Module 3 · 9 CIRCLES OF TRUST Dr. Parker Palmer © 2020 Sacred Art of Living CIRCLES OF TRUST
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Healing the HealersArt of Living & Dying
Module 3
Responding to Spiritual Suffering
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HEALING THE HEALERS
MODULE ONE
Understanding
Spiritual Suffering
MODULE TWO
Recognizing
Spiritual Suffering
MODULE THREE
Responding to
Spiritual Suffering
MODULE FOUR
Transforming
Spiritual Suffering
Ars Moriendi: A Hybrid Tradition
1000 AD
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ARS MORIENDI“The Good, Tame Death”
vs.
MORS IMPROVISA“The Quick, Unexamined Death”
Medieval Caregiver Map
ACCEPTING ONE’S MORTALITY
Diagnostic Practices
LEANING INTO THE PAIN
Prescriptive Practices
EMBRACING THE TRANSITION
Vigil Practices
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ROMA DOWNEY
healing angel
Bí Thusa
'mo Shúile
Dallan Forgaill, 6th century “Rop tú mo baile, a Choimdiu cride”
WORDS &MUSIC BY PHIL COULTER
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IN GRATEFUL
MEMORYIN GRATEFUL
MEMORY
MARY & RICHARD GROVES
PROGRAM FOUNDERS
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Session One
Celtic Wisdom for Living & Dying
Tools for the Anamcarawww.sacredartofliving.com Copyright © 2020 Sacred Art of Living
Elements of the Celtic Healing Tradition
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Marriage of Cultures
Nature as Teacher
Threshold to Other Worlds
Anamcara Relationship
Wisdom of Suffering
1. MARRIAGE OF CULTURES
The Celtic Soul takes the best
from every tradition
yet leaves its own gentle imprint
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Keltoi = Greek
Galitia
Galicia
Galli
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CELTIC-INDIAN CONNECTION
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Extent of the Roman Empire
Early 5th Century
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Celts & the Romans
‘The Celts are a fierce,
wilderness tribe; even
their warriors go naked
into battle… They are an
especially honorable
people. Unlike tribes from
Germany, their word is
trustworthy. Unlike the
Romans, they honor their
diplomats, priests and
women as much as their
soldiers.’
Livy, 18 BCE
Celtic Warrior
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Abbot Fintan of
Clonenaugh
990-1089 AD
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Fintan Travels to Europe
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Anamcara Influences in Europe
Clonenaugh
Monserrat
Switzerland
Galicia
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Medical-Spiritual Manuscripts
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Abbot Fintan
of RheinauStiftsbibliothek
Sacramentary
of Fintan
ca. 1082 A.D.
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“May you have the
commitment to
know what has hurt
you, to allow it to
come close to you
and in the end,
become one with
you.”Fintan’s Blessing
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CIRCLES OF TRUST
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CIRCLES OF TRUST
• Small group meetings during & between program modules
• A welcoming space for personal work in community
• A place to connect our “soul and role”
• Led by a group ‘animator’ who facilitates the process
TOUCHSTONES
FOR CIRCLES OF TRUST
A place of WELCOME and support for EVERYONE
Time to be fully PRESENT to each others’ stories
Not a ‘share or die’ event but an INVITATION
No FIXING, SAVING, ADVISING or CORRECTING
Strict CONFIDENTILITY is essential.
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CIRCLES OF TRUST
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Take a few minutes to reflect/journal
about how Fintan’s wisdom might speak to your
own life experience?
Name an area of suffering in your life that you
could allow to come closer.
Share or listen to the reflections of
members in your circle of trust.
Keep in mind the following Touchstone:
“When the going gets tough,
turn to wonder.”
Druidic-Judeo-Christian Spirituality
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Prehistoric Sun Cross
A ‘map’ of the Cóiceda or Five Provinces of Ireland
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Hebrews ‘qua’ Hebrews
Legend of Jasconius the Whale
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Celtic Orthodox Tradition
Spirituality
of the
Psalms
• Saturday Sabbath • Jewish Feast Days
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Frank Mac Eowen
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Elements of the
Celtic Healing Tradition
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Marriage of Cultures
Nature as Teacher
Threshold to Other Worlds
Anamcara Relationship
Wisdom of Suffering
2. NATURE AS TEACHER
Nature is the Face of God
Spirit is the Invisible God
In us they become One
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Dru id Poetry
I am a stone of the MountainI am a feather of the RavenI am a flame of the EarthI am a wave of the OceanI am a shadow across the Moon
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Kevin of Glendalough
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NATURE IS THE FACE OF GOD
The love of nature can heal the deepest wounds…
Kevin of Glendalough
There are fewer
anamcara today
because in the
old days Healers
lived for long
periods of time
close to the
earth, conversing
with the trees
and listening to
the silent wisdom
of salmon and
deer… 8th century
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Celtic Wheel of Nature
IMBOLC or
OIMELG (Feast of
St. Brigit
February 1st)
SAMAIN
(Hallowe’en)
Celtic New Year
November 1st
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“The Celtic approach to God opens up a world in which nothing is too common to be exalted and nothing is so
exalted that it cannot be made common.”
