Apocalypse GlowUp
Re-introducing myself and relaunching this blog
A lot has changed since the last time I posted.
Binden was president.
I was couch surfing in order to stop working and heal from long covid.
I was too sick to announce I had finally published my Libratory Practices card deck.
I had a different name and so did this blog.
A lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same.
Oppression is still doing its usual terrorism to keep our focus on our oppression, not our liberation. And while I have a new name, a new home, and a new level of health and wellbeing, I can admit that I still don’t know what I’m doing most of the time.
Luckily, my daily liberation practice: Liberatory Biomimicy is for times like these, when we don’t know what to do, but LIFE does.
I’ve learned to follow life’s guidance by connecting to my aliveness, which is connected to the aliveness of my ecosystem, which is orchestrated by life itself, the grand conductor of the symphony of life.
Many of you don’t know that I come from a background of dedicated spiritual pursuit and activism. In many ways, I failed at both.
I was frustrated and confused by the bypassing and hypocrisy in both groups. I was ostracized and judged in spiritual communities and repressed and judgmental in activist groups.
Both spiritual people and activists are frustrated by their ineffectiveness and setbacks. Yet people in both groups are often too scared to leave their comfort zones, venture into the mess, and find the success they long for. Back then, I hadn’t found liberation myself, so I couldn’t show anyone the way.
But I was not too scared to leave my comfort zone to find my success. I left every spiritual community and activist group I ever joined. I left my home when that’s what my healing demanded. I left the comfort, safety, and respectability of dead men’s practices, paths, and frameworks and entered the wildness and mess of reality. I was terrified, but my longing for sanity, dignity, stability, and justice in this unjust world was relentless.
In 2020, I got sick, moved home, got sicker, couldn’t work, and lived on friends’ couches so I could rest rather than grind. I was so far off any path that made sense to me that I had to follow my aliveness to make it though. There we no other signposts left to follow. What I found softened my heart, sharpened my intellect, and humbled my spirit.
I found the 18 Liberatory Practices one at a time, in the messy chaos of my broken life.
I wasn’t easy. Life often isn’t. Especially in the messy instability of personal evolution and ecosystem evolution, like the United States and all of humanity are in right now.
I don’t have answers. I don’t know what you should or shouldn’t in this messy time. But life does! And life is delighted to partner with you and guide you to greater wellbeing as part of the ecosystem. Just like life did for me.
So, here I am, Selahm, writing the Unleash Your Aliveness blog, offering teachings on 18 Liberatory Practices that can help you find your own unique pathway to the success you want, whatever it is.
Thanks for being here with me in the messiness of human life.
More and more I just want to honor the beauty of our messy fight for our messy humanity. When we see our mess as sacred, rather than grotesque, we find the harmony we crave. “The mess” is, after all, our precious human lives, and our tender humanity, which won’t last forever. Our mess is the healing we undertake to benefit humanity. Humanity has a lot of mess to clean up, and being honest about our mess is the first step to addressing it.
Let’s make the most of our mess, and be as alive as we can be while we’re here, yeah?
Welcome to the next phase of your evolution. It’s weird out here in liberation, y’all. :P