Solanum aviculare
Flower Essence
Mãori name: Poroporo
A native of New Zealand and Australia.
Australian common name: Kangaroo Apple.
Definition:
Healing divisions and separation based on
race, tribe, etc.
“We are one people, one heart, one love.”
An essence to assist in the healing of the racial,
ethnic and tribal divisions, for the new millennium.
A flower essence, made 21 December 1998, from flowers on a
Poroporo tree growing nearby The Brook stream, Nelson.
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.
To read about Peter's personal experiences, including the cultural and
racial attitudes of people in New Zealand society of the 1950's and 60's,
see his life's story,
Story of a Modern-Day Alchemist.
Main Super-Essence:
Racial Issues
Other Super-Essences:
Ethnic Cleansing Legacy
Principal Category:
Cultural
Other
Categories:
New Zealand Native Plants
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.”
