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This month’s theme – are you marginalised?
The themes for these newsletters often show up in unusual ways. For instance, this month, it arose on the way back from a family camping holiday. We found ourselves driving past a wildlife rescue centre where our daughter had won a giant teddy bear (oh joy!), so popped in to pick it up. I expected to find the place empty but arrived in the midst of a huge 3 day healing festival, where thousands of people had come to experience clairvoyancy, mediumship, crystal bowls, reiki, massage, shiatsu, gong baths, reflexology etc.
My life flashed before me…. I realised that at the turn of this century these therapies were all available on the high street, a small but fundamental part of the health clinics I worked within and ran for many years. We supported spiritual and energetic healing practices and found ourselves attracting many therapists of this type but in doing so alienated ourselves from the ‘bread and butter’ practices like counselling and osteopathy. We saw that the tide was not with us so closed in March 2020, just a few weeks before the first pandemic lockdown.
Although the global wellbeing market has expanded significantly since 2001 when I started as a therapist, the expansion has been focused on more mainstream professions. In my current practice, I would guess that about 90% of the practitioners are counsellors of some sort, with a sprinkling of body workers and specialists like myself. In the streets around us there are osteopathic and chiropractic centres, beauticians, cosmetic surgeries etc. but nothing remotely spiritual.
Is this true in your part of the world too? If so, what is it all about? Why has wellbeing and healthcare now polarised so much that the conventional therapies occupy the high street while the more spiritual and esoteric practices now rely on healing festivals and local events?
I am sure there are many practical reasons why this has happened here in the UK, perhaps wider. For example, within complementary healthcare, our training requirements can be quite light, and regulation a bit disjointed when compared to, say, chiropractic or counselling. This impedes public confidence and the media are quick to jump on any evidence of a therapist exceeding their authority or acting inappropriately.
Also, austerity has pushed people to focus on the essentials, so it is easier to justify spending money on chronic pain or trauma resolution, but spiritual growth can wait…
At a practical level, emerging technology has encouraged many therapists to go online for remote sessions and courses.
But what is the spiritual picture? I journeyed shamanically and was shown a scene befitting the Robin Hood myth. In the central town there were the usual assortment of bakers and blacksmiths and a very structured, mainstream, way of life, while in the surrounding woods people gathered in little groups around community fires. These were the outlaws, living furtively in the shadows.
There is no judgement here in any way, no good and bad, but the suggestion was that the spiritual practices have had to slip away from the mainstream, to hold a resonance of their own in quieter spaces – festivals in farmers fields rather than open doors in high street shops.
This has been central to many spiritual traditions, whether the shaman, hedgerow witch or monk. It is hard to focus on the world of Spirit when enmeshed within the rigours of day to day business, so to hold the resonance necessary to connect with Spirit one has to live quietly, separately, and deeply held by nature.
My journey also showed me that spiritual practices are as important than ever, with all the ceremonies and therapy sessions holding a space that is necessary for the evolution of our species, just as they always have done.
There were threads of light running between all those involved in practice or ceremony, joining them together through the land. I have been writing about a new energetic earth grid recently, this may be referring to something similar that runs under our feet, perhaps even along existing ley lines and earth meridians.
I used to promote a future where healing and spiritual practices were endemic within our families and communities, but maybe I was looking too far ahead. Perhaps, in our immediate future, we have to step back quietly into the shadows to hold a more silent space until we are called forward again into a new world, a new consciousness…
With love
Andrew