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Sheri Prud'homme's avatar

Cynthia, thank you for sharing those amazing pictures! What a stunningly beautiful place. I'd like to experience it with my body in that area of the planet someday. I love this form of confession - truth telling - paired with responsibility taking. As always, the time you take to notice and name these things for yourself allows for resonance and noticing/learning for me, so I really appreciate it. In response to your invitation.... somewhere in the realm of your #7 and #8, I've been playing with some ideas from Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti's book Hospicing Modernity and a course she designed "Facing Human Wrongs" that I'm taking through the University of Victoria. She talks about the inner multitudes, complexities, and contradictions of being human using the metaphor of all of us having a bus with many passengers who respond differently to inputs - different perceptions, emotions, reactions, viewpoints, and things to say. That part was not so new to me, having been in touch with many parts of myself and my spirit team. I have found it a relief, however, to explicitly give myself permission to embrace contradiction and complexity when my parts are having very different experiences. But the thing that promises a juicy shift for me was her invitation to pay attention to the perception of other decks on the bus - mind blowing new dimensions! - such as the deck containing my ancestors past and future or the deck of non-human life forms of the planet. There is something about situating myself as deeply embedded in the metabolism of the living planet and the continuity of its past and future that somehow integrates my experiences as a highly sensitive human into something larger than myself, which I find creates more ease and freedom. Okay, so now that I write this I find myself amused realizing you and I have talked about similar kinds of ideas before .... about being part of the living earth... one expression of an interconnected whole.... But at any rate, that's where my thoughts went in response to your invitation. Grateful to be in the dance with you.

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Shilpa Jain's avatar

Thank you so much for this powerful piece, dear Cynthia. It really echoes something that I'm having an intuitive sense about -- that an increasingly large part of transformation in these times is about our inner awareness and our willingness to accept responsibility for each of our limits and capacities. Not from the trauma responses of blame or shame, and instead just a willingness to look and learn, with humility, a sense of the sacred within, grace for our messiness and complexities, presence, and forgiveness. I love how you share the 'confessions' and what the noticings invite you to practice going forward. Really beautiful. Thank you.

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