If you are not thinking with love, what you are thinking is not true.
Here we are. The promises of our great democracy have broken down. Many parts in need of attention, care and concern, in need of loving alignment to transform our ourselves and the worlds we live in. May the inner and outer man be as one. There's a spiritual tool that says, you claim the second position to gain the first. It is based on the ideas that to enter the peace of heaven on earth, the holy grail, the atainment of enlightenment you can't gain it head on, in a rush towards it. You allow grace, wisdom and love to flow and do the everyday necessary work and what you seek arrives. It is why we have so many practices to maintain a loving connection to all that is. It is different to say, I'm going to rest on this, I'm going to listen to what folks have to say who are directly affected and not assume I know what is best for someone else.
It is not a time to be stuck, it is a time to celebrate our diverse ideas, thoughts and gifts and to share them freely. If folks want to waddle around in their grievances, complianing, instead of participating in the beautiful worlds we could co-create together. It is a choice. We can choose something different, something magical, something transfromational with integerity and deep foundational health and wellness, and we can do it today. The evolution of our revolution for and toward a more perfect union will not be dashed on the fanaticism of fascism and the cults of culture. It is time to be love and allow that to change the world.
These words by Bree Newsome point out the request from our current systems - "We ask that everyone remain peaceful as we escalate violence against you." Hit my loving heart in a particular way. Thousands of years ago, warriors, were those who brought peace and wisdom to the village. Bree is someone to follow and listen to and allow some different thinking into your heart.
The Current Sitch.
Any argument, discussion, law repeal, designed to control is bs cover (in its entirety) for violence against women.
We're not going to take it.
No invasion of our bodies.
The attempt to seize bodily autonomy from millions of women and LGBTQ+ people is a stain on our country.
It is unacceptable.
No excuses. Only love.
I think it would be wonderful to live in a country where the people choose public policy through a wholistic gestalt in free and fair elections where every vote counts, equally, and then the legislature makes laws. I do not believe in the electoral college for the 21st century. It needs to go for all the reasons we are experiencing. We have so much potentional as we connect, repair, restore and regenerate. This is the 21st Century. It is our time to play, to bring ideas and enlightenment and do the necessary care and work.
In case you needed a reminder, if losing rights 'legislated' by 60, 70, 80, soon to be 90 year old men, has you angered, if you are experiencing rage. Allow that to fuel you. Get informed. Get organized. Expect more.
We're already in a fascist dictatorship. Some of you don't realize it yet. The US has not had full and equal human rights from its inception, folks moved from small towns to bigger cities to avoid confrontation with the trauma in their towns and left a wasteland of broken communications behind. We never transformed the enslavement, we never atoned for our sins, we never acknowledged through reparations for the black community. The time has come to rise into the moment and join together in the promise of this wonderful land that we love.
It must transform for the 21st Century.
Liberation will come as we stop centering our self. Our POV isn't the worlds POV. Libration comes from collective everyday loving actions aligned in the heart meeting the present moment, freeing the future to be something different.
Get yourself in community with people who are invested in mutual survival. Do it sooner rather than later. We've been spporting THE BIRDHOUSE urban ecosystem restoration camp here in Beachwood. There are several organizations on our resources page, google mutual aid and find ways to build connections. Consider your community, right now, organize, who has what skills, resources, items for mutual survival. The process takes care and work and a commitment to creating local abundant giving and receiving neighborhoods. We are going to need each other. Do your very best to not numb out or be misled or dissociate. Continue with your loving practices. Deal with the fact that democracy is collapsing. Organize for your survival, for a better future, and to push back however you can.
Here's one resource to get behind black people, brown people, indigenous people who have been fighting for there lives since the colonization of this land.
The Dream Defenders.
Be someone who co-creates lands of love. Don't get lost in your story, those you tell yourself and those others tell. If you are not in your foundational loving wellness, if your love and wisdom aren't meeting in that river of grace, it's challenging, it's different but consider how much joy we can bring to the world if we do the work and grow in discernment.
While it may sound counter intuitive, consider the work of Tricia Hersey and her The Nap Ministry allows for a new way to use the power of regeneration of rest as liberation, in a world demanding more of your time and attention the single greatest act of rebellion is nap medicine. Choosing to rest instead of doing more.
Love will breakthough. There aint no mountain high enough to stop our loving heart. Take time to embody your voice, to experience the grace of your own loving connection. May this grace heal the broken spaces making them stronger. Now. May the love we share be such that the world transforms as we return to the timeline of heaven on earth. Your care, commitment and practice of fiercely loving principles activates our connection will make every necessary difference to build our foundational health and wellness.
May love surround you and inspire your actions, what brings you joy and the ways you play in the days ahead.
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