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What is “Woo woo”?

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That writing was a sleepy tangent.

The technology of the heart takes silence. It takes peace of mind. It takes leisure. It takes stillness. Sometimes.

People who have overused the term “self care” have completely rolled their eyes after reading those needs. Why? Because modernity and late stage racial capitalism has taken all the juice out of the squeeze. Our fruit is dry.

We co-opt and overuse and abuse everything. Our limited language becomes even more restrictive and expressionless.  The heart technology of fully connecting to our multidimensional selves is a heartbeat away in accessing our greatest and grandest potential and the tip of the iceberg understanding of who and what we are. But as people, some of us are so jaded.

We hear, “get still” and our mind says, “that would be nice, but it’s impossible!” Or I am taking vacation next week and I am going to be so still. Yet, they were on their phone most of the time.

I’m not judging. It’s what we do. We have become unconscious sheep. Zombies. 

Organic machines of work- to live and produce. Agreeing that we have to work to survive. Like if we were to plant a seed and nurture a plant, at time of harvest, the plant has a sign that reads: “Before you pick me, please insert $20 in the soil, please!”

We literally were taught money doesn’t grow on trees, yet it actually does and we run around like headless chickens, when a fake system of our own creation, shoots out red numbers and negative signs telling us we are “losing” all the fabric! We are literally losing and unraveling the fantasies of our creations! For good reasons!

We. Created. This. World. We are Creators of this World. We have the power to create new worlds!

Why are we acting as if our parents, parents, parents, parents, parents, parents…. Did?
“Did what?”

“Create this world?”

They did and they didn’t. We have choice. Some of us have forgotten. Others are mired down by distraction…on purpose.

Going back to my woo point though. We have the technology to do better. Be better. Live leisurely and better. More is being revealed everyday. Yet, we are so caught in the cog, in the movement, in the production, we go to work to survive and hope we are contributing to the change we wish to see, or be, or inspire, or become, or create….

It’s almost 12:30 am.

I can hear the wind chimes outside and the old creaky house wanting to mirror the swaying tall redwoods in the distance.

I wonder what it would take for people to wake from their slumber? Not from this loud symphony of air and matter outside, but from their daydreams? When the sun is bright and shiny. And there are no worries, but all the worries. When there is this invisible thread that connects us all. We can’t feel the tug, but can’t we feel the tug? We are feeling the tug now. We are waking up from the daydream. This creation of the last stand to grow with pain is occurring now. Can you feel it? See it?

Most of the collectives in our individual daily lives require a significant amount of pain to make change. From leaving a job, to a relationship, to moving; we typically go after something based on hating the current thing. Or lovingly accepting it’s time to change but it was painstakingly obvious it was time to go.

This is the administration in the US in 2025. This is the house of reps and senate. This is the judiciary peeps. The system of government hasn’t been working for some time. For all people. Some could build quite a tale of the silver lining and positive contributions of what our government has done. In fact, I can share some of my own stories. But as a whole. To serve all the people. Which we know of course that phrase isn’t valued by some, but that’s not even the point here.

The point is on either side and even in the middle, we all got something to complain about towards the powers that be. We all got something to say that isn’t working for us and yet we still think (at least some of us) that those systems are working for people. Even the people that know it has never worked for them. But at some level it’s working?! No?

This could be true and is. On some level. We can have a both and understanding but what I am getting at is, these systems are finally showing their ass. And the people managing them too.

The pain we need to encounter and feel before enough of us decide it’s time to move, quit that job, leave that relationship… that pain is here. It’s here on the collective scale. It’s here loud and arrogantly orange, red, embarrassingly clear. We can feel the tug. We’ve been feeling the tug. We have learned to master the practice of distraction and ignoring truth. Ignoring our biorhythm. It’s almost 1AM, but I think this rythm is on brand.

So what are we doing about it? 

In those spiritual circles, they say the Great Turning ( Joanna Macy) is in effect. There will be those under great, loud, calamitous change, giving a three degree system of response: 1. dealing with the triage of said pain, 2. the middle folks transitioning from triage to shifts of slight novelty, maintaining the “goods” that don’t need to be trashed with the bloody bandages, 3. and the visionaries, strategists, thinkers, not necessarily actors, but definitely creatives/creators…

The healers and spiritual folks. Not necessarily the folks who base Spirit on a constructed, structured set of rules and regulations that keep people sleeping/dreaming when the sun/son is out and in. We are talking about those who center Spirit and demand the necessity of everyone and everything’s sovereign inherent right to create from their heart; a world that fosters the possibility of all things to thrive.

I may have jumped to fairyland for some people, but those who are sticking around, the healers and the spiritual folks are at each station or degree. They are the ones with their woo technology seeding the possibility for that vegetable plant to not ask for $20 in the soil but instead to give freely, with a warm smile, and for that person harvesting, blessing the land that grew such a plant. And the rain, the sun, the worms, the insects, all of it.

“For all our relations” isn’t a stretch in our present world. Many already live it. And many are aware this is the contstant in the change. Change is always present and the constant is that we are always changing together. Relating together, for we are interconnected, inseparable balls of energy.

