Humans don’t love it, but it may be the key to spiritual intuition.

Once again, I’ve been thinking a lot, as we all have, about the state of things.

Ok let’s face it we can’t stop thinking about it *gestures wildly around at about a million examples of a civilization and planet in distress*. I, like many of us, long to extract myself from the constant ruminating on how we got to this point in our human history. The wondering if it’s any different from any other point in human history (it’s not). The constant bargaining chip that joyful moments now position themselves as: yesterday our neighbor and her 3-year old delivered the cookies she insisted on making for us. We finally started watching Ted Lasso last month (so, so late to this). The rescue pups providing any of thousand darling moments daily. The many people I love so much it makes me cry and consumes me with gratitude just thinking of them.

And the inflatable unicorn costume that eluded me. Spirit Halloween store 1, allergic-to-jump-scares me, 0.

“But also!” the Information Age serves up to me, “The Greed! The Fear! So many assholes who want to kill us all”. Their cruelty and the quite literal bloodlust! How can it all be happening at the same time, all the time.

How can it not be vanquished by the Unicorns?

How do we know that isn’t exactly what’s happening? We don’t. But we do probably know that Life is everything everywhere all at once.

Maybe there are actual, large swaths of our species who are completely fine right now, who don’t consume any news or commentary or propaganda at all, who don’t have a million newsletter subscriptions and who don’t notice their grocery bills and who have a mental sieve lever in their brains that automatically powers on the most magnificent and loud denial mechanism you’ve ever seen LALALALALALALALA, anytime anything remotely distressing happens within the very narrow radius of their consciousness extending to whatever screen they gaze into. A populous who do not feel compelling feelings about anything they see there.

(Sci-fy podcasters take note. I am available for consult)

Regardless, I am not one of them. I would love to be as numb as I imagine these humanoids to be for just 5 regularly scheduled minutes every day. Sounds dreamy.

But in the depths of my soul we all know these fictional lucky ducks shielded from it all do not exist. There are no successfully numb people in this world, nor is there a single human being who doesn’t experience harm and trauma on this earth walk we endeavor to trod along until such time as our learning here is complete.

Our work here is to leave our lives with more capacity for compassion, not less.

Our job is to be as affected as possible by life until it cracks us open enough to make peace with how intensely precious and heartbreakingly vulnerable is every single soul here.

Our task is to love, anyway. To be as harmless as possible. As generous as possible. Anyway.

But man do we hate the vulnerability that is the price of admission to the seat of human learning that is life.

This is the reason I constantly encourage you to decide to be part of the highest good for the greatest number. Committing to love, compassion, and reverence activates your most natural resource, your intuition, which will then put you exactly where we need to be when you need to be there with the people who will become the precious community you need.

This kind of spiritual intuition is not a secret, it won’t get you a billion Mercedes, a hot bod and a hot spouse, but it will awaken your intuition such that you’ll be part of creating meaning, healing, and purpose, not just for yourself, but for everyone.

When we are lucky enough to experience our own vulnerability, to see it as an awakening gift and the quality that connects us to every other living thing on this planet, it can truly catapult us into being part of the solution, regardless of the past or the future.

Holding you deep in my heart,

Susan