I don’t know how I did it, but I was blessed enough to make this inquiry my passion, my professional path, my road of service and core spiritual focus.

I dug deeply into questioning the Status QO worldview that dominated my educational background, my inherited religious setting, the governmental agencies and the economic system that seemed to fail humanity and nature.

I struggled to find a purpose wholesome enough, a spiritual awakening true enough and a worldview inclusive enough that encompassed a true holistic intelligence. I kept bouncing up against cultural models of living that were at the expense of Nature and the feminine principles of life. Never mind mentioning the ancestral links to our bloodlines, the living relationship to our ancestors in spirit and the land we live on. No book, no coach no classical Western Psychotherapist, and certainly no spiritual new age training was able to bring me to my true inner North I knew existed yet I wasn’t able to access.

IT took me into my late 20s to be brought to work with the Elder Cultures who turned my life around and brought me to the awareness of what this separation and pain I carried inside of myself was all about.

Years passed until I learned what truly happened to my ancestral root system and it’s cultural veins that got severed by the Roman Empire which decimated all European pre-Christian earth-based tribal cultures and their ways of life, assimilating them into Christendom.

Those ancestors of ours followed an animistic way of life and drew their cultural views out of whole-system cosmology. We had our Circle of Life fully intact, including our sacred Tree of Life as a portal to the individual, cultural, and cosmic self. We had our ceremonies, our songs and our wisdom keepers that made sure protocols and ways were handed to the next generations.

Yet being a Western woman who enjoys the privileges of a colonized setting, it was clear that I had to take responsibility for the cultural legacy of my colonizing ancestors and make sure this colonizing trauma gets healed within myself, my own cultural setting, and stops repeating itself through me and future generations to come.

The genocidal machinery that is perpetuated by colonized systems we still live and operate from within today has caused a lot of exploitation and pain and extracted the living systems to the point of collapse including their earth-protecting guardians, Original Nations, First Nation leaders living within those territories of life.

Being allowed to serve the elder cultures in their efforts of bicultural restoration was the healing remedy. at least I was beginning to feel like I was making a tiny Bit of a difference. Committing myself to shifting the historical burden created by my ancestors

My front-line service became my training ground. It allowed me to immerse myself in a whole variety of ancestral ways of prayer, ceremony, and healing that allowed my soul to awaken, my spirit to clean itself up, and for my heart to strengthen so that I could learn to let life flow through me as an Empty vessel of service.

Because like most of my Western brothers and sisters, I suffered from the same pain. A lack of healed ancestral roots, a disconnected struggling spirit, a fear-based broken heart perpetuated by a colonised mindset that didn’t allow me to come home to my inner core of healing wisdom. All of which we know, is the normal status quo state of being in my cultural setting.

“Wisdom is Honoring the source of true wisdom. the Elder Cultures of our World are our fountain of wisdom. They are the Root-system that feeds humanity’s ability to live in harmony with life.”