Indigenous Europe
"Western spiritual seekers, explore your own heritage, not that of an entirely different culture" - Nathan J. Johnson & Robert J. Wallis
What has been robbed from the European peoples is the belief that we don't have indigenous, native or "shamanic" roots.
Before Christianisation & the conquest of Rome, ancient Europe was made up of Celtic & Germanic tribes, all of whom had their indigenous practices, traditions, customs & spiritual medicine.
Like many, I have been drawn to the indigenous traditions of Native cultures around the world & their reverence for the Earth.
I have also been drawn to the cultures of the East, finding great wisdom in the tantric & yogic philosophies.
But what about the indigenous wisdom keepers of Europe? Our people who walked & loved the same land, drank from the same rivers & called Mother Europe home?
Our indigenous practices & traditions lie buried under a colonised past of inquisitions, witch-hunts, oppression, Christian conversions & amnesia of our spiritual heritage.
Our ancestral tree of life has been ripped out of the ground & burned as heresy.
But thankfully, more and more kindred Souls are waking up from the forgetfulness that has kept us dormant & ignorant of our native European roots.
(When I refer to Europe I am simply using this term as we all understand this currently represents the continent of Europe, but really I am referring to a time before countries & borders!).
There is only so much we can learn from the dry, academic history of the "pagan peoples of Europe", before yearning for the raw, chthonic, tribal remembrance to be activated within our being.
Be inspired by other cultures & their indigenous medicine.
There is great wisdom, beauty & healing to be shared by all peoples of the world (without cultural appropriation of course).
But know that as a child of Mother Europe, you have an ancestral WELLSPRING of vibrant spiritual traditions, practices, medicine & magic waiting to be unlocked within your being.
Go to the holy mountain & the mountain will show you who has taken shelter within her protected caves; drink from the sacred spring and she will refresh your ancestral memory; sit under the tree and the tree will reveal who has worshipped under her leaves; pray by the standing stones and they will awaken the sovereignty within your blood.
Remember, receive & reclaim your indigenous European heritage.
