The Superpower Network Celebrates Courageous Creativity with PRIDE – LGBTQIA+ feature

One thing that can really help is realizing that this isn’t a new conversation. It’s really not, it may feel really new and how we’re talking about it right now may feel really new and super scary to some people like like on all sides, right? There are no both sides. There’s no either side like there is no groupthink on this. Everyone’s trying to figure out how they feel and where they stand. And it’s really important that when you’re doing that you’re cautious about how you’re being informed. And so it can help when we sort of knock out some of the sensationalism, which is it’s right social media that we’re on with all the clamor, and we’re seeing bills passed right and left and who can rush to get their input in. And it’s uncertain, right? And it creates a lot of chaos.

And it’s unfortunate that it’s happening at a time when there are all kinds of other uncertainty and chaos, from the perspective that it makes it really uncomfortable for us. But it’s fortunate in the sense that it’s timely, right? This thread that we’re seeing underneath all of this is this very clear call to balance, what is out of balance, to find some harmony with systems that really no longer work. It’s kind of a weird way to look at it. But if you can get a perspective, that’s wide enough, right, this evolutionary perspective with kind of an infinity lens, right, see how many generations you can look back how many generations you can look forward. And when you see this isn’t a new conversation, we just kind of change players and roles and how they appear. Because when we get afraid, we like to go after that which we don’t have a program for, right? We kind of short-circuit our systems and don’t know what to do. We get scared. And so we go looking for the thing that might be making us afraid. And usually, that’s the thing that we understand the least. And that’s a very natural program, from a survival kind of basic human being standpoint, where a lot of people operate. And in that place, it can be really hard to remember that we’re talking about people. A lot of times, we’re talking about people and if children aren’t the topic, they’re involved, they’re connected. They’re listening. At the very least they’re listening, or watching all of this. And that’s really where we can kind of start from right is the fact that when we have conversations about what we think is right or wrong. What we think is good or evil what we think is natural or unnatural. 

Most of us haven’t really invested the time in understanding where our ideas come from and where our programs come from. In fact, if we really sat and thought about it, we couldn’t tell you where our programs come from, and why we think the way that we think we can drill it down usually, to whoever told us something at the earliest possible moment of remembering when somebody told us how we should think about the world. But that’s about as far as we can get unless we really invest the time in our own programming, right and understanding aren’t ourselves in clearing some of those programs, and reprogramming things that work within alignment with where the world is going. And in order to think this way, you really have to understand how dynamics work, right? And how the universal resonance field works, and how to watch for what we’ve already voted on. And you hear me talk about this, how the field is all about popular voting, right popular vote, and it’s a resonant field. 

So how we choose to look at each other look at ourselves, what we choose to believe about how the world works, all of that gets inputted as this big collective sort of computer concept. It will be much, much, much, much more complex than that. But that’s, that’s a good sort of elementary model that we can use to think about it right to start to reshape our thinking, and how we see our world and how we see each other. What that means is that we really don’t have any shared realities, we have shared spaces. And so a lot of the fighting that happens in these conversations, a lot of the fear is a fear of losing something that that that we want to protect, right, or having to deal with something that we didn’t have to deal with before and some feel like somebody else is putting it on us, right, some loss, some threatening something is occurring to our reality. 

And a lot of that comes from the fact that we believe that we have shared realities. And in that belief structure, we have to fight to get an agreement, right? If somebody doesn’t agree with what we’re seeing, then our reality comes into question. And it developed certain developmental stages like that’s really uncomfortable. And people don’t like that. And so we so they try not to do that a lot. And the way that people try not to do that is they simply go looking for the information that agrees. And that which doesn’t get sort of placed in places of disregard, if it’s looked at all. 

Simple sorting mechanisms, right, very simple programs. Very simple sorting, but that’s about all some people can manage, particularly in fear. And so that’s why those programs work the way that they do fabulous survival programs. Really poor programs to run when we’re talking about how to have community. How to share spaces, while we may not have shared realities, right? That’s based on your perception, what you can see the multitude of ways that you figured out how to map your world based on your experiences, your programs, your upbringing, there are so many variables that go into that and prove that we’re not seeing the world the same way. But we do share spaces. 

