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Love over LOGIC, magic over MIND — the spiritual revolution starts with YOU · Soul Salon with Ayandastood

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  people who don't believe in magic are easier to control.
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  Can we flip that paradigm, which I feel
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  you are part of that flip, where we choose love over logic, we choose magic over mind,
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  we choose resonance over rationality, resonance over rationality.
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  Oh, I love this.
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  Okay, so it's
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  you are a magical soul mystical divine stepping into a more deep and intimate relationship with
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  the unseen world and as you step deeper and deeper into your spirituality one of the wounds that can
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  come up that is ancient that is linked to colonialism it is linked to patriarchy it is
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  linked to capitalism and these systems of power dominance and control it is linked to anti-blackness
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  it is linked to homophobia transphobia all of these things where systems don't want to acknowledge
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  the sacredness of beings especially the sacredness of women the sacredness of black people the
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  sacredness of brown people asian people indigenous peoples the sacredness of queer people the
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  sacredness of trans people like the sacredness of fat people all of these people who have this
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  power to be subversive to the powers that be that want to control and dominate and indeed do
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  so as you step further and further into your spirituality something that you can come up
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  against is downplaying or dimming your spiritual gifts and light out of fear and this fear is so
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  valid because it has a historical context we know that with colonialism one of the first forms of
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  oppression of subjugation that the colonizers did to us was to remove and to destroy or try to
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  destroy our spiritual practices our spiritual sacred objects our spiritual forms of divination
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  across the world from south africa what is now south africa namibia nigeria mexico indonesia
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  Malaysia, Australia, what is now these things, you know all of these Brazil and then what is now the
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  United States of America, Europe because there was also the oppression of women in these systems and
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  so it's very important for us to understand the systemic context that makes us feel like it's not
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  safe to be seen as a spiritual person in this world that this form of persecution where there
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  was the persecution of women in terms of the labeling of witchcraft and the conflation that
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  that is something evil or wrong versus a sacred and ancient practice across all systems of being
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  we've had people who have a special connection to the divine to the unseen to plants to the trees
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  to the earth so this is a really sacred way of relating to reality that you have come here to
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  embody and in your process I just felt called to share this message with you so that we can really
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  root our understanding in a deeper history that I feel like you already know but it's just sometimes
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  fun to listen to so I think it's important to tie our understanding to this to a greater context
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  so that when we do step into our mysticism our magic and allow ourselves to be seen in the way
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  that we see the world because I feel like you've been stepping into more and more forms of openness
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  to different forms of spiritual practice, understanding.
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  You are opening up so many different portals in your heart and your consciousness
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  as to what you see this reality as.
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  You're opening yourself up to many different forms of faith,
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  forms of relating to what we cannot see, relating to the unmanifest world,
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  which we know is tied to the manifest world.
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  And this is why I also think it's really important to understand this.
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  Why would you try to control people's relationship to spirituality?
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  because spirituality governs our relationship to what does not yet exist.
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  So if you can control people's relationship to what does not yet exist,
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  you can control what they then are able to manifest.
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  So I think it's very important to tie what we're experiencing
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  to a deeper and greater context
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  so that we can also feel ourselves as part of this lineage of people who have resisted
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  because we all have ancestors who have resisted the forcefulness,
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  the dominance of these systems
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  and who have said, we're still going to practice our traditions.
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  We're still going to speak our languages.
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  We're still going to resist and reclaim our magic and step into our magic.
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  And so when we allow ourselves to connect the fact that we don't want to be seen as too woo-woo,
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  you know, where does that come from?
