When studying historical events that affected the whole-people groups, nations, religious groups, the question inevitably arises: When and how to stop marking the major events a collective? When Will the First World War English Civil War?, when the Jewish Holocaust?
the summer of 2005 Albert Marshall died at the age of 107 years. It was the last survivor of the Somme campaign, which had participated as a soldier during the First World War. On December 23, 2005 Harold Lawton died, the last British soldier at the age of 106 years. Of the more than 70 million men mobilized during the First World War might be alive a handful. People still living who remember the horrors of this war, who lived in the flesh. Children and adolescents who lost their father or another relative, or who had close battles, or almost died by famine. But the last soldiers are dying, and with them their memories. Only now, with his death, end the war in a deeper level. After the death of the last direct witnesses of this war, around 2020, and leaving only echoes of events in subsequent generations. Echoes that have marked and still mark the second, third and fourth generations. Why
family system constellation normally home to the generation of grandparents and even great-grandparents? What makes older generations seem more withdrawn, resting more deeply into the realm of the dead? Pien-so that has to do with direct memories of the living. Although my grandparents and my parents may have died, they are still alive in my memories until the last day of my life. When I die, "die" even more with me, go far from their living descendants. And with them the collective trauma of his generation. Thus, only with the death of the last great grandson who still have memories of his great-grandfather who fought in the First World War, the war will fall into oblivion, diving into the unconscious of humanity, and only the history books.
can distinguish several stages of this process. The first stage is the end of the event, which in the case of the First World War occurred November 11, 1918. After the end of the event, begins a second stage. The group suffers the direct consequences and the consequences of what happened. Many times it is observed that among the actors and witnesses begins a period in which the key is to look ahead and avoid painful memories. Cuesta take the blame and responsibility. There are trends to include in the count only the victims themselves, ignoring the other side. The second and third generations enter the scene and have to deal with absences, injuries and deficiencies of their parents, with all the consequences that so often see in family constellations. Integration is a process of complex and difficult. Only after the first generation is retired from public life and places of power in society, retired or already dead, certain steps seem possible. In Spain it took 60 years until it began to unearth the many mass graves the remains of the Republicans shot in the Civil War so we can give them a dignified and visible in the cemetery, along with his family. In Germany spent more than half a century until it was able to speak and recognize their own civilian victims of World War II, to restore their dignity. Finally, the second stage ends with the death of the last actors and witnesses, after nearly a century.
Although the effects of a historical event decreased in each generation, its echoes and resonances continue and can last longer. This will depend on the severity and the specific events in each family, how one member or another was involved at the time. Really serious events can be kept "alive" in a family for six, seven or even more generations. This is the experience of Anne psicogenealógica Shuetzenberger in their research or Daan van Kampenhout in shamanic work, among others. Overall I think that with the death of family members who keep memories of the actors and witnesses closes this third stage.
Only after the war is completely absorbed into the collective unconscious, where it has its influence on the collective soul. Collective Soul
We are individuals living their lives under the influence of the family system, as can be seen clearly in Family Constellations. But not only partake in the family system, but also in larger collective systems, the nation by example. How can we influence these systems?
Each group is a system and develop a content and dynamics, and self-consciousness. A group that stays long enough develops structures and qualities that are independent of the qualities of the individuals who compose it, as they only participate for a limited time and rather short. Individual members vanish, while the system is maintained. Thus, not only has its own life and their own motivations and objectives, but also the power to influence their individual members. Maintains and defends its own identity, leaving only a slow change.
The concept of CG Jung's collective unconscious has much in common with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe collective soul:
"The collective unconscious is the part of the soul that can distinguish the personal unconscious, and that does not owe its existence to personal experience and this is not a personal acquisition. While the personal unconscious is essentially content were aware at some point but out of consciousness because they forgot or repressed, the contents of the collective unconscious have never been aware and therefore were never purchased individually. "
"The model of the world where an individual is born and it is innate and virtual image. And so we are inbred parents, wife, children, birth and death as virtual images, as psychic dispositions (archetypes). These categories are of course aprioristic collective in nature, are pictures of parents, wife and children in general ... Are somehow the result of all the experiences of the lineage of the ancestors. "
However, we must look to the collective unconscious in a differentiated way. Beyond the personal unconscious are unaware of the larger systems or entities, such as family, tribe, national units, the humanity. The following diagram (Marie-Louise von Franz) is a simplified illustration of the collective unconscious. The letters stand for: the personal unconscious (A), the unconscious family (B), the unconscious of larger groups (C), the unconscious of national units (D), and finally the unconscious shared by all humanity (E).
