reaching you

take the path less traveled.
take the path of beauty.
take this path
right before you
each step appearing
flashing golden
silvery rainbow
you stand before
the greatness
the path
of beautiful reverence
the path of
every day magic
unfold
before
you step
you take the path
of integrity
of wholeness
of sharing the goodness
the greatness with those
who have always felt
cut off from grace
you let it shine from your face
with every intention of
allowing it to bounce off your
beaming light show
into them, those you don't even know
because you know
inside they will quiver
when shown mercy
they will bow
when they find out how
you did it all
for the greater good
for the time that stands still
and how when we tune into the
frequency we truly seek
we turn the other cheek
we don't have to wait till the end of the week
to get this compensation
take the path of beauty
the walk of compassion
the driving force of hope
teaching those in need how to cope.
walk this path
with me
walk this path
if you want to see
everyone
getting free
no exceptions
walk this path with me
if you agree.

Transformation through Forgiveness

 In the 1960's, they said, war is over, if you want it. if you want it to be over, it is. Now, that is an oversimplified statement by some folks who had probably smoked something that made them feel wise. Here in 2015, wars still exist.

So, when the dust settles and the smoke clears, leaving us with our own thoughts, how mixed up with different layers and intentions we find they are! We all have that going on, some of the time at least.

Peace has many components. It is not simple or boring! One of the greatest enemies of peace in our hearts, communities and in this world is that folks think peace is just sitting still, saying mantras or prayers and not DOING anything.

Peace makers, who really understand that without justice there will never be peace, without eliminating exploitation know there will still be those who rage against injustice, and are right to do so. Peace for those who have what they need and then some, is not peace for all. Peace, prosperity and justice are so totally and utterly intertwined I cannot imagine someone trying to take them apart.

For this exact reason, I have developed the 7 steps for the Prosperity movement. We all need concrete steps to take toward the world that I argue, MOST of us really want.

People ask me how the currency aspect will work. I have some ideas about that, ones that can be modified to fit the best model to be implemented for each self defined community. I ask that if you are first coming to this kind of visioning and want to understand how it could be manifested, first think of it this way.

If you have a bank account, if you have a wallet, you have probably put currency in these containers and taken it out to buy what you wanted or needed. Here a flash of truth, that currency USD, yen, Euros and so on, is entirely made up.

Since it is made up, our gaps between the wealthy and the poor throughout human history are made up. The suffering created by greed and prejudice and so on has been such a part of our psychological make up as people, that we have been essentially trained to think inside of these made up conditions for suffering.

Delving further into this mess, some of the healing we need to do on individual levels and on the group level, is transformation through forgiveness. Anxiety and other types of pain around poverty and the violence that can come with poverty are encoded in the DNA of many, many people. This DNA level of pain is carried in folks of a myriad of different backgrounds and cannot be ignored much longer.

Many of our ancestors did not go through what many of them went through so that we, their descendants can create negative situations over and over, making the same mistakes previous human societies have made. We need to evolve past those mistakes and we need to enlighten ourselves and awaken ourselves to the temporary nature of the physical world including what money can buy and do.

Once we begin to wake up around these tender places, we will be able to transform our lives and our planet in ways most of us have not thought was possible. When we forgive ourselves, for every and anything, we change the spiritual temperature of our existence. We introduce compassion. When we forgive each other, not because the person or group deserves or does not deserve this, but because the process of forgiveness and the results of it are so desirable, we literally change our world, our interactions our transactions.

We think we have been trapped, that the anger and bitterness of old pain and suffering will always suck us in.

We are not trapped. We are on the brink of permanently getting free from that which does not sustain humanity and respect the animal, plant and spirit worlds. We are so close to it, some of us can almost smell or taste it.

This long needed alternative requires a shift from what we know, from our comfort zones. Growing pains will happen. But I promise, if we stay focused on goals that serve the highest good, the rewards from this work will be beyond what we can imagine, in a powerful, loving, centered, profound way.

