Co-Creating a Better World

Like most goals and dreams, the life of an activist requires one foot be planted firmly in the land of delusion. It makes me think of the Star card. The figure kneels naked in nature, one knee in the water of a gentle stream, one knee on the shore. They pour water up from one cup to another, a symbol for alchemy. Activists fight for a future they may never see, and that’s love.

To manifest something, you must live with it in your energy as if it already exists. Dress for the job you want is a great metaphor for the practice. The mind does not understand the distinction between fantasy and reality—that’s why it’s possible to fall in love with someone you don’t know and who doesn’t love you back, that’s why it’s possible to work yourself up into a panic from simply imagining a stressful situation.

Use this programming error for your benefit.

Visualize the life you want. Visualize the collapse of the systems we’ve been playing out like the macrocosmic cycles of generational trauma they are—bound to the insanity of repeating, repeating, repeating history, never learning, never changing, until we have to.

Well, now we have to.

Consider the kind of forest fire

that gives way to new growth.

Anyone who flows with change knows the beauty of the rebirth that follows a death of the old. What would we have missed out on if we had refused to change? What beauty? What luck? What wisdom? What grace?

How many times have the worst things that have ever happened to you, through the clarity of retrospect, turned out to be the best?

Let go.

Flow.

Unburden yourself with the futile task of holding up a falling wall. Embrace the inevitable. Dream bigger. Undo the fixation on individual financial accumulation, on unchecked consumption, on superficial “success” —it has no place in the new world.

Imagine community. Imagine simplicity, Imagine freedom, not gained through a hoarding of resources and power, exploiting everyone beneath you on the hierarchy of having, but freedom from every distraction, every illusion we forgot we (at some point in history) arbitrarily decided to uphold.

We can change course any time we’d like.

It just takes numbers.

It just takes focus.

It just takes faith.

Love is a verb. Love thy neighbor. You don’t need to walk in someone else’s shoes to take up the cause of fighting for their liberation in the struggle, just walk next to them. Be loving to your neighbor.

Whether you know it or not, we are all in this together. Whether you accept it or not, the powers that be are the enemy of our survival. They will run this ship right into an iceberg and commandeer the lifeboats before we even notice we’re sinking.

Co-creating is a conversation between you and God, and you and your fellow beings. Listen like you care. Share yourself like you aren’t afraid to be seen. Engage compassion like your life depends on it. It kind of does. Stop fixating on your individual experiences—the shows you aren’t playing, the money you aren’t making, the normal you aren’t getting back to, and CARE.

Dream 👏 fucking 👏 bigger.👏

Imagine a world founded on justice, equity, non-hierarchical communities. Imagine a life of abundance, not scarcity. Imagine everyone’s needs being met. Imagine undoing the traps and systems of oppression that capitalism needs in order to continue existing. Imagine embracing our interdependence in a way that honors the sacredness of all life on earth. Imagine being in loving gratitude with the planet we call home, never taking more than you need. Imagine a world without fossil fuel dependence, without billionaires or famine or wage slavery. Imagine a world without the white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy.

We might have to do without the creature comforts we’ve become accustomed to. But we might have to, regardless. Let’s do so by choice, listening to the not-so-gentle nudges the Universe is giving us before they become screams. Let’s do so in solidarity, in respect, in openness, and in love.

If you find yourself thinking Britt, you’re talkin’ gibberish!! There’s no way! This is how things have always been done, this is how they will always be done, we aren’t powerful enough to accomplish this, you are presenting an impossible goal!!

I would say,

if that’s your attitude,

then you’re right.

Successful manifestation requires a little bit of delusion. Look at all the unbelievable things that human beings have accomplished. We've manifested fire and languages and several Real Housewives series. We invented gender and then drag to fuck gender and then figured out how to transcend the whole thing entirely. We created printing presses and art and music. We manifested fried chicken and chocolate lava cake!!!!! Electricity!!! Those giant pool floats shaped like unicorns!!! Three-way kisses and telescopes and tattoos and bread and roller skates and ice cream and rock n roll.

We are incredible.

We built it all.

We can tear it down.

Believe it and it will become.

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