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What if your feelings and your heartbreak were a portal? What if the devastation we’re witnessing in Gaza, in the Earth, in our own systems ... isn’t the end, but the threshold? And that we are here to answer a call … certainly not to have history repeat or bastardise ‘never again’.
This is a war on life. A destruction of the feminine domain,the Earth, memory, belonging, truth, our bodies and the living library of all that exists in the Web of Life.
The wholesale destruction as mirrored, live, for us all of Gaza: homes, schools, mosques, churches. Bakeries, cafés, wedding halls, markets and corner shops, libraries, playgrounds, maternity wards, olive groves, water tanks, books, taxis and bicycles, balconies, cemeteries and mourning tents.
… erasing and exterminating a living people, living memory, living civilization. The everyday textures ofa life. Things we take for granted. Things that say: we were here, we have dreams and we lived. We live. They are still here yet, reminding us.
This destructive force wears many faces: genocide. Ecocide. ICE. Femicide. Surveillance. Supremacy. Exploitation. And still, we are told to be polite, threatened into silence. We must ask permission to protest. We are taught to ignore, normalise, spiritualise and vote for all manner of harm.
But these will not bring peace and silence is not sacred, and collusion with empire is not holy. It’s a spell.
Fully being here recognises, and chooses to dismantle empire, break it. It becomes the choice to fully disrupt the prevailing dominator death program — in yourself, your culture, choices, complicity. Not make it ok by swapping out one dominator for another in the next election cycle in a rigged duopoly.
It’s where rage becomes holy, grief becomes fuel and disruption becomes devotion. It’s where, on this path, you are mentored by life itself. By what is happening. Life is the Guru, the Mentor. It’s where you cross the threshold not to escape the world, but to fully embody into it and serve it. You remember your entire existence here as an instrument of truth and engagement.
Above all, you stop asking for permission to be human, or pretending you are not.
The world doesn’t need more good intentions, as valuable as these are. It needs people who can stand in the fire and not look away. Who understand that engagement and warriorship aren’t aggression, but moral clarity in motion, and sacred. A sacred Warriorship.
This is the moment of reckoning, and if you can feel this, deep in your bones....then you already know: You’ve crossed the threshold. You’re not alone. You stand with millions. And the Web of Life remembers who you are and knows your name.
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