THE CONSTELLATION APPROACH. Jamy Faust

human journey. The major world religions teach us that we will return to the source of our creation. The practice of prayer, meditation, and right action, in words and deeds are common paths that lead to experiencing our Soul nature as enlightened beings before our physical death.

      The Constellation Approach is a path of awakening and remembering why we have chosen to incarnate, why we have chosen our particular life path, and most importantly, why we have chosen the family into which we were born. Through our biological mother’s and father’s respective lineages, the path of parental bloodlines can be traced and explored into the unconscious realms where answers unavailable to the conscious mind—including the very reasons for our existence—await us. It is a path that helps us experience ourselves as spiritual beings—a way available to each of us.

      1Dan Hurley, “Grandmother’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes,” Discover Magazine (May 2013)

      2Giovanni Mociocia, The Foundations of Chinese Medicine (New York: Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1989)

      3K. L. Seshagiri Rao and Kapil Kapoor, Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. II (San Rafael: Mandala Publishing, 2013), 35-36.

       Chapter 2

      Three Perennial Questions

      Each individual is different and unique, and has an individual purpose for this particular incarnation. Your purpose and your longing walk hand in hand through life. Your longing leads to your purpose.

      —Barbara Brennan

      You may have already begun to appreciate that you are not your conflicts and that your “nature” extends on a subtle energetic and Soul level beyond your immediate comprehension. But we want to also help ready your heart and Soul for the Constellation journey you will embark on.

The common yearning to experience and understand the reality of the Divine has been shared since the beginning of time. Whether we look back to Aldous Huxley’s brave intellectual quest through an array of faiths in The Perennial Philosophy (1944)⁴, or fast forward to Lipton and Bhaerman’s Spontaneous Evolution (2009)⁵, we see three recurring questions.

      Our journey begins with these same perennial questions:

      1. How did we get here?

      2. Why are we here?

      3. How shall we live our lives?

      This chapter explores these perennial questions as a crucial starting point for self-exploration and for your journey towards peace with your family lineage. We believe they will help awaken your heart’s desire to take this journey.

      Question 1: How did we get here?

      

We chose to be here and chose the circumstances of our birth, including our parents.

      

We are consciousness that has come from elsewhere.

      We all came into being through the Doorway of Existence made up of two halves—one half our father, the other our mother. Each person on earth, regardless of their specific circumstances after conception, is the result of the pairing of a human female life force (our biological mother) and a human male life force (our biological father). Who we are begins with them, and everything else that follows meets us on the other side of our own distinctive entrance into life.

      First, we must open to the realization that we are more than mere flesh, bones, and brain. We are an amalgam of energies, a life force that coalesced and descended from the realm of Spirit into human form. We are Spirit as Soul. As Buddhist and Hindu philosophies teach, each one made a choice while in the Spirit realm, prior to incarnation, to descend into human form. We pass through the Veil of Forgetting and enter life through the combined ancestral, biological, genetic, DNA pairing of our parents. We got here through them. Were it not for the gift of life, we would not have the opportunity to awaken and remember our true nature.

      This understanding gradually lifts us out of any sense of victimization. We begin to realize that what we experience in this lifetime, no matter how horrific, may have its beginnings in choices made before our human consciousness formed. In no way does this view diminish a true acknowledgement of the cruelty that humans habitually inflict upon each other. However, each of us has the potential to change habitual patterns that keep us from awakening our potential as Souls having a human experience.

      Before you proceed to the second question, please contemplate our brief reflections on the first perennial question: How did I get here?

      

I came through a choice I made prior to birth.

      

That choice included my biological mother and father.

      

I am energy, a life force, consciousness that has traveled from another realm and now resides inside my physical body.

      

I am Spirit incarnated.

      Contemplation is the purest of human action.

      —Aristotle, philosopher, scientist

      Question 2: Why are we here?

      

To evolve our personal consciousness.

      

To contribute to the evolution of our family consciousness.

      

To ultimately contribute to the collective consciousness of humanity.

      Remember the Veil of Forgetting? The Constellation Approach is a practice that helps lift the Veil of Forgetting and stirs us from the unconscious state of not knowing. In that moment, we awaken and remember why we’re here.

      During a Constellation, we acknowledge our connection with other Souls in human form—particularly our parents, grandparents, and siblings. Our family, which includes everyone on both sides of our Family Lineage, is explored in order to reveal the purposes of our individual choice to incarnate. As each Soul connection is made, we gain insight into our Soul agreements with each other. We learn that our reasons for being here are directly related to choosing our specific parents and the lineage of their ancestral bloodlines.

       The Divine came to me

      One night in a dream,

       She spoke of the

       Possibility

      Of Oneness,

       Did I have the courage

      To awaken,

       Or would I continue

       To sleep my

       Life away?

      —Peter