Last Saturday, I had a beautiful conversation with a Medicine Man dear to my heart, one which words still resonate after a week. He is a modern Oracle that I have been consulting through teas, post-meditation chats and, lately, Covid willing, Signal calls. He typically holds a very tranquil space. At times, he will throw a stone in your pond, or two.
Here I will capture the ripples his stones have created. French Baroque playing, down below the Mediterranean sea waiting for the sun to rise and a company of comedian still snoring upstairs. A moment I have been waiting for, and cherish dearly.
What do you really know?
Covid has come with plenty of stories. There is obviously the mainstream story, created — Discovered or fabricated? It is rarely a clear cut — by the WHO, the governments and other players like Pharmaceuticals companies. And there are plenty alternative stories created by people at the margins of the mainstream. Some have light in it: Covid accelerates global awakening as more of us turn inward, some are very dark with a collective of psychopaths at the top of the world orchestrating a new act of global atrocity.
In front of all these stories, what posture have you adopted? What do you believe? How did you get to that belief? What do you really know?
I have focused on what matters: my health (the WHO definition), my transformation, my loved ones and help people transform at noesun. Clear priorities help weather any storm. How do these stories help me with these priorities long term? In the “health” part, there is a peaceful, joyful, loving baseline energy that I manifest and empowers me and makes me resilient.
1) I believe in the loving nature of human beings, and how giving is more important than receiving. When we do not love, when we hurt others, we ultimately hurt ourselves the most and miss the beauty that comes with love, the most beautiful part in life. The more intelligent people I know get that: The smarter they are, the more capable they are to manifest grander values. And 2) I also saw how even the world’s best organizations can be inefficient (put mildly). So I have trouble imagining a global elite of evil people and if the elite was evil, they would not succeed because global coordination is difficult.
Then I get told “they’re not humans”, or that I judge based on my own heart and mind, and I might be a tree hiding a forest. It is true, I observe and I analyze based on my own experience. Because of this experience, I anticipate love. So, yes, if evil takes over, I am totally blindsided. What would you be blindsided by?
The real question to me is “what do I really know?”. I go down to the layer of reality I can access: information I can understand and trust. Am I getting the info through my senses? Am I inferring? Or am I getting it from a source I can trust? Because the source has a capability and an incentive to get to truth…
If I am honest, my way of dealing with insufficient information is imperfect. I fill the blanks (what I do not really know) with calm, joy and love, because this is what I intend to manifest and because also this is the best way for me to avoid agitation, sadness and anger. What are you filling the blanks with? Do you do it consciously?
How do you take action after acknowledging reality?
When you know how little you actually know, and how shaky the foundations of what you know are, what do you do? There is a path on which you can access to more knowledge, should you want to. You can examine what you are presented with, you can go down the rabbit hole and explore. There are rabbit holes to everything: covid, bitcoin, prana. We have limited time, so where will you invest research time? Back to priorities and intentions, what is most important to you?
Also. What do you do when you realize others know very little as well? What do you do when you realize the interest of others might not be aligned with yours? And their crafting of the story might be performed to serve their interest, at the expense of your interests. And in some cases, it might not even be aligned with their own self interest because, remember, they’re limited…
Covid has been a great source of stories. “Do this”, “No, actually don’t do this”, well, hum, “do this even if it is not the best”. The border is closed but people can actually cross. It has been giving us the time to take a step back, far back enough to see the screen and realize that it is a screen. I believe we got more agency, more space from the stories and the devices with which we interact with these stories.
When you realize what the mainstream narrative might be disserving you intentionally or not, what do you do? What kind of action do you take? What actions did you take during Covid? How did you feel about that?
Are you planning to relive the past?
If you have not been confronted to this dance with reality, you might have experienced another dance, one with your physical freedom: not being able to move in space and time. It certainly hit hard in Europe. How did it impact you?
Yesterday, as we were driving to the hills, we were listening to a beautiful set, and thinking how Festivals are going to be incredibly loving and wild post-covid. People long for so much communion and freedom. So this one we are definitely doing again? What will we NOT be doing?
Has this experience been transformative for you? Has it shifted your understanding, your perception? Or you continue to think the same way and you can’t wait to go back to how it used to be in 2019?
Most of us have had to change our lifestyles for weeks, months, what positive impact have you noted from Covid? Were you able to let go of something? Were you able to accelerate priority projects, dedicate more time to important areas of your life? Are you wanting, planning to relive the past once Covid is “solved”? What is the mix of old and new you want for your new life?
This Covid period is like a long immersive experience (like a retreat or a festival), how will you maintain the realizations you have had? How do you feel about your next steps?
Our director just came down, time for drama.
