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Yesterday we talked about how we are not solitary creatures in our word. We have of course spoken about this topic a few weeks back also and perhaps a few months ago also.

You are probably wondering what makes me speak about it so much? Well, if you have not yet noticed it about you, you are a product of the people you surround yourself with. You are in fact the sum of all the people you have encountered.

Today I was working with a client and we made some observations in the world. This client speaks about how angry they are with the world and that they do not know the reason. In actual fact there are a few reasons for their anger. The people who actually showed up for them in their lives and those who never showed up at key moments in their lives. But of course there were also people who took advantage of them and those who have physically or emotionally hurt them. So as you can see this person has a lot of people who have contributed to their anger.. But interestingly as we were speaking I also asked them to reflect on whether they are indeed angry with the individuals who have been around them or whether they themselves had something within that they recognised in the others. Interestingly this person reflected back in their words the very things that they were complaining about. So you see the people who surround us not only that they help or hinder but become part of us.

In the image today a bunch of bees are all congregating around something that looks like water, as if they are having a council. In a similar way if you consider, you are in the middle and everyone you have ever spent time with you become your council, for better or for worse. As we reflected yesterday, we do not live in a vacuum, we are not born in a test tube or in a sterile environment. We are created by the DNA of our mother and father – yes, biologically speaking as per one of the hermetic laws of the universe you do need a male and female genetic material to create life. [Sorry folks who have other views, this is how humans are created – a sperm (male) and an ovule (female) – biology lesson done.] So we already have the contribution of two individuals to make us one. But then again each side of the tree has a bunch of other branches dating back to day dot in ancient human history. And yes we spoke of this before also. You just because you became ONE person you are the product of a million other people, so you already have a DNA council within you. And of course when we are in the womb we receive the contribution though the food we eat, the things we hear, the hormones secreted by our biological incubator – our mother/surrogate (whichever is the medium we are incubated in) and all their connections with the outside world. Once we are breathing air for the first time and we have been delivered thought whichever version of birth we have (it then makes our birth more or less dramatic) we are surrounded not only but our “biological incubator” but perhaps by the biological donor also know as our father and by all the medical staff or whoever helped us be delivered. And so our human council expands into a new branch of us. Some we chose for ourselves, such as friends, acquaintances, employers, business partners, boyfriends girlfriends non binary partners, etc. And of course we have those we do not chose, such as biological links of extended or adopted or fostered family. So you see, a council is always around. And even if they are not physically present around us, they become part of our psyche, and therefore we have an invisible council present as a shadow cabinet just roaming around in the background.

Do you not believe me? When you read this stuff in whose voice do you read it? As I spoke of the different branches of people, who did you have in mind? What image popped into your head? Did you not imagine the myriad of people you came across in your life time? So are you truly alone?

Who is you council of humans?

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