Family Constellation and Soul Work QuasiReligious Phenomenon

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Family Constellation and Soul Work--
Quasi-Religious Phenomenon

• By Dr. Cheng Kin Sang
• Centre of Asian Studies
• University of Hong Kong
• 2 March 2005

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Who is Bert Hellinger?

• a former priest, 16 years missionary to the Zulu
  in South Africa
• Helm Stierlin, Helm Stierlin Institute in
  Heidelberg
• For those who are familiar with him, the name
  Bert Hellinger epitomizes one of the most
  astounding developments in psychotherapy. I know
  of no other psychotherapist who, during the last
  decade, has so positively impressed people and
  has stirred up so much controversy."

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Hellingers schedule outside Germany 2004

• South Korea3 - 4.3.2004
• Japan6 - 8.3.2004
• Taiwan12 - 15.3.2004
• Hong Kong19 - 21.3.2004
• Guangzhou26 - 28.3.2004
• Shenzhen1 - 4. 4.2004
• Villach, Austria29.4.2004
• Prague21 - 23.5.2004
• Rome
• 26 - 27.5.2003

• Holland23 - 25.9.2004
• New York1 - 3.10.2004
• Birch Island, Canada13 - 17.10.2004
• Washington D.C
• 19 - 20.10.2004
• Mexico22 - 27.10.2004
• Bogota, Columbia1.11.2004
• Nicaragua3 - 4.11.2004
• Paris13 - 15.11.2004
• Polonia20 - 22.11.2004

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Distinctive Therapy?

• Unimportant clients personalities, likes or
  dislikes
• Important
• events in other family member
• family members right to belong
• give-and-take balance
• hierarchical order

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First stage

• Family Constellation
• a one-session approach in a group setting
• Fact Finding
• not about clients think or feel
• not personality
• likes or dislikes
• BUT more important is

Key Events
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First stageFamily Constellation

Key Events a) early death of family members (lt
25 yr)b) previous love relationships of
parentsc) early or usual death of siblingd)
early hospitalizatione) exclusion or expulsion
of a family memberf) adoption, abortion,
stillbirth, secret, war involvement
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First stageFamily Constellation

3. Constellation as Reflectiona) eyes sight as
soul directionb) look at floor as concern a dead
personc) back at periphery as wanting to die
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First stageFamily Constellation

4. Constellation as Resolution -- Spatial Order
of healthy family a) priority of parents over
childrenb) priority of father over motherc)
priority as clockwised) aborted child sits in
front of standing parents
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Second stage Soul Work

1. not using representatives2. not setting up
family constellation3. not asking client any
questions 4. just left to movement of clients
soul 5. connected to a more universal
movement.
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unique inexplicable phenomena

• representatives have family members feeling
• representatives feel strong physical force
• constellations by proxy
• absent family members affected

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unique explanations Entanglement1.
systemic force in a family system2.
intergenerational 3. take the fate of early
family member4. own misfortune, illness,
accident, death for others well-being5.
driving force is love
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unique explanations Entanglement

• Identification they feel as if family members
  feelings were theirs
• Following family members have untimely death or
  misfortune ? siblings or children follow them
• Taking Over parents follow other people ? their
  children take over their fate

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Effectiveness Amazing Healing Effect ?

• The most tangible proof of success was that
  the constantly recurring infections of my kidneys
  and urinary tract I have lad for the past three
  years suddenly disappeared. Suddenly, I am free
  to put an end to an almost lifelong career of
  illness and escalation of symptoms, and my
  indirect wish to commit suicide has lost its
  motivating power

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WHY?

• Carl Jung collective subconscious
• Leopold Zondi trans-generational affection
  transmitted by birth through latent, recessive
  genes
• Rupert Sheldrake morphogenetic field -- a
  memory storing all information of mankind and
  individuals can access

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WHY? Field? Or Soul?

• Hellinger 2004
• Dr. Rupert Sheldrake speaks of a morphogenetic
  field. Now in our days, we speak of field
  because we are afraid to use the real word.
• The real word is SOUL. A Soul has an aim and
  it starts movement towards the aim. And the soul
  wants to unite what has been separated. A field
  cant do that.

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Dimensions of Soul

• Individual Soul - connects and guides inner
  organs
• Family Soul - connects and guides family members
• Greater Soul - integration or reconciliation of
  oppositional parties

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Greater Soul

• This Greater Soul embraces not only the living
  but also the dead.
• It reaches into the realm of the living and into
  the realm of the dead and unites them,
• and within that realm, the perpetrators and the
  victims are on the same level again.
• So, one is not excluded from the greater soul,
  even when he or she must be excluded from the
  family soul.

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Soul Tao ??

• Chinese has a wonderful other word for soul, it
  is Tao ?.
• I started to read works of Lao Tze ?? and
  Confucius ?? thirty years ago. The phenomenology
  is very similar to teachings of Lao Tze and
  Confucius.
• No one presents it better than Lao Tze

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Religious implications

• Spiritual healing?
• typology of spiritual contact (Matthew Wood)
• Primary possession channeling of ascended
  masters through bodily intrusion
• Secondary possession communication with spirits
  without entry into bodies.

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Religious implications

• Reality of Dead
• The dead are not dead. They are present in a
  very special way as a healing force when they are
  honoured.

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Religious implications

• Reality of Dead
• Some of the dead people are clinging to us and
  have not yet come to rest. But they are holding
  on to the wrong person, and they have to be
  brought to those they really want.

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Religious implications

• Reality of Dead
• There is also an effect on the dead. They can
  more easily find their peace. Therefore, this
  work serves the dead as the living.

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Religious implications

• Reality of Dead
• I added 7 representatives for victims of the
  Holocaust, with 7 representatives for their
  murderers standing behind them. in complete
  silence, an unbelievable process made clear
  that dying is a process that seeks completion
  long after physical death. Dying is complete when
  victims and perpetrators join in death .

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Religious implications

• Reality of Ghosts
• If you listen to ghost stories, the ghosts are
  beings who have been denied a place, and they
  come knocking until they get their place. When
  they are taken in and given a place, they are
  peaceful.

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Religious implications

• Entanglement Spirit Possession ?
• Derks and Hollander systemic entanglement
  comes very close to possession and the
  psychological processes involved may be of a
  similar nature.
• only uniqueness spirit come from same family
  system

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Religious implications

• Mechanism of constellation
• Spirit Possession ?
• Representatives medium ?
• Constellation workshop shamanistic cult ?

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Consciousness and Sub-conscious
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Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
http//www.deepermind.com/20maslow.htm
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Logical Levels of Neuro-linguistic Programming
http//www.success-uk.com/id-24/neuro-logical-leve
ls.html
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New Age Journey
Vegetarianism
New Age Music
Holistic healing
New Age Journey
Human Potential Movement
Crystal
occult
Channeling
Soul Work ?
Hypnosis
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References

• Hellinger, Bert 1998 Love Hidden Symmetry.
  Phoenix, Ariz. Zeig, Tucker
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• Hellinger, Bert 2001 Love's Own Truths. Phoenix,
  Ariz. Zeig, Tucker Theisen
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• Hellinger, Bert 2004 Family Constellations
  Workshop Series DVD 7. 4-6 April 2003 Nanjing.
  The Bert Hellinger Institute of Hong Kong,
• Stiefel, Ingeborg Harris, Poppy and Zollmann,
  Andreas W. F. , 2003. Family Constellation A
  Therapy Beyond Words in Australian and New
  Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 22th July