Which SIDE are you on!?

Guess what? They both lead to the same place 🙃

I posted an IG story yesterday about the political arena being a 🤡 show and that at the end of the day, it’s just two wings of the same bird.

We are given our heros and our villains, we are told how to feel and who to hate, and even how to be virtuous – or at least appear that way.

I think it’s an entirely false narrative that only one SIDE wants change, and I think it’s precisely that belief that keeps us stuck.

See below for an excerpt from the book on what is called separation consciousness:

A quick way to tell if you’ve wandered into “2D land” or separation consciousness is if the predominant narrative takes the shape of “us versus them.”

A few examples:

• It’s either wrong or right

• You’re in or you’re out

• You’re for us or against us

• You either win or lose

• One side is granted favor, while the  other is deserving of mistreatment 

• Encourages participation in rescuer, victim, perpetrator triangle

Does this remind anyone else of a gang, a cult, or the mafia?? 

It is a fear-based perspective that creates a false dichotomy and leaves no room for nuance. This is the mentally that created and sustains the “matrix” we’re currently operating in.

It can be observed in all the major systems, especially politics. We are given the illusion of choice, but at the end of the day, we’re still playing the same game. Which is a game with winners and losers, which only serves to keep us at odds with each other and ourselves. 

This mentality keeps us in a gridlock and focused on the “other,” when what we really need to be doing is finding a way to change the game or leave it all altogether.

It’s not necessarily the idea that there are different sides that’s inherently problematic (although it is overly simplified), it’s the belief that one side is superior to the other in some way, and that the people on the “wrong” side aren’t worthy of being treated with respect, and may even deserve to be harmed or killed.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t have opinions or that we should operate from total neutrality at all times.

I’m saying we can hold our beliefs without making others wrong or bad, dehumanizing them, and/or placing them within a category of other people that we assume think and feel the exact same way.

. ..more to come 🙏