Oh wow, holy synchronicity, I was just reading your piece on elements and feeling so much of it! <3
I was also a serious child who related better to adults...these days I relate better to children the same age I was when I related to adults, and also to a smattering of adults - most who are 7-10 years younger or older. I think I have like two or three people I genuinely connect with who are about my age! When I was a kid I felt it would be relatively easy to solve the world problems with 4-5 people plus or minus my intelligence with the will to do so. I was so weirded out by adults who told me "this is just the way the world is/how it works." One thing I am optimistic about is that people no longer by and large default to that - it is impossible because stability is gone, which means possibility is wide open, sister! That is cause for focus, celebration, surrender and creation at the highest levels, divine will, heaven on earth for all who want it, Sophia Mother God clear all obstacles and let it begin with me in my own body, mind, heart, energy and soul so be it!
So interesting that you relate better to children the same age as you were when you related to adults! Thank you for sharing this, Alicia. That phrase, “this is just the way the world is/how it works,” bothered me so much when I heard it, too. It never made sense to me, and I think that’s a big reason why I left at such a young age to dive into new experiences that could shape and expand my worldview in new ways. I feel so lucky to be alive in this moment to continue to shape the future 🫶 even though it’s heavy at times.
Yes to it being privilege as well as an immense challenge to be born and alive and kicking (or creating, meditating etc) at this unprecedented opportunity (think the Chinese symbol for crisis, which is danger/opportunity.( And I do find it an amusing, possibly somewhat unorthodox, unique experience to be on both sides of the “I relate better to people who are not in my age bracket” thing. I love that you have embraced the world and also are yearning for the ground of home, within and also as one who connects our nodes of brother-sisterhood internationally. It’s ALL Home as far as I’m concerned. I am round peg in a square hole in the states, but I feel led to be here nonetheless. <3 <3 <3
Thank you! That means a whole lot coming from you! I am forever grateful for your book that gave historical understanding to my intuitive/gut feeling about this and other things that are similar! <3 Blessings and love. ~ Alicia
I was looking up the link for Steven's stuff to give 'y'all a shout out in a note (you know I write impromptu, consequences be darned, though I could learn from you and James Don Bluewolf, lol) - and on intuition I just looked up "Steven, genocide, congress." ...I found out about a whole additional (semi controverted but definitely criminal) genocide.
"While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made,[a] the topic remains a significant issue in modern politics with historians disputing whether Soviet policies would fall under the legal definition of genocide. Specifically, scholarly debate of the question centres around whether or not the Holodomor was intentional and therefore constitutes a genocide under the Genocide Convention.[13]Broadly speaking, Russian historians are generally of the opinion that the Holodomor did not constitute a genocide. Among Ukrainian historians the general opinion is that it did constitute a genocide. Western historians hold varying views.[14] Most scholars who reject the argument that state policy in regard to the famine was genocidal do not absolve Joseph Stalin or the Soviet regime as a whole from guilt for the famine deaths and still view such policies as being ultimately criminal in nature.[15][16][17]
Mace, staff director for the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, compiled a 1988 Report to Congress, he stated that, based on anecdotal evidence, the Soviets had purposely prevented Ukrainians from leaving famine-struck regions; this was later confirmed by the discovery of Stalin's January 1933 secret decree "Preventing the Mass Exodus of Peasants who are Starving", restricting travel by peasants after "in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants 'for bread' has begun", that "like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power."[32][33] Roman Serbyn called this document one of the "smoking gun" revelations about the genocide.[34] One of the nineteen main conclusions of the Report to Congress was that "Joseph Stalin and those around him committed genocide against Ukrainians in 1932–1933."[35]
In his paper named "Is Ukrainian Genocide A Myth?", Mace further argued the Holodomor constituted a genocide. Among proof he cited a letter written by Stalin to Lazar Kaganovich on 11 September 1932, shortly before Kaganovich and Vyacheslav Molotov were appointed heads of special commissions to oversee the grain procurements in Ukraine and Kuban (a region considered to be populated primarily by ethnic Ukrainians at the time), in which Stalin urged Kaghanovich to force Ukraine into absolute compliance.[36]"
...reminded me of what you said about how everyone is genociding each other. In particular the links between the Ukrainians being victims, then participating in the slaughter of my Jewish ancestors, alongside the Germans (who trace back to Ukrainian roots as Germanic tribes) genociding the Jews; then the Israelis and what they are doing to the Palestinians. The interesting connections between Swiss-Israeli Ukranians...I heard Blinken dressed his kids up for Halloween in Ukranian themed Costumes. Look into his step dad if you are bored sometime!
"In the early 1800s, the court declared in three opinions—Johnson v. McIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia and Worcester v. State of Georgia—that Native peoples did not, in fact, own their land but were mere “occupants” if Christians had “discovered” it; that Native nations were “wards” of the United States; and that the United States had “ultimate dominion” over all Native land and peoples.
The opinions’ primary author was Chief Justice John Marshall. A devout Christian, he ignored the Constitution’s imperative to separate church and state. He pointed to Christianity as the rationale for dominion and — after religious conversion of “heathen” Natives — the compensation for their losses.
Marshall knew he was on shaky ground. D’Errico quotes him conceding that the claims of one opinion were “pretensions” that existed “nowhere else.” This was not ordinary law, but the suspension of law, d’Errico says."
Wow 🔥 just wow. This world breaks my heart, but I hold hope that the future will be brighter and we can all be free.
