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May 8, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

On the Struggle Bus today?

Feeling overwhelmed? Covid gotchu on the Struggle Bus? This Corona Spring continues to be an immense lesson of Mother Earth’s. She reminds us that it is not she who is dying, rather it is we, the most peculiar (in our potential and also blindness) of her children who are not only dying but killing ourselves!

The state of our human world is a reflection of exactly where we are within – confused about Who We Are, distracted. We’ve come to the place that we are, not for lack of practical, easy-to-implement solutions but because spiritually and therefore mentally and physically and therefore socially and politically – we are a mess.

[If these words bring discomfort, please know, for my part, I have no judgement; my pure intention is of compassion and love. In digging to the root of my own discomfort and need to judge, I discovered a deep mistrust of other humans. It is not an original, natural paradigm, rather a great misunderstanding that I’ve since given myself permission to let go of – I trust my brother and sister humans to take their own journey toward healing and Love, as I trust myself to take mine…it is a work in progress!]

We are helped along in this by our exceptional power of rationalization, a gift which was never intended to guide us, rather to support us; as imbalanced individuals we sure can overcomplicate things to the point of paralysis.

This overwhelm cannot be ‘overcome’, rather relaxed into with awareness and healing time – we are what we eat, we are what we buy, we are what we do. We become how we think, we exist as we believe.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if thou gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into thee.
Nietzsche

The implications of this are simple because in each of these things We Have the Control [firstly to stop fighting/conquering/’overcoming’ in general, rather relaxing into and healing]…

Undoing the corruption which has infected our democracy, taking power from the Corporations driving ‘the 9 to 5’, ‘data bundles’, ‘cool’, ‘30-year mortgages’, ‘ownership rights’ and ‘costs’ of water, food, shelter, health, ‘retirement’, ‘tax monies’ which ‘fund’ ‘the dark web’ and ‘gun production’, etc. etc. is merely to choose differently.

These are systems, merely systems we created to serve us and which no longer do in many ways, for many people….[and it is critical to distinguish that it is the systems we participate in and perpetuate (right down to something as ubiquitous as a smart phone which carries within precious metals fought and died over as savagely and systemically as blood diamonds) that no longer serve – that is our way forward, rather than fighting (i.e. struggling) some self-sabotaging, endless maze identifying and targeting some ‘inherent evil’ which is rooting, lurking and presenting within some ‘inherently evil human’. It turns out, what I do for/to me is that which I am doing for/to you and …

The way you see people [you] is the way you treat them [you], and the way you treat them [you] is the way they [you] become.
Goethe

So here we are, full circle… I am what I put into my body, I am what I put into my mind and my spirit, I become as I do with my body, mind and spirit. May it be Truth and Beauty then. Love. Thank you Creator for my healing – that I may Love and be Loved!

Of course, doing the work to get to the root of Why we choose to eat poisonous food that is fast and made by Corporations, why we choose to commit entire lifetimes to careers for retirements into death, why we choose to become indebted to a single, built structure of one place at the sacrifice of an entire world of communities which welcome contributing, open-hearted guests, why we choose struggle … is a good bit of hard work. Hard not complicated though, and actually, we quite love and thrive on purpose-driven (…that Truth and Beauty and Love stuff) days of good, hard work!

Divesting then is quite straightforward. Simply divest from the things that no longer serve you, things that no longer bring you joy because they literally harm you or they literally come at the expense of another living being. When it comes down to it, no matter which of the many brilliant lenses you see with: your life is still just made up of many simple choices that You have the say in!

Power to you – in creating the more beautiful world our Hearts Know is possible! (Indeed, yes! It was a choice to use the Vimeo version of this video rather than the YouTube version.)

Resources

The book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein

Charles on the Coronavirus…The Coronation of this time!

Divesting stuff

Unbelievably fun ways to divest
A good written Divesting ‘101’ article
A short sweet divesting video and list of corps (choosing profit over people/planet) to divest from

‘Divestment’ as an activism strategy has gained strength in recent years particularly to affront the fossil fuel industry (system!), though also the larger toxic aspects of the industrial revolution (system!); however, you remember the good old stories of ‘bus boycotts’ affronting racism (system!), the Underground Railroad affronting slavery (system!), and further back than that, the ‘Boston tea boycotts’ affronting imperialism (system!), similar in another part of the world to Ghandi’s spinning wheel and food fasting for independence from British goods, affronting that same imperialism; all the way back to indigenous warriors affronted with mortality, the strategy of selfish, savage colonization (system!)…

Alas, this has all been a work in progress for many lifetimes now!

