What is it about?
This article explores the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspectives of transpersonal psychology and a somatic approach to rebirthing. I see our experience of global crisis, of widespread loss and death, of restriction and potential renewal, as a time of collective initiation, each one of us being impelled to undergo a transformatory process of death and rebirth. Stanislav Grof's model of the Basic Peri-natal Matrix offers a map to orient and guide us through such processes of change.
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Why is it important?
This perspective offers context for the extreme situation we find ourselves in as we navigate a global pandemic and suffer in many different ways. Seeing our individual suffering within a context of necessary and profound collective change, as a collective initiation, can help us to endure and resource ourselves through this period of uncertainty, grief, and fear.
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Writing this article gave me strength and resourced me to better weather the ups and downs of the Covid-19 pandemic. The appreciation of others who read it affirmed me in the belief that we are indeed in a collective process of initiation, which has the potential to lead us through to regeneration and renewed life.
Linda Hartley
Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy
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This page is a summary of: Humanity in a time of collective initiation, Dance Movement & Spiritualities, November 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/dmas_00016_1.
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