16/06/2025
TA**RA & WAR
Most people look at the kind of work that we do and feel that we are a self-absorbed bunch of naval-gazers. That we are a serving buffets of luxury when the world is brutalizing itself.
People are dying - how can we be so selfish as to focus on ta**ra, kink, polarity, shamanism, and spirituality?
Itās a valid point. So much of the ta***ic world is indeed trying to create a soft bubble wrap of protection around itself to insulate from the terror of civilization collapse. It can look like retreat. Like soft spiritual fluff while real suffering and conflict rage.
I struggle with this.
At the same time, for me, itās the only way through. I could not imagine doing any other kind of work in these times.
Hereās the raw truth: wars donāt start because people feel alive and deeply connected. Wars start because people are terrified. Terrified of death, terrified of their own aliveness, terrified of vulnerability, terrified of the unknown. Terrified of the endless ocean of unprocessed ancestral grief. Terrified that when they look across a border, what they see is a mirror. Brothers and sisters who have the exact same yearnings and fears that they have.
When youāve been trained to believe all your stories about yourself and the world, never really looked your own death in the eye, when youāve spent a lifetime numbing your fear and stuffing your pain, you need to control, to dominate, to destroy what you think might be the source of this suffering and this numbness. That terror breeds desperation, and desperation fuels conflict.
This kind of deep, embodied work ā the messy, dark, ecstatic, tender journey into your own depths ā is the only path I know that can crack open that terror.
Continues in the commentsā¦.
Borrowed from .atillacidam šÆš