Esther de Waal, Welsh Celtic Scholar
An ceò ‘s an drưchd
An drưchd ‘s an ceò,
An ceò ‘s an drưchd
An sưil mo ghŕàidh,
An sưil mo ghŕàidh,
The mist the dew,
The dew the mist,
The mist the dew
In the eye of my love,
In the eye of my love.
Croon of Mnathan-Tuiridh
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A Blessing for the Senses
May your body be blessed.
May you realize that your body is a faithful
and beautiful friend of your soul.
And may you be peaceful as you recognize
that your senses are sacred thresholds.
May you realize that holiness is mindful
gazing, feeling, hearing and touching. 6th C.
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Elements of the Celtic Healing Tradition
Marriage of Cultures
Nature as Teacher
Threshold to Other Worlds
Anamcara Relationship
Wisdom of Suffering
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3. THRESHOLD TO OTHER WORLDS
“As above, so below…”
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“Seek the Thin Places…”
BRIGIT’S ‘WISHING ROCK’ — KILDARE, IRELAND
THRESHOLD MEDIARIES
The anamcara learns the secret
of moving through the Áit an
dorchas mór … passage of
Great Darkness.
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Iron Age Fire Temple
One-Legged Sciapods
VULVA
FETUS
HOUSE
DAGDA’S
STAFF
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Celtic Medieval Initiation Rite
“To go to Rome is much
trouble and of little profit.”
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THE THREE WORLDS
THIS WORLD
Cruinne
MIDDLE WORLD
Alltar
OTHER WORLD
Nearth
SILENCESILENCE
Goal: To live in all three worlds simultaneously
NATURE
PSYCHE
PAIDIREAN: THREE WORLD PRACTICE
Druidic in origin
First recorded use:
St. Columba of Iona 6th c.
A Mini-Psalter [150 beads]
A practice to harmonize
the three parts of us
that relate to each of
the three worlds: the
Spiritual, the Psychic or
Otherworldly, and the
Physical
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CELTIC SCHOLAR: SEAN O’DUINN
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Elements of the Celtic Healing Tradition
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Marriage of Cultures
Nature as Teacher
Threshold to Other Worlds
Anamcara Relationship
Wisdom of Suffering
4. Anamcara Relationship
“The highest call for a human being is to be
an anamcara for another…” St. Brigit
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Bard
+
Midwife
+
Healer
ANAMCARA = SOUL FRIEND
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“The Anamcararelationship is broken by no chances, no interval of time or space can destroy it.
Even death itself cannot tear it apart.”
John Cassian
Orthodox Saint, 4th c.
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Spirituality of the Anamcara
“The Anamcaraillumines the Mystery of the Divine because Friendship is the true nature of God.”
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“A person without an
Anamcara is like a body without a
head.”
Brigit of Kildare 6th c
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Brigit the Druid
GODDESS OF LIGHT, FIRE AND HEALING PATRON OF IRELAND
St. Brigit of Kildare
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Sean
O’Duinn
Sean O’Duinn
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Gender Equality
“Respect equally the direction
of your Abbot or Abbess.” St. Brigid
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Ordination of Brigit
“A power greater than me has done this…
No one in the land is more worthy than she.”
Bishop Mel, 480 AD
Modern Anamcara
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“Friends
Of
God”
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St. Columba of Iona
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on…
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clear blue air are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
The world offers itself to your imagination,
Calls you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–––
Over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
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DEUS MEUS ADJUVA ME Psalm 118
Tabhair dom do dhearc a mhichíl Dé ....
Ancient Bardic
Poetry
Set to music by the
Monk Maol Iosa
County Donegal
6th c.
ANAMCARA CONVERSATION
Introduce yourself and your
“grandparent mentor” to your
Anamcara partner…
Why did you choose this
“grandparent mentor” for today?
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Elements of the
Celtic Healing Tradition
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Marriage of Cultures
Nature as Teacher
Threshold to Other Worlds
Anamcara Relationship
Wisdom of Suffering
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5. W isdom of Suffering
“When you place yourself under the judgment of another, seek the fire that will least spare you.”
St. Maelruain, 8th c.
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Drinking from a Sacred Well
The approach to
the numinous is
the real therapy.
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“Fearless in the Face of Death…”Annals of Julius Caesar
“(MAY YOU HAVE) A HAPPY DEATH”
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The Áite of Death
The ‘soul knows’… 28 days before death and 49 days after dying
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Anam Aire
Watching with the dying
Traveling with their soul
To a final place of peace
“Soul Carer”
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