entanglements are inevitable
the questions that has me curious is
what we do with them?
entanglements start within how do we show up with ourselves, our ancestors, our past lives, the many living organisms and facets of our beings
how do we then show up with others and their complex beautiful selves?
we are in times of being deeply entangled together as a human species
more connected to our vast human family than before
and as such more entangled in each other’s joy and it seems these days in each other’s struggles
and in community more and more we are learning to speak our voices
and more and more we are encountering our differences and needing to navigate conflict in generative ways
roots systems strike me as a source of wisdom here there is nothing straight, tidy, linear or simple about the ways
a tree holds itself up and is entangled in and responsible for the standing of the forest
so what wisdom is being offered from our tree kin?
might our entanglements, and learning to move with that as a gift, actually a part of our birth right, our strength, our resilience?
what do you make of your entanglements?
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Indinawemaaganidok (All My Relatives)
Entanglement is the self-organizing principle of existence. Every aspect of Creation is a relative to every other. Everything in existence is a fractal of Spirit. And it’s all in motion, attracting, repelling, and exchanging everything from nutrients, to light, to information.
At its core, healing is the ongoing process of penetrating the illusion of separation and becoming increasingly aware of our internal and external entanglements.
Entanglement can be the wounder or the healer. Healing can be an experience of untangling or entangling.
With every wound that heals, consciousness expands in the recognition of connection. Could it be my abuser was once the abused? Is it possible that the one who tries to shame me for existing in my skin also feels shame? What injustices did I commit because injustices were committed against me? Under different circumstances, would I be capable of the hate directed at me?
A dear friend once told me that she was afraid for the teens who had been arrested after raping her 13-year-old daughter. “I cannot imagine what those boys must have suffered that they would lose their compassion and do that to their classmate.” She did not believe the boys would find either justice or the healing they needed in a Canadian court.
At some point, questions must be asked: does judging, blaming, punishing, and shaming eradicate judging, blaming, punishing, and shaming?
Perpetrator, savior, victim, accomplice, enabler, empathizer, healer, and healed. We all hold hands in a giant round dance. I recognize myself in every face.
Everyone has to take responsibility for their actions AND we have co-responsibility for each other.
I have recognized that one of the signs that I am healing is when I can hold two seemingly antithetical ideas as entangled truths.