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  Even that language and the way it's used to demean,
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  it's this idea that what is quote-unquote rational or logical,
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  what is quote-unquote scientifically proven or backed,
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  is more legitimate which is the colonial paradigm it's so tied to the paradigm of trying to control
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  how we see experience validate or invalidate reality and we know that the beginnings of
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  science are all tied to different forms of colonialism and anti-blackness we also know
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  that science has been extremely not favorable in its origins to women to queer people to people
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  who are not who are not the dominant norm and then what these systems have also done is repress
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  this quality within the collective spirit this quality that seeks more magic and we can see this
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  in the way that children are treated the way that children are conditioned out of their imagination
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  the way that the society conditions children to fit into boxes rules rankings systems and this
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  is where capitalism also comes in because of course if we don't believe in magic if we don't
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  believe and make believe we're easier to control because where they create doors where systems
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  create doors they want us to see a door but if we believe in magic we'll see a portal so people who
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  don't believe in magic are easier to control because they have separated themselves from the
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  mystical within them they've separated themselves from the inexplainable aspect of reality and
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  therefore they become more like a machine because a machine cannot have faith a machine cannot
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  believe in what it isn't told to believe you input something into the system and that's exactly what
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  the system takes as real so the more that we are removed from this mystical magical understanding
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  the more we are more like machines and the more we are easier to control and to control ourselves
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  the less we listen to intuition because we don't view that as a legitimate form of knowledge the
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  less we listen to our cyclicality the less we listen to signs signals conversation with the
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  divine the less we believe our lives get to feel magical because to believe in magic is to believe
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  life gets to be magical but how can they oppress you if you think life could be magical because
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  then you're going to be like but then why am i being oppressed and you're going to rebel
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  so they need us not to believe in magic by they because i don't want to be like a conspiracy
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  theorist i literally mean the systems of power dominance and control such as white supremacy
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  colonialism capitalism and so on and such forth patriarchy cis hetero patriarchy and so on and so
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  forth so there is a beautiful rebellion i feel that i observe in the collective spirit where we
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  are reaching for a return to spirituality where we are reaching for something beyond
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  logic rationality something beyond right and wrong something beyond
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  something that feels soulless and towards something that feels soulful
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  and even on tiktok or on social media in conversations with people i feel like a lot
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  of the conversations that i observe or that i'm having is people seeing themselves become
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  have these spiritual awakenings we also have these tools to share information so there was a time when
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  a lot of the spiritual wisdom was gatekept and now there's a little bit more sharing of
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  breakthroughs people are sharing near-death experiences and what they've seen people are
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  sharing first-hand experiences of you know experiencing past lives people are sharing
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  the wisdom that they're receiving from different practices and these shares these and these stories
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  have always existed it's just that now we have some tools that do help us democratize the
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  information and so while information used to be passed you know mouth to mouth information used
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  to be passed through oral tradition we're sort of forming a sort of digital oral tradition which I
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  think is really sacred and beautiful so something that i think is very important is to
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  ask yourself in this collective rising we feel like there's the rising of the feminine
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  there's the rising of queerness and people rejecting forms of heteronormativity okay
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  there's the rising of there's a rising of a desire to be in touch with topics like purpose
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  topics like meaning and i know that of course in the global context this is a huge privilege to
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  even be thinking about this and i'm so i'm not supposing i'm not pretending like this is just
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  everyone's reality as they're shifting to purpose absolutely not but we do feel you can feel like
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  when you go on social media when i mean we can feel that something is shifting in the consciousness
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  It's not only now, it's been happening, but I feel like we can see it in what people are reaching for.
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  We see this rise of tarot readings on social media and channeling and this beautiful reclamation of our spiritual roots.
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  But I know that in that process, there can be a lot of fear.
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  A lot of the people that I work with will have the fear of being seen as spiritual, the fear of being seen in their spirituality.
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  the fear of speaking just how quote-unquote spiritual they are and when we feel that
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  can we ask ourselves if the collective really is rising towards more love towards more healing
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  towards more mysticism more magic what do what role do i want to play in that rising
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  something that colonialism aims to do is remove your capacity to see certain groups of people as
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  sacred this is also what patriarchy does this is what all these systems do so what colonialism does
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  is say okay these colonizers first of all colonialism is a spiritual and economic and
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  political and all these things but it is also a spiritual
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  my brain said disorder because isn't it funny they call like a lot of different forms of mental
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  health disorders but they never call wanting to dominate oppress pillage destroy people a disorder
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  imagine that so there was a spiritual dis-ease in the colonizer before they even got to
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  the continent of Africa what we call it now before they even got to those places I used to believe
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  colonialism like started you know in for example in South Africa they always teach you in 1652
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  that's when Jan van Riebeck quote-unquote discovered but like colonized South Africa
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  the Dutch colonialism okay but really there was something in that man before he even got here
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  that was not okay because when they got to these lands they didn't see sacredness they didn't see
