”If not you and me, then who? If not now, then when?” - Hillel
These are testing, challenging times of social and environmental upheaval. With climate change, we live with increasing floods, fires, pandemic illness, droughts, on top of institutional and structural racism, ideology of white supremacy and privilege, economic inequity, rampaging consumer capitalism with its emphasis on materialism, and militarism; There is also rising political fundamentalism polarizing various populations against one another.
All are calling for a response that is wise, powerful, and transformational. Today’s challenges call for Spiritual Activist Wisdom Warriors.
Wisdom Warriors battle whatever enemy/opponents rise up within them trying to close their hearts to the love that lives in us all as the essence of our being.
Spiritual Activist Wisdom Warriors are moved by agape love of their fellow beings, by their valuation of justice, peace, equal support and opportunity for all, to bring their love into action in the world. They call on the warrior archetype but fight with the weapons of skillful communicative skills using the transformational energy of love to shape-shift fear to faith, shadow to illumination, injustice to justice, selfishness to selflessness.
Wisdom Warriors bring love into the world, into all their relations, all their interactions. They act with love, They act from love.
Spiritual Activist Wisdom Warriors show up to do the best they can to actually keep the heart open for the flow of infinite, unconditional love, agape love that is who and what they truly are, moving through them going where ever it needs to go in the moment that will help open the doorway for fullest blossoming and greatest good for all.
This is living from spirit. This is living love. This is walking a spiritual path. These times call for us to transform fear-based cultures into love-based, healthy, happy, and just ones. All who claim to be spiritual, all who seek to be spiritual, all who wish to live an integral life of morality and honor, need to act. They need to bring their gifts into the world to do their part in creating the kind of world that is possible for us to create, one that works for all in a good way.
Towards this end it is vital to recognize the importance of dismantling structural racism build into every institution of our society - educational, healthcare, legal-correctional, banking, and economic, etc. The institutional racism is built on the ideology of white supremacy that has been there since the very beginning of this nation. Overt racist acts are not needed to continue the system that privileges all those of white skin and discriminates and oppresses people of color on a daily basis. The systems work and will continue to work until enough Spiritual Activist Wisdom Warriors step up to make the changes that need to be made recognizing that to do nothing allows the system to continue on benefitting white people and hurting people of color.
The “how” of the action is up to the guidance in each person’s heart. It is not about comparing or measuring our action as good or better or worse than someone else. It is not a competition with a winner or loser because we are all losers if we don’t change how we, humanity, are operating at this time for it has brought us into calamitous situations that actually threaten the future existence of our species, as well as many other species that are already dying off at an alarming rate.
So to all who feel the call of the Spiritual Activist Wisdom Warrior, thank you for the courage it takes to step up and into the fire as a healer, a peace- worker, some one who stands up for justice, for fairness, for the underdog and the oppressed, for the disadvantaged. This is about doing what the Hawaiian expression Hana Pono calls for - “ Do the right thing.” Do what is righteous, what your heart and soul call you to do joining a world-wide team I call The Starlight Ohana, meaning an extended family of light-workers, working cooperatively and supporting each other in polishing up the light we are to shine more love into the world.
As goes my Starlight Song, “Love is the answer. Love is the key. Love is the healer. Let love flow through me. Let love flow through thee. Let love flow through we. Let love flow - Ya-wee!”
Remember, the only time you can experience whatever you want to experience is right now. Spiritual Activist Wisdom Warriors know this and show up to Live Love Now. May it be so for increasing numbers around the world. Remember it always has to start with you, here and now, this day, this holy breath.
May it be so! All Blessings.