Manda Scott

And this is not an ancestor teaching.

If you work with me, you know that that is year six of a cycle that technically lasts 11 years, and actually the only person who's done it in less than 16 years

is Lou, and we fast-tracked her because she's my apprentice.

So we're not going deep into exploring ancestor work here, but we are really going to look deeply at what fear does to us when it's locked.

Thomas Hubel says that trauma is a moment frozen in time.

I have an internal metaphor of two concave mirrors, like the dishes that we used to have on our roofs for getting signal, facing each other.

And the flow of our energy is like a beam of light.

It could be a laser beam, it could be moonlight, it could be sunlight, but it's got trapped between these two and it's bouncing back and forth.

Do the thing, don't do the thing.

Be the thing, don't be the thing.

Say the thing, don't say the thing.

Fear this thing, don't fear this thing.

Fear is frightening.

We get locked back and forth and we don't know how to let it go.

We don't know how to let those discs melt away or let the frozen part thaw.

And if we're going to get through the pinch point that is coming, which is in itself a source of fear, we need to be in flow.

Because we need to be connected to the web of life.

I've said that so often on this podcast that I'm sure you can all recite it in your sleep.

But we can't connect to the web of life if we are locked in our fear patterns.

If the little bits inside are busy trying to make stuff happen because we're afraid we don't know the answers.