With so many amazing changes on our doorstep, 2022 is going to be a year marked by velocity and intention! From myself and the angelic realm, I give you—
2022’s Year of Expansion
Your life path will magnify and reflect whatever you believe to be true. Be mindful of your mind.
Everything is given equal possibility, from great progression to great violence. We choose.
Be honest with yourself about your intentions, or the Universe will tell your truth for you.
Lies and deceit to gain power stand out as awkward and outdated. (Gossip, negative political campaigning, etc)
Polarization / extremism gains traction, only to deeply implode at a later time.
Unprecedented amounts of people “unplug” or un-associate from outmoded societal constructs. (Huge uptick in off grid living, leaving jobs, etc.)
Illusion attracts those wishing to escape the uncertainty of an evolving planet (“easy-fix” cults of all types gain followers.)
Brilliant innovations in energy and money (crypto, other modalities) begin to equalize social class inequality.
Fearlessness is required in denying mistrust of others to build new and unprecedented opportunities.
Reaching backwards to “restore the past” is ineffective. Innovation, amalgamation, compromise, and co-creation paves the way for survival.
Self-reflection must evolve into self-application.
Can-do attitudes replace skepticism.
Beginning of “The Great Evolution” (2022-2025) that swings the USA into the next ten years of societal and socio-economic growth.
Expansion into the virtual world is huge, with VR societies and “virtual real estate” booming. Be mindful of escapism.
Ugliness, negativity, attacking words, or other unnecessary aggressive behaviors, are no longer considered the societal norm; kindness and respect come back into fashion.
…have a brilliant New Year, and point yourself in the direction of leaving your VERY BEST SELF “on the mat”, day after day!! 2022 defines our next three year cycle—so let’s bring our best, give up our worst, and be excited to create something “new and improved” to pass on to generations behind us!
With the Fourth of July upon us, I have something to announce
Yet first, some important observations.
This past year has been a very eye-opening experience. Not only for every person on this earth, yet for me. It’s been particularly profound.
Following four years of a severe degradation in our collective social dignity (how we address one another) in this country, we were slammed with a global pandemic that further divided America across partisan and paranoid lines.
My eyes were opened to the fact that fear, condemnation, polarization, and shaming were a predominant cultural staple in America. So much so, that people in politics, people in media, people wanting to sell swag, religious people, metaphysical people, all reached for this deeply ingrained fulcrum of control through fear in the USA—
—and drove home any conspiracy, any histrionic point, any ranting TV show talking head on Fox or MSNBC or NewsMax or CNN, all for a desperate grab at the consumer spotlight for five minutes.
To make money while the world burned.
America, five years of our fear, five years of our burned-out adrenal system, is all in sacrifice to the never-ending need for more money, by politicians, political organizations, TV networks, “gurus”, those who wish to keep us off kilter as a society by bickering about minutia so we can’t see the environment being ruined, our quality of life slipping through the cracks as the cost of living in the USA skyrockets and the average American needs more than one job to even keep the lights on, and more weird horrors from a bad 1980’s SyFy movie surface and n daily headlines.
Our collective mental health has been disposable to those in the grab for cash—collateral in a war for our money.
Not in a war for our liberating patriotic allegiance. That’s simply a bumper sticker to get to our money.
Not in a war for our liberating activist heart. That’s simply a bumper sticker to get to our money.
But for our money, and our money alone, which is not blue, nor red—but green.
Green money which spends the same, in any direction.
Money that is blind to any cause but itself; money amassed by a huge machine that eats and eats and eats its people to keep its bank accounts full.
This machine is neither conservative, nor liberal.
This machine is neither American, nor Russian, nor French.
This machine holds no allegiance to a flag.
This machine is larger than the borders of any one country.
This machine is a blind, starving glutton, whose avarice has no conscience.
This machine seeks only to feed, day in and day out.
As it grows in size, it is running out of resources to consume.
Across the globe, the machine is running out of food.
When a living being begins to starve, it panics. This panic from the machine has fueled the need to create panic in the people of the world, so that people will spend money.
And the machine can once again eat.
It can eat political contributions, bullet-hoarding income, gas-hoarding income, toilet-paper-hoarding income, big screen TV income from stimulus checks—
—anything we’re willing to spend in a panic, the machine gobbles it up. The more we panic, the more the machine eats.
The bigger it gets.
The hungrier and more demanding it becomes.
The more panic it floods into the world, to grow crops of fear, and division, and money, money, money.
The machine is a Frankensteined juggernaut, stitched together from the rotting pieces of an old world that has already fallen apart, already run dry of endless resources, a monster whose eyes have long bloated shut from the toxins in the panic it consumes.
It stumbles numbly across a scorching earth, crushing without noticing multiple societies, humans, plants, land, and animals, beneath its blocky feet, as it seeks new resources to consume, to quench a bottomless hunger—
Welcome to the 21st century first world.
—for money. It’s food.
Or…was it the 18th century world?
—THE ENERGY OF OUR HISTORY—
If we go back, and read both our history books as well as the founding documents of the United States of America, this nation was never forged in the spirit of the sole purpose of social idealism, for the “rights for all”.
After all, our founders held slaves.
In fact, the sole reason we revolted in 1776, and warred against England for our independence, was not to build a society where every person had equal rights in a new nation.
The sole reason we revolted was over money, and over the right to own the guns to protect the money.
We revolted over taxes. Not the human condition.
Colonists felt they were being taxed too heavily by the crown, and were not happy with how their firearms would be confiscated by Red Coats to suppress colonist uprisings. They were also not happy with a governmental system that held no checks and balances, and would put citizens to death for no other reason than whim.
Ergo, no access to arms meant colonists couldn’t protect themselves, their money, or their land investments, from the mood and avarice of the crown.
Really, we revolted because we wanted to keep our money, and our guns. That appears to be the driving modality behind “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” — not “uplift all”. Not “let’s give a chance equally to all people” (as that chance was reserved for European-descent, predominantly white, or “white passing”, colonists).
All of those beautiful and inspiring ideals of an “equal chance for all people” came later, as our Democratic Republic continued to evolve, and France gave us a gorgeous statue, on which is carved, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.”
This was a passionate message shared by France, written by American poet Emma Lazarus, coming from a country that watched its own Revolution over classist economic division destroy its people. So it probably felt good to believe that somewhere, on the then-more-primitive earth, a country was being founded in the consciousness and spirit of equality, for all.
Again, it’s important to point out that this message on our Stature of Liberty was a French interpretation of some great marketing done by early American statesman who sought funds from France to fund our war against England. (The United States later left France high and dry when they asked us for funding, for their war. Because the white guys over here didn’t want to part with their money. Again, reference our founding documents.)
American propaganda has a long history.
Culturally, back then, “all men are created equal” automatically meant, without even giving it a second thought—“caucasian males”. Not women. Not people of color. Not the indigenous people who existed for thousands of years on this North American continent prior to western colonization. Just men. Who, as not even a conscious thought was given, meant men of Caucasian, European descent.
Culturally in America, for those of us who wish to build an equal society for all people, we tend to reference this motto on the Statue of Liberty when framing up the character of the United States:
Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.
In many of our minds, that means, “Let us build something magnificent, together.”
Yet Social Liberty for All was not really what our founders had in mind. Not because they consciously did not want all human beings to have freedom. It’s because social liberty was not even in existence in the European world.
Remember, our founders came from the conquest model of Europe.
They honestly believed that with their Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights, that they were granting the new (white male European descent) citizens of the new USA, and the property they owned—land, wives, children and slaves—a whole new operating system in governance.
And guess what? For where the brutal and primitive old world was at, for the time, the new United States of America was a marvel of governance.
It caught the whole world’s attention.
For the time, for the global consciousness of the day, in a primitive world that crushed out cultures and subjugated everyone who wasn’t powerful enough to protect themselves, in a world where genocide was committed in the name of One Holy God, from the perspective of a world where monarchies reigned for thousands of years and picked their teeth with the bones of their people—
—the United States of America was a marvel; a wild, weird experiment, something many European nations thought would fail.
