10 Genuis Insights The Universe Told Me to Tell You
Folx who are close to me know this…
Many times a day I’m hit with a flash of brilliance about some aspect of oppression or liberation that I furiously type into a Notes app on my phone. Some become substack posts or make it into the first draft of my book, Unleashing Aliveness: The Audacity to be Alive in an Oppressive World, but some live forgotten, in the app.
Today, I’m sharing some of these juicy snippets without making them longer or more comprehensive. If you want any of these to become a full post, let me know!
10 genius things the universe told me
Trans kids don’t have mental health issues, society has transphobia issues.
If kids are having problems, adults need therapy. Kids don’t have the autonomy or power within our current systems to create their own problems. Any problems children have are the result of the adults around them. The adults in our society create a container in which there are problems and children cannot thrive, or where there is space for youth to naturally and easily flourish.
Ferality: A quality of Aliveness, where you will kill someone before you let them take your freedom, or you will die trying. Feral Rising learning cohort coming soon. When humans talk about “breaking” animals, we mean it hurting them - or threatening to hurt them - so severely that they voluntarily give up their ferality and assume a state of domestication or “domesticity.” #Cult-of-domesticity
Example of the Fear of Aliveness:
12-step programs won’t rewrite their literature to update language that is racist, gendered, or deeply shame-based. Their reasoning for this hints at a fear of the aliveness that would be unleashed by an update. Rewrites are in alive process and they will lead to outcomes we cannot anticipate. People are afraid of losing what they have in the quest to evolve into more. The fear of aliveness creates a fear of evolution
Play as liberatory practice - How dare you withhold joy from a hurting world. If people are dying in a genocide they may struggle to generate joy. But the world needs joy, especially in painful times, so give your joy to the world, especially when others are hurting.
A fear of aliveness also manifests as mistrust of aliveness. Because I’ve experienced the horror of oppression, I assume that life itself is oppressive. I assume that life is out to get me. I assume that life doesn’t give a shit about me. I assume that life is my enemy. But all that is merely the smallness of oppression. Life is bigger than that. I live in a universe that is abundant and generous. Life has a lot to give and if I’m open to receiving, I can get everything I need and want. The challenge is that oppression trains us to be guarded, armored, and defensive, not open. Oppression teaches us to be suspicious. Oppression teaches us to be alone.
Why everything is a scam now: If we let extractive capitalism play itself out, the only logical endpoint is a scam. Extractive capitalism is a scam rooted in scam-like thinking; How can I get more than I give? How can I extract more than I contribute? How can I get the most while contributing the least? Ponzi schemes and other scams are a logical progression. A simplification (streamlining) of the process.
We think that we will be happy if people behave the way we think they should behave. We will actually be happy when we heal our trauma and attain the realization that life doesn’t have to fit our preferences to be beautiful.
Ideological/ Philosophical paradigm shift - Classism
Philosophy - Extraction
Q: How can I get the most return on the least investment? Said another way, “How can I get more than I give?”
Philosophy - Mutuality
Q: How can I give all of my aliveness to life? Said another way, “How can I give all that I have to give?”
When you heal your trauma, what you feel in your body – instead of fear, shame, or overwhelm – is clarity about purpose, updated moment by moment.
Imagine an activist whose work you deeply respect and appreciate. Notice: they did not save you. You’re still experiencing horrific levels of oppression even though that person worked to make things better for you. It’s debatable how much better off you are, and they certainly did not save you from oppression. You could work your entire life trying to save other people and die having saved no one. Or, you could save yourself, and show people the way out so they can save themselves. You could be Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman didn’t stay enslaved. Harriet Tubman freed herself, and then led others to freedom because she had the lived experience of how to get there!
I hope you enjoyed these musings! I’ve been exploring how to use this platform to nourish my own aliveness. In my exploration, I’ve become less consistent with my posting schedule and format.
Thanks to all of you who’ve stuck with me and those who have joined me on the ride!
Leanne facilitating a group hypnosis session for black, brown, and urban farmers to heal the fear of accumulating and sharing wealth and resources.
So excited for your book. I love the clarity of your voice. Thank you for getting free and showing the way.