Learning to howl requires that we tap into the deepest recesses of our soul, and release with courage what lies deep within our animal selves. Anyone who has ever heard a baby howl, knows we are born with it. No social details or barriers lie between what baby needs and her expression of that need. But then things happen... we get hurt, sometimes deeply, or we are told over and over that we do not have what it takes: we are not tall enough, or smart enough, or kind enough; or we are told simply that life is tough. We settle for Ronald Mc Donald plastic, noisy society and artifical norms that leave no place in our wild hearts to soar. We have been structured so tightly today that we forget what is truly important....survival, and our primal connection to the Earth. Each of us has a spirit that craves nourishment, quenching from the forces thaty give us life.The source of our spontaneity and creativity, the deep river where we quench our thirst for life, is buried deep and nearly forgotten.
But the deep river never dries up. The little insistent voice at the back of our mind, the subtle gnawing feeling in the pit of our stomach will not be smothered. It must be the basic ingredient of our DNA. The ones who dont know of or do not believe in this, resign themselves to live a semi-life, brainwashed into shadows of what could have been. But the one who knows... also knows that no matter how difficult or painful the task of calling out, assembling, and then singing over the bones, is worth the effort. Only after the pain of that birth, our second one, can we know the full joy and freedom of being.
It is done when nobody is looking and for nobody elses sake. To fuse with the One is essentially to become alone, and feel comfortable being alone. The One is not two. When you dare to assemble your skeleton and sing it or howl it into life, you know that nobody else will think exactly like you or act exactly like you or feel exactly like you... ever again; although there is some consolation in the fact that you are bound to meet, and attract and be attracted to, those who are only exactly like themselves. And it takes a lot of courage and a lot of hard-working soul search to assume the place that is reserved for you; to dare to be simply who you are, with no artifices and no complications. The fastest way i know of connecting with the deep river is through kayaking alone. But the fastest path is often also the steepest... and there are as many paths as there are stars in the universe, if not more, and they all lead to the center.
In my experience, it can be that altered (though often very ordinary) consciousness, which in turn alters our perception of every activity, every movement, thought or feeling, allowing us to see it in its perfect uniqueness. It is the process of deprogramming other people's views or dreams of who we are, and of reassembling our true instincts of who we really are. It is manifest in our houses, in our web pages, in the friends we choose and, unconsciously, in the families we don't choose. For those who pay attention, it can be glimpsed in the slightest tossing of wild head, in the way we say "thank you" or "get out of my way" It can be heard in the mightiest, most earth-shattering howl ever let out by a free spirit, in the full moon night of our awakening. It is our essence; our birth right. Deep roar of a lioness, belly howl of wolf or powerful river song of human, expressing - hey. I'm here. I'm whole. I mean something! I honor myself and my connection to this Earth, and I shall go forth seeking the highest heights my human spirit can attain! With all the pride in my heart and strength of my spirit I see the light and love of my full potential now achieved.
Hear me now! Aoooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, image, idea, fills us up, inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone. In one great big howl a woman's creative ability is her most valuable asset, for it gives outwardly and it feeds her inwardly at every level: psychic, spiritual, mental, emotive, and economic. |