Getting to the Roots

Each of these artificial and arbitrary systems required us to change Who We Are to fit into them… we had to learn to choose struggle (“discipline”, “sacrifice”) as the “selfless” path, the “righteous” path, the “practical” path, the “respectable” and “honorable” path, in order to spend entire days/lifetimes running the systems of the industrial revolution – otherwise facing (self)judgements made to be negative, wrong, “evil” such as “lazy”, “selfish”, “savage”, “Godless”, “eccentric”, “crazy”, “idealistic”, “feminine”, “emotional”; similarly, we had to learn mistrust to learn judgement to learn inequality to justify the superiority, ownership, conquering which enabled the systems of racism, slavery, imperialism and colonization.

We are Not evil. Rather, with that precious, unique gift of rationality (that great existential, bitter/sweet, double-edged sword of our human experience) as our (mis)guide we taught ourselves to serve systems.

Going forward, we may give ourselves permission to let go, to pause and get to the root of anything ‘demanding’ our energy and which feels like ‘struggle’, to be aware and scrutinizing, i.e. guided first by spirit (feeling) and then supported by our gift of rationalization: of the things which may be systemic, no longer natural but contrived, and which feel different than love, beauty, courage, compassion, wisdom… Truth and Beauty!

May 3, 2020 By Lindsey Tarr Leave a Comment

As above, so below, so within.

A Truth which our ancestors were deeply conscious of and connected with. They knew their place and Who they were. Luckily for us, despite our path of disconnection, the Story of Separation as Charles Eisenstein has given language to so beautifully, the guardians of truth have kept safe the teachings which remind us today, and anytime that we may go inward or into nature, Who We Are.

The reason I write of the great reflection, the Oneness, of Who We Are is because those of us within the Sacred Circle of the Red Road deserve a focus; a mission for what has come to pass and is very much like a society. For the purpose, Creator has connected dots between the healing power of our work as aligned within, which is a direct reflection of our Mother Earth, another direct reflection of the Great Mystery that is the Universe of seen but much more that is unseen – all eloquently connected on many levels or fields… One.

These fields, or planes of energy, a purposeful gradation of seen and unseen, subconscious to superconscious, have been known and taught across time by peoples throughout the world. Today, they are most commonly known in the collective as seven Chakras. Again, these spirals of energy have been known and described throughout the world’s ancient teachings in many ways, taught locally within the language and symbolism of each people and rooted quite literally to the physical place in which they lived.

The actual geographic location is significant because it is the place of that knowledge, as it has been given directly from our great teacher and mother, the Earth. Our ancestors understood that these spirals of energy within us are reflections of those that exist around us and so, across the world, places of ‘power’ are celebrated and honored in ceremony by the original peoples of the land – so she too, our glistening, living Earth star, exists as a beautiful and layered network of energy flows, one within a whole of the Star Nations above us…as above, so below, so within.

Technology and globalization make seeing it all much easier, though it is still our ancestors of their homelands that we look to, for they found believing quite natural, for they knew Who and What they were.

The implications of this are profoundly explicit… prayer power is impactful within but is equally felt across the grand network by which we exist as One. Since beginning this Circle, I’ve come to know that despite our members living throughout the country, across thousands of miles, we are linked. At times, my physical experience is, as I’ve discovered afterwards, a reflection of the others. For example, this week, on Monday, I felt the weight of the world though Nothing within my personal world had shifted profoundly, even noticeably at all; it is truly difficult to emphasize enough or put words to how weird I felt. By Wednesday I had discovered that within the Circle, one had been experiencing a Migraine since Monday as well as growing pains of a recent life-changing decision, and another was going into surgery to fix something from another very recent surgery.

Again, the implications of this are profound – I’ve always known it was important for my own peace to live in a mode of continual growth and, in recent years, how important it would be for me to purify mind, body and spirit, striving to attain a level of healing in which I will indeed someday finally be healed – but I Never understood, as I do now, how critical it is for others that I do this! That which I do for myself is literally as I do for others! How I wish only to give the world brilliant Love and Beauty, yet I know now that my own waves of muddled energy spill over to the world, creating the reality that is! It gives great inspiration for living fully, with clarity and in brilliant, crisp colors!

We are in a time in which Mother Earth has called for great Healing. Then our Circle shall tap into the beautiful “rainbow serpent” of energy wrapping around the world, connecting us all. We shall grow in community and healing power across the world, along Mother Earth’s ‘spirit lines’ and those points of communion – both to heal and be healed… me/we… One.

That is our path.