Lets start with me being a trained academic. Yes, this is apart of who I am. And I appreciate all the knowledge that I gained in that type of educational setting. I enjoyed getting my degrees. Community Development is the field that I have studied for 6 years. I have worked in education for the last 4 years or so. Both of these fields are heavily political. College is a very political place. My professors would stress all the time that the "person" is political. You cannot separate your self from the political arena that we are in. As a person, you are a citizen..political...a resident...political....and on and on. As for me, people have always taken a step forward with my being. They have politicized me. Always felt that I was interested in politics/government. I suppose wanting to change communities and make a meaningful impact on Black lives, yea that sounds very political, LOL. And I thought that way for a long time. Believing it to be very important for me to be apart of changing or impacting policy in a way to help those most in need.
HOWEVER, in my spiritual growth, I am being more disconnected with the desire to be political. To having opinions on the structures and the systems. I remember being that person ridiculing others for not caring. Wait, let me think about this. Its not that I don't care, its just that it no longer governs how I see change. How I see making an impact on my community. I want to be more focused on elevating consciousness in others. As I am working on my consciousness, I am feeling so much more control over my life. Over what I believe is valuable versus what society or my colleagues or my friends or my family think is important. The beauty in being "awaken" is knowing that NO ONE on this planet has the answers to life. This is my belief.
I want to connect to people in a mind, body and spirit type of way. I want to care for the spirit first. I want to elevate over the human structures, which in a lot of cases are very oppressive. I don't want these structures nor these types of conversations governing my life. Ohh, of course they affect me. I am not blind to that. Ohh, of course they affect the Black community, I am not blind to that. HOWEVER, as with anything, it is up to me to decide how I let these things impact my life.
My mantra these days is: PEACE, PROSPERITY, LOVE, LIBERATION or P2L2. I want to feel liberated and at peace. And to truly do these things, I have to withdraw from these conventional governing systems. I decide to place the earth, land, consciousness above these human structures. Because with all systems, with all infrastructures, there are mere humans running them. And so my mission, as to spread P2L2 to the healing and progression of my people.
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