Ancestral Intelligence (AI)
Mystery vs Machine
About a year ago, one night on a zoom gathering in deep winter, I stepped through an opening on an invitation to connect with my ancestors by my fellow Becoming Crew guide Evva Semenowicz
Guided by a meditation I eventually ended up in a misty wood full of Oak trees, where the ground was absolutely covered in shining acorns.
A woman in a hooded cloak was standing by an Oak, in her hands she was cupping a small pale ceramic bowl.
I swear - all I’d ingested that evening was a cup of ginger tea.
I have always had a thing with Oaks.
Always drawn to them since young.
There are twin Oaks a short walk from my home, I have visited them regularly, most weeks, since I moved here 13 years ago.
I speak to them often, and listen with them, taking some of my most challenging questions and despairing moments into commune with these wise beings.
When my oldest daughter had a stroke in 2020, I found an ancient Oak near to the Children’s Hospital in Bristol.
I would commune with it in the early morning when she was in intensive care.
About 10 years ago, I started randomly picking up acorns when I was out running and planting them in pots when I got home.
When they reach a few years, I plant them out or gift them to folks.
I have continued to do this and I have no idea why.
For the last year I have been meditating often on this hooded woman standing in the acorns in the Oak wood.
I don’t know what is going on, but I feel seen and connected in some unexplainable way.
And there’s a lot more to say.
I believe I am working with Ancestral Intelligence. (AI)
Mystery vs Machine
In the words of Perdita Finn..
”How do we settle back into a radical faith?
Faith in the unseen world, faith that there are mothers without end, from lives without end, ready to catch us, and guide us, and hold us.
And it's much easier to let go of our control when we have something else to hold on to…
So what are we going to hold on to? Are we going to hold on to control, to fear?…Or are we going to hold onto the hands of those who've loved us for millennia and eons, and help us without end?”
We’re departing again on this journey into the dark on the 23rd January and there is still time to join the crew before the end of this week.
I can’t promise what you’ll find but I know there will be mystery.
Blessings to you