Oh wow, holy synchronicity, I was just reading your piece on elements and feeling so much of it! <3
I was also a serious child who related better to adults...these days I relate better to children the same age I was when I related to adults, and also to a smattering of adults - most who are 7-10 years younger or older. I think I have like two or three people I genuinely connect with who are about my age! When I was a kid I felt it would be relatively easy to solve the world problems with 4-5 people plus or minus my intelligence with the will to do so. I was so weirded out by adults who told me "this is just the way the world is/how it works." One thing I am optimistic about is that people no longer by and large default to that - it is impossible because stability is gone, which means possibility is wide open, sister! That is cause for focus, celebration, surrender and creation at the highest levels, divine will, heaven on earth for all who want it, Sophia Mother God clear all obstacles and let it begin with me in my own body, mind, heart, energy and soul so be it!
So interesting that you relate better to children the same age as you were when you related to adults! Thank you for sharing this, Alicia. That phrase, “this is just the way the world is/how it works,” bothered me so much when I heard it, too. It never made sense to me, and I think that’s a big reason why I left at such a young age to dive into new experiences that could shape and expand my worldview in new ways. I feel so lucky to be alive in this moment to continue to shape the future 🫶 even though it’s heavy at times.
Yes to it being privilege as well as an immense challenge to be born and alive and kicking (or creating, meditating etc) at this unprecedented opportunity (think the Chinese symbol for crisis, which is danger/opportunity.( And I do find it an amusing, possibly somewhat unorthodox, unique experience to be on both sides of the “I relate better to people who are not in my age bracket” thing. I love that you have embraced the world and also are yearning for the ground of home, within and also as one who connects our nodes of brother-sisterhood internationally. It’s ALL Home as far as I’m concerned. I am round peg in a square hole in the states, but I feel led to be here nonetheless. <3 <3 <3
A commonality there with you: always related to people much older or younger than myself the most... or from a different country or ethnic background
With you there too...
wow... a poetic historical truth-telling tour de force! ...
Thank you! That means a whole lot coming from you! I am forever grateful for your book that gave historical understanding to my intuitive/gut feeling about this and other things that are similar! <3 Blessings and love. ~ Alicia
and I am grateful for how thoroughly you 'got' the book and how seamlessly you weave stuff from it into your creative work! 🙏
I was looking up the link for Steven's stuff to give 'y'all a shout out in a note (you know I write impromptu, consequences be darned, though I could learn from you and James Don Bluewolf, lol) - and on intuition I just looked up "Steven, genocide, congress." ...I found out about a whole additional (semi controverted but definitely criminal) genocide.
"While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made,[a] the topic remains a significant issue in modern politics with historians disputing whether Soviet policies would fall under the legal definition of genocide. Specifically, scholarly debate of the question centres around whether or not the Holodomor was intentional and therefore constitutes a genocide under the Genocide Convention.[13]Broadly speaking, Russian historians are generally of the opinion that the Holodomor did not constitute a genocide. Among Ukrainian historians the general opinion is that it did constitute a genocide. Western historians hold varying views.[14] Most scholars who reject the argument that state policy in regard to the famine was genocidal do not absolve Joseph Stalin or the Soviet regime as a whole from guilt for the famine deaths and still view such policies as being ultimately criminal in nature.[15][16][17]
Mace, staff director for the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, compiled a 1988 Report to Congress, he stated that, based on anecdotal evidence, the Soviets had purposely prevented Ukrainians from leaving famine-struck regions; this was later confirmed by the discovery of Stalin's January 1933 secret decree "Preventing the Mass Exodus of Peasants who are Starving", restricting travel by peasants after "in the Kuban and Ukraine a massive outflow of peasants 'for bread' has begun", that "like the outflow from Ukraine last year, was organized by the enemies of Soviet power."[32][33] Roman Serbyn called this document one of the "smoking gun" revelations about the genocide.[34] One of the nineteen main conclusions of the Report to Congress was that "Joseph Stalin and those around him committed genocide against Ukrainians in 1932–1933."[35]
In his paper named "Is Ukrainian Genocide A Myth?", Mace further argued the Holodomor constituted a genocide. Among proof he cited a letter written by Stalin to Lazar Kaganovich on 11 September 1932, shortly before Kaganovich and Vyacheslav Molotov were appointed heads of special commissions to oversee the grain procurements in Ukraine and Kuban (a region considered to be populated primarily by ethnic Ukrainians at the time), in which Stalin urged Kaghanovich to force Ukraine into absolute compliance.[36]"
...reminded me of what you said about how everyone is genociding each other. In particular the links between the Ukrainians being victims, then participating in the slaughter of my Jewish ancestors, alongside the Germans (who trace back to Ukrainian roots as Germanic tribes) genociding the Jews; then the Israelis and what they are doing to the Palestinians. The interesting connections between Swiss-Israeli Ukranians...I heard Blinken dressed his kids up for Halloween in Ukranian themed Costumes. Look into his step dad if you are bored sometime!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question
I am honored to be able to "get it."
You will note the members include social democrats and christian democrats. <3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_Opus_Dei
"In the early 1800s, the court declared in three opinions—Johnson v. McIntosh, Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia and Worcester v. State of Georgia—that Native peoples did not, in fact, own their land but were mere “occupants” if Christians had “discovered” it; that Native nations were “wards” of the United States; and that the United States had “ultimate dominion” over all Native land and peoples.
The opinions’ primary author was Chief Justice John Marshall. A devout Christian, he ignored the Constitution’s imperative to separate church and state. He pointed to Christianity as the rationale for dominion and — after religious conversion of “heathen” Natives — the compensation for their losses.
Marshall knew he was on shaky ground. D’Errico quotes him conceding that the claims of one opinion were “pretensions” that existed “nowhere else.” This was not ordinary law, but the suspension of law, d’Errico says."
~ Inthesetimes
https://inthesetimes.com/article/shaky-ground-derrico-indigenous-law-land
More Resources:
https://doctrineofdiscovery.org
http://www.ecologia.org/news/15.IndianLawPt2Jan2022.mp3
https://ethicspress.com/products/arguments-over-genocide