But it didn’t fail. It was set up to evolve. (Or more lately, de-evolve, into its original state of guns-and-money-kept-predominantly-by-white-people. Yet I digress.)
It’s an historical observation that the 18th century idea of a “United States citizen”, and the avarice of manifest destiny, was a culturally assumed position by the Caucasian male European colonists—the founders of the USA.
Social justice was not only not in our founder’s sociological awareness of the day, it was nowhere in the entire European world’s consciousness.
This is not an excuse for racism, for slavery, for sexism and subjugation and victimization. Again, it’s an historical observation. History without context is nothing but lost lessons. And lessons are a metric for our progress, or our failings.
Our founder’s big feat was breaking from a world system of ancient classist tyranny, to create a new form of governance, with the very limited, if no, social awareness of the day, hoping the money-and-guns-and-not-being-hanged-for-nothing part would stick.
Praying this system they created would be continually developed by those who came after them. In ways they could not comprehend. They knew they changed the modern world. And they knew they didn’t have all the answers.
They hoped the spirit of their change would survive, and be expanded upon.
They knew from the get-go that theirs was only a minuscule first step. It needed to grow.
They hoped their experiment would live long enough to do so.
—WHERE WE’RE AT—-
So many in modern America feel as though a decent quality of life in America—basic access to food, shelter, and clean water—is over.
They may not be incorrect.
We have been psychologically disempowered, as an American society, by big money that buys courts, locks away those who are inconvenient, buys land rights, burns up land that won’t be bought, that buys, buys, buys, erases, rewrites laws with money, buys legislators with money, and buys privilege some more.
Against this wall of endless, deep money, what is an average American to do?
This is the mentality that those who hope to keep Americans “in line” are hoping that average Americans will drown within.
After all, people who believes they are conquered—are conquered. Right?
Yet where does all this mysterious money come from? That same money that supposedly “oppresses” us all?
It comes from us.
We feed the same monster that eats us.
We do so under the name of free enterprise.
We do so because we’ve been trained for generations in America to give away our money to get something: peace of mind, economic “safety”, more beautiful bodies, cars, homes.
We have been trained for generations that provision is outside of us, happiness is outside of us. And all of that which does not originate from us—can be bought.
We have replaced God with online shopping. Through that buying, we’re better people, says the old world.
We’ve even pounded into generations of people in America that “working oneself to the bone” is noble, admirable.
In the same way that pharaohs told slaves that if they died in the service of a building a temple for the king, they would go to a peaceful afterlife—American corporations tell their employees that if they answer business emails and texts all hours of the night, they are model, good and just employees, who just may get a raise.
It’s a brainwashed form of servitude.
And those who are unable to break free from a system to which they are forced to work within then seek validation for their efforts, their gifts, and their lives.
They may die unhappy. Yet the system patted them on the head, at least once. That has to matter, right?
Our job in modern America is to re-format this system.
Not through insurrection, nor through rushing a Capitol. Not through anarchy or unrest. Not through destroying property or taking up arms against one another. Not through war, the outmoded ego tool of an old, dead world.
Yet through carrying on the economic Revolution, accidentally started by a tiny virus.
Covid-19 swept the globe and pulled an emergency break on the stumbling, ravenous juggernaut Franken-monster.
The money stopped. Work stopped. People stopped.
We looked around. We saw we had spouses and children that we haven’t truly “seen”, for years.
And we realized: we’ve all gone crazy, one 90 hour week at a time; one more car and one more house and one more super-expensive college payment at a time.
We realized, in America, that we were caught in a lose-lose cycle of economic backsliding. Paycheck-to-paycheck households failed when the hamster-wheel-world stopped.
Debt hung heavy.
Mortgages pushed out a year and accumulated interest, so some will not own their home until they are 89.
Many will now not be able to retire, ever.
Many would never even be able to afford a home. Even then, the property taxes would continue, as we rent the land indefinitely from the U.S. government.
We observed, without the desperate energy of the hamster wheel blinding us, an endless money bleed in our lives. All while we noticed, for the first time, that our son or daughter’s eyes had slightly changed color since they were eight years old.
How old were they now? Sixteen?
We looked our quality of life in the changed eyes, in America—and realized that the same long-time American propaganda that sold the French on making us a statue, by the guys who needed their money—still works on us, by the guys that need our money.
The myth of “The American Dream”, an old world modality based on subjugation, enslavement to a system, and racial preference, was alive and well.
And it had warped our perception of being alive. Because we let it do so; a frog boiled by increasing the temperature of the water a quarter of a degree, every five years.
Many received financial assistance from the government through the pandemic. We therefore learned, though Covid-19, that having money was not the enemy, as we working class folks had been told. We learned that those who have the money were not the enemy, as we working class folks have been told.
We learned that our spending habits were the enemy.
We learned that WE have been the problem, all along.
That we have been feeding the same juggernaut Franken-monster we fear, the same one that we rage against, that we blame for our lack of quality of life in the USA.
We learned that we are our own most terrifying lesson; that we are each a limb on a monstrous, reaching beast, driven by avarice, spending, spending, spending; an endless ravenous cycle.
As most will do when looking their worst fear in the mirror—we’ve dropped the mirror and run the other way, the monster cracking behind us on the pavement.
Those in newspaper journalism are calling this running away, “The Great Resignation”.
Like no other time in American history, people are quitting their old world jobs. We are retiring from grueling work cycles that have convinced us that giving away our mental health is somehow a noble sacrifice.
We wish instead to be with family and friends. To simplify life. To downsize. To sell off our extra cars and cavernous homes, so that the property rent (taxes) to the government is lessened. So that we no longer have to work to live, yet can live, to then enjoy our work and our purpose in the world.
Is this trend giving way to a generation of ne’er-do-well-20-somethings in tie-dyed shirts, high on legalized weed, collecting unemployment, playing video games in their parents’ basement, leaching money from government programs, and training to be in Antifa?
Or, is this trend giving way to three-piece-suit billionaires who are drinking $1000 a bottle champagne, smashing apart unions, forcing slave labor into long hours while creating dark money funding for voter suppression, closing abortion clinics, and funding The Proud Boys?
Ah, that’s what those who rely on our endless spending of our money would have us believe.
More baseless us-against-them American mythical propaganda from the money-monster, to make us rage against one another, and to blame others for the lack of cash in our bank accounts; a place to park our envy created by the monster inside of each one of us.
As most propaganda goes, the myth of the “unemployment leaches breaking the economy”, for instance, is simply untrue. (Just look at the Pentagon spreadsheet. There’s our money.)
You see, most who are quitting their jobs are in the 30-60 year old range, and are long-time corporate professionals, whose careers may span multiple decades.
We realized we’ve been duped. And we’ve had enough of participating with the problem.
This group is re-employing themselves by growing hydroponic vegetables, by starting local recycling businesses, by building their own off-grid earth ship homes out of recycled materials, some relocating to countries like Portugal, Belize and Costa Rica which are far more economically livable for a young family. Or, retiring people moving to other countries who are unable to set aside enough money because of the juggernaut Franken-monster in America, eating away their savings one cost-of-living hike at a time.
The same country that was founded on the principle of economic freedom, the USA, has become the home of economic enslavement, as the monster has simply become too big to feed.
There are many beautiful things about the United States. Social freedoms, for one. Are we throwing acid on women for showing their faces? No. Are we imprisoning people for having a differing political ideal? Well, not yet. Did a Caucasian police officer get convicted for wrongly murdering a black American? Finally. Can same-sex couples get married? Absolutely.
Though there is always more room to grow, we’ve come a long way in this nation over the past 400 years. Thanks to countless sacrifices and hard work of many, we are far more socially humane than many other countries in the world.
We have 400 years of history in our rear view mirror, and we’re making social progress, but many citizens working two full-time jobs can’t afford to live here?
It’s time to reign in the monster. It’s time to make changes.
—WHAT CAN WE DO?—-
Our job in modern America is to expand past the limitations of our history, and to continue to invent, create, and devise systems of society, or equal commerce, and of BALANCE, that set a new precedent.
This requires bravery, as just with our founders—there is no precedent for what is needed at this time.
We must create it.
That’s the evolved potential of the USA.
