My Political Views: Loss of Soul

Me practicing to do my own hair which is always poker straight. Evolution. :)

What do I think?

What are my views?

These are questions I have avoided answering, avoided asking even of myself.

The main reason of course for my avoidance is that - as I’m sure you all know and have likely experienced directly - there is no real room for discourse anymore. Emotion is at an all time high, and, as a result, compassion and objectivity is at an all time low.

Justification and blame seem to be the only common ground these days. On both sides of any topic there is no shortage of either.

I admit that I am no better in my avoidance. I know that my avoidance is fueled in large part by the fact that conflict makes me uncomfortable, and that when I have expressed my opinion in the past it has cost me. But on a deeper level, my avoidance stems from the knowing that if I did pay attention to all of the arguments on both sides (and I have, some), that I would not land on one side or the other.

As a result, everyone will hate me - either finding me a cop out, or weak, or just plain wrong - for failing to stand strongly on one side or the other.

Honestly, I believe we are engaged in the wrong conversation. There is a deeper conversation to be had - one at the evolutionary (or soul) level - that would actually move things forward, momentously. But the willingness to have such a conversation is not there in the mainstream. Righteousness precludes it from happening.

There are several people whom I follow who try to engage a bigger conversation, and I admire them deeply for their courage. It is courage I wish I possessed. It is courage I hope I am growing into.

I am not yet there in my own evolution, but I am working on it.

I come from a lineage of silence and people pleasing. Holding it in is the way of my ancestors.

To be honest I admire their strength in doing so, as much as it frustrates me that I have to struggle so much to find the courage to have a voice.

I know that their silence was necessary for survival and therefore I cannot have any judgment about it. I am here because they did what was necessary for me to be here now, with the privilege that I have.

However, silence is not necessary for survival in my life, at least, not yet. Though I believe the stakes are getting higher.

This trajectory we are on as humans (pitting each other into extremes) is not really novel. We have as a species lost our way many times before. Just look at all those societies that have crumbled.

Loss of village. Loss of connection to place. Loss of values. Loss of knowing who we are. Loss of knowing how we are meant to contribute to the world. I strongly believe these losses - which operate at the core, or soul, level - are what has created such disfunction and destruction in the world.

Reconnection to soul is the answer I offer to any disagreement or political debate. My offering to the conversation is therefore outside of the conversation. I am unwilling to pick a side or call anybody wrong. As such, I am not welcomed by any side. I do not belong in the conversation as it is framed. So, I have for the most part stayed silent.

The problem with staying silent is that it is having a negative impact on my health. Not in big ways, so far, but in small ways. I can feel the ways the avoidance is impacting my body. Heaviness. Depression. Defeat.

Can my voice really matter? I don’t know.

I don’t know.

But, I can no longer not speak.

My soul is asking me to engage. Denying the request will only hurt me. This I know.

And, the one thing I am unwilling to do in this life is shut down to my soul.

I will lose everything and everyone in my life if I have to if that is what being true to my soul requires. That is simply a fact of my life. That is the level of devotion I have to my soul’s truth.

So here is what I have to say, today. The conversation we are having is the wrong one. It is too small. It will only result in more of the same blame and pendulum swinging, which will ultimately lead to our demise. We need to engage the conversation at the soul level. We need to transform as a species, but we must be willing, and that is where the uncertainty lies. Are we willing?

Will enough of us become willing before it is too late?

That part I don’t, and can’t, ever know.

But I must speak. And I must say that I am here for you. If you are feeling like there is a deeper connection you would like to have with your own soul. I am here for you if you would like to know why you are here at a soul level. I am here to help people to write their life in accordance with the truth in their soul. This I know.

I have avoided this knowing for a while because it is challenging. It is political. It is, in my view, the answer to everything. Find your soul’s voice, and follow it. We will create a different, more beautiful, world.

That is my opinion.

Will anyone care? A few, maybe. I can’t know that.

I suspect most will likely find my views frivolous and unworthy of their time given the “high stakes” of the “real issues” to be discussed.

All I know is that I must, for my own sanity, speak.

In these times, my friends, my advice is to tap into your soul’s knowing. I don’t have answers for you, and neither will the news. Only your soul will know the truth of how you are meant to show up and what you can bring to the table.

These are times of upheaval. Peace is not possible externally, only internally. We must ground in the knowing of who we are, and what we are brought here to contribute at a soul level. Anything less will only create anxiety and noise to be numbed out - and my friends, we cannot afford to be numbed out.

That is why I am speaking. This is my contribution.

My greatest hope is that you know yours.

xo,

Danielle