The Soul & the Sea by Benig Mauger

Author:Benig Mauger
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803411552
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2023-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Healing our Inner Orphan

Healing our inner orphan is about consciously engaging with and navigating our journey to wholeness and enduring both the dark night and our abandonment. And surrendering to the process in the knowledge that our soul knows what it needs and is guiding us there. I am reminded of the words of the poet Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet:

So you must not be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.17

The Ugly Duckling follows his nature and gets help along the way. One day, when his loneliness is at its peak, and he swims in a cold pond, he hears the cry of creatures that fly overhead, and his heart leaps. Their cries resonate somewhere deep inside him. He looks up and sees the most beautiful creatures he has ever seen, and they cry down at him. His heart rises and breaks at the same time, and he feels a desperate love for these great white birds that he cannot understand. After they leave, he is even more bereft. The swan’s cry of recognition is painful, because it is the cry of belonging and the cry of loss at the same time. The Ugly Duckling had seen his kind and his soul family had recognised him. But he was not yet ready to join his family. He had not yet recognised the swan in him, and he still had growing to do. How often have we been in this painful situation; when a part of us feels abandoned and another is moving forwards towards home and a sense of place? How many of us, because of a painful childhood or life experience that has dented our sense of self, find it hard to recognise our inner swan, our divine natures? Divine nostalgia lies within us all at a deep core level. Hard to define and even harder to grasp, I feel it as a combined sense of grief and gratitude somewhere in the deepest recesses of my heart. I have come to recognise this energy as a tantalising glimpse of divine union, one that I long for.

Follow your nature and trust your soul to guide you. Healing abandonment means acknowledging yourself, and finding a safe place where you can be your true self. In essence, when we encounter unconditional love as I did in the Rose Room and with Sai Maa, and when we feel truly loved and accepted, we heal our sense of abandonment. Reminding us that early mothering and the sense of belonging activate in us innate wisdom, Pinkola Estes writes:

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