In Part 1, I deal with the more individual level of a very vast and profound subject. The main assertion is that people, and even ancestors of most if not all of us, have blood on their hands. From ancient ceremonies that included human sacrifice, to the more commonly and consistently justified murder of death penalty inmates, humans have human blood on their hands.
The symbolic and spiritual cost of this reality is what I call a collective psychic wound. A follow up assertion about what this situation costs us on the collective psychic level, is the inability to most effectively and thoroughly access the deepest level of compassion as a species and therefore blocks us from the deepest level of healing.
Our willingness to deny this inherent truth of action and consequence puts us in a dangerous place when it comes to the evolution of the species. If we cannot disentangle ourselves from the messy karmic cycles of human on human violence, and I mean violence of all kinds, we are literally left behind in a psychically blocked, spiritually bankrupt place.
From this place, we can only break free by literally changing the vision and practices of our society at the most basic levels. We must break free from all karmic debt, so that a kind of peace, prosperity and justice can become more of a reality for humanity, a species that must move forward on the evolutionary path and must not go backward, or we will not survive.
This is stated as fact due to the human created environmental problems that will kill us, that are killing us, and are a direct result of the disconnect and collective psychic blockages that keep us in varying stages of denial.
How do we, both individually and collectively free ourselves from karmic debt? Often, the intersections of spiritual theory and praxis, and scientific knowledge can be the places to look for answers.
In joining the scientific, political, spiritual and innate intuitive kinds of knowledge and practices, we are combining some of the most critical and valuable results of human intelligence and ingenuity, which will inevitably help us steer the ship of this planet toward balance, and away from chaos and destruction.
The balance being envisioned and described is one that our species has not seen before. There have never really been eras or ages wherein people live in enlightened, egalitarian utopias. We have not found the tools yet inside ourselves, tools that we are finding and can find now, to lead us into a kind of life on earth that, so far, has not flourished.
To address the individual cases of bloody hands and therefore karmic debt, we can make magical and psychic containers created by beautiful and strong ceremonies, the kind developed by skilled, creative, sincere practitioners in order to set right that which has gone terribly wrong.
The next situation to address is the collective wound. This wound is multi-faceted, and multi- dimensional, because humanity is also these things. We need many levels of help to rectify the danger of infection and other issues that come with leaving wounds open and raw. This collective wound is massively exposed.
At times, great healing work happens and this work and change creates salve that helps the pain of it become slightly less brutal. However, if humanity is to truly, once and for all rid the species of unnecessary and ancient kinds of pain, ancient kinds of karmic struggles and patterns, we must apply every ounce of intelligence, loving kindness, magic, and other ingredients we will not name here.
We must do this with a collective vision in mind. We must do our own personal work that leaves us feeling both lighter and more profound and we must commit to undo which ever piece of the collective wound we decide to tackle.
With deep sincerity,
Imaya
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