Beyond Genocide into a New World

The work consists of 5 Parts under the main question of, “Who Bombs Hospitals and Inherits the Earth?”(Fady Joudah), and are as follows:

• PART ONE: Spiritual Warfare and the Soul of HumanityPART TWO: Gaza: An Awakening and Unflinching Litmus Test
• PART THREE: Gaza, the Collective Shadow and Why Caring is Critical
• PART FOUR: Beyond Genocide into a New World
• PART FIVE: My Work Going Forward

PART FOUR: Beyond Genocide into a New World

The following words reflect collective consciousness within the Unified Field. They are about Gaza, yes, and also the
interconnectedness-consciousness required of us to come together and evolve beyond the separation-consciousness that allows for the world’s most heinous crimes to be committed upon human beings, the Earth and its species.

It brings to mind American author and civil rights activist James Baldwin’s words during the Vietnam War that were born of his experiences as a Black man in the United States,

Both speak to our oneness in the human experience, rooted in the consciousness of a shared solidarity.

We are One, and what befalls one, befalls the all.

In considering evolving ‘beyond genocide into a new world’, a path being outlined within this work has been about being in this world, right in the heart of it, connected to all in shared existence and belonging, not shutting down, deadening our hearts and minds, and turning away.

We are all connected and mutually interdependent from tiny leptons and quarks to the gargantuan intelligence of the multiverse.

As Joanna Macy has written regarding movement into the heart of the world:

And this path arises from a choice to fully feel and to develop being here in empathy, compassion, wisdom, resilience and courage. It’s a choice and willingness to enter into the world and its beauty, along with its suffering, agony, brokenness and imperfection—and therein, deep in the heart of all, to discover the mystery, sacredness, intelligence and the wholeness of all Life.

This capacity comes from healing the imagined splits of old regarding the transcendent and the immanent, Heaven and Earth, masculine and feminine, spirit and matter, left brain and right brain, vertical/hierarchical organization and
horizontal/non-hierachical organization, dominator and dominated, enlightened and asleep, lesser and higher, master and slave, Global North and Global South et al.

We further surrender separation-consciousness and move into wholeness and into the beingness of the interconnectedness of all beings, as expressed in Part One.

We re-sacralize all existence, and no longer seek to amputate the Earth from our consciousness or to hide out in the transcendent realms of timelessness and bliss, or binge on Netflix.

We find our voices and our mettle in the mess and beauty of this world.

We are here at home as Consciousness, both transcendent and immanent, in all existence.

We experience the Divine in all, even in the depths of depravity. The Source is everywhere all at once.

When we walk that path of the full embrace of all, we see all as sacred. We open and allow ourselves to feel it all. We do not run from the suffering and pain, our own or others’. We embrace and hold in knowing, honour and compassion. We are humbled and recognize that we can be as much the perpetrator as the victim, determined only by the slightest shift in circumstances or decisions.

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The last year in particular has opened Pandora’s Box and shattered status quo foundations of many more human beings globally, with Gaza having played a central role as we’ve seen through Parts 1 -3. If we’ve additionally made our own investigations beyond status quo interpretations, whether about Gaza, climate change, ecocide or elections, or any other aspects of the polycrisis we find ourselves in… we see a picture very different than perhaps we have been led to believe.

The last year has seen people drop separation-consciousness and come together in the millions, from all walks of life, to say ‘no’ to Genocide.

For those whose governments are involved in covering up what is happening, here are the latest reports. (Others were in Part 2):

• Report of the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 - 2nd Report - “Genocide as colonial erasure” ~ here
• A Cartography of Genocide ~ 827-page analysis by Forensic Architecture ~ here
• Memorial to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) - 750 pages of text, supported
  by exhibits and annexes of over 4,000 pages ~ here

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Gaza, and why I and countless others have written or spoken about it at length, is a live-streamed, turning-point / fork-in-the-road Terrible Gift that pierces the Heart and takes us deep into human existence, and the global belief systems and ideologies that normalize genocide, pedocide, ecocide, scholasticide, domicide, femicide, infanticide, urbicide, necrocide and more through endless war, colonialism, apartheid, patriarchy, ethnic cleansing, white supremacy,
exceptionalism, racism, extractivism, empire, displacement and exploitation of marginalized peoples.

