Become full-of-yourself
to escape oppression
During times of tyranny and terror, I recommend becoming full of yourself.
Become so full of your own clarity, power ease, and magic that you know exactly how to respond to life moment by moment to stay as safe and happy as you can be.
We search for answers in confusing times. But most of us are full of the rules and ideologies of oppression and propriety. We cannot find our own truth. We are too full of lies.
How should you respond to tyranny?
Depends on who you are. Depends on which destiny you picked. Depends on what lessons you’re (un)learning these days. There is no one-size-fits-all answer. Colonized people made up one-size-fits-all answers. That’s why one-size-fits-all feels oppressive. That’s why it doesn’t fit.
Some of us are supposed to respond to tyranny with leadership to guide others through this terrifying time.
Some of us are supposed to respond to tyranny by learning how to focus our attention on what matters most to our hearts, instead of on what we hate.
Some of us are supposed to respond to tyranny by parenting with more wisdom and anti-oppression than ever before.
Some of us are supposed to respond to tyranny by being gayer than we’ve ever been.
Some of us are supposed to respond to tyranny by making art that fuels liberation.
Some of us are supposed to respond to tyranny by crying so much we wonder if we’re ok.
Maybe we need to do all these things, none of these things, or other things.
The only force in this universe that truly knows how YOU are supposed to respond to tyranny is your own aliveness.
Your aliveness is connected to the Grand Aliveness of Life, which is orchestrating the individual aliveness of each member of the ecosystem. The Grand Aliveness of Life is telling the flutes when to play, and the oboes when to pause, and the drums when to speed up. But If the flutes are pretending to be obos to stay safe, we create disharmony. If the flutes are pretending to be obos, the whole orchestra is out of sync. Being out of sync with Life is a bad place to be when tyranny is around…
We could say systemic oppression is being out of sync with life at every level of our being, in every way, in every moment. This leads to catastrophic misalignments and a lot of confusion.
But if you follow the music of your own heart, your flute section will come in exactly when life needs it. The music of life will be beautiful and sweet instead of discordant and unorganized. We are life so if we are in alignment with our own aliveness, we create harmony. If we follow the rules, games, and nonsense of propriety and oppression, life is out of sync, disharmonious, and unpleasant.
The magic happens when we each follow the grand conductor of life and play the part that only we can play.
To do this, we must become so full of ourselves that the music of our own sweet heart drowns out the lies of oppression. We must drown out the nay-sayer in our mind that tells us - with worry and concern - that we better not follow the music of our heart, or else…
What if you were so full of your own wisdom, ease, and power, that you couldn’t hear the voice of oppression and it’s misguided advice?
What if you were so full of yourself that you couldn’t help but be free?
What if being full of yourself was the way out of oppression?
What if being full of yourself was the first response to tyranny?
What if everything in the way of liberation was just your own misalignment?
What if the only obstacle was you?
What if you got out of your way?
What if you played the part life needed you to play in service of liberation?
What if you joined the tidal wave of fully liberated humans?
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