How are you holding up? I was guest co-hosting again on the Believe in People podcast with Amy Goldberg Viernes, speaking with Robin Greenfield, a fascinating activist who just walked from Canada to LA. While this won’t air for a few weeks, it fired me up so much that I have to share.

Since 2011, Robin has been asking some provocative questions about how he could live more mindfully, with deeper integrity with our precious earth and her people, all while shedding 100% of his possessions, money, and even any ties to the government like a driver’s license or social security card. Now, for three months, he utterly relies upon trust and living with the graces of beautiful Griffith Park in East LA. Here, he’s working daily in gratitude and speaking with folks curious about non-attachment and compassionate and non-violent communication.

It was a joyous conversation and brought up many more questions we didn’t address on the show, but since I am committed to writing an article on it soon, I’d like to lay them out here to hear your thoughts. Because I have seen so many people in the spiritual community and the healing arena uplift and cover for a woefully outrageous golden calf of a situation, I have to ask: 

How do your cheeks feel? How’s your heart? How do your hands grasp or release what’s going on right now? What are you embracing, and what are you hiding from? Anything? Everything? Are you attached to living in integrity? Or committed to integrity? Or compassionate communion? All? None? Some of it? As it suits you? 

Let’s go deeper: How’s a spiritual woman supposed to be in this radically shifted world? When she’s being attacked, loses her agency and resources, and there are no more programs to help her get help? 

How is a spiritual person to act when her friends are getting kidnapped, wrongfully imprisoned, and sent out of the country to a concentration camp? Or what if her kid’s or grandkid’s best friends are getting hauled away from their classroom in handcuffs for the crime of having the wrong color skin? Does not being directly attached to another make it easier for “it” to be unimpactful or unimportant? Are spiritual people supposed to cut off feeling? 

How’s a spiritual man stay in integrity if he’s told his wife should stay home and take care of the kids when they can barely cover their bills on two paychecks, and now, with a recession, it’s going to be much harder? Oh, and now his wife can’t vote because, surprise, he’s the new boss of their family? How is a spiritual family supposed to shoulder this life-partner inequity? Are their vows now broken because the government said so and is now the “boss of everything?” 

How is a spiritual person to be in truth when their preacher, pastor, priest, spiritual advisor, or guru has been saying that historically felonious guy “is going to make everything right, trust me, he’s rich and smarter cuz he’s rich,” even though all along you knew that he’d not have all those felonies, lost so many cases, nor would all those women be coming forward if there wasn’t something terribly wrong? How’s a spiritual person to trust their instincts and trust others’ hearts here, especially when that guy is so mean and cruel to others? In public, too. 

How’s a hard-working spiritual woman to live when her retirement savings, social security, and Medicare are being taken away because the billionaires can’t—uh, don’t want to pay their share? What if she had no one to take care of her after retirement? What is she to do when all her life she has been responsible, contributed, and never wished to be a burden? But now, she would be because desires to hoard wealth by the wealthiest in the world are more important than her trust, hard work, and dignity? 

How’s a spiritual family of farmers to cope when they can’t sell their crops, their crops are rotting in the fields, they have no savings now due to trade wars and broken deals, and now they’re losing their farms? And anyone who eats food? How is a spiritual person to eat when there are no people to work the fields, drive the trucks, or process the normal bounty? 

How’s a spiritual man or woman to act when s/he served honorably in the military, risking life and mental health, and now their medical benefits and mental support are being taken away? How is a veteran to have confidential conversations with their therapist if now the therapist has to betray their confidential and very sensitive information and is newly commanded to share all details with the government? How is a veteran to heal when they can’t trust anyone to have their back? 

How’s a spiritual family to feel when their home – their ancestral, protected forests are now tagged to be logged, and their waters are tagged to no longer be protected? What will they drink if their water is again being poisoned by mining and toxic dumping? How’s a spiritual family to live beside the wildlife they’ve long honored and protected on or off their reservation? What’s a spiritual person to do when their women and children keep disappearing, too? Where are we/they to commune with God’s/Gaia temple of nature? 

How do you feel, my spiritual sister or brother, when some are saying we will no longer be able to share thoughts and feelings like this, that we won’t be able to write or read thousands of books on comparative religion, science, or history because it makes people feel bad, that their ancestors had consequences that tarnish their need to suppress and divide, that now, we’ll have to pray like one group, sing their songs, (YMCA? Really?), wear gold head pins? 

How are spiritual beings supposed to feel if they are LGBTQIA+? And while we all know God doesn’t make mistakes, some people don’t agree? How are friends of our rainbow tribes to reconcile their friends reading “sacred” texts that have been mistranslated from the original Aramaic or Greek texts to manipulate people, but they have the original translation with historical context? 

How are people to live if they feel so betrayed by everything and everyone that they cease being connected to their spirituality, their spirit, or their heart’s knowing? (This is a lot at once. I know, but there is a reason I’m asking.)

These are good questions. And there are many more! 

How are your answers feeling inside you? None of this is to make you feel bad or good. It’s to encourage you to be where you are, think about what is, what may be, and how, together, if we so choose, we can support our whole world more profoundly for good with focus and diligence. 

This is why, with the gift of the Dancing Hands, we work in a circle to fire up safe space for spiritual athleticism, empower deepest listening/knowing with God/Creator Source within, and encourage all to keep on with study, tracking progress, communicating with trusted, loving, honest souls, and see how much deeper we can go rather than being spoon-fed sips of“truths,” especially now. 

Some of us were taught to turn the other cheek, to buck up, say, “It’s-not-so-bad, that an eye for eye makes the whole world blind.” Some of us were told to be seen and not heard. To be meek and mild, keep our hands in our lap and our eyes cast down. Some of us were gaslit, thinking that it really couldn’t have been that bad. But it was, and it is. The winds have shifted dramatically. And this from the eternal sunshine of my highest Pollyanna heart, we must wake up every day and see what is happening and then refocus and redouble for it to be better for all. 

In this moment I am fine, safe, sheltered, fed, and with a cup of coffee. But not all are. If you’ve danced in circle with me, you know that when I work on one, I work on all. When I dance with one, I dance with the oneness. We are all connected. If someone is hurting, I feel it as Source reaches out to offer light, love, peace, and balance, but these are big times for us all to step up in the biggest, most focused ways to help. Our gifts of compassionate service are not to be wasted. 

It is chaotic outside and in DC right now, my friends. I’m sorry to say it. I would prefer newsletters of only the miraculous. The miraculous is still happening every day, yes. Thank goodness! This contrast is causing many to rise into their hearts and remember their gifts. This is excellent. But it is time for all hands on deck again. Mayo Day. Mayo Day. 

I used to hold off writing any newsletter when the world was having a crisis (beyond offering my love and prayers). Still, every day since Enero 20, this campaign of shock and awe keeps coming from an unscrupulous cluster of ow with enormous spiritual manipulation, morality issues, and off-planet power needs. So, instead of fighting or hiding, I propose we learn a new dance. Or we need to learn to deal with the square dance better? How can we better learn to transmute this intense energy for the best and highest good? This is essential circle work. What would that look like for you? 

Join me on Earth Day (Abril 22) for three evenings for our next Quanta Circle to help fortify your spiritual heart and release that which no longer serves your best and highest individual and collective good. These four weeks between our last Quanta Circle and this arc feel too long, but again, I am so excited about you joining us this time. I know that many need special help right now. Reach out if you are one. I would love to see you.

Until the next time…