Power and the New Earth
Healing, community, and kissing the dragon
Power is the hidden energetic lifeblood that determines how we show up in every social dynamic or community. We are all sensitive to it, whether we realise it or not; just like we are all intuitive but most people are conditioned to not even recognise it.
People are chronically disempowered. We’ve been disempowered throughout every stage of life, and possibly suffered some severe power losses from traumatic events along the way.
Yet whilst we typically think of power as negative, and prefer the word ‘empowerment,’ the fact is, healing— which is the return to wholeness, could also be defined as the retrieval of one’s rightful power.
That each person reclaims their full rightful power — meaning their life force energy, their authenticity, their unique creativity, their sovereignty, their intuition and self-leadership capacities, and their wholeness — is absolutely core to the new humanity and therefore new earth we are creating.
The truth is, we are limitless, infinitely powerful beings, yet through the stories and fears we have accepted as ‘life’ and our identity, we give our power away, and then try to gain it back— hence the business of wellness and personal transformation.
Some people of course, opt towards gaining it through other people. But needing a supply of others’ attention, sympathy or energy does not provide any valuable actual healing, but rather creates deeper crevasses in the fabric of what was once whole.
I have been working with clients regarding issues of power for over 20 years. I’m very attuned to even its most innocent, subtle forms.
On a day to day basis in even simple, innocent conversations, this can look like energy vampirism or control. On a more malign level, this can act out as cult leaders drinking up the power and attention they get from their community. Just yesterday, I heard about another example in the founder of a huge global dance and healing movement.
I’ve met a good few of these ‘healers’ through being part of an extensive spiritual community for over 12 years.
A key question to ask intuitively in your body (not your logic) - Is this person using principles like freedom and empowerment to serve their own power? Or using their power to truly serve freedom and peace?
But even then, reclaiming our power is about giving up victimhood or blaming another, and rather freeing ourselves from the hold our emotional reactions have on us.
The Penan Tribe
One of the most passionate and moving Masterclass Series’ I produced for the Academy was with Bruce Parry — a British television hero most famous for his BBC series, ‘Tribes’ and ‘Arctic’. He then became an independent documentary maker, filming ‘Tawai’ after he discovered the Penan tribe.
“Ultimately, every other group of people I have ever met in my life, exists in societies of competition, hierarchy and ownership. The Penan, (and the tiny handful of other remaining egalitarian societies), do not.”
Living in true, total peace and harmony in society is possible, but only through genuine realisation of what power actually is, and the commitment to our own healing— as well as no longer feeding power play in others.
Power needs to be compassionately laid out on the table for everyone to see plainly and take radical responsibility for— both those who are in victim and give their power away, and those who consume it by controlling or eclipsing others.
Communities of Healing Leaders
For a team or community to become a group of coherent collaborating leaders that inspire one another, not deteriorate into passive submission, requires awareness and an intuitive balancing of the individual with the collective.
It has always been clear to both Vincent and I that we want neos·life to be populated and created by empowered, awakened, creative leaders. We want to be surrounded by people who inspire and do things even better than us. People we trust, because their hearts are totally aligned.
On the one hand, this sounds like decentralisation or a holocratic structure, yet issues can arise here too. For a sovereign creative person, who feels inspiration rise like a tidal wave of expansive life force, who thrives from giving expression to pure creative impulse in service to something far greater than him or herself — a true artist, having to operate within the limitations of a group can sometimes leave one feeling uninspired, disempowered and bored.
In neos·life we are always operating at the peak of our individual sovereign creative inspiration - AND this is always and directly in service to what each other are doing. There’s no compromise on either side. It’s and plus and, win plus win.
It’s not that everyone should be acting independently irrespective of a collective purpose — that would be chaos. My message is simply that like Bruce Parry concluded, it is not possible to experience a truly harmonious community, without every person taking responsibility for their healing, and creating a culture where this is at the core— a culture to raise and balance each other.
At the heart of neos·life is the simple, courageous practice of sitting with oneself, or sitting with another, feeling every emotion passing through even the most painful triggers, and enquiring with loving compassion:
“How have I given my power away here?
“What is there to appreciate about why my consciousness has chosen this experience?
“In what ways do I try to consume power or energy through strategies that avoid the truth?
“What do I need to see within myself that causes this pattern to keep showing up in my movie?”
“The most precious treasures are guarded by the most terrifying dragon. To reach the treasures, one must go to the dragon... and kiss it. ”
Bert Hellinger
With so much love, and blessings for the coming Spring Equinox— a time of rebirth!
Karen and Vincent
Keep up the good work Vincent!