Often times, as modern day humans, we seem to be pretty distracted. It's hard to notice the beauty that surrounds us daily. In fact, we not only neglect the outward beauty that is nature, we neglect the beauty within ourselves.
|June 15, 2020|11:17 am|
I am so happy! Today, I found a vision for my career. I want to create a space where we all can be conscientious of ourselves and our personal biases so we can have more secure connections. I envision the black community and those thereafter adopting healthy attachment styles, ones where we build people up, not break our people down.
A lot of times I notice that we tend to think very black and white, and in that thinking we limit ourselves and what connections we are able to make. I want to make a space for that bubble to be popped.
There is beauty in the individual, there is beauty in the collective. I believe that actively working with individuals to conscientiously be their best self will contribute to a healthier collective.
We often view life like this:
“I value the collective, so there is no individual.”
But by doing this, we are placing ourselves in a bubble, because in reality it is the individual who you must place value in to even create a collective, or at least, a conscious collective. The individual is where the catalyst lies, where the outlier shines through and shows you the reality of a situation, outside of the majorities perspective.
The outlier will show you where two seemingly different issues are actually two sides of the same coin. That outlier will be the key to more objective thought.
In my opinion, assimilation is a white supremacist ideology. All throughout history, indigenous people around the world accepted higher power for what it was, without any expectation on what they wanted it to be. They worshipped Gods who were not perfect, and were still powerful and to be respected in their own regard. This is an ideology I believe that we lost with the European standard we have set in every facet of American life, especially spiritually. Indigenous cultures around the world understood that everyone has a part to play in the grand scheme of things, and in that there is power.
The native religion of each culture understood the importance of facets and how they relate to the knowledge of a higher power. Islam believes in one true God, with 99 names. Buddhism may not include the worship of Gods, but they believe in many devas. Polytheistic religions also believe in a monotheistic ideology, but it is the individual identity of each higher power that keeps the cogs turning. Even Christianity is based on The Holy Trinity. Hinduism has Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. Egypt had over 2,000 deities. Taoism includes 16 Gods. The list goes on.
Imagine if Apep, the God of Chaos in Egyptian culture, just decided he would not do his job.
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