Not to feed the need of the founders, who wanted to keep the money. That need had its day. They risked everything for an experiment. It’s our challenge to continue experimenting.
To expand past the juggernaut Franken-monster that we have created, stitched together for thousands of years, created in the shadow of a primitive old world that crushed and subjugated and victimized and killed and marginalized and consumed, consumed, consumed, brought across the pond from the old world Europe in tiny boats called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria—
—now picking its teeth in the new world with the bones of its subjects.
This juggernaut Franken-monster is the new monarchy. The new glass ceiling. Not just for the USA, but for all the “first world”.
This monster is seen as God, in the eyes of those who worship it.
This monster eats the environment.
It’s important to remember, USA, that we’ve had 400 years to figure out what works, and what doesn’t work, over here.
We have the privilege of history, and the privilege of a supposedly flexible governance system, comparatively speaking.
“Equal rights for all” was never in the front of our founder’s minds. Not culturally, not historically in a world that subjugated others for money, for sport—not at all. (Thomas Jefferson was a Virginia plantation owner. My guess is that he wasn’t prepared to start paying the help.)
After all, let’s remember, our founders revolted to keep all of their money.
It likely wasn’t that the founders of the USA were “consciously bad people”, as much as they were heavily socially ignorant people, a product of their day, in a heavily primitive and socially ignorant world, whose sole goal in its global avarice and naïveté was to expand, and to consume, and to grow, at everyone else’s expense.
And as absolutely incomprehensible as it is to we in modern society in the United States, who have had the privilege of nearly 400 years of wars and argument and education and growth and reflection on what doesn’t work in world history, as well as our own—our founders were operating 100% in the hubris of their day, which was to subjugate, annihilate, and dominate.
Back then, that was the civilized thing to do.
This modality of blind brutality blows modern society’s mind, and breaks our evolved hearts.
As it should.
We have the privilege of 400 years of American history, and through the sacrifice and blood of those who have died before us, we have inherited valuable lessons.
Why do I point all of this out?
Because we appear to have forgotten not only our actual United States history, yet the context in which the history occurred.
Context matters, because it points out how far we’ve come, overall, in our global consciousness.
This is deeply important.
Without being conscious, we cannot be aware of the callous horrors of our past missteps, or the intense power of our ability to forge a much more compassionate, educated, “justice for all” future, based upon our growth, and our common strengths.
Sure, we still have much work to do, in the consciousness department. That’s a human condition across the globe.
Yet for some odd reason, in spite of our great backslides, hypocrisy, and overblown marketing, the USA continues to grab the worlds attention; likely, because even in the frailties of our governmental system, we are still the best long-running experiment in potential “freedom” that’s out there.
Even though the juggernaut Franken-monster that’s eating the planet continues to be fed here, on our soil, the most.
And that, my friends?
That monster? That bloated, ravenous thing?
Containing that monster is our current evolutionary quest, as a nation.
It’s the revolution that is at our doorstep, America.
Just as our founders revolted to “keep their money” at the old world expense of human rights, indigenous rights, women’s rights—our modern revolution is to Keep Our Humanity.
At NO ONE’S expense, yet EVERYONE’S benefit.
We must starve this Franken-monster that’s been growing in our neck of the first wealthy world, that rode across the pond hundreds of years ago, to run free across a continent where coal and oil and land were seen as “plenty”. (In spite of the beautiful people who were living there before us, whom our founders dismissed as “savages” living “out there somewhere”.)
Through our vast missteps and missed opportunities, we have taken advantage of many leaps forward. We are still a magical place, our mingling energies, here in America. We are finding our magic in stepping away from the old modality of world domination and cultural oppression, as well as modern job-enslavement, and instead, employing ourselves in ways that edify us, and our environment.
We are reconnecting with community. With our humanity.
We must step away from the illusion of political “sides”. (Remember, that’s all us-against-them propaganda developed by the Franken-monster to cover its own money-avarice-trail.)
Being a “voice of reason” has been replaced with “a loud voice”. We must re-learn the difference.
It is important to note our successes in the USA. Otherwise, the sacrifices of the Martin Luther King Jrs, and the Harvey Milks, and the Gandhi’s, even the Jesus’—go without a place to root and grow.
This Fourth of July, as we observe our Independence as a nation, it’s is time we not only view the negative with the positive— yet it is time to make a commitment to build forward.
It’s time we acknowledge the social and economic limitations of the privileged old world, and move away from them. Just as our founders had done their very best, with what limited knowledge that they had, to inspire that movement within all of us
We are not bound and cursed by our history; we are educated by it. We curse ourselves with failure if we are too frightened, too lazy, or too entitled to grow.
The pledge of allegiance is something that many school children are familiar with. What many are not taught is that the pledge of allegiance came about in the 1950’s, as a response to what the US government perceived as an indoctrination of Russian children by the Russian Government. Basically, the USA wanted to show Russia that our kids, too, swore their allegiance to us.
It was a tit-for-tat political game. A big show.
Imagine the United States, if the mantra (pledge) by our school children was not something to serve the propagandist purposes of an insecure government, yet something that edifies those making the pledge.
Something that went more like this:
“I pledge to be the best person I can be, every day.
I pledge to be kind instead of cruel.
I pledge to work very hard, and then give myself permission to rest, once I’ve achieved my goal.
I pledge not to compare myself with others, and to encourage other people, especially when they are sad.
I pledge to be grateful for the hard work of everyone who came before me, to make my life a little easier today.
I pledge to believe in the hearts of my fellow humans, and to give everyone the positive benefit of the doubt.
I pledge to be brave enough to be part of every solution.
And I pledge to be the best person, the best American, and the best world citizen I can be, for myself and for others.”
—-MY ANNOUNCEMENT—
My announcement is that I take this pledge, and so much more.
And I hope that you do, as well.
In taking this pledge, you won’t be seeing me blaming “the other side”, when it’s actually the juggernaut Franken-monster causing the problems.
I need to take responsibility for my bit of the monster.
I hope that you will, too.
I’ll still be holding individuals to account, with dignity, for their individual decisions, and I expect others to do so, when it comes to me.
Let us move away from lumping one another into the illusion of the mysterious “political party” (a now-new-realm-religion) which has also become a common costume of the juggernaut Franken-monster.
Sometimes it appears as a conservative. Sometimes, a liberal.
Yet it’s always the monster.
The world is too small for teams, when trying to survive. Team America must evolve past solely accumulating wealth, and holding wealth, to begin valuing humanity. We must ban together with team world, in order to bring our best science and minds and hearts forward to endure what’s to come in our climate crisis, in our water and food shortage, and in our understanding of how to give away feeding the monster—to simply LIVE, peacefully.
After the introspection of the last five years, I see the monster for exactly what it is. And I can’t go back to believing the myths, the excuses, the finger-pointing, the propaganda, the political sides—any of it.
Why? Because we must pick up where the founders let their pens dry.
We are the minds and the hearts and the hands of the future, that they knew would come along someday, to add to the historic annals of the great American Experiment.
We ARE that future that the founders knew they could not envision, whose voices and innovation and way of creating together, was, in part, the very reason they did what they did.
The founders wanted to keep their money.
We must move past our addiction to money, to keep our humanity.
That’s how we evolve the USA. That’s how we continue to free our country. This is how the whole world evolves. This is how we continue to free the whole world.
Lessen our debt to the best of our ability. Don’t add more. Sell off or donate our extra things that bog us down. Make our economic footprint smaller. Push off the yoke of overburdened financial obligation.
Liberate ourselves. Lighten ourselves. Starve the monster.
Give our actual hidden gifts a chance to surface in the world, past what we thought our “work function” in the machine should be.
Let go of old modalities of “earning money” if it makes us miserable. Money is simply an energy; an exchange for our energy put forward . As long as we are putting good purpose into world, and working for something larger than ourselves, there are plenty of opportunities, “jobs”, to bring money and provision to us.
Commune with God / Higher Consciousness / Nature, especially if you are afraid to make this shift in your purpose.
LISTEN.
All the answers we need, how to be brave through this revolutionary transition back to what truly matters, how to break away from the dysfunctional cycles of the dead, old world—are within us.
