Violet Pansy
Flower Essence
Viola spp.
Definition:
Racial pride and specialness. (Not arrogance.)
When one holds up his race as being superior,
and worthy of special attention.
(Not nationhood, nor religion).
Not a collective racial trait, but is taken on by individuals.
A flower essence, made 6 February 1999, from pansy flowers
in the garden at the motel at Ostend, Waiheke Island.
Other essences made on Waiheke Island include the
Yellow Canna Lily, for addictions, the
Social Conventions essence, and the
Dark Pink Hibiscus, for male sexual pride.
It is now time for all of us to put aside our ancient prejudices and
misunderstandings, all of the things that divide us and keep us
separate from each other, and to come together in a new spirit of
tolerance and appreciation for each other.
The old intolerance and hatred only served to keep us prisoners
within prisons of our own creating, and helped to perpetuate an
ancient cycle of misunderstanding, xenophobia, and cultural
poverty.
The old attitudes are usually so insidious, that, even within the
most hard-core of racist cultures, most people do not consider
themselves to be “racist”. I witnessed this as a child, when
people of my parents' generation considered themselves to be
very tolerant and liberal.
However, most people in this white, mono-cultural, insular society
that was the New Zealand of the 1950's and 60's were blissfully
unaware that their deeply-held attitudes of uneasiness and suspicion
towards anyone who was in any way “different” to them, could ever
be considered to be “racist”. Racism was something you read about
in the newspaper, in stories from far-away places like South Africa
and the southern U.S. states like Georgia and Louisiana.
Main Super-Essence:
Racial Issues
Other Super-Essences:
Post Colonial Stress
Principal Category:
Cultural
Other
Categories:
None
Affirmations:
“I look deep within myself, at my attitudes and prejudices,
and release them all, as I now reach out to all of my sisters
and brothers in a new spirit of tolerance and understanding.”
“We are one people, one heart, one love.”
