white culture were wreaking; theirs is not spiritually advanced, because it's still heteronomy and massive control systems. I have had personal experience with this modality and it wasn't good for me: the loading that started during the session started to peak so badly that I had to terminate it: it didn't feel like I was being cleared of anything, it felt like I was being loaded with it.
While I fully support the expression of every individual to pursue whatever their essence and path calls them to experience, please be aware that there are elements built into this culture that are poisonous energetically, as well as being steeped in what could be described as black magic. I am not denigrating the Aboriginal people at all- as I said, I have two part Aboriginal sons- and at the same time, the unquestioning acceptance of the entire practices of a culture that has its foundation in some incredibly dark practices is not recommended, particularly for some kinds of sensitive individuals.
Please be careful.