Ecospiritual Renewal & Australian Aboriginal

‘Songlines’Dr Geoffrey Berry, Phoenix Institute of Australia

The Yanyuwa kujika The song of the earth – ‘country lines,’ the land and its creatures

Vitality sung up into ‘supervitality’ – always available

Wirrimalaru (dancing lights) keep things ‘in line’Wandayarra a-yabala: following a road both pre-existing and alive

The Dreaming &/as Anima Mundi

Indigenous Australians believe dreams feature real, external characters with their own lives

Similar features between the Dreaming & our dreams – symbolic characters sing to us of deeper aspects of the psyche

In Jungian dream interpretation, we “stick with the symbol” (hear it speak) and discover otherwise hidden archetypal energies

Archetypal Energies & Ecospiritual

Regeneration An already complex, open system like the Jungian “psychic topography” manifests a deeper connection to nature

Archetypal energies can be experienced as alive in their own right, reinvigorating our sense of self beyond personal or even anthropocentric realms (compare “allies” or other totemic powers)

Storm Gods & the Sacred Marriage

The Storm God brings fertility & destruction with heavy rains; and the Rainbow Serpent also presents danger & opportunity [‘crisis’]

Ritualising relations with nature deepens the psyche & reunites inner & physical topographies (cf Sacred Marriage & wasteland)

Ecospirituality & Psyche

Cosmology & consciousness: ontology or creation myth, kinship relations, regeneration myth – how we make a world

Corroborree concentrates ‘supervitality’ in the now

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/countrylines-archive/the-dreamings-from-the-saltwater-country/

The Indigenous Soul & the Tao

The wirrimalaru wandayarra a-yabala, opening us up to the earth’s power of regeneration

There are laws related to this; we are thus kept “in line” with the flow of the lifeforce

But there are no certainties; even if we work with the best intentions and wisdom, Trickster still awaits …