We Stand Together on this Sacred Land

Here we stand together on this sacred land.

When doing this work, the idea that there are lines in the sand that cannot be crossed becomes almost unbelievable. And believable at the same time due to the realities of the ways our human hearts have been socialized. But I feel like the astronauts who look back at Earth from space and see this ball of beauty hanging in the sky where no boundaries or lines can be seen. I feel the utter preciousness of this tiny dot called home, and the utter insanity of our divisions.

I had no idea that the Dead Sea was the lowest place on Earth. It is 1400 feet below sea level. So, at the lowest point on earth, we lived what people in the group called magic, and miraculous.

It is not just forgiveness, it is change. How hard it is to change. To validate our experience and be willing to open again, to stand together, to STAY. To see someone else’s experience and be willing to be changed by it. Changed in concrete ways that make a difference.

The boundaries, they are in our hearts. And I am not naïve. I know only from my tiny experience what it is to be hurt and to hurt others. I know how hard it can be to forgive and to open again. I have not lived war and humiliation and fear and loss the way these people have. I do not have the same history to navigate, though I certainly have my own. I am humbled in their presence.

Our group has been willing to stay. AND we asked that question again and again- are you willing to be changed? We must ask it on a daily basis, and I can see that every being in this group has said yes in so many ways.

The work that has come before this module, the teaching, the reflective work, the awareness raising and the processing, that work took time. It took the willingness to stay in profound discomfort and fear. Now after 2 entire years, our participants jumped in to lead each other. They know so much I do not know. And wow, and wow and wow. Each leader brought a new perspective, a different experience and way of holding and so much came out.

The final circle we sat together, and each reflected the qualities they saw in each other’s leadership. The unique ways that they brought themselves to the whole. And there I said to them, can you see, can you see- that when human beings are empowered and can bring themselves to life fully, how each voice, each spirit, each soul is NEEDED to make this place we call home whole.

It is exciting that they are now going out. That they are starting to bring these skills to other circles and projects and opportunities, and to their families and communities and homes. We are starting to dream of the next program. And what it will look like. And I can already see that this way of being, this way of leading, this way of bringing this information we call Radical Aliveness, that flows in so many unique ways, is spreading and growing here.

I love life. I feel so blessed to be a part of this beautiful movement. So blessed to have partners with such courage. We dedicated our work to all the souls who are not with us any longer. We dedicated our work to the many people who will never have a chance to experience this. We made a commitment to bring our hearts and awareness to the people we are meeting. We made a commitment to this beautiful ball hanging in the sky. We are thinking of the human beings we have lost, the ones here now and those yet to come. We are hoping and dreaming. We are doing our part. That is something we can all do. And if all of us do our part, maybe this beautiful place we call home will finally be able to say to every living thing, you all belong and always have.

Shukran, Toda, Thank you- ann