About The Four Sacred Pillars
The Four Sacred Pillars of Indigenous Wisdom serve as a map showing us how to integrate our awakening.
The pillars are the timeless foundations of all indigenous and traditional cultures across the world. And they are the foundations of an awakened society and an awakened world.
The Four Sacred Pillars are our connection to nature, relationships, our self and the cosmos. They are not to be seen as separate, or isolated. Rather they reflect the interconnected and interdependent relationship between ourselves and all life.
Everything is Interconnected
“When we embody and integrate these Four Pillars within ourselves, and with each other, we can truly awaken and live in a connected world of harmony.”
Pillar One: Nature
Connection to and care of place the Land and the world around us.
The first Sacred Pillar is Nature. Our existence is indivisibly tied to the land, to place, to country, to earth. With our right connection and relationship to land we are able to maintain the correct flow and balance of life force between ourselves and earth. We maintain a conscious, loving and responsible relationship with our surrounding environment – to local place and the world as a whole. With this we can sustain caring, responsible relationships with our environment, the earth and its resources.
Pillar One Core Law
All life is interconnected and interdependent. Nature has laws that must be adhered to in order to maintain well-being and balance.
Pillar Two: Relationships
Our kinship with every living thing.
Our kinship with every living thing.
The second Sacred Pillar is Relationships – respectful, loving and emotionally intelligent relationships with family and all beings.
We are part of a whole field of living, sentient beings. All lives are interdependent. When we acknowledge the indivisible links we share with all other people and creatures we are able to maintain healthy relations and function as a conscious collective. We meet life with love, care and compassion.
In recognising we are a part of a collective we value ‘allocentric’ over egocentric. There is no view of separate self or superior identity. In understanding this we are able to value (all) relationships above possessions (economy and materiality). We are able to maintain deep and loving kinship with all beings, uphold enriching values and live in harmony and thrive.
Pillar Two Core Law
All life is interconnected and interdependent. We are a part of each other. All life is one being, and maintains balance when functioning as a loving, conscious collective.
Pillar Three: Our Self
Connection with one’s own soul and the spirit of every being.
We are all part of and arising from a field of conscious, loving, creative, intelligent energy. This ‘spirit’ is within us and all around us. Our ‘soul’ is a unique thread within this spiritual realm. When we maintain conscious connection with this we are able to maintain conscious connection with all life. This provides us with an inner compass and the ears and eyes to hear the subtle realm of creation – the unseen, the formless, through which all creation is born, unfolding, inter-being and evolving. When we maintain this inner compass we are guided by higher will, love and conscience. This maintains a strong foundation of personal and universally shared morals and values. It ensures we are accountable to a higher law.
Pillar Three Core Law
All life is in continuum. There is a connectivity and relationship between form and formlessness in past, present and future through the spirit of all. In valuing the design of life beyond the finite time and place of the body and the individual self we uphold loving sacred balance.
Pillar Four: The Cosmos
Universal laws - cosmic laws
between all living things.
Acknowledging and upholding a relationship with all life guided by the cosmic and universal laws of all creation.
All life is energy. There is a divine design behind all existence. Cosmic and creative laws exist between all dimensions of space and form, the seen and unseen. When we recognise the relationship between these realms, manifesting through the microcosm and macrocosm, we are able to see the patterns connecting all things. In upholding a relationship with the cosmic laws we are able to maintain our place in relation to these greater forces – i.e. not assuming superiority. We are able to honour the higher ‘creator’ (as a universal, infinite power – rather than as an entity/individual), recognise cause and effect and maintain the right balance of responsibility in ‘time’ and ‘place’.
Pillar Four Core Law
Creation is a sacred power and design (a blueprint to be remembered and honoured), operating as vibrational creative patterns. It is the master of all, and all is a creation of it.
The Four Sacred Pillars - Courses, Practices & Workshops
Discovering and rebuilding your own relationship with the Four Pillars can be as simple as meditating daily to find your own inner voice, spending quality time in nature and listening to her messages, and building deeper connections with the people in your life and community. We all have our own unique way of connecting with life and finding deeper, more consciously loving relationships.
Isira has created these courses and programs to support you in your understanding of The Four Sacred Pillars in your journey of Holistic Awakening. They can be purchased individually or they are available in The Awakening Place as part of membership.
The Four Pillars
Foundation Practices
The Four Pillars
An Introduction
The Four Pillars
Meditative Practices
The Four Pillars
In-Depth Online Program
