November 6, 2024

Like many, the US election news today really brought up a lot for me. Here are a few thoughts.

• I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how this boils down to a negative experience with inflation. The money issue coupled with a survival instinct is what drove people to overlook character and generally depraved behaviour. Beyond any political outcome or ideological battle, I think on a personal and spiritual basis we will have to contend with the energy of scarcity. Whatever my life looks like from the outside, I have long dealt with ideas/experience of scarcity. I am working on it. I think abundance is a profound subject. Not just in terms of what the numbers are or what one's materiality ends up looking like (I don’t begrudge anyone their material pleasures) but what is the energy and experience of abundance in an everyday and holistic sense. True abundance that liberates us from survivalism as it opens up from within and exudes out in service of the highest good of all. From billionaires to people living in poverty - scarcity and survivalism are energies we can all inhabit. The political right has an idea of what moral virtue is, but I’d argue it is rooted in survivalism from what it deems the cultural mores of the left and the left’s objection to it is also largely survivalist, because it feels attacked by the political right’s survivalism at it’s expense and thus continues the vicious cycle. This cycle is breakable and I will live the possibility of breaking it in a generative and life affirming way.

• Other conversations we are having are around gender dynamics at play. Spiritually speaking, abundance is connected to the feminine energy and feminine aspects of life. So one way to work on getting in better alignment with and uplifting the divine feminine may be dealing with energies around scarcity and abundance in our own lives - starting from within.

  
  

• We are less than a week outside of Diwali where millions of people do pujas to MahaLakshmi, Goddess of Abundance. My experience is that when goddesses are active they will show you where your blockages to experience their gifts are before they show you get the opportunity to experience the gift.

Sending love to everyone. Whatever unfolds, we always have the opportunity to be the transformatory force within and in every aspect of existence.