Gaza shows us a mirror, as expressed in Parts Two and Three, via a particular ethnic group, in this case Palestinians, paying the ultimate price via warcrimes in the form of collective punishment, revenge-killing, industrial-scale slaughter,
torture, dehumanization, and the creation now of a dystopian, apocalyptic landscape where food, water, fuel, medical supplies, journalists and aidworkers have been barred by Israel in order to completely ethnically cleanse Gaza.

It shows us what must not be if we are to advance as a species on this planet: the desecration, destruction and slaughter within the Web of Life. The unconsciousness. The shocking, abhorrent, violent ignorance of the Web of Life within
which we all have our being.

We cannot get to a viable ‘New Earth’ whilst normalizing and allowing such desecration through fear and outdated ideology, any more than one can have a happy marriage at the hands of a violent, abusive, alcoholic spouse. Only cognitive dissonance, wishful thinking and compartmentalization can make the abominable happy.

Hence, the subtitle of the series, “Who Bombs Hospitals & Inherits the Earth?”

In this polycrisis, we are in a place where humanity has never been before. Although subject to the most ferocious propaganda campaigns ever enabled, millions are more conscious and connected than before. Millions are leading with their Hearts, feeling and understanding that because all systems are one and connected in a Unified Field, Gaza is not a stand-alone ‘single issue’. It connects to everything else, as expressed in other Parts in this work.

And so, the consequences of burning children alive or blowing their heads off or sniping their heads or hearts, or mass executions or blowing up International and Humanitarian laws to destroy an entire group and more for opportunistic
ends reverberate beyond Gaza’s borders into the very Heart of existence and brutally crash into the Soul of Humanity.

Remembering that it’s not about ‘sides’ except the side of humanity, human beings, the Earth and its species, we can only be non-responsive or seemingly removed for so long at a time when so many critical thresholds are being reached simultaneously.

It’s about all conceivable red lines being obliterated.

It’s about the sheer industrial scale of violence and abuse.

And yet, the Genocide continues and it is accelerating and metastasizing, with seemingly no end in sight to the mass extermination of civilians and infrastructure, no matter how many UN resolutions, International Court of Justice conclusions, doctors, journalists, aid workers or human rights groups have sounded the alarm and called for an immediate end to Israeli intentionally-genocidal atrocity.

The ‘Dark Fathers’ of the old patriarchal order, whether men or women, hold their pathological sway and spell, and too many of us remain trapped within older ideologies and cannot connect the dots as to how what is happening in Gaza is relevant to all life on Earth and cannot accept that the Dark Fathers do not care about Life, us or the Earth.

An older part of us may yet want to believe in our authorities, easy answers and someone to save us and make it all better. But, we need only ‘follow the money’ beyond the facile slogans to understand who and what is running the planet right now, and why, and how what is happening is policy, neither a mistake nor an aberration.

The dehumanization and annihilation of others and destruction of the Earth for supremacy, land and resources are what is wanted by unprocessed Dark Father energy.

Because Gaza’s holocaust has been live-streamed 24/7 for over one year, millions see it. Democratized and decentralized media, journalism, film, art, literature, music and more have shown what is happening on the
ground in Gaza, and what governments are participating in it. We need no one, centralized source to tell us how to think or interpret for us what we are seeing, try though it might.

Millions see and feel what is both repugnant and unsustainable, and whereas such criminality has always existed, up until now it has never been seen and shared ‘everywhere, all at once’ via livestream.

Millions have formed deep relationships with those on the ground in Gaza and to similar places (Congo, West Bank, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and more) and intimately feel what is happening at very heightened, primal, core
levels of being. They cry when those suffering cry. They mourn when they are blown up, burnt alive, put in a mass grave, starving, or displaced once again.

Because of heightened, consciously empathic interconnection, they are able to feel it all as One and are moved to
selflessly act for the all that exists in interdependence, interbelonging. They recognize their privilege, and that the ways and policies that have made sense are ‘finished’ because these are destroying Life.

Empathy is the glue that holds together our humanity and what it means to be a human being, and it is being
pummelled by elites so they can carry on as always.

We must evolve or die, or die to the old in order to evolve. The status quo is not going to help: it is going to continue to confuse, gaslight and use as many of us as possible to manufacture consent for its crimes.

