IAAP Newsletter:The Unified Field
Volume 7, Number 2
Joseph Antell
Significance of Community
In April the IAAP Board members spent a weekend together at Andrew Shier's and his wife, Peri's, 225 year-old New England home enjoying the beautiful landscape of New Hampshire. Our primary purpose was to review and expand our vision of the work we call Attunement. We acknowledged that our lives are full with a great passion for offering healing, teaching this way of life, and connecting with others who have this common interest. Our premise during these past seven formative years was to create an organization of transparency and openness so that a community of healers can come together and network in an atmosphere of unconditional Love.
We acknowledged that because we live in various places, the times when we can get together are significant as we share in camaraderie and engage in healthy dialogue.
Out of this consideration, we anticipate that many will come to the weekend event in October at Rainbow Farm, Indiana. Our work is important, it is real, and naturally wants to expand. It grows through diversity as we see there are many ways to bring the currents of blessing into the world through the various healing modalities, and other expressions of life such as music, art, education, corporate business, care of the elderly, children, animals and the natural world, just to name a few. We highly value our relationship with all of you and are confident that together we can make a difference on this planet.
We are in a time of exponential change. As the outer world speeds up there is a need for the inner world to become a larger place of stillness. Here is a perfect template that we can create together, a safe place reestablished in Love. This is our vision as we move forward into the years ahead using the context of the International Association of Attunement Practitioners (IAAP).
—JA
Diana Durham
Finding the Grail
(Editor's Note: Diana Durham is the author of The Return of King Arthur: Completing the Quest for Wholeness, Tarcher/Penguin. More information at www.KingArthursReturn.com)
Whom does the Grail serve? This is the question that lies at the core of the Grail quest myth. The Grail (a cup or chalice) is a symbol of our heart or feeling capacity, and of our body. So the question means: whom does our heart/body system serve? Whom do we serve? What is our purpose? What are we here for?
In one story, the Grail turns out to serve the Grail King, who lives in an inner room of the Grail Castle. The Grail King represents our inner radiant being. This means that our feeling and emotional nature (which is indivisible from the body) is supposed to serve, i.e. be the medium of connection, with this core aspect of ourselves.
The promise of the Grail myth is that if the Grail can be found, and a question asked about whom it serves, then a wounded king will be healed and his wasteland kingdom restored. The wounded king represents the fragmented partial sense of identity which we experience when we are separated from the flow of inner presence.
We experience this sense of separation because most of the time instead of our heart realm 'serving' or knowing connection with that inner flow, it is connected instead to the world around us.
The wasteland in all its guisesÑfrom personal trauma to a polluted planetÑis the result of living in this way. It is the reflection of the wound.
The wound of separation makes us feel vulnerable and spiritually hungry. We attempt to cover up and fill this emptiness by deepening our connection to the outer world, seeking food, relationship, status, etc., to feed the wound. But the more we do this, the more we entrench the wound, which is the polarity in the outer world.
The only way to heal the wound and restore the wasteland is to find the Grail and ask whom it serves: let our heart realm release its addiction to the outer world and begin to connect again with our inner presence.
This shift in attention is the core meaning of living in attunement with life itself. The symbolism of the Grail myth goes to the root of all spiritual teachings, which are not about developing beliefs but about understanding how we are designed to function.
—DD
