Family constellations.

Before “family constellations” became a therapeutic method, and before anyone used the word ‘morphogenetic field’ , there were simply a bunch of cheeky English birds and a mystery that no biologist could explain.

And from that mystery… a whole new way of understanding human consciousness would quietly emerge.

Let’s go back to where it started:

In the early 1900s, milkmen in England delivered glass bottles to

people’s front doors.

The bottles were sealed with a soft blue foil cap .

A tiny invitation for local blue tits and sparrows , who quickly

discovered they could pierce the foil with their beaks and enjoy the

cream floating on top.

The humans were less thrilled !! So the milk factories switched

to a tougher red foil cap , hoping to outsmart the birds.

At first it worked.

The birds gave up.

But then……something strange happened.

In one village a bird figured out how to pierce the new red cap.

In another town it happened again, and then, suddenly, as if an

invisible announcement had been broadcast across the country…

Every bird seemed to know.

Not only in England….even on islands where no bird had flown back and forth.

It was as if the birds were updating their species-wide “software”

without ever meeting each other.

Scientists were confused. How could this learning spread so fast?

That’s where the English biologist Rupert Sheldrake entered the story.

Sheldrake suggested something radical: Maybe nature is not held

together only by genes and neurons, but also by ‘fields of information’

that connect members of the same species.

He called them ‘morphogenetic fields’: fields that store habits, patterns

and memory.

And here comes the turning point…where two stories connect.

While Sheldrake was studying birds, a German priest and later therapist named Bert Hellinger was quietly discovering something similar among human beings.

He spent years living with the Zulu people in South Africa, witnessing

how unresolved pain or unspoken stories in a family could echo through generations, even when nobody consciously knew what happened.

Later, as a therapist, he noticed something extraordinary:

When you place people in the room to “represent” a mother, father

or child, even if they know nothing about the actual family, they begin

to feel emotions, tensions, movements that belong to that family system.

Not imagination…..Not acting…..Not guessing.

A real, tangible field.

Hellinger didn’t know about the milk-bottle birds at first, but he had discovered the same phenomenon in people:

A shared field of memory…..A field of belonging…..A field that reveals

what is hidden until someone is ready to see it.

This became the method we now call Family Constellations.

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And then A Course in Miracles says: of course !

If you’ve studied ACIM long enough, nothing about this story is surprising.

The Course says repeatedly: There is one Mind….no private world….no isolated thought.

What is shared in Mind appears shared in form.

Family constellations simply make this visible in a very theatrical, earthly way. They show how guilt, grief, secrets, and even love can ripple

through a system…..not because they travel physically, but because

minds are joined.

ACIM says: When one mind chooses healing, the whole field shifts.

And that is exactly what you see in a constellation:

The representative of a mother suddenly breathes easier. A father stands upright without effort. A child no longer carries what is not his. Entire generations seem to sigh in relief.

The field changes the moment someone stops defending the story and allows Truth to shine through.

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Why birds learn fast… and people sometimes don’t ?

Birds do not doubt. They don’t analyze. They don’t say “I need

evidence first.” They don’t have an ego that insists on being special or separate.

They simply receive.

Humans… well: We overthink, we personalize, we hide, we defend our

pain, we argue with reality, we hold guilt like a secret treasure, we build entire identities out of old wounds.

And then we wonder:

“Why can’t I access the field as easily as a sparrow?”

The truth is:

We can….the moment we stop trying so hard !!

When someone enters a constellation, something quiet happens:

they step out of their personal story.

And suddenly the field becomes available.

Family Constellations are simply one of the many ways to

remember: we are One Mind.

And like the birds of England, we too are learning together,

quietly, invisibly, through a shared field of Mind that has been

waiting for us to listen.

With love and light,

G.