However, in an interconnected world of interdependence and interdependence,

And furthermore, the walls are closing in and the chickens are coming home to roost.

Our evolution, whether we are cognizant of this or not, is such that what is going on in the world is going to touch us, is touching us and Gaza has blown open the doors. The world will touch us because we are of the world, of this Earth, in divinity and connected to all the Earth’s systems within which our lives are nested.

This is the great tragedy and gift of Gaza simultaneously, as well now of the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and all places currently being decimated.

And so, we find ourselves needing to break ties with, and go beyond, the patriarchal dominator paradigm in order to both
survive and thrive. Polycrisis and the global death/war machine are clear indicators.

We have the choice to create a more democratized, multi-polar world, free of oligarchs and plutocrats who care nothing for humanity or the Earth.

Which is to say: we are required to change ourselves at fundamental levels if we believe We Are One and that we live in an Intelligent Unified Field, within which everything is affecting everything else all at once.

If we still believe we create in a vacuum and can exist in a make-believe bubble and get to a New Earth whilst the world and all semblance of humanity and human rights burns, we are still believing that we are separate beings and that what one does here doesn’t affect the other there, and vice-versa. It’s like still thinking one can live in the uni-polar world
of old where one country/region has dominance over all the others without consequence. That is finished.

And so, we are walking a liminal bridge, even as it being built under our feet as we walk it, uncomfortably existing between the old and the new.

The ‘How’ to Move Beyond Genocide

So although the ‘how’ we move beyond Genocide into the new comprises many factors when we consider all our Earth-based systems, and they won’t progress in linear fashion, we can personally start with considering
these:

1. Understand we live in a Unified Field of Consciousness, however we choose to label it: Living Matrix, the Web of
Life, All That Is, etc

2. Recognize We are One and All is One in interbeing, interdependence, interconnection in that Field. Your
flourishing and freedom are intimately connected with those of others.

3. Develop the compassion and wisdom that enables you to embrace all, including paradox and chaos

4. Become conscious of your own Shadows (in the form of fear, status quo allegiances, belief systems) relative to the old, split reality and within which you may still be embedded and giving a free pass to violence

5. Decide to unplug and heal from them all the more so as not to cause further harm by silence, complicity, apathy, fear

6. Learn to navigate volatility in extreme uncertainty

7. Feel all as yourself so that you can then know your path of action, whatever it is: art, boycott, divestment, writing, healing, posting, speaking up, praying, emailing, protesting, disrupting, donating, amplifying the voices of the suffering, gathering with likeminds in community and so much more. Feel fully, and the path reveals itself.

8. Learn to be present, hold, witness, sit alongside another and be with what arises, even if there are no apparent answers, for yourself or another. Shared beingness is powerful.

9. Imagine a world where we live as neighbors, partners, friends, in shared equality and reciprocity with the Earth, in a paradigm healed of supremacist, controlling and exclusionary ideologies, in mutuality, reciprocal relationship, conscious being, empathy and wisdom as part of the forecasted renewal and regeneration of humanity and the Earth for these times.

Know Thyself: Diving into the Shadow

Living through, recognizing and/or embracing pain is powerful:

Live-streamed genocide has pointed us to the even deeper dive required regarding what is left within us that contributes to Genocidal behaviour when we remain silent or ignorant, and thus what is left of the Shadow within that contributes to personal and global dysfunction and harm, and that impedes the world the majority would rather live in.

And yes, it is hard to hear that we contribute, but in an interconnected world, it cannot but be otherwise. Silence, turning away, apathy etc translate into complicity and a ‘yes’ for perpetrators.

The call is to excavate and ‘know thyself’.

And so, for those who understand our interbeing with all existence, we necessarily end up asking ourselves questions about ourselves and about the world, calling into question our beliefs and the nature of human beings.

The self-inquiry is paramount and, yes, it takes a lot of courage to face deep complexes and dark truths, whether your own, your country’s, leaders’ or the world’s. We may inadvertently hold up systems of harm because we have been confused by those in power, or we are traumatized, or we simply default to a perceived self-interest due to not understanding the Web of Life.

We live in systems that do not support life but instead facilitate and celebrate harm, as we see playing out globally.

