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THE FAMILY CONSTELLATION CONCEPT

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THE CONSTELLATION APPROACH: Finding Peace Through Your Family Lineage Kindle Edition by Jamy Faust and Peter Faust    Finding value in recent and ancient family history is what I do here.  https://alankw.gumroad.com/   Research in related fields led me to "Family Constellation" as an emergent psychological discipline and therapy.  At first I was skeptical because I (wrongly) attributed it to Critical Theory where the sovereign tribal culture is replaced by a managerial machine of control by structured world organizations.  The trauma and subversion of today's world is real but Family Constellation attention is the antidote, not the cause.   In fact, the pioneers of thought in this field relate to Franz Brentano and Martin Heidegger.  Any kindred culture with awareness can call upon the ancestors as "positive, constructive, and creative presences."    The book featured in the top image is by Jamy and Peter Faust.  When studying their credentials I see that the Me

DIVINATION NEWSLETTER. ISSUE 2

Combining all three of my divination missives into one complete book means I'm reviewing the previous work.  Formatting is in progress but I wanted to post Issue 2 here because it surprised me in the high quality.  Writers and practitioners have cycles and periods of varied work.  The nature of the muse. SECOND ISSUE OF DIVINATION NEWSLETTER   Let's start with some historical literature that mentions the ancient practice of Divination when deciding the wisdom of significant action. We will first look at the works of Tacitus. He was a first century c.e. Roman Senator and historian who had a motive in his chronicles to make Romans more cognizant that they could learn something from the nobility of Germanic tribes.   FROM THE GERMANIA AND AGRICOLA "They attach the highest importance to the taking of auspices and casting lots. Their usual procedure with the lot is simple. They cut off a branch from a nut-bearing tree and slice it into strips these they mark with different sign