I urge you to stay with me as the changes we will make, mind, heart, body and spirit begin to take hold. We are at an incredible crossroads.

Love yourself, every crevice and part of your body. Love other people, give them space, respect their boundaries. Dig deep for the compassion we need. I am with you and will update soon!!

 

Here are: The 7 steps for the Prosperity Movement, which I have created as a starting point for discussions about what currency could mean for the world, and is moving in a direction away from what it has been:

1.      Create Currency according to need not greed. A certain amount of agreed upon currency that lasts a lifetime is in place for Every human birth.

 2. Regarding all those who live below the poverty level, they receive an amount to last them a lifetime, and can be resupplied if the currency was spent on any sort of help or treatment for anything at all that is hurting the person.

3. The few limitations put upon these amounts for all in need or who want the benefit of this new currency, must agree to let go ALL weapons of War. Guns, swords, battleships, Air Force, Navy, and all Military paraphernalia will be melted down or otherwise transformed into useful items that promote life, beauty, health and all manner of good and blessed things. We cannot keep peace and prepare for war.

 4. The prosperity's revolutionary aspect maintains the stance that military pacifists are at the forefront of this movement. Our financial abundance and potential happiness as humans depends closely upon the end of WAR as we know it.

 5. The community organization and main template connect directly to the Planetary Healing Arts Enterprise.

 6. Any person receiving this currency may have need for a specific kind of healing.

 7. This could be a call for massage, surgery, eyeglasses, knee braces and treatment for any ailment out there.  All is covered by the enterprise, and it is worldwide, covering therapy, physical or emotional.

 

1. Time and 2. Blazing

we are running out of time

by running away from time
running faster than time

we need to slow down
catch up to ourselves

a soul sick people
lunging at each other
grabbing at the air
boasting handfuls of nothing

locked apart into boxes of race and gender
false symbols surround us
staring through blank empty eyes

from so many news outlets, media darlings

who still rages against
the sorriest excuse for a culture
we built the systems that work against us
we can tear them down

we built institutions that imprison us
we will tear them down

my spirit will not rest
until we awaken
trace the lines of your face
know your ancestors are with you
in every place

we have to slow down
heal what has been broken
listen for what has yet to be spoken

"blazing"

He seems to have stolen
genuine pieces of my emotion
with his eyes
for some kind of private stash

he stole it but equally I gave it
his brokenness more apparent with each
self revealing story
and intensity
that could burn holes into a person
blazing from his gaze

why always these wounded ones
I want to take into my flesh
as if that is the answer

to the silent screaming questions
he pounds the floor with his fist now
asking and yet unaware
how his kiss
is filled with past addictions
tangible to me

I call on all my strength in reserve
just in case
because who knows? I might need it
He does not even want
the sweet sincerity exuding from me accidentally
and it sounds all melancholy but it is truth

pouring into a river unto itself
deep beneath the currents of
surface conversation breaths
breathing seething
what else can I do?
making all these sounds and moves not connected
to anything
trying what feels old and too familiar to me
like melancholy

what we do- from 2005

this inexplicably
begs to be seen and known
clamors to be known by more than me

that for a mere nothing you stare back at me
like a loving innocent child

that for reasons I cannot name
I love you

being in love, the repetition of days on our skin
you leaking from my gorgeous dreams

you are better in a fantasy I admit
you can be harsh and then you calculate gentle
somewhere

is there a place where we end
or we are such rivers
each given to a necessary flowing

crashing against shores is what we do, is part of us
that you have precise beauty
even as I stand alone

without you, stardust across my cheeks
wanting you
wanting those moments to return
I lose my voice as we crash into waves
of unfolding

this internal river
the one that speaks
when we die too much
live too much
breathe and keep going

always rivers we become
because there is no place we end
the mouth of the river
and the endless timeless
truth of it all

the fire is not so
is not the same, it takes what can burn

so we are just this
tears, water from your past

making a present that is not
quite
bearable.