God / Universe / Knowledge is within you.
We have so much spiritual support, that we can’t even identify or understand, because generations living under the heel of the monster have convinced us that we have nothing without the monster. (That’s a lie.)
This connection within us, to God / Knowledge / Universe, is bigger—far bigger—than the juggernaut Franken-monster.
Give It a chance to be heard.
Give It the space to be heard.
We can work hard, and not be owned by work. We can show up, and be productive, for reasons bigger than ourselves.
Please, on this July Fourth, join me, join all the rest of us, in a new revolution. One of true independence. One of true freedom.
Join us all in removing our own piece of the juggernaut Franken-monster, that eats the world.
Raise your hand if you are literally emotionally worn out by witnessing the lowest-common-denominator, knee-jerk responses in human behavior?
When did humans become so ignorant to what is necessary to overcome our own personal hurdles, in order to overcome the world’s hurdles, together?
“American Entitlement” is at an all-time high. No, I am not referring to income-challenged single moms receiving Federal or state aid, for those of you who live your life from bumper sticker to bumper sticker.
I’m referring to good ol’ white, middle class American entitlement. You know—the reason France cringes when we walk into a bar.
We in white America have been so fat and happy on the breaking backs of our hard-working immigrant great-grandparents, and our WWII-generation grandparents who knew how to sacrifice for something larger than themselves, that we’ve utterly lost touch with our personal role in contributing to our local communities—even our own families.
We can’t find our purpose because we’re too busy being afraid, so we blame people of color for “illegally living off our taxes” or “ruining property values” or “taking our jobs”.
We whine and blame and whine some more.
White America has honestly gotten so soft, and so whiney, and so fragile… lord. Natural selection will take care of us, given enough time.
Americans in general believe we’re entitled to ANYTHING, from a bigger TV, to nineteen burgers a minute (referencing the insanity and fake news reported by Fox that Biden is going to “limit red meat consumption” which is not, in any universe, true), to not wearing a mask during the height of a global pandemic, to pretending racism isn’t systemic because white people have never experienced it—
—we just can’t be bothered by the untidiness of our own filthy closets—can we, America?
We can’t be bothered to have compassion for someone else’s journey, without a sanctimonious “but” at the end, just like this utter *drivel* that I’ve been loathe to actually hear in conversation:
“I feel bad that black people are treated badly BUT they have to see that not everybody is racist”
“I’m sorry for trans people being beaten up BUT they can’t expect people to think it’s normal.”
“I get that Native Americans have lost their culture over time BUT I didn’t take their land, and every country was overrun by somebody else, so they need to get over it.”
“I understand that gay people want to be married BUT they have to accept that regular people just don’t get it.”
BUT, BUT, BUT.
If you have to add a “but” to your “understanding”, you don’t understand.
In fact, if you have to add a BUT to whatever comment you’re going to make—just don’t make the comment.
Or, don’t add the “but”. Put a period after your thought and start a new sentence. Have enough personal dignity to own your opinion, good or bad, without the passive-aggressive disclaimer of a negating “but”.
I’m so worn-out on America hanging it’s BIG FAT BLOATED BUT out the ignorance window.
I mean, we have so much data that suggests the world is changing, the climate is changing, society is changing, and it ALL could use our best participation.
Instead, we get sucked into blaming. Sometimes it is one political side or the other (don’t post political responses to this. I’ll delete them in the spirit of removing the lowest common denominator.) Or, we use our one moment to bring change to instead deflect responsibility.
And dear lord, America—the long-suffering poor-me-ing coming from a social class of people who could use their time making the world a better place, is a national sport, at this point.
Humanity in America doesn’t seem to learn.
We lose hundreds of thousands of people to covid, but “its not real” and “masks don’t work”—nevermind the fact that now that most people aren’t wearing masks, colds and flus are off the hook. Whereas we had a year of no colds and flus during mask season.
Well, let me tell you a little something about any living organism that forces itself into a position of learning the same lesson, over and over again, without progression:
Eventually, nature will terminate the organism, due to the mathematical odds of the same obstacle being approached, and not championed.
In other words, take the saber-toothed tiger that refuses to learn that partially stepping in tar may trap it in the tar. It eventually gets sucked into the mire, to become part of the exhibit 10,000 years later at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Take the fish that just keeps hitting the same shiny lure. It eventually ends up in a pan.
Take the Romans who got so entitled, depraved and lazy that they sat back and expected their magical government to fix everything for them. Their magical government eventually fell as the lazy folk stepped away with participating in their communities while complaining that they weren’t “getting theirs”, as mobs then rushed their capitol all while a delusional, mentally ill nutcase was in charge of Rome. (Sound eerily familiar?)
Humanity in America, if you can’t hear this message from me, hear nature. It will take us out the minute we put our feet up and complain the ottoman isn’t high enough.
I’ve tried soft messages, gentle messages, loving messages, inspiring messages, and this one is coming through as it is—rough around the edges, because we are LOSING the battle with ignorance.
We are willfully LOSING it.
Because we are too worn out, or scared, or lazy, or want our opinion to be heard—who even cares anymore—to challenge ourselves to grow.
Easier to tune out, climb into our bubbles, and pretend everything will work out.
It’s not going to work out if WE don’t work it out.
It’s not magic. It’s elbow grease.
If you’re reading this and you can’t be bothered to assist those in your community who have the least resources, with even as little as *your compassion*—nature will take stock. And when you most need assistance, it won’t be there.
That’s cause and effect of both particle, and spiritual, physics.
It’s well beyond time for tough love. It’s time to cut away the crap. Because the crap is poisoning the lake.
If you’re a church that seeks only to draw people to YOU, to keep your bills paid, and your brand thriving—it’s time to close your doors. Churches exist to create community by serving community. They are not meant to be served. They’re not God.
If you’re a person who is so overextended that you can no longer even be kind to a stranger in a grocery store, consider why you’ve endentured yourself to that degree to a system that won’t even notice your demise. Change your life by putting your mental health first.
If you’re a business whose bottom line is far more important than the culture created by your business, you will be destined to fail under the physics of the interconnected world that must be created for us to survive.
If you’re someone who must cast blame on a demon outside of yourself, for *all* the ills in the world, consider why you are so terrified to let go of the illusion of the “one problem” to face the reality of endless chaos ahead of us, solvable only by the brilliance of eight billion minds emerging together, allowing room for each.
The downside of talking to angels is that they have no need to sugar coat anything; the angels in the Bible were actually pretty rude. I at least feel that I stay just *this* side of the line of being utterly terrible, in delivery.
Reality is whatever we perceive it to be. However, natural selection is a process which is not subject to the interpretation of reality. It operates and exists in spite of a willingness to believe it is real, or not real.
We are part of a larger biological system. If we continue to choose ignorance over humility, stubbornness over growth, self-wallowing over self-improvement, blame over accountability, looking out for number one over finding joy in looking out for the least of us, judgment over compassion, greed over giving, jealousy over happiness for others—if we continue to labor, numb, under the illusion that humanity is LITERALLY nothing more than the sum total of our most base instincts, our most vile impulses—
—then like Rome, humanity, our time is done.
Nature will continue on either way. The human race is optional.
Please understand this. Our time for tiny corrections over long periods of time has run out. We MUST grow, now. We MUST stretch, now. We MUST become something greater than we thought we could, now. Or our time of just coasting is not only over, yet so will we be.
None of us need to be a saint. We do however, need to be creatures of EFFORT, America.
Every little consistent bit helps.
Make a pledge to rid yourself of the need to “best” another with “facts”. At this point in the USA, people will believe whatever they want. Instead, gift people people kindness, or, simply leave the conversation. Stand up for those who are being BUTTED to death. When a lesson comes your way, demonstrate humility in learning it, rather than the knee-jerk narssicist reaction of demeaning another because we feel threatened, or “bested”.
Grow.
The world depends on it.
America depends on it.
We depend on it.
I depend on you.
We all rise, or we all fall.
Raise your hand if you are literally emotionally worn out by witnessing the lowest-common-denominator, knee-jerk responses in human behavior.
