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Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual
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About Connecting To Our Ancestral Past: Healing Through
Product Description Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cultures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for millennia. In Constellations work there is an organic quality that requires a discipline of non-judgment, one that is embraced in traditional native circles, where the whole truth of a person's life, roots, and trans-generational trauma or challenge is understood and included. Mason Boring provides a transformational walk through the universal indigenous field— that place of healing and knowledge used by Native healers and teachers for centuries—by describing stories and rituals designed to help people with their particular struggles. These rituals, such as "Facing the Good Men"—designed to help women who have suffered abuse in relationships with men—reject Western notions of over-the-counter medication. Instead, they stress a comfortable environment whereby the "client," with the help of a facilitator, interacts with people chosen to represent concepts, things, and other people. In Western culture the word "medicine" is thought of as a concrete object, but Mason Boring explains that indigenous cultures favor a process of healing as opposed to an itemized substance. She re-opens doors that have been closed due to the exclusion of indigenous technology in the development of many Western healing traditions and introduces new concepts to the lexicon of Western psychology. A range of voices from around the world—leaders in the fields of systems constellations, theoretical physics, and tribal traditions—contribute to this exploration of aboriginal perspectives that will benefit facilitators of Constellations work, therapists, and human beings who are trying to walk with open eyes and hearts. Review "Francesca Mason-Boring brings the blessings of her people’s traditional views to her practice of family constellation therapy." —Daniel J. Benor, MD and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Healing and Caring (IJHC) “In words and stories of haunting simplicity, Francesca Mason Boring speaks to heart and mind, dealing oh so gently with knotty themes in philosophy, science, intercultural understanding, trauma, prejudice, suffering, and redemption … The text is an open invitation to walk a while together in a new but strangely familiar landscape, to share a meal lovingly prepared, then to sit back and enjoy the feeling of a satisfied belly and a grateful heart.” —Hunter Beaumont, PhD, author of Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy: Soul as a Dimension of Experience and coauthor of Love’s Hidden Symmetry: What Makes Love Work in Relationships “This book is a universal prayer that invokes and reminds us of our connection to and embedment in the Truth behind all denominations or, as the German mystic Meister Eckhart says, ‘The Divine behind God.’ The content is well-grounded, tested over the centuries by innumerable individuals and groups, and applicable for every woman and man in any challenging personal or social situation.” —Dr. Albrecht Mahr, MD, psychoanalyst and internationally known Systems Constellation trainer, and founder and president of Internationales Forum Politische Aufsetllungen (IFPA) “Yet another gift of cross-cultural medicine carefully drawn from the universal indigenous traditions of spirit and the European tradition of mind. As Francesca Mason Boring says, this is not a book for those in search of psychological theory inherent within Systems Constellation work. The treasures offered here lie within other worldviews of healing individua
