Arguments over Genocide & A Crystal

This morning, our first morning without Ashlynn, who made it safely to our daughters’ in Somerville, my husband brought me home from a short outing, this beautiful crystal. It’s an orca agate and its stated qualities are that of helping one through grief and transmuting negative energies. I charged it in the sun and then when I held it, it was amazing. I could feel the energies shifting inside me in a beautiful way.

The grief of a dog and of the loss that happens through estrangement with people one loves dearly cannot be compared to the loss that has occurred to the Indigenous Peoples of this world. And yet, as I sat in the sun reading Steven Schwartzberg’s book, I was reminded of both the grief of the Indigenous Peoples, the genocides, ongoing of so many, including in Palestine, and throughout the world.

Could we all agree that human beings are sacred, beautiful, image-bearing beings who have been manipulated? One of my favorite things about Steven’s book is the way he extends the idea of the Body of Christ to include all of Creation, the kinship of all beings, all life.

How do we treat our own body? Do we shame ourselves? Do we love ourselves? Do we help our whole system to be healthy? Do we honor the totality, even the parts that struggle? Do we seek to dominate our body or to work together with it?

The whole idea of nations existing on the basis of domination is a problem for me. I am not in the mood for analysis, but rather to invite us to consider how life might feel if we whatever ways of doing and being we, as a whole, established, reflected the values of both freedom and love for all; sovereignty and unity.

A passage from The Sophia Code came to mind. The Sophia Code is a channeled text, and while there is legitimate concern about appropriation, Kaia Ra, who channeled it mentored extensively with an Indigenous man, who was the closest she has known as father. Her book features 8 ascended feminine masters. White Buffalo woman is among them. She writes:

"It is safe for you to let go of the past; no matter how many times you relive the trauma of genocide, you cannot change the outcome. I am here to guide you have to your own salvation, which is to believe in the power of the Holy Spirit working through you to atone for and reconcile all imbalances.”

The Sophia Code p 284