ST Healing Love-IntoBalance October2022 - Flipbook - Page 42
Regeneration. Mutuality, maintaining balance so that there is flow. A living democracy is based on those
ecological principles, of how life organizes itself.
Dismantling the system and replacing it, can we be honest with ourselves, consider ourselves to be
“successful,” wanting that status, prestige, incentive, can we unlearn all that? It’s a matter of undoing and
unlearning a load of shit. And not valuing it. When we’ve been taught all our lives to value it.
For those of us who are more impatient, we ask, “What is taking so long?” Recognizing that we are all
tainted by colonization. As a clear default to white supremist culture, we’re breathing that air and water,
and consistently taught and rewarded to act in certain ways.
We have to consciously purge, die, out of this old paradigm of
colonization and white supremacy.
Death has been and is a huge theme in the mass consciousness in a world infected by disease, war, and
interpersonal strife. Because of the tragedies brought on by the pandemic, climate change and poverty,
death and destruction are more available as a teacher right now.
Purification happens when we let things die inside. When we do the work to purge in our own
consciousness. And, we have to do it on a mass scale to take individual and collective shifts in
consciousness.
• What is calling to be digested? Purified?
Purged? Die?
• What is longing to replace the
purged?
• From the digestive
work, what nutrients,
or lessons remain
that nourish us?
• When we are in an
experience, ask, “Is
this life affirming?’’ If
not, let it regenerate,
be composted.
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