So on some levels, we can sort of start to accept, okay, wait, you don’t have to agree with my reality, I don’t have to agree with your reality. Because at the end of the day, we can’t even really totally explain our realities to each other, we can just say. This is what it looks like over here, and the other person would go. Maybe they’re talking about this because, in my world, it kind of looks like this. And we start to share enough and get patient enough with each other and talk enough in real ways that we can kind of put together these middle constructs, right? And the spaces in between us. And that’s what a lot of us have started to do in these co-creative spaces where we acknowledge that there you cannot come into other people’s realities. It just doesn’t work. But we can talk about it, right, we can share, and we can build mutual constructs based on some of these principles we’ve been working with. And when we’re willing to do that, we see that, that ultimately, sort of the way that we’re going, right? And how do we know this? What are you talking about? This is a crazy time, but it kind of makes sense. But it makes no sense. Right? And that’s a pretty, pretty common response. How do we know this to be true? Right? Well, if you’ve been in this conversation for more than a minute, right? I’m coming up on 30 years in this conversation, you start to notice trend threads, right? Whether it’s gender oppression, you know, whether it’s racism, whether it’s oppression against the LGBTQIA plus community, you know, back in the day was LGBT. Like, and we just added to be right. 

So it’s like, it moves it evolves, right, the conversation has changed. They ebb and flow, the definitions kind of move and shape but the thread is the same, and it’s the same in all of our conversations. Whether we’re talking About those conversations or any social impact conversations? The state of the economy, right? All of it is helping us see that we’ve got some imbalances, some old programs that just don’t support us anymore, and not where we want to go. And where we want to go includes space for everybody. space for everybody, like no more, is the world going to agree to two systems that don’t work for everybody? 

So let’s go back to this LGBTQIA plus conversation that has everybody sort of twisted right in all kinds of directions from within the community from outside the community. What is the community like? Like, is that a community? Like, how does this work? And what are we really talking about, and ultimately, whether we want to talk about, you know, trans kids rights, or whether we want to talk about sports, if we want to talk about operations. If we want to talk about how dictating how we can love and who we love, right? I mean, this stuff goes all the way back to the Kinsey’s where this is a new, right continuum of identity and expression and orientation and behaviors. And we know that we’d much prefer to be fluid in our creative expression so that we can grow and evolve. But we don’t want to be fluid enough in our creative, we don’t want to create enough space for our own fluidity that would require that somebody else be allowed to have it, I got all kinds of excited about that if it doesn’t match up with the sort of fluidity that we want, right? 

Because we have that base-level program of this terrorism thing, this kind of scarcity concept, we got to take a look at that. Because if we go back to this idea of the field having voted as a global community, we have spoken in loud numbers. We want to create spaces where we can all be free to express ourselves to figure out what that looks like for us if you don’t believe me listen to the younger generation. They don’t owe us anything, they don’t owe us to carry on what we created. Right? That’s a weird thing to get through our heads, the younger generations are not obligated to carry on what we created. In fact, smart people might look at this, okay, I don’t want to say smart people that really sounds judgmental, but it’s kind of a little bit of a friction point here because I think we’re a little bit myopic in these conversations. And it would stand to reason that if we want things to persist if we want our way of being to continue. If we want the younger generation to shine a light on and say, yes, we want to continue that, then shouldn’t we be making something that they want to continue? That works for them. The amount of variability coming out of the younger generations isn’t a fad, this isn’t going away, we will never again be able to get ahead of the individuated creative self-expressions that we’re seeing. I would put any kind of money into that. 

You want to talk about diversity training, sensitivity training, and all of the labeling training, right? That we’ve been trying to perfect over eons, right to try to get us a tune to this just freaking exploded in front of our faces. We’re not going to stop finding new ways to express ourselves, not when we figured out how to do it. It’s never going to end. So what do we do with that information? Do we resist it? And try to keep shoving people back into boxes that actually never worked for any of us? Or are we going to get creative and say, All right, cool? We are changing as a people as a humanity, we’re changing. We’re growing, we’re evolving, we want something different moving forward. 

And if we’re honest, some of what’s happening here is that these things just can’t stand in opposition to each other anymore, within ourselves, within our relationships within our communities, within our nations, and within our globe, they just won’t stand. And this art of harmonizing these conflicts within ourselves, within our relationships within our families, within our communities, within our nations, and within our globe, really, truly is the way through. Right? So if we accept that on some level as humanity were evolving if you don’t believe me, go back and listen to the Superpower Network. Seven years of people talking about things that are happening that prove we’re evolving. We have superpowers.

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