( A sweet lucid dream of an age inclusive future.)
“Once upon a time, a great Tribe of people lived in the world far away in time from our present-day world.
They lived in the state of enchantment enjoying what many recent generations dare to believe possible, except in few & exceptional moments. Like moments when one sees the real reason and potential of humanity.
One day the elder of this Tribe called a meeting. They gathered around, and one of them spoke very solemnly. “My friends,” she said, “there’s a world that needs our help. The knowledge we have from the experiences we’ve lived will be a vital part of creating the solutions our world desperately needs now. The lives we’ve lived, the failure and success we’ve had now have a chance to serve their purpose. It’s become evident that we need a more balanced approach to finding solutions. Bigger, better, technology could definitely use a graceful dose of experience, prior knowledge, in their innovating.”
It will take strength. Strength to ward off whatever insecurities you’ve come to believe about yourself, or been told of your worth, your age. It’ll take courage & tenacity to continue to stand up in your knowing, your experience as a “first-hand,” witness of how we got here.
What it looked like before.
How many fish swam in the oceans.
How a wild forest smells.
The value of making things from your hands.
The learning from our mistakes, the remembering of the potential we had in another time will be vital in where we go from here. How we will find solutions that heal our culture… our world.
BUT Your power will only come from clarity in your unique seeing (which we all have) & clear communication of what you’ve experienced & seen from a heart-space
bigger than your own personal agenda.
You will remember and tell the love, incredible beauty & grace that you know to be the norm, they will recognize what you are saying is TRUE by the stir & longing-in-their-hearts. Your memory will take the physical form as a wise-person & an intuitive resource in the community.
A valued, irreplaceable citizen in our culture.
Gracefully you will measure your telling with equal listening, never preaching, and never using fear as a default. Painting a beautiful picture with your word that encompasses all ranges of emotions, pains, joys, & setbacks… All that you’ve known first hand.
People will find calm in your presence.. in your first-hand witness-bearing of what was. Even feeling safe when you occasionally have to plunge into the painful narrative of what exists today and what your HEART knows as a more beautiful world…
As they have matured with your sharing and now have a much more balanced perspective of how life ebbs & flows.
In your exquisite, remembering & sharing… communities will grow, and families will heal. For it is LIFE that has been preparing you for this!
In the beginning, as you start to be seen and as you share this with the world, know that you & your knowledge, will be under attack. You will be called an “old” buried in “old-ideas,” and an irrelevant voice. You’ll be told in 1 million ways that a world of destruction, violence, drudgery, anxiety, fear, and segregation is normal. You may go through a time when you are entirely alone, with no allies to affirm your knowledge of a more beautiful world that is possible. You may plunge into a depth of deep despair that is meant to extinguish the SPARK you’re MEANT to put into the world… from your experience.
But you see, even though you will feel, for time, utterly alone, you will not be alone. You will have assistance when you look out and search for it as our enlightened Tribe is growing. It’s in a tribe where you will experience …marvelous others who too have experiences to share that add to the waters of the growing floodwaters of our message.
Because it’s in the awakening & harvesting of your experiences, you will know the value you bring to your next chapter, your future Life’s mission. And then it’s there you will meet more from your Tribe. You will recognize them by your common purpose, values, and intuitions.
So Dear Friend … times of thinking your age & life’s experiences make you an unwelcome member in our society are … are gone! And instead you are needed now more than ever in our culture and our planet’s future. It wouldn’t take a tsunami but a consistent ripple from each in our Tribe.
What do you say are you in?
Love to have you at our Next Ageless Wisdom Women’s Circle
(Adaptions and from; The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. By Charles Eisenstein “A Gathering Of a Tribe.”)
Happy Monday, my friends.
Kathy