Now—start by changing that impulse in yourself.
Then step back and watch the world begin to change.
Energy doesn’t lie. Because it doesn’t have an opinion. It just *is*. To observe the flow of energy is to be told a very clear story.
I’ve watched the flow of energy in the area of hate crimes. I’ve observed there is so much outward hatred and fear in America, because there is so much inner hatred and fear in America.
We are evolving out of a narcissist / bully culture that told us to “sit down and shut up” when issues arose, for women, for people of color, for LGBTQI+ people.
We are, and have been, building platforms for generations, in America, for the voices of those who have been silenced, to be heard. To be helped and to be healed.
As these platforms grow, the bullies and narcissists rage, because inside, they won’t accept healing. Many of them were victims of abuse themselves. They won’t accept help. They are terrified of the weakness that they feel, that their inner child drowns within, everyday; that weakness then plays itself out as hatred, and abuse.
It’s deadly camouflage.
America has passed the “51%” point — the point at which a majority of people believe something to be true. In this case, the 51% (or more) believe that treating people poorly because of their gender, or gender identity, or skin color, or religious belief— is *no longer* acceptable.
This puts the enacting of the deadly camouflage for those who are hiding behind it, at risk.
America isn’t afraid of coming together. It’s that adult people in America are being driven by an abused, terrified inner child within, who is in near-hysterics at the idea of having to confront their own shame, and powerlessness, and feelings of guilt and chaos.
It’s the terrified inner children shoulder to shoulder in elevators, in business suits, on construction sites, in churches, being forced to “sit down and shut up” by their outer adult, who carry on a cycle of learned abuse.
We bleed out in America, because we are wounded. Up to this point in our culture, we’ve tried to explain away the wound as “life”. Yet that wound is not “life”.
It’s pain.
“Life” is what happens when we take the time to forgive ourselves from running away and hiding from the pain that has tormented our inner child.
While our outer adult is building empires and crushing all who get in their way, our inner child is shrieking in terror and fear at being ignored, left alone, shut into our pitch-black dungeon of fears and secrets, to drown, alone, in a never-ending cycle of monsters, neglect and self-abuse.
It is the shriek of that child that drives the fist of the abuser. It is the shriek of that child that spews hatred online. It is the shriek of that child that beats a different color skin.
It all happens because we ignore our own points of terror, and pain, sobbing in a tiny child’s voice, echoing far below us within, from the blackened dungeon that our adult selves are far too terrified to venture.
We sacrifice our inner child to our fears, hoping they won’t crawl up the stone stairs into our living room. So we leave our child there, to suffer and starve alone, in this place dripping with spiders spinning the webs of our lies, echoing with the inhuman groan of faceless demons just out of reach in the pitch-darkness, the cavernous sound of dripping water as our sense of self leaks into oblivion—we lock our inner child below in this dank hell, leaving it to wonder every moment of every day, what it did wrong for its own adult to forsake it.
And when it screams in terror, when the horror below becomes too much—our adult does something terrible, topside.
“Life” is not the definition of “pain”. Life can only happen when the cycle of death brings about a cycle of budding blooms which are allowed to thrive.
Nature is a beautiful teacher in this way. We watch winter swallow the earth in a freezing grip, to release it to the sun in spring.
Humanity must accept that the cycles of our own personal growth, then emulates nature. The abuse we sustained as children is the winter of our growth, freezing us into place until the sun of our own life choices can thaw the hardened ground of our emotions, to allow new growth to spring forward.
Yet to engage this cycle, we must first thaw. And in thawing, we must feel. And in feeling, we meet up with that terrified, dirty, starving child we locked deep within us, for decades. We fear the wrath of that child, the hatred of that child, the blame of that child: how could we have *done* what we did, to that child? Put it through a living hell, to feed the demons below, day to day, just so our adult selves didn’t have to?
If we push past our horror in facing what we’ve done, the fear of the wrath of this delicate being that we have neglected and abused, and we fall to our knees in a place of true accountability and remorse and acceptance for what we’ve done before this child, and draw it to us, and hold it while it screams and cries until it just relaxes into what it can finally feel is our warmth—
–it will forgive us.
Because that’s what children do.
And it will trust us.
Because that’s what children do.
And it will teach us self-forgiveness.
Because that’s what children do.
And we will become the child’s champion; through this, we will become our own hero.
We’ll be able to respect ourselves, and treat others with respect. We’ll be able to begin to identify others who still have their own inner child locked below, in their dungeons of shame.
And we’ll be able to teach them to find the key to unlock that frozen cellar door, behind which, their true salvation lies; the key of compassion, for the self, and others.
This is the eradication of hatred.
Energy doesn’t lie. Because it doesn’t have an opinion. It just *is*. To observe the flow of energy is to be told a very clear story.
After these past four years, the shootings and hate crimes, after watching the horrors of polarization and vitriol hitting the fan on the news night after night, I truly have lost the ability to understand why anyone would get further sucked into the “us-against-them” mentality.
I have no clue why people don’t see the illusion in the “division”, or how people are being manipulated to “hate” rather than to come together. I watch people (almost embarrassingly) claiming their righteousness, claiming “those other people” are the problem.
I have no clue why people don’t realize that the minute we come together, not agree 100% of the time, yet come together to work together for a cause greater than ourselves, then the hate will have no place.
Hate will need to retreat to a culture within itself, a vacuum of blame, rage, and fear, where it will consume itself once and for all, imploding inward.
I have. Not. One. Freakin’. Clue. Why Americans don’t see this.
Not one.
Except that maybe Americans need someone to hate, so we can feel better about our own lives?
Or as long as we’re pointing a finger elsewhere, we don’t have to look at our own ugliness, within?
Why else hate someone you’ve never met, or generalize that one political belief or the other, or one ethnicity or the other, or someone’s gender identity, or someone’s economic standing, is “what’s ruining America”?
I can tell you what’s been ruining America. It’s been ruining us for a long time.
And it’s not black or brown people. It’s not Asian or Latin or Indigenous people. It’s not LGBTQI people. It’s not Christian people or Muslim people or Democratic people or Republican people or Athiest people.
It’s numb people; people too busy and overburdened working multiple jobs to truly dig to the bottom of their own pain, or disappointment, or mental health issues; people surviving on denial because they feel so out of control in their lives; people full of the anesthesia brought on by buying storage units full of stuff that gets hocked on Facebook later; people worn out from working 80 hours a week for 30 years only to still owe $150,000 in compound interest student loans from 1985; people who can’t afford food with actual nutritional value so they must eat garbage whose chemicals and corn syrup are scientifically proven to *diminish* the critical thought process of the brain’s prefrontal cortex…
What’s “ruining America” is this insane idea of what America “should be”, rather than looking at what it is, and then looking at how to then work together to make it better.
What’s ruining America are lies that people love to believe, because it means they don’t have to think as much—
–lies like everyone is “supposed to have” 4 cars, a big house, a big retirement account or two, a phone that costs more than a laptop computer, that “everyone” has the “same shot” to “make it” in America (the biggest lie of all), that it’s “normal” for college to cost more per year than what one parent makes in a year, that “we’re lucky” to have obscene healthcare expenses that border on a scene from “The Hunger Games”, that it’s “no big deal” we have more sugar in our food than any other nation, and therefore more cancer in our population than any other country—more, more, more…
…and when we can’t get more, we get angry. And resentful. And like any addict, we become frightened and desperate that we’ll be cut-off from our supply. So we blame everything and everyone that walks.
All because our American mythology is shaken.
What’s wrong with America is our lack of grit in truly facing what we’ve become, and our even larger lack of grit in addressing it:
Our consumer culture can’t be bothered by a climate crisis, or cheap plastics in oceans, or rotting garbage making climate-eating methane in landfills.
Our consumer culture wants to keep us indentured through our personal debt.
Our consumer culture wants to keep us addicted to sugar, sex, anger, drugs, alcohol, violence, shopping, rage, and fear. It makes money when we suffer.
Our consumer culture doesn’t even look at the word “consumer” for what it is—someone who continually CONSUMES. Like a Pac Man on steroids, eating, eating, eating, always.
