Peace: A Journey of Remembering
Dear Ones,
With all the upheaval in our world, I turned to this quote from my upcoming book on a new paradigm of warrior energy called Embodied Warriors: Seeders of Hope, Light & Heart.
"This death process is unfolding on our world stage, as evidenced by the economic, institutional, environmental, societal, and health crises unfolding. Our world, as we know it, is collapsing. We are in the alchemy of a tremendous cauldron, a fiery process of deactivating the old paradigm, the model we have carried in the collective for ages as an adaptive response to traumatic events. As this system dies, we face our own shadow, unconscious fears, and behaviors held in our bodies from personal, lineage, and lifetime traumatic events".
How do we meet these painful situations? Yes, we should feel outrage when there is senseless death of people, whether we are on one side or the other. It may have been easier with the war in Ukraine being attacked by Russia. Why? Maybe because we have been demonizing Russia for decades, and it was easier to perceive them as the enemy. This war is still going on. How do we process this? Where does the outrage go?
Now, we are faced with Israel and Palestine at war with each other with devastating loss of life. Whose side do we pick? Who's right and who's wrong? Can we even evaluate conflict anymore by aligning with one or the other? What happens when we do and then inflict more trauma on a country and its people? Where does the pain go? The anger?
Do we then become the tyrant or the victim?
Is this not the Patriarchal Warrior we carry in our collective psyche, an "eye for an eye"? And hasn't it made us blind? The history of civilizations and their story is so important. But whose story are we told? What is the tyrant's story? The victim's? Until we know each other's story, we will not be able to find compassion. But it is there in the history. The answers we seek in finding peace lie within our bodies, our lineage, and our own story. Can we listen and find compassion in this story, too?
Our world is at a crossroads, a turning of the wheel of change, and we can support each other and ourselves by finding the still voice within us that knows the answers, meet the pain with love and compassion, and find peace both within and without.
May we strive for hope, light, and love during this time of challenge as we remember that for which we are grateful.
Much Love and Gratitude,
Carley and John