Reading by Fatima Bacot
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There is a force at work in the world…ancient, coordinated, and predatory.
In this moment of devastating unveiling, we are called to not look away because this is where we begin: with fully recognising and admitting.
Calling things as they are.
Recognising to what we are giving power, and with what we are enmeshed.
We are living through the global unveiling of the Shadow: that force that feeds on fear, ignorance and disconnection, that desecrates and consumes innocence, and that destroys life under the banners of security, order, Manifest Destiny, defense, civility, peace, progress.
It may come in different forms, but it is the same pattern and reflects the forever-wars and assaults on Life itself.
Many of us have walked away from temples and tactics, from spiritual seduction and bypassing and political games, from light that refused to even name genocide, ecocide or fascism, or dignify and honour the Earth, its human beings and its species suffering from these. From belief systems, leaders and sacred cows who tell us to look away from the wreckage whilst life as we know it is burned, buried, drowned, starved, erased or violated in any number of ways and for truly demonic, outrageous but always profitable reasons.
And as if turning away is ‘wisdom’ or being ‘awake’, ‘evolved’ or ‘just’.
We’re not living in a string of unrelated horrors. It is a coordinated, dominator, racist worldview built on deception, chaos, control, exploitation and amnesia that tears families apart at borders, preys upon the vulnerable and the innocent, trafficks, blames, burns and buries children alive ... and bombs the future and calls it peace.
And it is protected …by the very governments, thinktanks and institutions that claim moral superiority. That even claim to be humanitarian and democratic. That wrap up their depraved initiatives using words like ‘humanitarian this’ and ‘humanitarian that’.
This is how the Shadow operates: not only through brutality, but through inversion—where the guilty and genocidal cry victim and virtuous, and the truth is buried, mangled and mutilated beneath a flood of noise.
But the veils and masks are failing and falling, and the people are gathering. Narratives are exposed and cracking. Don’t give up. Keep gathering, speaking up, decolonosing hour mind, body and belief systems, banging the pots, posting, creating, seoaking, boycotting, loving, divesting: it’s working.
And above all: don’t let them break you or your spirit, or steal your humanity or dignity.
→ Explore further: [RISE UP: In Times of Great Upheaval, the Awakened Rise] — (HERE) — where we go from disillusionment to awakening with clarity and courage.
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