Like cattle whose heads are locked in a gate above a feeding trough—that’s the American consumer programming.
We stare at the dry silage before us, and think we’re kings.
It’s nuts.
So please, just stop.
If you’re someone who posts on social media that “those people” are “the problem”, just stop.
The problem is a broken system. Not the people. Yet the system wishes us to believe it’s the people. Because if the people work together, the system must change for the betterment of all the people.
There are some broken people, within a broken system, whose roles and behaviors must be addressed. Yet they aren’t “those people”.
They are We The People.
If your impulse to war with another outweighs your courage to trust another, then know that you’ve become “those people”—the same ones you may be raging about.
At some point, someone has to say “enough”.
I’m saying it.
Join me in having the courage to trust that others are wanting the same things that you want in America—freedom, equality, safety, love, dignity—and join me in having patience with others, as everyone takes a moment to lower their guard, not their discernment, to stop looking for the worst in others.
Or, simply add me to your list of “those people”, and continue on in your war.
I am the steward of all that I believe in, of all that is important to me, without evoking the bloody carnage of hatred.
Hate is not our protection. It is a false fuel to boost the illusion of our “righteousness”. It numbs us for only awhile, before fear creeps back in, to manufacture more hate.
Hate is our greatest weak point, the fulcrum of our potential demise. Turning away from hate may mean turning away from an aspect of American culture you’ve known your whole life. Yet this is the part where we improve the system. This is the part where we improve ourselves.
As for me, I’ve pulled my head free from the metal gate, and I’ll leave the banquet of dried silage in the trough, for the birds to nest.
With the courage to believe in the best that you are, and the brilliance you’re here to bring to the world—
2020 has been very difficult. It has been the Year of Evolution, and this has been rough.
When something evolves, inevitably, something else has to die off. And we’re seeing systems change right now, as well as consciousness shifting, as well as how we choose to behave in the world.
This has been a timeframe of great stress; with pandemics, and super tornadoes, and murder hornets, and record-setting typhoons and hurricanes, and wildfires eating continents, and movie-grade earthquakes, and swarms of locusts, the earth has really looked like the last book in the Bible, Revelations, as every terrible thing possible has been unleashed. Either The Book or Revelations, or a really bad sci-fi movie, but either way, 2020 has left millions of people with a heightened stress response.
As such, as I’m seeing the shift from 2020 to 2021, and watching the frenetic energies of 2020 begin to settle. As we move into 2021’s Year of Birth, I am watching many of us experience exaggerated and histrionic responses to very small issues in our daily lives.
This is in part due to a severe hypervigilance that’s been imparted in us during 2020’s year of great trauma.
When the shoe just keeps dropping, we expect there to be a storm that rains shoes, and we carry an umbrella made of iron as not to get another concussion from a stray, flailing steel-tip boot.
Holding up this iron umbrella, day in and day out, will of course cause fatigue, if you understand the analogy.
It is in this exaggerated and persisting hypervigilance that we are wearing ourselves out. Yes, we need to be prudent in this time of Covid, and socially distance, and make the tough choices not to get together in large groups during holidays (which inspire us all to get together in large groups). We need to keep our heads on, squarely.
Yet in 2020, when every day was a breaking news headline of some horror in the government, or some horror in the streets, or some lawlessness exploding somewhere, seemingly unchecked or unable to be unchecked by any means, the fear of losing control in our daily lives begins to embed itself in the foundations of our subconscious.
We, as human beings, have thousands of years of trauma programming embedded in our DNA. Some folks like to call this embedding “fight or flight or freeze”, yet I like to think about it as an opportunity for us to change how we interact with stress. Because really, when it comes down to it, our DNA is only an imprint, not a destiny. It is a set of instructions triggered by a set of circumstances, not a mandate in place at all times. It is not a zero sum total game.
In other words, just because it’s in us to react a certain way, doesn’t mean that we, like robots, are chained to that programming. It’s in how we react to the programming, where the evolution takes place. And that evolution re-writes the code in our DNA, in the “reaction to stress” department.
Humanity is a constant work in progress.
Our embedded genetic response to trauma (when our body triggers our nervous system to emit chemicals that expressed danger to the body) will begin to actually physically wear on different systems of the body over time, to produce fatigue, illness, lowered levels of intimate interest, pulmonary issues, endocrine issues—the physical list is extensive.
Let’s not even get started on the mental list of ailments that occur when we are continually housing a never ending hypervigilant trauma cycle within the psyche.
So give yourself a break if you’re feeling unusually tired at the end of 2020.
The term PTSD is thrown about quite a bit. I choose not to use that term at this time, because true post traumatic stress disorder has a very specific cause, and a very specific way of playing itself out. I’m more referring to the fact that we, as a society, have an exaggerated hypervigilance that is wearing everyone out at this time, and so I offer some potential options as tools in this timeframe to lessen the impact on our bodies and our psyche.
Again, it’s very important to remember, especially in this feminine timeframe, that this is not a competition in how we manage this persisting stress. The Old World (the imbalanced portion of the divine masculine timeframe, also known in part as “the 20th century”) taught all of us that everything is an alpha competition. That there is one winner and one loser. That if we all do not behave the same way to any given stimulus, that we will be the “odd one out”, or the one who loses.
That is absolutely not true, and never has been, when put into the reference of emotional and psychological processing of any given situation.
There are many ways to achieve one goal in the area of reconnecting with ourselves, the earth, and our inner peace. So here are a few tools that may assist you in relieving yourself of some of this persisting 2020 compounded stress–a bitter sandwich layered with mistrust, a lack of control, and a restriction of resources:
STOP READING HEADLINES – Put your mobile device is down, stop reading every news thread, stop scrolling through Facebook thinking that’s where actual news is passed along, get off of Twitter, and put on some good vintage holiday music. I say vintage holiday music because much of it was recorded during a timeframe where the energy stamp of the earth did not carry such frenetic chaos.
Music is a snapshot in time, of a specific energy signature. Dial up some good Bing Crosby, or something from the 40s or 50’s. Though certainly those timeframes had their social and economic issues that we are all aware of, the over-arching “good will” in the world during the holiday times, in that more naïve and innocent timeframe, is literally energetically captured in the music. When the sound waves of that music moves the particle matter in out third dimension, this will change the esthetic and etheric resonance in any space. (If you’re not a fan of holiday music, just call up some crooner music from the 40s. You will achieve the same results.)
GET INTO THE ELEMENTS – A human being is a biological and electromagnetic entity that requires connection with other electromagnetic items, through some sort of kinesthetic exchange. This is a very fancy way to say that were physical creatures that require physical soothing in order to address why we don’t feel well.
Generally, we get hugs and snuggles from loved ones, and from friends, to accomplish this goal. For those living alone, or who do not have access to loved ones or friends, because of the Covid situation, there are ways to create an “etheric hug“ with elemental items around the house.
Light candles, buy or build an indoor fountain (placed by or close to your front door, for great Fung Shui), allow the sounds of water and the sounds of fire and the look of water and the look of fire to flood your indoor spaces. This not only is this psychologically soothing, yet elements of fire and water trigger DNA responses in a human being to recognize the environment as “safe”. Fire warms in the cave days, and water means life, always. So if you can’t have access to a hug, or even if you have hugs yet require a little more connection to something since our human connection ids limited, connect to the elements and fire up the elements within the home.
TURN OFF THE TV – I mean, everybody loves a holiday movie, but once it’s over, then turn off the television and pick up a book, or do an art project, or physically play a game with family members. If you have that classic 1940s holiday music rolling in the background, along with candles and a fountain, you’re going to find that the kinesthetic action of touching a book to read, or making Christmas ornaments or holiday ornaments, or laughing over a game with family and friends, triggers a theta response in the brain, which is a meditative brainwave pattern. When theta waves are present, our stress levels diminish dramatically.
COOK OR BAKE – Creating food is again, a theta wave activity. It can be very meditative, and the smells created by baking or cooking food, also trigger ancient DNA within human beings that signal safety. Food means life. It means resting after a long hunt. It means provision. You don’t have to be Gordon Ramsay here—even if all you have is one packet of Ramen noodles, cook it up! The smell of cooking food will trigger the body to relax, and indicate to it that provision is at hand. Not to mention you get to eat all of that yummy goodness when you’re done!
