Self-Governance
“Recognize that ‘unlearning’ is the highest form of learning.” - Rumi
Within you lives the most complicated system in the entire known universe: the human nervous system. A circuitry motherboard of fibers and nerves ever transmitting nerve impulses to various parts of the body. It is an entire galaxy unto itself. It holds embedded wisdom that is over 500 million years old. Indeed, us humans hold an inner pharmacy of receptors that - if directed from within - can naturally regulate this highly complicated system. Although bold in statement, we do not need anything or anyone to access this inner pharmacy.
Likewise, it is a brave tenet to hold in times where Global Codependence is the accepted norm: that your spirituality is found outside of you, a tethering to something external. To say, “I need NOTHING external to come to a peaceful state” is a seemingly antithetical statement where pathology and addiction are accepted norms.
The ancient seers, yogis, elders of indigenous cultures, and the great philosophers speak to “the guru within.” An idea and practice of sourcing power, freedom and direction from the intuitive centers that, although have been quieted, still exist in us all.
Self-reliance, agency of self, Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo. The writings of Thoreau, Emerson, Nietzsche and Jung spoke of individuation: the process of psychological integration. Finding oneself apart from the collective; aside from the personas that we’ve created and have been put upon us in order to survive in chaos.
What if we could separate ourselves from the chaos by coming to a state of complete self-governance? What if we could un-couple our Self from the fabricated version of self? What if we could lay proverbial tracks of peace within our bodies that become new neural pathways on to which we could rely at any time, any place?
This is the basis for our work in Architecture of Humanity. It is a paradigm firmly suggesting that you do not need be fixed, changed, or even, healed in any way. The only person - the only guru - who holds the tools is you…your highly complex body.
Let us begin there: unmasking, undoing, unlearning, undressing, unlocking, unwrapping, unfolding, unarmoring, untieing. This relationship with You begins this year on March 12 as we hold our inaugural Sisters of the Forest gathering in North County, San Diego. Join us in an exploration of the Self.