The Journey Through Separation: Embracing Collective Healing and Spiritual Awakening
A World at a Crossroads
As I sit and write this morning, I reflect on the state of the world, the Americas, and our collective consciousness. Beyond duality, I see the beauty in all things while recognizing what is shifting and moving out. The loudness of separation is reaching its climax, and as history has shown, things often intensify before they break open. Pressure inspires action. The separation of religion, blood, region, and family must end. We are here, in this time, to witness and participate in that transformation.
Unity Beyond Duality
We all carry wounds; we all have walls. But we also share the same soil, the same blood. We are born of God, made flesh, held together by the polarities of chaos and order, victor and victim, light and dark, masculine and feminine, positive and negative. One force spirals upward, another descends, but all radiate from the heartâthe true center of the universe.
God is not attached to only beauty but to everything: the messy and the magnificent, all shades, shapes, and expressions. It is the mind that judges, placing preference on one energy over another, constructing hierarchies of master and slave, black and white. This is the great illusion.
The Coyoteâs Medicine: Learning from Opposites
Chief Alfonso teaches that both positive and negative energies are not opposites but necessary counterparts. One is not superior to the other; both must exist for either to be. Yet, our attachment to one side over the other often becomes our downfall.
The mind, like the coyote, is a tricksterâdistracting us from the heart when we are ungrounded. But the coyoteâs medicine is to guide us through experiences, leading us back to our true path, which we never truly left.
Control Systems and the Fragmentation of Community
The judgments we carry, the insecurities they breed, and the delusions they reinforce have created systems of control that govern our lives. The term Uncle Tom describes those who, in their quest for acceptance, enforce the very rules they once resisted.
This system of control stretches back through modern civilization, beginning with the fragmentation of tribal communities. It dismantled communal support, replaced holy days with hollow rituals, and silenced the elders who carried wisdom. As languages were lost, so too was our sense of place in the world. Disease followedânot just of the body, but of the soul. Now, we find ourselves fighting not only external forces but each other.
The Illusion of Freedom in a Corporate System
We call this the land of the free, yet we exist within a for-profit corporate government. Every aspect of our lives is monetized. We rent our homes, our land, our very presence, as if ownership were an illusion. We have been cut off from the practices that sustained us for thousands of years.
But the prophecies of Indigenous peoples are unfolding before our eyes. The wisdom they carriedâonce persecuted and suppressedâis desperately needed now. These teachings are the foundation of both individual and collective healing. They offer the tools to restore balance in a world driven by power and consumption.
Contracts of the Soul: Where Do We Place Our Faith?
The matrix of our relationship with reality is woven through law, language, and social constructs, but all exist under a greater forceâGod, Creation, the Divine. We are all children of that force, reflections of the sun and the moon, of the Creator.
At its core, life is about the contracts we makeâwith ourselves, with the land, with the unseen forces that guide us. Where do we place our faith? In the dominion of man, or in the sovereignty of the soul? How willing are we to embrace the full spectrum of truth, or do we unknowingly perpetuate the very systems that confine us?
The Political Circus: Distraction from True Freedom
I see people fighting over the upcoming election, clinging to a house of cards we have allowed to be built around us. The media lays it out plainlyâlike the Netflix series House of Cards, revealing the unseen hand that manipulates leadership and controls public consciousness.
The irony of television is in its name: to tell your vision. And entertainment? It means to entrap the mind. What is presented as fact is often fictionâdesigned to shape perception rather than awaken truth. Yet, paradoxically, it is through storytellingâfilms, myths, artâthat truth often emerges, bypassing logic to stir the soul.
Truth in Stillness: Reconnecting with Ancestral Wisdom
Truth exists in the spaces betweenâbetween words, between breath, between thoughts. It is not found in the noise but in stillness. And in this age of information overload, we consume more in a month than our ancestors did in a lifetime.
Yet, encoded in our very DNA are the teachings of Indigenous healers, Vedic sages, Tibetan monks, and pagan mystics. These are the bridges that reconnect us to the sacred, the same wisdom Christ himself carried.
The Distortion of Christâs Teachings
Yet, the modern world has co-opted Christâs image, using it as a banner to justify conquest, control, and colonization. For many Indigenous people, Christ became the symbol of destructionâof burned villages, displaced families, and severed traditions.
But the true Christ consciousnessâthe force of love and awakeningâexists beyond the distortions of history. Some Native elders have felt it in their hearts, integrating its truth into their traditions. The old and the new have always had the potential to harmonize.
A Call to Remember: Integrating Ancient and Modern Wisdom
Now, we are being called to do the sameâto integrate the wisdom of the past with the potential of the future. To step out of separation and into unity. To remember the sacred fire within us, not as something external to worship, but as the divine spark that connects us all.
This is the time of reckoning, of rebirth. The time to go deeper into the heart.
The journey through separation is the path back home.