I offer the following questions as ruminations for pondering and as part of healing:

… How is that a Genocide being barbarically committed and live-streamed in full public view and with such support is able to be done without triggering our outrage, moral revulsion and the ability to say ‘no’?

… Why can’t / won’t we / our governments name it for what it is?

… How does ignoring it make one more evolved, progressive or more ‘high vibe’?

… How does it not dangerously incapacitate one for these times?

…How does it not deny the very essence of our humanness and disable our capacity to recognize ‘the other’ as ourselves?

… In what ways do we suppress and twist ourselves internally to give genocide a free pass?

… Do we consider human beings in other parts of the world to be ‘less than’ or expendable? Do some lives matter more to us than others? Are some deaths just numbers, rather than people who have families, stories and dreams?

… What parts of us cannot feel and are dead, and why? Who or what choked our voices, hearts or empathy?

… To whom and what are we giving our unconscious, conditioned allegiance?

… What are the personal and collective belief systems that allow the dehumanization and ethnic cleansing of another group?

… How are we stuck, or taking imagined refuge, in ‘transcendence / ascension’, rather than fully being here with all of creation?

… How did we abandon our humanity? Personally, collectively? Did we ever really have it, or is this a work in progress, something we are striving towards?

… Why do we allow the massacre, burning alive and sniping in the head or heart of the most innocent and defenseless amongst us?

… What are the consequences of massacring the innocent upon our minds, bodies, souls, and the Soul of Humanity, the fabric of all existence?

… Why can we not recognize or feel others’ pain, or our role in their pain or suffering?

… Does our (very Western) focus on individualism effectively disconnect us from our humanity, the collective and our shared humanity?

… What monstrous tyrannies have we been being socialized into and are swallowing everyday and call progress, evolution, joy, peace, ascension, freedom?

… How much have very powerful lobby groups paid to politicians to ensure the death of each child, the poisoning of our lands?

… Who or what may our spiritual and wellness communities be unintentionally serving? Have the ‘Dark Father’ men and women elites of the status quo captured these in order to serve its own ends to maintain its global dominance?

… Are we ‘love and light with no fight’?

… Are we coming from privilege and the desire to escape what is uncomfortable?

… Are we conditioned by disconnecting, distracting, dehumanizing ideologies?

… Are we terrified that if we really saw what we don’t want to see we’d have to change ourselves and our most foundational sets of beliefs? The ones that seemingly made sense all this time or kept us seemingly safe?

… Are some of our beliefs personal coping mechanisms that are harmful to and incompatible with life itself?

… Is our ignorance, or choice to remain ignorant, a choice in favour of personal comfort, ‘peace of mind’, and salvation at the expense of our and others’ wellbeing and the Earth?

… Where do smiling, gaslighting, genocidal leaders and perpetrators live within you and to whom/what are you giving life force and votes that cause human beings and the Earth harm, and that consequently make us sick, impoverished, powerless, anxious, overwhelmed and burnt-out in a never-ending cycle of abuse and exploitation?

… How is it we are in a situation where we are suppressed, smeared, punished, fired and jailed by perpetrators for speaking up about Genocide and other atrocities, or we can do so only selectively when it is the ‘right’ country to be targeting?

… How is it that it is right to value bombs and killing, but not value life? Whose life has been deemed more valuable?

… Who decided who was worthy or unworthy of life on this planet, the right colour, religion, ethnicity - and what is the benefit being received by oppressors?

… Do we need things to become even more fragmented, polarized, fascistic, authoritarian and dystopian before we
act in service of the whole?

… Are we so naïve, privileged and insulated that we believe prayers, petitions, love and light, turning
away, and a corporate-lobby-bought politician will stop the trashing and murder?

… Do we expect our suffering brothers and sisters to apologize for every painful image we and this world receives from the hell they are experiencing, or that wounds or frightens the world’s feelings and sensitivities, including the feelings of perpetrators?

… Do we believe our brothers and sisters ‘had it coming’ and ought to be abandoned, punished or slaughtered?

These are all powerful questions and we may not have ready answers, but they do help us to see toxic alliances and to then make the choice to unplug from them.

Bringing forward again being the spouse of an abusive alcoholic… If you are pretending he or she is otherwise or that it only happens twice a month and it doesn’t hurt all that much, if you believe that turning away and just pretending ‘all is well’, if you cannot admit there is something wrong, you are not going to free yourself. It’s a free pass for the abuse to continue.