PHONE A FRIEND – Hearing another person’s voice triggers memories that are positive that exist between you and that individual. In an opposite way, hearing someone’s voice, who you have experienced much trauma with, will solicit a trauma response, so make sure you are calling friends and family that are healthy for you.
Human beings require human connection. It is how we are built. It is foundational in the DNA of our empathic species, and in our tribal, mammalian ancestors. Even if we are phoning, Skyping, or Zooming our friends and family, that connection is palpable. If we have elements rolling in our home at the same time that we are speaking with family, like candles burning or a fountain trickling, that kinesthetic connection while interfacing with our family and friends virtually can be more easily interpreted by the brain.
GET OUTSIDE – If it’s safe for you to do so, take a walk. This does not have to be an epic walk, and it does not require a brand new workout gear shopping spree, unless you wanted one! Taking an undisturbed walk of even ten minutes resets body chemistry, as well as brain chemistry. (Reading your phone while walking negates this experience.)
Trees are amazing emotional communicators. Not only do they communicate with the ethers vibrationally, they also release chemicals that cause happy responses in our brains. Trees exist in family groups, and so when you take a walk through a park, and there are old trees that have been growing for quite some time, you are literally strolling through someone’s happy family gathering, and the trees are happy to have you.
Even if you were in a city, walking by shrubs and bushes and small trees, these plant life groups literally interact chemically in the soil, as a family. And they appreciate very much what you exhale. So surround yourself in nature, get outside of structures that are lined with electrical coatings and piping, all of which conduct extra electromagnetic energy that can be agitating to our brains and our hearts over time, especially if the home has old wiring, or poorly grounded wiring. Excess electromagnetic impulses caused the brain to experience hallucinations, the body to experience nausea and skin rashes, and the overall feeling of being watched. Nobody can relax when that is happening! Walks outside will dissipate extra electromagnetic energy that builds up in the body.
GO BAREFOOT IF YOU CAN – During warmer months, or in areas that aren’t as cold in the winter time, get outside and place your feet in the grass. Even if you’re bundled up tight, and want to sit in a chair outside, and touch your feet to soil (as long as it’s not too cold0, this will allow the body to discharge excess stress and up to 40% of built-up electromagnetic energy and inflammation, which converts in the body to a stress response.
This is a very popular movement these days called “earthing”, or “grounding”, however, as a kid growing up in the 70s, we simply used to call it “going barefooting”.
Going barefoot in the house is better than nothing, yet it’s really not the same as being barefoot on soil. Or, soil and grass. And in snowy areas, or areas that are quite cold, I’ve known people who will boil water, and continually keep one melted spot in their backyard simply to allow their feet to be placed on the ground. This gets tricky because it can cause an ice patch, however, for those who live in cold climates and cannot access the soil, soaking your feet in water with Epsom salts is the next best thing to a grounding mechanism.
MEDITATE OR PRAY- I’m not referring to a lengthy one or two hour long process here. This could be five minutes in your day, when you simply sit and look out the window, and appreciate everything that is around you.
Reflecting on that which is not the self, is a very healthy practice. Even in the midst of our most wild grief, even in the midst of our biggest losses, we can challenge ourselves to take 30 seconds and acknowledge something in our life that is a blessing.
Do you have a roof over your head? Do you have access to hot running water? Do you have access to food when you’re hungry? Might you have your health at this time of the year? Perhaps you have someone in your life who loves you unconditionally, even when you don’t love yourself? Maybe you have the world’s greatest pets? Or maybe it’s just as simple as loving the new fountain that you built, to have some of the elements on the inside of your home.
Find something to be grateful for every day, even if it’s once a day. A great practice is to do this 3 to 5 times a day. To take a moment out of the chaos, stop, and truly reflect on what is working in your life. This is also called “perception building” (or as I like to call it, polishing our lens through which we see the world), and our third dimensional reality that we experience is heavily dependent upon perception.
Thoughts are things, words have weight, and we can redirect ourselves away from pain and chaos, even for a moment, by redirecting our minds.
VOLUNTEER – Running in the same vein as reflecting on anything that is outside of the self, physical service to others, during which we received absolutely no compensation, is an incredible application of the human gift of empathy.
When we volunteer, not to the point of exhaustion or burn-out, yet simply to the point of lending a hand once in a while, we literally move energies in the body that cannot be moved in any other way, except by assisting others. It’s important that we recognize this.
The human body is full of an electric current that the eastern culture calls “Chi”. There are different Chi highways in the body. And to simplify this concept a great deal, certain pathways cannot be activated unless we are doing something for someone else for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Think of it as a “service highway”.
Now, you don’t need to leave your house to volunteer. Perhaps you volunteer to clean the house for your spouse when they’re overly busy with work. Perhaps you volunteer once in a while to do a chore for your child, when you recognize that your child’s online homework and lack of connection with friends is wearing on them emotionally. This is also volunteering.
However, if you would like a stunning experience, volunteer to serve people who lack the resources that you may enjoy every day. This will change your perception in our insular, echo-chamber American lifestyle, a lifestyle that encourages self-indulgence, addiction to sugar, media, buying things, and immediate text responses in order to feel better. Volunteer opportunities out in the community are now fewer, with health concerns since Covid has spread it it’s tendrils. Yet even reaching out to churches or to volunteer organizations, to see what you can do from wherever you are, would be something that will move this Chi in the only way that it can be moved— in the service of another.
TAKE A BATH – Yep, a good old giant tub of hot water, and a soak for 15 minutes or more, physically remove toxins from the body, triggers the body and brain that it is safe, as our DNA remembers being in the womb, and is private time where only you, your spirit, and your flesh, have the opportunity to commune together.
DO NOT Read your phone in the bathtub. Electronic devices and water are not only a poor idea in terms of the physics of both of those elements coming together, however, the electromagnetic frequencies that emit of a cell phone or a smart phone are contrary to the experience of being in the water, in order to remove excess electromagnetic buildup in the body. In other words, you don’t want to be shoveling rocks into the wheelbarrow when you’re trying to empty the wheelbarrow of rocks.
To even add more punch to your bath, include for 4 cups of dissolved Epsom salts. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, is sodium-based crystaline structure that assists the water in extracting not only physical toxins, yet energetic and vibrational “toxins” from the body systems. Crystals conduct energy. NASA uses Crystal’s all the time to conduct energy, and they grow crystals in space, to make sure that they are pure in their refraction capabilities. So there is a great deal of science that goes into taking an Epsom salt bath, if you have enough Epsom salt in the water.
If you would like to add even a further layer to your relaxing experience, and you are not allergic to essential oils, try a few drops of frankincense, which dissipates negative energy, as well as lavender, which physically inspires relaxation.
If you are in a living situation that does not provide a bathtub, and you are uncomfortable with hitting up a friend to use theirs, soaking your feet in a tub of water with all of the aforementioned ingredients will also achieve a great deal. If you are someone that cannot lift a water basin, simply filling a sink with water, combining all of these aforementioned ingredients, and soaking your hands will certainly assist you and feeling better as well. Our hands and our feet both contain the same reflexology points, and the same Chi runs through all of those points, so at the very least , you’re giving your body a chance to detox through these points.
…2020 has brought out the very best and very worst of humanity. We’ve had the opportunity to see who we are, under great stress. We’ve had the opportunity to evaluate our strengths, and also our old wounds, which have been buried beneath the pace of 21st century life. When that lifestayle came to a standstill, may of those wounds have bubbled to the surface, for us to evaluate.
If we take the time to simply “be” with our detoxingh process, we will achieve a peace that many of us have not known in quite some time, or perhaps, ever. We are human. we require care. If we are willing to extend this care to ourselves, then every life that we touch will also be emboldened with the same peace that we carry within ourselves.
This holiday season, give yourself the gift of compassion. You’ll be able to give this gift, then, freely, to those around you. And they, to those around them. Vibrationally, emotionally, and intellectually, the world will truly become a better place, all because you took the time to light a candle and take a bath. Because Peace on Earth and goodwill toward humanity–all starts with us, as individuals.
