Interesting
days! Last Saturday whilst facilitating a group tutorial at the University of
Chester I noticed some coloured auras around some of the students. It had been
a deep sharing including a mention of shamanism(!) but it was my first time in
years that I had seen these colours.
Later
that same day I went to see the Elton John film and found myself weeping through
most it. Some of this was about remembering my own 1950s childhood and the
struggle to be who I was and express it through my work. But also I was moved
by Elton’s facing up to his addictions and how his life changed for the better
afterwards.
Then
Monday I am in London being videod by Confer for an online module by about
therapy and spirituality and in the warm up to this I am reflecting on my 1970s
life in Notting Hill and my earliest spiritual experiences and my time between
1968 and 1990 when I had no faith group to belong to.
After
videoing they book me an Uber taxi back to my B & B; the first one does not
show – some electronic hassle or other. The second one is a Tesla car, so smooth,
which is driven by an actor. We get talking and it turns out he is starring in a
film out this Autumn about an Afghan Army vet who has PTSD. He then tells me
that he has recently been in the rain forest with his wife and they has done
some life changing shamanic practices there as which sent her coeliac condition
into remission, and which was life changing for him. I was gob smacked as a young
member of my extended family has recently been diagnosed as coeliac and I have been
musing about this and related illnesses recently.
It
seems to me that we are perhaps seeing more people suffering from hard to
diagnose conditions that really impact on their lives. I am wondering why. It
could be pollution is a factor or that there is some other reason why what we
get ill with changes over time.