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  something worth protecting they didn't see beings worth revering and learning from and understanding
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  they saw an opportunity that opportunity that they saw was in their spirit to see before they
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  even got here so colonialism didn't start for example in south africa in 1652 it started in
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  the spirit of the colonizer before they even came something was wrong in them something was not right
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  and we are all now living the after effects of that oh my word i'm so afraid i'm not recording
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  the after effects of that not rightness so we i think it's important to ask what was in the spirit
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  of these people such that they were able to inflict such catastrophe and continue to do so
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  on human beings because it's the same thing that was in their spirit that was also in their spirit
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  to oppress their own women to oppress people who looked like them as well because that's also a
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  part of the story the witchcraft the witch trials the witch hunts it's not as though the women in
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  that society were revered and protected either so the way that they treated black people brown
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  people indigenous people asian people that was in them and i think we need to understand that
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  at a spiritual level they were in spiritual crisis because why would you do that to another being
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  why would you do that to a human being but even the way that they treat animals we know that a lot
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  of indigenous systems animals are treated with a sense of reverence and when there is sacrifice
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  and slaughtering and so forth which i don't i just don't believe animals are there for our
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  consumption but like i don't believe actually wait but i i just for i mean for me i believe
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  in the freedom and liberation of all beings and so i believe that animals should be free of all
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  suffering inflicted upon them um unnecessarily like if a being doesn't have to suffer i believe
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  that they shouldn't but i do see a huge difference in how different indigenous peoples practice
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  these forms of ritual versus how the colonizer and how capitalism like factory farming you know
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  what i mean so i digress so if the issue is spiritual then the solution is spiritual
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  so i think we can all observe that what we need is a spiritual revolution
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  as well as i'm not saying only i'm not only saying this we're very
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  multidisciplinary thinkers here but i feel like the root starts in the spirit
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  and you are part of our return to that but what why did i say this this is fun because i'm allowing
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  myself to embody a different energy of speaking which i haven't done in a long time and i'm proud
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  of myself for giving myself the space to do both so this feels like a return to an aspect of my
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  podcast that i haven't been in in some time so that feels nice that feels nice um so why okay
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  so the so so colonialism seeks to repress and so when we allow ourselves to be seen
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  in our full expression that's such a beautiful act of rebellion of being the opposite of what
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  was in that colonial spirit of being generous of being part of a lineage that came before us
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  of people who've done the same we know that there's been a huge role across the diaspora of
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  black orators speakers
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  whether they be storytellers whether they be priests medicine people shaman sangomas people
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  who are spiritual leaders and some of them now some of the black artists now exist in the christian
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  church systems and communities and these are very important community leaders and community speakers
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  And we know that when they serve the light, they're extremely powerful in a good way.
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  And of course, when they serve the darkness, when spiritual faith leaders are exploitative, extractive of their communities, making them pay for things or making them, you know, manipulating their spiritual power or their spiritual institutional power to exploit the community, obviously that's terrible.
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  But it's like the same gift can be used for such light as well, where we know so many civil rights leaders and then freedom fighters and many different forms of liberators were part of these systems where people would gather and these beautiful sermons would be given.
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  So we have a history.
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  As you step into more and more of your expression of your spirituality, know that there are people who are longing to see you embody that and to see you step into a space that they feel nervous or reluctant to do so themselves.
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  The spiritual revolution needs spiritual leaders and a leader doesn't have to look like how we traditionally think that it had to look like.
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  so if what is required for us to heal the world also really includes a spiritual kind of healing
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  then us sharing that with the world is part of how we recreate the world that we recreate the
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  world in the image in the reflection of what we want to see in the world i want to see people
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  be allowed to be as divinely colorfully mystical as they want to be to be divining with forces
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  and spirits and ancestors to live a magical existence.
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  When I think of what is the most divine,
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  utopic possibility for all of us,
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  it does involve spiritual freedom.
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  It involves creative freedom,
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  the freedom to create whatever we want,
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  to have the resources and the time,
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  the shared space and community to create whatever we want.
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  It's to feel nourished at every level.
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  so we feel nourished literally that everyone has abundant food because we live on an abundant planet
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  so we all have the nourishment that we need not just some of us and then it's nourishment of the
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  spirit that we are given beauty everyone deserves access to beauty and we know this because the
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  earth told us so because the earth is so beautiful in a way that in and of itself doesn't discriminate
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  but now with what's it called the uh with you know the way that the capitalist system has unfolded
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  with capitalism and white supremacy and all these systems beauty is then um sequestered
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  who gets to access everyday beauty nourishment of the spirit through music and through art everyone
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  deserves access to those things so that deserving that everyone deserves that's a commentary on
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  sacredness that humans people life is sacred and should be treated as such so the more we reclaim
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  that the more we embody that the more we speak to that there's going to be a beautiful ripple effect
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  that's how i feel like we create heaven on earth because what heaven did as a concept is delay
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  when we could be living that now.