The whole could be called the great soul in which the whole humanity. In the words of Bert Hellinger: "My image of the soul that is great, and we do not have a soul but that we are in a soul participate in it. This great soul includes the realm of the living and the realm of the dead. " Rupert Sheldrake's morphic field talk human. An aside: In my opinion, fractal geometry, developed by Benoit Mandelbrot, is an excellent model to illustrate how all humanity is connected and how could someone in a family constellation, can accurately represent another person , beyond the limitations of space and time.
A collective mind is made up of different elements. -Would be comparable to the human body with all its bones, organs, muscles ... Each collective soul is through the thoughts and experiences of its elements, its individual members over time. As an example look at what elements make up the "body English." This list is the result of a ritual with Daan van Kampenhout-made in October 2005 at a workshop in Madrid, on the soul of Spain: Castellanos
• • •
Andaluces Extremadura Aragon
• Basque • Catalan
• • Gallegos
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Islanders
• Jews • Gypsies • Moros
• Catholic Inquisitors
• • •
Gay Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans and Visigoths
• indigenous descendants of the English colonies
• Descendants of the settlers in former colonies
• Emigrants living abroad in Europe
• Immigrants • Immigration • Immigration
Africa Immigrants from Latin America • Asia
• Etc.
Looking at the English collective soul must take into account the length of time that has been made to understand their structures and specific qualities. Throughout its history, important events occurred that left deep traces in the collective unconscious. Let speak Juan Goytisolo, quoted from his book, Spain and the English (1969):
"The almost simultaneous expulsion of unconverted Jews and that operate with the Moors in 1610 for the sake of religious unity of the English equivalent, as the official views, the elimination of the corpus of the country's two communities strange that, despite the long coexistence with the Christian conqueror, not Hispanicized never (unlike the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans and Visigoths). (...)
This interpretation of our historical past does not fit, far from the truth. As noted pertinently Américo Castro, Iberians, Celts, Romans and Visigoths were never English, and yes they were, however, from the tenth century, Muslims and Jews, in close coexistence with Christians, make up the peculiar English civilization, the result of a triple conception of man , Islamic, Christian and Jewish. The splendor of Arabic culture, Cordoba and the role played by Jews in his introduction to the Christian kingdoms of the peninsula decisively shape the future of the English identity, differ radically from the other peoples of Western Europe. (...)
When the Catholic Monarchs finished with the last Moorish kingdom on the peninsula and the expulsion decree of Jews attended the first act of a tragedy that, for centuries, will determine, rigorously impeccable conduct and ethos of the English. Contrary to the official version of our historians, the edict of expulsion of the Jews rests on the union of all those, but rather, the split, the traumatized, the tears. Indeed, from the late fourteenth century, numerous English Hebrew caste, to conjure the specter of a pogrom that began to hover over them, had become a Christian and prudently, in 1492, entire communities were admitted in extremis in the ranks of the pigs "to avoid the brutal uprooting. And from this date, Christians are not, without more, Christians henceforth be divided into Christians 'old' and 'new', the latter separated from the rest of the community for so-called laws of "purity of blood." Baptism never leveled no differences between them: even in cases of genuine conversion (that was), and even for descendants of converts (sometimes four and five generations), the boundary shall remain under rigid caste criteria triumphant. Since 1481, the Inquisition and closely monitors the orthodoxy of the new Christians.
bases of contention between the English appear purely secular since then, and the wound opened by royal edict of March 1492 did not ever heal. "
If a collective system the same laws governing the family system, called orders of love, then the denial of membership of the English Moors and Jews must have hurt so deep that the English system and soul. Several centuries later, the Civil War between (1936 and 1939) pa-re-ce an extension of the same dynamic, a struggle between Cain and Abel in an attempt to be mutually exclusive, resulting in the exile of a million English.
also the colonization of Latin America, since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492, resulting ma-tan-za of indigenous and trade in slaves from Africa to exploit the new colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, must have left their mark on the English soul, for the links formed between the perpetrators and their victims. (In this sense we might understand the current mass immigration from the Maghreb, Africa and Latin America as a movement of redress).
Each country has its own dynamics: There are the same or the same intensity in different countries. The theme of separation and exclusion frequently appears on the demands of the workshop participants Family Constellation in Spain. Clearly it is a dominant theme. It has to do with the English collective soul, and the historical exclusion of groups that are already part of the English soul makes this is reflected even today in the fate of families and individuals involved in this collective soul and live under its influence .
Peter Bourquin, November 2005
