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Here’s something useful to remember: All of us forget who we are. The Constellation Approach is a path that can help us to remember.

Between the above and below, heaven and earth, Spirit and matter, before and after, knowing and forgetting, there is a realm that has been called The Veil of Forgetting. The Veil is a barrier that protects us from knowing what we agreed to experience in this lifetime, with whom, and for what reasons. It’s also the realm that each of us pass through during incarnation, when our consciousness shifts from Spirit to the form of Soul.

In Hindu and Buddhist mystical thought, a teaching used to help grasp this concept is conveyed through the symbol for Om. The symbol is divided into five sections: a dot, a curve, and three semi-circles. The upper single dot (turiya in Sanskirt) is the unmanifest, God Self, the Source of Creation, the Above, the All, the Pure Lands. The curved and horizontal line (maya) is the Veil of Forgetting, often referred to as the Veil of Illusion. It is the mist we pass through that erases our conscious memory of our incarnational choices.

Below the Veil of Forgetting are three manifest states of consciousness: wakefulness, deep sleep, and dreaming (jugrat, sushupti, and swapna). Om, pronounced A-U-M,³ is the sacred sound that represents all manifested phenomenon. The Om symbol reminds us that we come from the noumenon, the Source, the Above, the All, from Spirit. We originate from elsewhere as fully conscious beings and descend into consciousness, when we incase in human form. But in this process, we forget our reasons to incarnate.

As human beings we are Spirit consciousness existing as an individuated Soul in human form, with three ways to experience consciousness—waking, sleeping, and dreaming. On the purely biological level, each of us is alive because of our mothers and fathers. However, sustaining and nurturing our existence, and the quality of our life experience, are separate matters. First we have to arrive here to incarnate. Then, we can begin the gradual but thrilling process of waking up and remembering our true nature, and the reasons we chose this life.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest, philosopher

The Constellation Approach helps lift the Veil of Forgetting and allows Soul awareness to occur. We begin to understand and comprehend events, circumstances, and relationships at the deepest level of our being.

The idea that we are spiritual beings having a human experience may be difficult to comprehend, but it is a spiritual concept that has been taught and sought after since the beginning of our human journey. The major world religions teach us that we will return to the source of our creation. The practice of prayer, meditation, and right action, in words and deeds are common paths that lead to experiencing our Soul nature as enlightened beings before our physical death.

The Constellation Approach is a path of awakening and remembering why we have chosen to incarnate, why we have chosen our particular life path, and most importantly, why we have chosen the family into which we were born. Through our biological mother’s and father’s respective lineages, the path of parental bloodlines can be traced and explored into the unconscious realms where answers unavailable to the conscious mind—including the very reasons for our existence—await us. It is a path that helps us experience ourselves as spiritual beings—a way available to each of us.

1Dan Hurley, “Grandmother’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes,” Discover Magazine (May 2013)

2Giovanni Mociocia, The Foundations of Chinese Medicine (New York: Churchill Livingstone, Inc., 1989)

3K. L. Seshagiri Rao and Kapil Kapoor, Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. II (San Rafael: Mandala Publishing, 2013), 35-36.