Expanding possibilities

When things happen that we don’t like, hunting for the cause of them isn’t always helpful and can distract us from responding fully to the needs of the moment. A more accurate understanding of cause and effect is essential, however, for improving the reality we continue to create.

Thinking in terms of good and bad tends to confuse the issue. "Bad" things do happen to "good" people; having good intentions and being "good" but misguided doesn’t usually produce the effects we want.

I heard a story recently that illustrates this - when an indigenous tribesman was stung by many bees, his tribesmen all laughed. Had they responded with sympathy and concern, or encouraged him to explore what he had done to cause so many stings, he might well have died.

When we think things are "bad" we also increase our sense of judgment and separation, which tends to make resolution more difficult, and, sometimes, we are plain wrong.

Erinyes & restoring harmony

I was invited to draw a Goddess card yesterday and drew Erinyes. The subtitle was ‘crisis’. I know that a healing crisis can be part of the healing process and that a life crisis can be ultimately beneficial, but I also know that crisis is not always helpful, so I was surprised  that no beneficial result of the Goddesses’ intervention were mentioned.

Researching Erinyes on the web, I found them described as seeking revenge. This felt to me like a modern misinterpretation similar to our modern, personalised idea about karma (see earlier post ), together with our fear of death, feminine wisdom, wildness, anger, fury, darkness and night.

Further searching found that the Erinyes help with restoring the natural state of harmony - a process I am deeply engaged with as I see it as key to being fully present to life and our own hearts which, in turn, are key consistently effective co-creation and living.

Eumenides (Greek) (from eumenides beneficent or gracious ones): Originally karmic agents, called by the ancient Greeks avenging Erinyes (Furies), whose functions it is to attend upon human acts such as crimes and to bring about the reestablishment of the broken harmony, immediately after which they are seen in their real character: divinities of beneficence and beauty.

The Erinyes or Eumenides are thus seen as beings who function almost automatically as karmic agents in the restoration of broken or disturbed equilibrium in the universe, and therefore are inherent in the vegetative and automatic functions of nature; thus the human body, as an analogy, when injured in some part, will attempt by latent and automatic restorative functions, as it were, to heal the injury. Their functions therefore in the world are seen at once as avengers and beneficent healers or eumenides.

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