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  We could create that now for all of us.
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  And I feel like you're part of that creation.
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  We're living in a time of what they call artificial intelligence,
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  which we know is also colonialism because it's not artificial.
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  Who were the gig workers training those models,
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  moderating and having to see horrendous things
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  in order for the model to understand?
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  African people.
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  African workers.
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  It extremely follows the colonial roots of value creation and value exploitation.
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  People in Kenya, that was a huge nation of where the data centers are.
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  I think also Uganda, but I could be incorrect.
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  Underpaid.
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  Contract work, so very, very precarious.
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  Very extreme standards in terms of their output standards,
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  treated like machines, treated like cogs in a machine,
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  not treated as sacred,
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  versus the CEOs in Silicon Valley,
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  the board members,
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  the faces of AI like Sam Altman, for example.
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  And so what is that?
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  But a colonial relationship.
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  And then we know their raw ingredients.
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  Where do they come from?
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  We know what's happening in the Congo, free Congo.
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  We know that the materials required
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  come from the African continent, to my knowledge, maybe also other continents,
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  but who's benefiting from those raw materials?
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  It's an extractive relationship.
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  And then we also
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  know that colonialism involves destroying the earth, the sacredness of the earth.
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  And we also
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  know that patriarchy, often women are people who, women and queer people and non-binary people are
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  the people who are often shepherds and stewards of a sort of divine relationship with earth
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  now there are also incredible men who do the same so it's not it's of course they're incredible
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  shamans and they're incredible men in the world who are stewards of the earth as well so we know
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  that this is all tied to colonialism it's all tied to it and what i was saying was ai obviously is
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  destroying also the earth not only in terms of the extraction but then the data centers
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  the pollution involved and then also coloniality in the sense that where these data centers are
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  are often in black and brown poor communities in the u.s i think all the data centers are in the
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  u.s i may be wrong but i know that it is tied to anti-blackness it is tied to classism the anti-poor
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  world that we live in the systems that are designed to exploit and not see as sacred
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  the very people who the whole system is built on exploiting so just many layered beliefs but
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  just know that your spirituality deserves to be seen deserves to be witnessed and there is a
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  beautiful rebellion and you allowing it to be.
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  My voice is feeling tired so I'm going to stop
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  there.
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  I just hope this finds who it was meant to find and may you give yourself permission to just
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  show up.
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  I'm telling my future self who's going to edit this, it's divine as it is.
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  Don't ask
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  yourself what's the point because that reduces your art.
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  It's like what is the point of a tree?
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  it's beyond a point again it's that colonial framing it's that logic reduction it's putting
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  mind over magic it's putting rigidity and rules over resonance it's putting logic over love
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  so can we flip that paradigm which i feel you are part of that flip where we choose love over logic
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  we choose magic over mind we choose resonance over rigidity over rationality resonance over
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  rationality oh i love this okay so it's love over logic it's magic over mind and it's resonance
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  over rationality so this is what i felt called to express today
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  and made move through you in a way that maybe i couldn't have even seen
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  I'm sending so much love to you
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  I'm sending light
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  I'm sending belief
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  I'm sending reverence
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  I'm sending a return to the sacredness of life
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  Which requires since we are the form of life
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  We were given permission to know most intimately
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  When we find the sacredness within ourselves
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  That is how we come to know the sacredness of life itself
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  You are longed for
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  You are prayed for
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  You are divinely connected and fortified.
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  You are manifested.
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  People are calling you in just as you are.
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  And your spirituality is a sacred, beautiful, worthy, divine, ancient part of you.
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  An ancient part of you.
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  We are all descendants of the stars and the people who worshipped spirits and saw the world around us as alive.
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  And may we return.
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  I feel like we're in a great collective return.
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  And we need you.
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  Okay?
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  I'm sending so much love to you.
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  And I will see you on the next soul session.
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  I love you.
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  Bye.
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  Bye.
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  My darling, my love, my soul sibling, thank you for stepping into the Soul Salon.
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  If you are still hearing or watching this, we are soul siblings.
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  We are resonating on the same frequency.
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  And so something you may struggle with that I struggle with is the fear of being seen.
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  You know that visibility is involved in you living your creative purpose and being in your power,
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  serving the collective through your gifts, through your magic, through your medicine.
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  I love you and I will see you on the next soul session.
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  Okay, I love you.
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  Bye.