It seems often we are living in a substrate of enforced, artificial self-advertising to try to restore our physical safety in social environments... signaling desperately to avoid harm, while hiding our true selves because our true selves have been made so unacceptable in our social environments... and our social environments have become altogether less safe for natural living beings.
There is certainly a kind of Tower of Babel effect occurring. Language divergence seems to have become much more problematically extreme; and the extremity of it is hidden because people are forced to go underground about their real feelings and processes.
Language has always been fluid and emergent, but it is being split and forced away from itself now in ways that are increasingly conspicuous, causing a lot of anguish and violence in social spaces and relationships. A lot of invisibilized damage and hardship.
A touch point that helps me to remember and anchor true energetic diplomacy is that if another being expects me to learn their language respectfully, it is right for me to expect that being to learn my language respectfully, too.
If a group is bullying me into learning their languages without honorable regard for my own languages, that is not a relationship I want to participate in; and it isn't a relationship I'm respected in.
I think of all the violence that has been done through colonial imperialist influences forcing conquered cultures to stop using their own languages... and how brutal I know that to be for the ones who are no longer allowed to safely speak their own languages, the languages of their ancestors, the languages of their traditions.
Over time (and long-term recovering from neurological injuries caused in large part by violence to my own languaging!) I came to understand better how each of us individually has this experience inherently even when we had otherwise been cut off from our ancestral traditions by multi-generational traumas. Respecting the true self. Being who we are. Tuning ourselves in every way we can as natural living beings in the natural world.
I also started to realize how traumagenic methods are being used to create hidden disablement, and to trick living beings into doing life destroying things without recognition of the ramifications.
I love reading the story of this music and the experiences of traveling through relational implications of it.
We do deeply need to be our whole creative selves, in all our uniqueness as living beings, in order to heal from the violence of contrived language divergence and cooptation.
Blessings to the sacred vitality; blessings creative emergence.
This is really good. I can hear it birthing itself. It reminds me a little of how the Doors used to hit me, but different. More like a female dragon slayer or a completely free natural woman, perhaps. You were the one who made me want to toss the "ism". I wanted you to know. I am collecting words from people as I travel. I am adding your mention of "isms" to that list. I wanted a word that meant every person holds a piece of truth, like "omnism", the belief that every religion holds a piece of truth. But I have to drop the "ism" as well, because to do otherwise at this point would just be utterly ridiculous. :)
Nicely put Jacqueline. Beginning to see through all of our self imposed identities is key to seeing through all our self imposed limitations.
Beautifully said, Todd! I appreciate your comment. 🙏
I love the doozers reference.
It seems often we are living in a substrate of enforced, artificial self-advertising to try to restore our physical safety in social environments... signaling desperately to avoid harm, while hiding our true selves because our true selves have been made so unacceptable in our social environments... and our social environments have become altogether less safe for natural living beings.
There is certainly a kind of Tower of Babel effect occurring. Language divergence seems to have become much more problematically extreme; and the extremity of it is hidden because people are forced to go underground about their real feelings and processes.
Language has always been fluid and emergent, but it is being split and forced away from itself now in ways that are increasingly conspicuous, causing a lot of anguish and violence in social spaces and relationships. A lot of invisibilized damage and hardship.
A touch point that helps me to remember and anchor true energetic diplomacy is that if another being expects me to learn their language respectfully, it is right for me to expect that being to learn my language respectfully, too.
If a group is bullying me into learning their languages without honorable regard for my own languages, that is not a relationship I want to participate in; and it isn't a relationship I'm respected in.
I think of all the violence that has been done through colonial imperialist influences forcing conquered cultures to stop using their own languages... and how brutal I know that to be for the ones who are no longer allowed to safely speak their own languages, the languages of their ancestors, the languages of their traditions.
Over time (and long-term recovering from neurological injuries caused in large part by violence to my own languaging!) I came to understand better how each of us individually has this experience inherently even when we had otherwise been cut off from our ancestral traditions by multi-generational traumas. Respecting the true self. Being who we are. Tuning ourselves in every way we can as natural living beings in the natural world.
I also started to realize how traumagenic methods are being used to create hidden disablement, and to trick living beings into doing life destroying things without recognition of the ramifications.
I love reading the story of this music and the experiences of traveling through relational implications of it.
We do deeply need to be our whole creative selves, in all our uniqueness as living beings, in order to heal from the violence of contrived language divergence and cooptation.
Blessings to the sacred vitality; blessings creative emergence.
Wow!! Thanks for sharing with me all of these ideas, Max. I love all that you’ve written here. 🙏
“Blessings to the sacred vitality; blessings creative emergence.”
Indeed!! ✨🥂❤️🙌
This is really good. I can hear it birthing itself. It reminds me a little of how the Doors used to hit me, but different. More like a female dragon slayer or a completely free natural woman, perhaps. You were the one who made me want to toss the "ism". I wanted you to know. I am collecting words from people as I travel. I am adding your mention of "isms" to that list. I wanted a word that meant every person holds a piece of truth, like "omnism", the belief that every religion holds a piece of truth. But I have to drop the "ism" as well, because to do otherwise at this point would just be utterly ridiculous. :)
Wow!! Thank you so much, my sister! For all that you’ve written. The Doors, the ‘ism’!! 🥂✨🙏
I’ve long felt that the only label that I can not be hypocrite in identifying with is Human. It’s just the MOST true, ya know?! ❤️
This is excellent Jacqueline! This deeply resonates! Very well said. Thank you! 🙏🏻😊
Thank you so much for reading!! Have a beauty day, sister! :)