Hello friends!
We often hear that the world’s gone mad. That’s true, but I actually think it’s always been mad. We’re just seeing it more clearly now.
And I believe that we are finally ready to do something about it.
The only question is whether we will do it quickly enough, and bravely enough, and deeply enough to actually effect real change. Not surface level change, but the kind of profound and revelatory change that we know is needed if we are going to both survive and thrive on this magnificent planet. It’s not news to many of us that our species and our planet are at risk, and that if ever there was a time to take radical steps, it’s right now. So, let’s take them.
I see those steps leading us in two essential directions. The first is backwards, in the direction of our accumulated trauma. I often wish we could just stop everything for a while, and declare a worldwide healing sabbatical. One where we all get the chance to catch up with our unresolved material, clear our emotional debris, and regulate our nervous systems, before stepping back into the world, fresh and ready to effect change. Of course, most of us can’t afford to go on sabbatical, but what we can do is consciously carve out more space for individual and collective healing. With less unresolved individual and generational trauma weighing us down, we would have the energy that we need to find our sacred purpose. We could find our way through the thicket of diversion and distraction and co-create a world that serves us all.
The second step is forward, into the moment itself. No matter how messy or confusing or maddening that moment is. Once here, we can cultivate a more expansive relationship with reality, both with respect to calling out and dismantling the structures and systems that oppress us, and to actively working together to co-create the humane and just world that honors our inherent magnificence. Boots on the ground, hearts on our sleeves. The dismantling stage is utterly essential. If we don’t boldly identify the ways that we are worked and played, if we don’t see and name the game for what it is, nothing will change. That’s how effective and sophisticated those systems are at limiting our possibilities and dimming our light. Has it not become glaringly obvious that our overwhelm, our agitation, our dissociation, our internalized shame and self-hatred, are all deliberately woven so that we can be utilized to benefit a small and unconscionable few? We are props and play-things for a cadre of power-brokers and control freaks. Yet there are so few of them, and so very many of us. To regain our rightful sovereignty, we must now advance to the cutting edges of truth speak. We must know ourselves to be sovereign and speak from the boldest, bravest, and most courageous parts of us.
Let’s take these steps together. But first we must stop seeing each other as enemies. We must support and uplift each other. In order to reach the co-creative stage, we must embrace our differences while remembering our shared humanity. We must recognize that we are all in this together. We must understand that “divide and conquer” is not merely an archaic warrior strategy, but is a very current cultural reality, now embedded in algorithms and diversionary political cliches. This is all consciously designed to keep us so focused on belittling each other, that we fail to notice those who seek to gain from our divisiveness. Before we can even begin to look at the ways that we are complicit, we need to see the game for what it is. It is not the left, or the right, or the center that is our enemy. It is abuse of power that is our enemy. It is anything and everything that blinds us to our shared humanity. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will be able to build bridges to one another. Those relational bridges are the key to our shared future. We need each other to remember reality, to heal reality, to enhance reality, and to co-create a reality that will serve us all.
Let’s do this. Let’s keep each other company, hold each other accountable, and co-create the kind of world that reflects all our voices. Because time’s up on abuse of power. Time’s up on needless divisiveness. Time’s up on unacknowledged trauma and unactualized possibilities. Time’s up on being so dissociated from reality that we lose faith in our power to change the world.
I was first inspired to explore reality while growing up in my challenging childhood home. I had every reason to escape it, but I had this strange idea that it was better to explore and experience it. As an infant, I had tasted presence as a whole-being experience. I liked the way it felt to be here for all of this. The term ‘enrealment’ came into being when I was working on my first book, Soulshaping. It’s a bit kitschy, but it works for me. I had been studying spirituality and found that this thing called “enlightenment,” more often than not, was limited in scope and meaning. It seemed to be more focused on perfecting or mastering or transcending the human experience. That all felt too avoidant for me. I longed to be more authentically human—flaws and all, and more genuinely here in all respects: shadow and light, earth and sky, grocery list and unity consciousness. I didn’t want to master singular realms of consciousness and call that a life. I wanted to be here for all of them. Every part, every realm, every way of being, and every kind of human welcomed at my table. The path of entirety. To see through the veils and to embrace reality, in all its forms. Presence as a fully embodied whole being experience.
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Whether your subscription is free or paid, you have my assurance that I will remain true to my intention: a bold and painstakingly truthful quest for reality, in all its forms. No punches pulled, no stepping back from the truth-edge because it feels too frightening. We owe it to ourselves to call out the bullshit, and to use our gifts and offerings to transform the world we live in. Let there be no doubt: The way will not be easy. The path to truth is challenging, wild, ragged and rugged, and riddled with resistance. And yet it’s worth every bead of sweat and every battle scar, to walk the path that is truly our own.
I still have hope for humanity. I know there’s a few thousand reasons not to.😊 But I have great faith in us. We are pioneers, we are. Pioneers of truth. We are laying down new tracks without a single footprint to follow.
My greatest wish for you is that you arrive at the end of your journey feeling deeply aligned with your own true-path. With the knowledge that you did your best to honor all that you are, over the course of your lifetime. Few stones unturned, few gifts unopened, few offerings unextended. And with the knowledge that you have contributed to a profound consciousness shift on this planet—one that restores our individual and collective sovereignty. So let’s get to work. Igniting a revolution of the real that effects real change. I’m with you.
It’s scary....but the stirring I feel in my solar plexus can’t be pushed aside for later any longer . It’s ok to take small peeks (peaks) into the dark in order to build up the fortitude. Thanks for providing a journey that feels safe.
Looking forward.
I love your goal of accepting our authenticity, our realness, instead of trying to reach beyond it into enlightenment (as though our human experience isn’t enough..we must rise above). Thank you for helping me to see this as another form of avoidance.