Untying The Sacred Bundle
By Stephen W. Emerick
Water is life – the first medicine of creation. Breath is life – the second medicine of creation and the element from which all other life forms are born. Water and breath give birth to sacred species and sites around the world – the third medicine. Sacred storytelling (yours, mine, and ours) weave the baskets of wisdom that hold the key to the difference between extinction and surviving to thriving.
Why read the Sacred Bundle? Because you care, because you feel disconnected from nature, or you are searching for how to live a meaningful life in a world that seems destined to break you down. Because you question whether your life and its story have any value. Because you feel a sense of duty or daring to live a life of meaning and purpose by engaging in action on behalf of a wounded world.
If you are looking for a practice that molds the meaning of life into forms of movement and transformation, the sacred bundle of the heart is the place to start. You can illuminate the four chambers for a luminous life. Welcome!
A Way To Change The World
After forty years as a psychotherapist, I have made this urgent diagnosis: The world seems to have gone mad. We are all tied up in knots, worries, and anxieties; hatreds and hopelessness; economic disparity and lack of faithful and loving racial clarity.
Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed I fear this small vessel in which I reside has lost its helm. I knew something had to be done. With the only person I could change. Until one day, sailing over the Andes of Peru, I found the realm of the Cordilleras. They said they could heal me. All they asked of me was that I be broken open. Just as they have been.
I met my two adventuresome daughters in Lima, Peru. We took our packs and snacks, grabbed the greatest guide alive, and off we went trekking the Andes. I wanted to find out if it was true:
Must one really be broken open to know the fullness of life? Can the heart truly be trusted to be one’s guide? Or when someone told me that, had they lied? If so, I would find out in the presence of my daughters. That could be embarrassing! What was I thinking? Well, I wasn’t.
My heart was.
An Ancient Prophecy
There is an ancient prophecy that says that one day the world will have a choice to make at a crossroads on the path of life. It says that we will have to choose between materialism and spiritualism. And at this crossroads, one road turns toward darkness and it “cuts the feet,” and the other road is lush and green and is “good medicine.”
We are at that crossroads. Let us reject the road “that cuts the feet.” Let us choose the other road, the one that is “lush and green.” For as soon as we make this choice, we will begin to find “good medicine” for our lives. We will find that the nature of life itself desires to come to our aid. And we must come to its aid as well. What a privilege!
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