Voting isn’t about “politics”. It’s not about some team-sport party affiliation. It’s about shaping your own community, with your own voice, for your children, and generations to come.
I know that there are many folks out there in the USA that don’t believe their vote makes a difference due to the electoral college, or politics, or “cheating”, or any number of reasons.
I know there are many folks out there who don’t vote because the candidates “don’t excite them” enough, or they don’t “do politics”, or they believe their voice doesn’t matter.
The difficulty with abstaining from voting is that a person chooses *not* to be part of building their own community, and their own world.
A person LITERALLY becomes a ward of the will of others.
More people take the time to vote for American Idol contestants than they do for public leaders.
That’s mind-boggling to me.
When we vote in civic elections, a person chooses to be part of something bigger than themselves.
Like deciding how many police we can hire. And how many fire stations we can have.
To not vote means to drop out of designing your own community, your own country, and your own environment. It means to be okay with going along with what someone else decides—FOR you.
It took WOMEN in America 70 years of continual protest to get the right to vote. It took black Americans *generations* before they were allowed a ballot. And Native Americans are still challenged to have their votes counted.
Why?
Because VOTING SHAPES THE COUNTRY. Control the vote, and you control the nation.
THAT’S how much voting matters, to local issues and big-picture matters.
And, in many cases, where candidates threaten the environment, or a local way of life, a person who chooses not to vote then chooses *not* to protect what they already have built.
We take so many freedoms and resources for granted in the USA, and even in my home state of Montana, like our beautiful public lands to camp on, and clean creeks to wade in, and fish.
For instance, the wrong candidate for Montana governor can be bought by big industry, and will have those public lands drilled full of oil holes, or campgrounds strip-mined, and those creeks will be redirected, or full of chemicals and muck.
But aren’t there regulations that prevent that, one might assume?
The wrong candidate for President, or, say, Montana governor, can easily override those regulations—with a pen stroke. And what we’ve come to know for our families and children, is gone to the almighty dollar.
That’s just one example of what happens when we unplug from our accountability as a citizen, and just coast along, hoping someone will “handle it” for us.
Hoping it will work out “somehow”.
Except—
WE ARE THE “SOMEHOW”.
NOTHING IN AMERICA is set in stone.
NONE of your rights are guaranteed.
It doesn’t matter if the “Bill of Rights” says so.
At any time, any President, backed by a court or a few congress people, can change the landscape of your carefree American rights—overnight.
It’s called a Constitutional Amendment.
It’s called a Supreme Court Ruling.
NONE of our freedoms are guaranteed.
Our entire American life can be purchased, if we’re not paying attention, and if we are not part of the solution. Much of it has already been sold-off to high bidders, all while many of us are were busy voting for the next hit top model or singer on TV, or believing incorrectly that someone else had it handled, and big changes would never touch us.
As we’ve seen recently, if any candidate manipulates the system properly, even the recommendations set forth in the Constitution and the law itself, then won’t apply to them.
You see, politics isn’t about politicians.
It’s about societal design.
And it’s OUR JOB, as a person who claims American citizenship, to cast a vote in the direction of the society that *we’d* like to see built.
For some, that society is traditional. For others, it’s progressed. Yet WE are supposed to decide.
And if enough of us cast our votes—the system must overwhelmingly listen to We The People. Not the few senators whose income is subsidized by lobbyists writing them hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks for their congressional vote.
But US. You, and me.
And YES, if enough of us vote, the system works. Yet when barely anyone is voting, and no one is paying attention because our favorite TV show us on, then those few votes cast are easily manipulated.
So please, especially if you’re a woman, or a person of color, or if you’ve never voted, or you’re “sitting this one out”—please consider joining those of us who are doing our best to sculpt an equitable, beautiful, FREE America.
Because we can only lift so much, without you.
We can only protect so much, without you.
We can only design the future so far, without you.
Fear and rage are free drugs (they literally make the brain “high”) and many people substitute that high for “purpose” and for “belonging”. If we can continue to show people that caring for others is actually the greatest “heart and brain” high there is, only then will tides will begin to turn.
Yet people across the board must want to expand their horizons.
Anger and rage have a place, as a tool, a stepping stone to a resulted healing, or action. They both become a damaging stumbling block when that tool is used as the be-all destination.
I’ve never supported or been a part of movements where anger, fear, intimidation and rage are the driving collective motivator or bonding mechanism. I’ve even unsubscribed from certain liberal political newsletters and organizations because the messaging was too angry and polarized. No one political party or belief system owns the cornered market on rage and anger.
That being said—
The #TeamMAGA movement was built on rage, fear, intimidation, and anger. It’s purpose is to have a high-profile account holder on Twitter, or Facebook, or YouTube, who would turn all the other team members against someone on any of those platforms whose messaging they didn’t like. Then, the #TeamMAGA swarm would descend like locusts and cyber bully whomever’s opinion they didn’t agree with, en mass. It was a calculated “hit” process that has gone on for four years.
I’ve been on the other end of #TeamMAGA’s insane vitriol. I’ve had my life threatened, my body threatened, my family threatened, my work threatened, all because I publicly expressed that I don’t agree with the behavior of President Donald Trump, who encourages his biggest fans to act like mobs of crazed, violent fans.
I’ve reported and blocked profiles across multiple platforms over the years. They’d get shut down and others would pop up to take their place in the swarm of rage and anger.
At first, this was shocking and disturbing, until I began to see what it was truly all about. That none of this has been about politics. That it’s all been about a brokenness in people, a lacking in understanding one’s purpose.
Human beings are designed to thrive when helping others do something—anything. Living to solely fulfill ourselves will result in a feeling of loneliness and emptiness that many attempt to fill—often, fill with raging against another people online to forge some sort of “bond” with others, even through hating them.
For millions of people, rage and hatred are the only emotional connectors they have to others. It is a form of warped, conditional intimacy, a way that the hater won’t feel “alone” in the world…as long as they have someone to hate, and a group to cling to, who also hates the same people or ideals. Hate becomes the life ring someone is clinging to, while being tossed about in a dark, churning sea of unknowns—called life.
Yet hate and rage are the drug that separate us further from not only real connection, yet from ourselves. Because inside every human being is someone just wanting to actually, warmly connect with others, and to be seen for who and what we truly we are.
It’s how our spirit is designed.
#TeamMAGA has taken advantage of this loneliness in people, this blind need to belong—as have other various political organizations over the years on both side of the aisle. Yet this particular organization thrives on the collective need to choose attacking others through rage and anger as the bonding mechanism. And those who refuse to tow the rage line are then subject to the abuse of the members of the organization itself, until the straying subject falls back in line. It is, by the FBI’s current working definition, a cult.
The man that wrote the linked article below in 2018 was part of #TeamMAGA. His heart and mind were expanded and his journey took him away from the rage. And the quality of his life has improved greatly.
Anger, hatred, rage—all the mechanisms that create a false piousness—are temporary moments in a growth and understanding cycle. To adhere only to them, is to never grow.
Episode 86 of inPsight Radio with Danielle Egnew: You are HERE! Danielle has channeled information for years, leading up to this moment in time. She now reveals how we are all poised to be part of a cosmic undertaking that will change the world: What do OffWorlders have to say about our progression as a species? Which OffWorld Races have affected which earth cultures? What is the new Greatest Generation and how are we all part of it? What is going to be required of each one of us to transform this 3D reality to 5D or 7D — and what the heck is that, anyway? Tune in and receive today’s best inPsight!
Episode 85 of inPsight Radio with Danielle Egnew: Danielle opens her angelic channel to catch a LIVE transmission from the Angelic Realm regarding Coronavirus and uncertain future times: What is the purpose of this Pandemic? How did we get here? What do the angels have to say regarding our greatest lessons of this time frame? What do people’s “prayers” sound like? How does the Universe respond? Are we being prepared for something greater? And why does H.G. Wells have a cat-ate-the-canary grin, in heaven? Tune in and receive today’s best inPsight!
From Psychic / Medium Danielle Egnew 