We are all ONE

Connecting with my inuit spiritual heritage have been on-off on my mind for many years. In Greenland we have had a very long tradition with shamans – called Angakok, the wise people of the settlement being able to travel and stay in both worlds, the earthly world and the spirit world. In Greenland we believe that everything is having a soul, the plants, the animals the weather, the people, everything, we call it Inua…

In Iceland they have a very present and alive tradition for honoring and respecting nature spirits when they are going to build new roads and houses…a much more alive belief system than in Greenland.

After the colonization from year of 900 to 1721 the shamanic tradition have been erased year by year in Greenland..but even in the last century and in our time there has been so much cultural genocide, ethnocide and forced assimilation. No doubt it has been difficult to keep our connection with our roots in all matters…

I still feel it happens systemic in Greenland in the public administration (I have been working there and with them through my own business) and elsewhere where people with a specific mindset rule , and now over the last year we have another threat from the outside…one crowd control after the other. I have been wondering over a long time how to deal with it within and how to be at service to change the pattern.

I sense in Greenland there is a need of a spiritual connection, which of course is a very personal matter, and people have started to claim parts of our traditions like inuit tattoos also called tunniit. My girls and I have them and through them feel more connected with our culture and spirituality. The tattoos were earlier connected with rites and passages, today I sense it’s more a matter of reconnecting and claiming something lost.

But how do we connect with something that hasn’t been kept alive for such a long time..I know there are a few people calling themselves shamans in Greenland and respect what they do, everything counts. But we do not have an unbroken line of shamanism in Greenland – there have been many years without our traditions (most places in Greenland it is hundreds of years without shamans, a few places at the east coast we have had some shamans in the last century). Some of their work have been documented by white people, but handing down the traditions haven’t happen for so many many years…so where to start, are we even able to start. This is not about reading about it, shamanism is alive and connecting with energy and spirit, the work is done in the moment.

I know similar fellow ingenious and native people from around the world are trying to keep their traditions alive in our busy mental world where facts are honored, but how do we deal with it in daily life keeping the ancestral lineage alive? This is not only for indigenous people, it is for all of us to ask the question, how do I walk this path in my earthy life, being a spiritual being, how do I go within, look for myself, who am I, how do I realize I am connected with everything and everybody, how do I understand we are one and that there is no separation.

No matter how foggy the path is, go within, start with yourself if you like to help others, start to go within, we live in an ego world, allow yourself to feel that we need each other, we are a unity.

A path is to understand that nature is therapy, walk through energy, and remember that the path is so much more than wounds, we all have strength and power and by going within we find our answers. It is not only about remembering it is also what we do in this moment, connecting with yourself and experiencing your own light…untangle yourself from everyday life and materialism – we all have a divine origin…

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