Manda Scott

That doesn't work.

That can't work.

So what we're here for today is to work out how we might thaw those moments frozen in time.

How we might just get rid of the opposing discs.

How we might step up to being everything that we can be, offering ourselves in service to life.

And I want at this point to offer you a few words from Drew Dellinger, who wrote, It's 3.23 in the morning and I can't sleep because my great-great-grandchildren ask me in dreams, what did you do while the earth was unravelling?

I open the gathering with this and I want to offer it again here because for me it's an incentive to do work that can be hard,

that can hit up against parts that would really rather not have to address whatever issue is their issue.

And I do think it's not negotiable.

And it helps me to remember that the earth is unravelling, and I do have a part to play in this, and that the single most important thing I can do, and I know I keep saying this, but it is true, is to do the inner work.

One of the things that we do focus on when we're doing the shamanic training is how to step into a place where we are full-hearted, open-hearted, clear-hearted and strong-hearted.

And I would like to widen that to the entire population of the planet.

So whether the part frozen in time is ours or whether we've inherited it and it's traveled down for the past 10,000 years,

from whatever was the traumatic event that split our culture off from the web of life, it doesn't really matter.

All that matters is that this is our work to do, and we can do it now.

So in doing it, really basic safety things.

We're in the realm of fear and trauma, and this is not therapy.

We are quite therapy adjacent, but if you have fear or traumas that are potentially overwhelming, that are potentially incapacitating, that could potentially knock you off balance so that you can't move through the world,

then please find an individual or a community that can help you to work with them in person.

This is not what this is for.