Lightening Bolt- The Backwards Way Home
If you play the classic 80s horror movies backwards, everyone gets healed by chainsaws and they all go home and live happily ever after. What happens when we see things in the other direction?
A lightning bolt rips through the sky. Violent, electric, and precise. It strikes you, and in that instant, everything changes. What shifts and what awakens in you?
I met Asher Lyons at Good Table Cafe in El Sobrante on March 6th, asked him this question over coffee, and this is how he answered…
Asher Lyons-
I suddenly start seeing backwards in time, everything that happened to me but the other direction. I see every backwards cause and effect leading back to the root of how the whole thing started.
Seeing the thoughts that ingrain themselves into programs that cause them to become my personality traits and qualities, my beliefs and perspectives on the way things operate and work.
And realizing that what I even think I am is a program based on an idea of a concept.
The lightning bolt dissolves every idea, every perception of who I even think my idea of me is. By seeing the clearness of the backwards, it frees the forwards. I’m stuck in a solidified motion, solidified emotions. But if I can see it go the other direction, I see it all loosening up.
It’s like the old story, the medicine of backwards.
On the road I met these backwards elders that taught me about using the backwards way. When I met Grandma Marguerite, she knew that I was backwards, and so she started to train me in this backwards approach, but using it for healing. That’s the sacred clown. Like the Heyoka in the Lakota traditions. What is that? Why is that healing? Why is that help?
If you play the classic 80s horror movies backwards, everyone gets healed by chainsaws and they all go home and live happily ever after. They all die. But backwards, they get healed by chainsaws. They go home and they live well. What happens if we see it the other direction?
And so you’re walking backwards into the future, but you’re seeing exactly everything from before as you walk forward. Because you’re having total awareness of everything that formulated you to become who you are now, while you’re going into the future.
Asher Lyons is the founder of Medicine Theater, a facilitator with over 20 years in improv, ensemble play creation, and performance. He weaves Indigenous wisdom from Elders and Wisdom Keepers across the Americas with the art of theater and story making.
https://www.medicinetheater.com/