"thirsting" from 2005

this woman
is of a green world
sliding into tomorrow
and yesterday was a refuge
world of grey material
tree blessing thirsting for movement
struggling like branches against the wind

no romantic endings

just a perpetual beginning
attach no strings to her
hold her in no invisible chains
coming back to a darkness not to be feared

to a place created by a source
not unlike love

more where that funny came from.......

How many times is it appropriate to say "what?" before you smile and nod
because you still do not understand what they meant

why do psychics have to ask your name??

warning, the consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing.

a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it

on the other hand, you have different fingers

some drink at the fountain of knowledge. some just gargle

hard work never killed anyone but why take the chance?

Going to church doesn't make you Christian anymore than
standing in a garage makes you an automobile.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this was not it.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

If you cannot be kind, at least be vague.

one tequila two tequila three tequila FLOOR

3 religious truths:

1. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as their leader.

3. Baptists do not recognize each other at the liquor store or at Hooters.

What you have all been waiting for, an Article or Post on Cheating!!

I would like to start by saying this: most of what people have learned about love and relationships are toxic. The rest of it is neutral or good. It comes down to that!

Much of what we, regardless of background or common ways we identify, have seen are highly dysfunctional models of communication, when it comes to sexual and or romantic dynamics.

I will skip all the reasons and statistics and so on that have led us to where we are, because those things are not the most important pieces to have on hand when it comes to improving ourselves and our sexual and romantic lives.

The conditions that led societies to create love dynamics around heterosexual marriage and giving birth to at least one child are no longer with us. The conditions we live in now, actually dictate that we become more conscious and aware of when and why we procreate, not simply because the human population is way to large for and disrespectful of the earth.

As we evolve as humans, and choose to question the social norms and expectations once we reach adulthood, we may have come to our own conclusions. We may have experienced sex as a truly great force or we may find it is greatly lacking when it comes to what we truly want.

We go through phases where we feel pressured, either by our own idea of what we need to do, or by the other person who wants more than you want to give, or by society in general. The pressure from society on men is mostly to be sexual and to sexualize any given situation. The pressure on women to be sexual, ready to have sex and yet maintain a distance or provide a challenge for a man is really just a game handed to us by terrible media and awful expectations that nobody should have to live up to.

All that said, we have to now reckon with the idea of cheating. If you have developed a sexual bond with another human, by sleeping together, of course, there are inevitably the flare ups of possessive feelings that happen, on one side or on both sides. If you slap a label on this generally layered and complicated reality, that does no good at all, in keeping them tethered to you. They will stay or they will go, depending on reasons they may or may not be ready to share, or even due to reasons they have no idea how to explain or express.

Many people are in phases where they are somewhat at the mercy of emotions or even blocked emotions that dictate their actions around sex and the possibility of love. I encourage anyone thinking about these phases or considering what I am truly saying, to ask themselves, is there such a thing as cheating? Is there such a thing as stealing someone away?

The only way this idea of cheating and stealing people would apply is if the person who strays from the sexual or love bond has no idea what or why they are doing, and even if that is the case, which it almost never is, it falls under a category of love and sex as tools for ownership, tools for a trade.

Love and sex are not about ownership. They are not up for grabs. They involve many human tendencies, the tendency to be disconnected from our bodies, or to be fully present, or to be semi present, or to deny and suppress needs and desires that are too scary to put words to.
This is all part of being human, male, female, transgender and so on.

Since we must evolve, or die trying, let us ease up on this antiquated and unhelpful idea of cheating, and ownership. Instead, may we seek ownership over our own abilities and practices that liberate us each and every one, defining this liberation, from me to you, from him to her, and so on, until our sexual and romantic lives shine with the manifesting light of what can be, not what they have been.

In the spirit of Love, Truth and Transparency,

Juliana

AKA Imaya