Yes, let us pray for peace.

But we also need to rise & use our voice to speak up against the atrocities we face.

There is over 50 countries in the world at war today. In this moment, forests are burning, houses are bombed, humans & animals are fleeing or killed, families are breaking apart. Nearly one in ten people go to bed hungry at night. 700 children die each day due to polluted water. This is the reality since decades, centuries. This was the reality far before we had pieces of it handed out to us on a screen daily, like a bitter meal prepared to blind our eyes and shield off our hearts. 

Resigning under horror, a brutality that seems too much to bear. Signing up by silence & compliance, to serve a system that cares for profit above all else – taking the risk of destroying all life on Earth. Because while bombs are dropping & bullets are shot, the oceans are being covered in plastic. Rivers are being poisoned, mountains turned to dust, deserts spreading and trees older than any of the ones ordering on them to be cut down. While we are trying to count human losses, I do not even want to start counting the losses of the other living, breathing, feeling beings we wipe out every nanosecond. Destroying the soil for life to sprout & grow on. Out of greed & an illusion of dominance. But a truly powerful being does not need to control or attack. Does not need to oppress.

This is a battle that is as old as humanity. A war that is being waged against life, against consciousness, against evolution. By a system that pushes to possession & accumulation without limits, out of a deep feeling of lack & disconnection. Like poison entering through a hole in the hearts of those now demanding to invade, to drill, to cut, to exploit, to take. To penetrate and dominate.

How this patriarchal society lets children grow up in a feeling of lack, searching a sense of validation, attention, „love“ outside of themselves. Blindly following false authorities because no one ever taught us how to connect to this deep, true sense of value, purpose & and authority within us. No one ever told us we can and need to listen to our inner voice. First & foremost. Then no one can tell you who to be or what to do.

But this is not about „us against them“. This is about you, your self, against those parts in you that rather stay silent and lay low out of fear of being alone. Being passive and accept out of a fear of being judged, attacked, left behind. I feel you.

The true alchemy now is about transforming led to gold.

About turning inwards and getting rid of everything that weighs us down, all those conditioned beliefs of competition, of worthlessness, those feelings of separation, this ego-driven battle out of a fear of abandonment. 

To reveal our golden, endlessly precious inner core.

Our true self, that is incorruptible, not pushed by words of hate and alarm bells. 

Our true self, that trusts & feels another world is possible. Right beneath our eyes and feet. 

Knowing that the true nature of life is homeostasis - unity, growth & harmony, in balance & flow.

So if this is about dividing us all, robbing our humanity, building walls.

Making us feel like we are small and have to accept our doomed fate.

The antidote and our only chance to change is connection. And faith.

The path to freedom is found within our own human heart, connected to ourselves, to each other, and our surroundings. 

The ones who want peace and freedom for all beings on this planet far outnumber those who want division. 

The humans who want to live in harmony with nature, honoring Mother Earth who is providing everything in abundance, are far more – in numbers and power – than those wanting to live in concrete prisons. 

And I am not saying this is about one against another. This is about one path towards life and one towards destruction – connection versus distraction. This is about us humans against a dehumanizing war machine, running on money. Everyone that is serving this sick system is in deep need of healing themselves. But in order to heal, we first need to stop the wounding. 

Neoliberal terrorist capitalism without limits is the cancer cell of this planet. Instead of serving creation, it is destroying life itself.

Out of a deep trauma, separation, disconnection and a feeling of lack, the toxic patriarchy tinted by dogmatic religions is cutting at the branch it is standing on.

Instead of pretending we have all the answers, we need to start asking the real questions. Instead of shouting the loudest and trying to overpower, we need to get still and listen. Accept we did not come first to preach, but to learn and then preach. We need to care, to nurture, to heal, hold & love each other and ourselves back into integrity, to fully serve creation.

We need to inject the fertile feminine aspects back into a world strangled by the shadow aspects of the masculine.

We need to become our own mothers, to be able to care for ourselves and the ones around us.

Let us not fall into the traps of fear. Let us not march to their war drums.

The highest value of those making the laws, those standing in front of the cameras in the mass media, and those ‚elected‘ to ‚protect‘ you, was and is always money. And I am not saying power, because they are actually deeply powerless. And they know it. Our political, economic & legal system is crumbling, and they know it. And we have to know that we need to build the alternatives now. They do not have any power over sovereign human beings that know where they stand. Deeply rooted in a ground we know to be ours.

Strongly connected to our own true core, that is connected to the source of creation, of life itself. 

If we are united and connected, we can change course.

Their weapons are not threatening if no one will pick them up to shoot them.

Fear-mongering is not efficient when we listen first and foremost to our own hearts.

Nothing can break a pure, free, open human spirit. 

We need to be stronger now than ever. Not to stumble into a pit of hopelessness, but stand firmly grounded in our faith. 

Stay awake, connect, speak out, share, hold each other tightly. Be gentle, breathe, move, shake it out. Know we are in the last stages of a sickness that has infected a large part of our planet. We can not close our eyes, minds & hearts now, but must open them even wider. 

I trust and I know in my heart that we are able to come out on the other side. 

That everything is seeming so dark and chaotic at the moment because the tunnel is getting tighter. The night is always darkest before the dawn. 

Please let the brutality not ever strip away your humanity.

Believe in your resilience. Your capacity to look at the chaos, feel into the hell, and keep your heart open through it. Go inwards, get silent, do the work of finding out in which ways you are still bound to & serving this toxic system that kills our children and is not hesitant to wipe out all life on this planet.

Beyond and above all the mess, I carry a radical hope within me. That this is the last rainfalls that will make the dams break.

I trust in you, I trust in us. And I trust in life to take its course – like a river always flows to the open ocean. We will find to freedom & justice. United.