Tally
Ho!!!!!! A New Beginning
As we step into this new Julian calendar year I know beyond a shadow
of a doubt that my personal next step in our humanity’s spiritual evolution
is to keep my heart and mind, body and soul focused on the immensely
important continuing unfoldment of the Cultural Creative movement as
one of the vehicles for bringing a global peace and harmony and understanding
into expression in every level of our collective worldview. This movement
speaks to the heart of who I am as a private and public, personal and
professional individual. I am profoundly encouraged knowing that there
are multiple millions of people all over the world working together
collectively, living the value that love is the answer to all of our
deeply felt hurts. In our evolving evolution as spiritual human beings
our prevailing opinion seems to have been to put the emphasis on fear;
put the emphasis on believing that Divinity is outside of us; put the
emphasis on the necessity of keeping us cut off from stunningly beautiful
similarities; put the emphasis on valuing war as the only alternative
to keeping control over our fears. I personally have never seen how
any of that is working very well for any of us; even for those who fanatically,
fearfully hold to that view as the only option.
In
my Psychology class that I’ve been teaching this semester at one of
our community college systems I came upon an interesting analysis of
how we function politically as humans in our explanations of ourselves
and each other. Political conservatives tend to make dispositional attributions
as to why people function the way they do. Political liberals tend to
make situational attributions as to why people function the way they
do. What that means is that conservatives attribute a person’s actions
and circumstances to their inner qualities; conservatives make attributions
like “pull yourselves up by your bootstraps” and they disregard the
social influences of a sick, prejudiced, fear-based society and the
“glass ceilings” put in place to keep people down. Political liberals
acknowledge the enormous impact of society’s laws, policies, attitudes
and stereotypes that keep oppression in place. As an educator and mental
health professional I am passionately dedicated to getting beyond all
the labels of any kind, to the heart and soul of who we are as individuals
and as a collective society so that we can work together to heal all
of the individual and social ills that are in the way of us all demonstrating
the amazing, beautiful, underlying, everpresent, enormous power we have
to heal and to love ourselves and each other. Specifically, my personal,
professional, spiritual, political goals are to continue to work toward
changing the laws that infringe on individual liberty, continue to empower
people so that they have the courage to leave domestic violence situations,
or better yet to never get into these situations in the first place
as perpetrators or victims; continue to advance the deeply held value
that the Earth is sacred and that we have a sacred trust to protect
Her from the shortsighted, monied interests who seek to destroy Her
for their own personal gain without even realizing they are destroying
the very environment which sustains their human existence. I lovingly
hold all these goals in heart and mind, body and soul as I step forward
with you into this year of peace and promise. I acknowledge the Divine
in you as we live together in a new spirit of peace and respect!!!
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