Manda Scott

My trainer once put me on her extremely advanced horse and it was very much like that.

which is one of the many reasons why I really don't buy into the idea that the woman we know of as Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc, was a peasant girl who happened to be able to ride into battle.

It just doesn't work.

However, leaving that completely aside, I feel that we're on the powder keg, balanced on a knife edge moment, whatever is behind it.

And that having the resources internally to navigate this moment is really important.

And just over a week ago, I taught the online gathering called Honouring Fear as Your Mentor and was really impressed with the courage and the willingness to be vulnerable and to take risks of the people who turned up.

It was the first time that I had taught this particular gathering and I came away from it

with ideas that I ought to do a follow-up.

And in thinking about that, I've decided to make this, which is the follow-up, stretch wider so that those of you who did not come to the gathering will still have benefit.

Those of you who did come can go deeper.

Because this seems to me one of the single most useful things that anybody could learn as we sit on the unexploded powder keg balanced on a knife edge.

We are pretty much universally in our culture afraid of being afraid, and we need not to be.

We need, I believe, to reach a place where energy flows through us, where our feelings flow through unimpeded, where we can feel

grief or fear or rage or despair or joy or awe or love or any particular feeling and let it move through its cyclical pattern and let something else come in its place.

And instead, we have a tendency to get locked in old patterns.

And some of these patterns are not even ours.

If you read the book Releasing Our Burdens by Richard Schwartz and Thomas Hubel, which I mentioned in my roundup of books at the end of last year, I'll put a link in the show notes,

They and other people whom I respect deeply are coming to understand that a lot of the fears that we are experiencing and finding blocking the flow of energy within us

are inherited.

And speaking as a shamanic practitioner, I would say they're inherited both down the bloodline and down the spirit line.