️This spoken-word video is part of a longform essay first published in October 2024. It is an excerpt from Part 4 of the 5-Part Series, entitled "Who Bombs Hospitals and Inherits the Earth?" (quote by Fady Joudah).
Part 4 is called “Beyond Genocide into a New World", and this is a small excerpt.
The full essay is HERE
TEXT:
The truth is this: we are not separate. We live in an intelligent, interdependent Web of Life. And that means we are all responsible, whether we want to be or not.
Genocide, ecocide, fascism…. don’t just happen because of“monsters.” They happen when we are silent, and when we are don’t do shadow work or overhaul global systems. When we turn away. When we disconnect.
It happens because of fear, conditioning, allegiance to outdated beliefs and our systems of domination.
And it continues because we allow it.
This is why we must examine ourselves:
...What beliefs are we clinging to that excuse atrocity?
... What comforts are we unwilling to sacrifice to stop the killing, the destruction, exploitation?
We don’t get to a “New Earth” by escaping the old, or pretending the horrors don’t involve us: we get there by facing the Shadow. By seeing that the capacity for harm lives in all of us ... and then choosing otherwise, in reciprocity and with the
whole.
It’s not an individualistic approach: it’s collective.
Because the real evolution isn’t transcending humanity or the Earth: it’s becoming fully human.
That means feeling. It means holding. It means staying present with grief, rage, despair ...and still choosing Love. Not love as bypass, or “love and light with no fight.” But Love as fierce remembrance, sacred refusal, radical interconnection.
This is what Indigenous prophecies have long foretold....
That in a time of great destruction, renewal will emerge from those who remember. From those who rise in that remembering. From those who choose to live differently, together.
We are walking a liminal bridge now between worlds. The old one is dying and the new one is not yet formed here. But we are not powerless.
... We can choose empathy over apathy, truth over illusion, action over paralysis, engagement over bypassing.
... We can return to the Earth’s memory inside our bodies.
... We can Remember the Living Future not as fantasy, but as destiny made real through devotion and responsibility.
And in that remembering, we come full circle. We return to the Living Matrix, the Web of Life. The place where nothing is abstract, and everything is alive. Where knowing is no longer spoken, but walked. Where justice is not ideology, but embodiment. Where the Earth teaches us how to be human again, in hereness, right here, right now.
We can choose to belong to Life and the Earth again. And when we do, we make this vow: that this—this genocide—may be the last in human history.
Because we remembered who we really are and who we might be yet.
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