As I’ve been watching and experiencing the fall out and division surrounding the results of the United States election I have had this resounding truth about myself settle in: I trust humanity.
In a world where the places we are different are constantly being highlighted, we have to remember to come back to the places where we are actually the same.
In a world where the fear mongering is so constant and the assault on our nervous systems is so pervasive (in the sense that we are living in environments that are so far from the natural environments we evolved in) we have to remember that we are not our highest selves when we are triggered.
In a world where it is profitable for us to feel powerless and like we need fixing, we have to remember that we are whole and holy as we are.
I see this really disappointing and inhumane response of, “Anyone who voted for Trump is a bigot and an idiot.” As if anyone who doesn’t think like a liberal is simply stupid and awful.
How much of an ignorant oversimplification is it to assume because someone came to the conclusion that voting for Trump was in their best interest, they are a “bad” or “stupid” person?
(and this goes for the judgment of people who voted for Kamala being brainwashed or somehow less intelligent.)
Humanity is so much more complicated and nuanced than that.
Humans are multifaceted, multi-layered, beautiful, terrible, awful, manifestations of Universal Intelligence.
All of us have done and said things we regret. All of us have hurt others. All of us have aspects of ourselves that we are not proud of and are working with and on in our own ways. We are all hurt and, therefore, project that hurt out onto the world and those around us.
This is what it means to be human. We are inherently flawed. Each and every single one of us.
Anytime we start to get high and mighty, righteous (not to be confused with rightness) or so egoically convinced that our way is the only way, we are not in our right minds.
We are all getting played in some way. We are all glaringly misinformed in some way. We are all convinced of at least a few things, that, in reality, aren’t at all true.
If more people were able to remember compassion is not condoning, that our own personal healing is the greatest form of activism, and that it is completely possible to have connected conversations with people who don’t agree with us, we would not be in the situation we are in.
However, because we are in this situation, let us not use it to seed more division, but instead seed more unity.
This is a choice. A choice we have to make of our own volition, every moment of every day.
We can choose unity or division by how we speak to our partners.
We can choose unity or division by how we treat a stranger in the coffee line.
We can choose unity or division by how we treat our own bodies.
We can choose unity or division by how we choose to see people who don’t fit our definitions of “good.”
We can choose unity or division by how we talk to our opponents.
We can choose. And with our choices we create.
We forget that we are not each other’s enemies. We are each other saviors.
We are the friendly souls that came to play out roles and parts for eachother to learn our life lessons through.
I understand that what I’m saying can get dangerously close to going over the edge into “spiritual bypassing” territory.
You may say, “Ok, well if we’re all just friendly souls walking each other home, what are we going to do about our DEMOCRACY?!” right?
I hear you. But if you actually attempt to listen to what each side is saying, both are actually afraid of losing our democracy. Both are positioning themselves as the prevailing party over the evils of some dystopian future.
The left thinks Trump is such a lunatic and misogynist that he doesn’t and won’t respect the traditions and precedents set up in our country. They believe women will lose all their rights and we will fall into international chaos because of the policies he is going to back and put into place.
The right thinks Kamala and her backers are threatening fundamental constitutional rights like free speech and the right to bear arms. They believe she is a pawn of the shadowy deep state agenda and a threat to the United States. They believed choosing her was a vote for the globalist World Economic Forum’s 2030 agenda and the statement “you will own nothing and you will like it.”
If you zoom out, both sides are actually concerned about the same thing: the collapse of our freedoms and values.
We can double down on our divisions and differences OR we could see that we actually both really value our country, our traditions, and what they represent to us.
If we can stop making snap judgments and sweeping generalizations and letting our systems to be dragged into fear mongering, we can come back to ourselves and remember that we are all human and we all, for the most part, want the same things.
We all want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We can agree that we all feel the severe need for something to change. It is so clear our country is not ok and that our systems are broken.
That’s why the tensions are so high, because, collectively there is a very clear feeling that something cannot go on as is.
I feel this too. I want change. I want big change.
And, I know the only change that is going to be worthwhile is going to achieved through further unity, not more division.
Separation is actually the enemy here, my loves.
When we band together, we move mountains and create worlds. This is the space of miracles.
There is a potential here that people who are still focused on the “win” or the “loss” are not seeing and that is the potential for True change and True shifts.
The amount of potential energy here in this moment is massive.
Because of my own personal practice of body based energetic alchemy, I have an embodied understanding of how when we can be with a “negative” emotion or sensation, no matter how powerful or overwhleming it may feel or seem, if we can actually be with it and welcome it and invite it in deeper instead of push it away, it transforms.
True energetic masters understand that everything is energy.
There is no negative and there is no positive. It all just is. The greatest pain can be transformed into the most orgasmic pleasure when we are fully present with it. (orgasmic childbirth anyone!?)
Humans are alchemical beings.
We are the conscious connection between the physical and the energetic. We have a massive capacity to transmute energy on the very basic level of how we turn food, light and electrons from the Earth into energy in our bodies and on the more spiritual level of how we are spiritual beings having a manifested physical experience.
In many spirtual traditions we see this theme of humans being the bridge between heaven and earth.
Human beings are quantum, a particle and a wave, energy, light and matter all at once.
When I hold my attention on humanity’s power, I see what is possible for us.
When I hold my attention on individual human’s power, I see them as their highest version.
I choose to see each human as a sacred amalgamation and expression of God, not because I am some love and light chump, but because it is the best use of my creative power and energy to do so.
I choose to see Trump and Kamala as two souls who are deeply in service to our alchemical potetional for change on this Earth. Souls willing to play roles for us cultivate our own power within oursleves. (And souls who wanted to have a wild ride this time around.)
When I make the choice of unity, in all the miniscule ways of my day to day life, I am choosing to see humaity in its power.
That power can be used to create all sorts of things, terrible and beautiful, and has been. But I am ready for it be a conscious choice.
I trust humanity. I trust peoples’ choices.
Because the moment we start question our neighbor’s humanity, is the moment we lose sight of what it is we are here doing. It is the moment we start to let separation win. And this is what creates the future world that I wouldn’t want my children to grow up to inherit.
I trust in humanity because I am a mother.
I trust in humanity because I am a creator.
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I Trust Humanity