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Hands Wash Each Other: Cultivating Radical Creativity and Collective Unity in Times of Transition

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Hands Wash Each Other: Cultivating Radical Creativity and Collective Unity in Times of Transition https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hands-wash-each-other-cultivating-radical-creativity-and-collective-unity-in-times-of-transition--72388386 What happens when the matrix changes the rules of survival, and our old models of unity leave us exposed to systemic violence? On this day of Kuumba, sitting in the high-vibrational week of Umoja, we are exploring a critical cultural tension: the illusion of the frictionless life versus the necessity of collective friction. When we isolate ourselves in neat little nuclear bubbles, we aren't protecting our peace—we are just making ourselves lonely, rusty, and easy to divide. True radical unity requires the rubbing together of forces, the cross-pollination of raw ideas, and the rebuilding of community infrastructures like neighborhood kitchens and food co-ops. But building something new means we have to stop carrying the heavy structural clutter of a...

Discouragement

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Sometimes I get discouraged... I have heard this over and over again in my studies, and being on this Journey, I have  felt it. This feeling can strike at the strangest time, but I like those before me I need to push on. I am in the beginning stages of writing another book. The Idea came to me complete with a title and the first thing that hit me was the feeling that accompanies discouragement and self doubt. The negative question began to hit me from the inside as well as the outside. The book will be about the Journey to success, although I have dealt with this topic in my other books, this book will deal with it more directly and be more universal in scope. The first negative thought hit me and tormented me for the first day, after I put the title on my thinking board (will speak on the "Thinking Board" in an upcoming blog). The question was what gave me the right to write about success? I was embarrassed by the question and images of other people asking me the same questi...