Modernity wants us to think we have to pay a price for it and that it cost a lot. A price for not just the material, but the spiritual too. They want to have us believe all things at cost when the planet is free. It gives freely. Do I have to repeat, we created the world we’re living in? Or, there is a gaslighting of thinking we have to guilt ourselves into submission and say we don’t have a choice. This is the only way to live. But there is another way and many of us, again, live this in our homes, at work, with our friends, in our spaces of gathering.

The powers that be want to hoard it for themselves and have us, the people, pay for their services. Hoard the freely given resources from the Earth. If, this isn’t clear. They create stories that foster fear and anxiety to pit our most precious vulnerabilities against us.

It is almost 1 AM.

I will end here. What’s out there or really woo, (to take on the western definition of the term) and doesn’t make sense is that we created a world where we have to labor and die to eat and have shelter. From a place that is abundantly free.

What’s woo and nonsense is that we, through our actions, have agreed to this for a millennia.

What’s the real woo and crazy is that even in the face of tougher times where less of our liberation is accessible in the physical realm, it’s actually closer to our hearts and way more accessible than we even thought. I come from a lineage of enslaved Africans. I know this freedom well. It’s in my blood. The paradox of entrapment, estrangement, and enslavement, yet knowing full well we are whole, more than human, and free.

What’s really woo is more people are waking out of their dreams and/or nightmares. Irrespective of others starting to feel they just entered one. Perspective is brilliant.

What’s real woo, is, it has taken many to finally wash their face and get the sleep out of their eyes. A friend asked me the other day, “should I wash my face on the days I don’t shower?” I thought, is this a real question? You’re 42?! Age doesn’t mean much but, what?! I’m judging and “do you”, but you see what I mean. Right?

When we continue to ground in our sovereign creator power, we as people, are the heart technology. (Wash your face!)  What’s really woo is we can pick a point of connection in the Great Turning and put our efforts there. 

Not in the fears and anxiety of attachment to the relationship that is no longer working, but rather to the next relationship that can be. The new space, the new opportunity.

I trust those in silence and stillness the most, as they have access to the depth of the consciousness well. We modern people can barely grasp it because we are too caught in our cog. And for good reason, we have been distracted, thinking the only way to live is to be a cog. Told this is the only way. Manipulated into thinking there is only so much creative power to go around in abundance to make all things new.

What’s not Western woo: making all things new.

The thing that people easily dismiss and think we have little control over is actually the very thing that we have all the power to create. The Western view made things woo to extinguish our embodied knowing and power. The gift of forced oppressive amnesia tells us we don’t have these heart spiritual technologies that can move mountains. 

The message was co-opted for the Empire to retrieve our money and lose our sense of sovereignty telling us God will govern…through me…

So as we embark on reconciling and reclaiming our power, 

What is one thing you can do that allows you to get more silent and still? For real?

Are you a triage worker, the middle person, a visionary, or a healer?

What relationship, job, or place of connection did you leave in the past five years, and were you better off for it? Think back to COVID-19 early days. Many folks had a huge push from this virus and how systems responded/lack thereof.

If so, how did you let go and what gave you the permission to move on and create something new?

These are the questions we can ask ourselves right now. We don’t have to go to the highest mountain and sit for months to get an answer because chances are those months would be nothing but detox. But we can tap into our heart space daily and notice what the deepest part of ourselves is calling us into be. To create. To share and serve.

Religion, spirituality, nothing, grey….

Whatever you consider the thing that is beyond your understanding, that is the place to be in relationship with now. It’s what will foster a sense of inherent paradoxical clarity that more of us need to explore. Nothing is making sense, and for good reason. This is the woo woo.

We are in the revolution, and it’s way beyond our wildest imaginations. It’s not supposed to make sense. And way more is happening beneath and above that iceberg than most of us can even be aware of.

Regardless of your aim and direction of where you may want to go at this time, we all will lose and die to be renewed. It’s the cycle of life.

We can choose to fight the cycle and/or find our place in it where we feel most at ease in our creative power. That too does mean if we are the ones to antagonize and put the mirrors up for us all to see the shit storm, is it possible to feel gratitude for that rather, than attempt to extinguish a gas flame with more gas?!

What is upside down is inside out. What is front and center is backwards and sideways.

What is that language, instrument, or hobby you have been meaning to try on? I would go for it! That thing is the very practice we will be learning from and working with. All things new in the chaotically beautiful world. The struggle is real and promising. To get to the other side I must learn that new route. It is going to feel different be both hard and easy and maybe even terrifying. Birth is.

Birthing parents know best. So do those who’ve birthed other types of babies. There is room for all of us. The illusion of that not being the case is tired and old.  We are abundant. Talk to the cells in our bodies. If you trust science. Science doesn’t make shit up! ( well sort of).

We see you power hoarders and greedy manipulators. Bless you for showing us the parts of ourselves we don’t want to look at. I get it now. So do others.

I’m crowning….

It’s 1:07.

Time

Of

Birth

May 7, 2025 1:08AM

We have a new child. It’s indistinguishable in any form of identity. They are brand new. 

What are you going to call them?

Names are less important than love. We will let them name themselves…we’re just excited for our new creation and all the love we get to pour over the baby/creation. 

It’s a new day!