We are both Perpetrator and Victim

As we know from the historical record, we each have the capacity for harm, given the same circumstances. We know from studies of the Holocaust that this is so for all of us. We are all capable of causing harm in what Hannah Arendt called ‘the word-and-thought-defying banality of evil’. Sure, there are ‘monsters’ out there, but they are also within and they are also us.

To know and accept our own capacity for harm is to become more humble, more human, more wise, more compassionate. It is neither to condone nor consider it acceptable, but to see how in the human experience, this is
what we are at present. Knowing our own capacity keeps us from judgement and projection that it is happening ‘over there’ or ‘by that group’: we know it is happening within and it is our evolutionary task to recognize it, say ‘no’ to continuing or supporting it, and to heal it.

Whether human beings continue to exist or not depends upon our ability to embody here and be in, and to love and take care of ourselves and this world within which we have our being and that identifies and nourishes us within its intelligent,
interdependent Web of Life. Otherwise we will continue this abominable descent into further moral collapse and darkness, pretending it doesn’t involve us because a New Earth is going to magically materialize out of thin air.

Love alone can overcome the genocidal, ecocidal forces destroying human beings, the Earth and all its species. An embodied, real, integrated Love. A re-humanized, re-connected LOVE that is here, that is both immanent and transcendent, and connected to All Life as oneself.

a deep and universal understanding of mutuality, is a call to solidarity with those who are suffering.

Being Here for a New World

In the horror and despair that has been both Gaza and Israel for almost one year and now violently expanding, I have seen the rising up worldwide of a global multifaith, multigenerational, multiracial, multipolitical group of people facing the Genocide head-on and endeavouring to course-correct this Spiritual War, however they may be naming that.

Change is coming from ‘the people’, like it always has, and powerfully accelerated now by both the escalation of horror and the dissolving of boundaries through frequency and social media, and the evolved feeling of the Collective and all existence as sacred and worth fighting for.

Thousands are taking great risks involving their reputations, jobs, finances, degrees, security, relationships in order to stop the horror.

The ancient indigenous prophecies spoke of the renewal and regeneration of the Earth and Humanity, and the
indigenous are rising all over the Earth at this time, as they have been for decades, calling us to remember and into action for a new world. They feel the destruction happening to human beings and the Earth most deeply. They remember, they recognize.

Being here for a new world is living from the re-humanized, full humanness of mindful collective beingness, and where
we empower ourselves to recognize and courageously digest both light and shadow, demand and are accountability, and become fully human. That is Divinity. We hold all life in radical sacredness, empathy, compassion and accountability, including ourselves, and we are fully here, not disembodied and hiding from Life, enabling harm through ignorance.

In the exteriorization/externalization of God/Source, in the idea that this Earth, this place is a fallen, lesser, low vibration place and Timeline, we are blind to the divinity within it. We disregard it. In disregarding it, feeling separate and apart from it, we allow the trashing and the harm, believing the ignoring is part of evolving ourselves to a New Earth.

It is the Immanence of the Divine that must be, and is being, restored at this time and until the splits and shadows within are healed, genocide, ecocide, femicide etc will persist. Hierarchy and vertical, top-down, centralized and controlling
leadership will exist at the hands of the Dark Fathers and their institutions.

In large part, it’s the move from the (Western) transcendent approach to life, and especially as set in motion by the
three Abrahamic religions of a God being ‘out there’, to embracing the immanent approach where God (as both Mother and Father) is present in all existence in interbeing and interdependence, as Itself and as each of us.

The transcendent approach of these thousands of years taught us that that we are separate from the Source and that we are superior to matter, to the Earth, to nature and were given dominion over it. That only the non-physical world is the spiritual world, rather than spiritual world being omnipresent in all existence. The transcendent approach divorces us from being here.

Dissolving all boundaries between self and others, self and existence, we feel our place and anchoring as individuals within an intelligent, non-hierarchical collective consciousness on this Earth, and neither higher nor lesser than the other species residing here. We cease hyper-individualism and recognize that self-interest does not exist outside of our shared interbeing and interdependence. We are here for mutual aid, abundance, protection and solidarity with all Life.

We are here for the forecasted renewal and regeneration of humanity and the Earth.

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