Southwestern College
Healing in the Borderlands
Winter was a long one this time around, a long two years it was
Some call it the dark night of the soul
Some call it the journey of the wounded healer, Chiron
Some call it environmental illness
I used to call it hell on earth
It chose me, I sure didn’t choose it
You can’t understand, cannot even fathom, this particular hell unless you’ve lived it
Curandera says: “You’ve got until you’re 52 to loose this demon inside you or else…
It’s going to be with you for a LONG time”
Fight or flight, run away, avoid at all cost, detox, far infrared sauna, supplement regime, dietary deprivation, aura balancing, Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques, intuitive healing, spiritual redemption, For My Life program, plumbing the soul’s depths, Dynamic Neural Retraining System, pipe ceremony, systematic desensitization, electromagnetic field disruption, Emotional Freedom Technique, Japanese meridian therapy, lying spread-eagled on the earth, praying to Mother Earth, praying to Father God, heart-centered hypnotherapy, medicine walks, medicine wheel, medicine Buddha, Neuro-modulation Technique, Family Constellation Work, reflexology, Jungian psychotherapy, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, chelation therapy, energetic biofield enhancement…
Lord, I’ve tried them all and you know what…
It’s not just too many toxic chemicals
It’s not just an overburdened liver
It’s not just an overactive immune system
It’s not just yeast overgrowth
It’s not just having taken too many antibiotics
It’s not just heavy metals stored at my core
It’s not just the mercury that was in my teeth for years
It’s not just energetic imbalance
It’s not just a hormonal imbalance
It’s not just behaviorally conditioned reactions
It’s not just a cross-wired limbic system
It’s not just accumulated trauma
It’s not just that sometimes I am afraid to claim my power
It’s not just too much emotional permeability
It’s not just too much stress
It’s not just electromagnetic field sensitivity
It’s not just that the sense of smell connects directly to the amygdala
It’s not just that I’m a highly sensitive person
It’s not just my soul’s journey
It’s not just the initiation of a healer
It’s not just the mind-body split at the core of our society
It’s not just our separation from Nature
It’s not just our separation from Spirit
It’s not just our hyper-rational Western ego
It’s not just our addiction to comfort and ease
It’s not just corporate and unconscious collective greed
It’s not just our obsession with controlling Nature
It’s all these – I know that now
I’ve learned that the hard way
There is no silver bullet
This body/mind is an ecosystem far more complex than Western medicine dares to acknowledge
I am a Borderlander
I am a canary in the coal mine of the 21st Century techno-industrial rape of planet Earth
Snowy Owl, so white, sitting in a meadow
Allows me to touch, allows me to pick him up and dance with him an Earth dance (dancing)
It’s a blessing and a curse to be living in the Borderlands
I am that wounded healer and, now I know, I AM HEALING!
It’s getting better all the time, getting so much better (singing to the Beatles tune)
In two weeks, I turn 52
Passion and Purpose have returned
Spring is here
Author: Anonymous
About the Moderator
Jim Nolan has been the President of Southwestern College since 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, and has a private practice in Santa Fe. He went to graduate school in Irish and English literature, too, and reads a lot of books, takes a lot of photos and plays guitar. Sort of. His best friend of all times, a Wire Haired Fox Terrier named Barney, recently passed into non-physical. Barney was a true guru. Jim is the opposite of a guru, whatever that is called. He doesn't know anything, and he knows that. It seems to work out...
