Pamela's Blog 6

Published on Friday, May 8, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“To Enlarge the Realm of the Possible”

by Pamela Satterwhite

What, then, it may be asked, is the good of being great? The answer is that you may understand greatness better in others, whether alive or dead, and choose better company from these and enjoy and understand that company better when you have chosen it – also that you many be able to give pleasure to the best people and live in the lives of those who are yet unborn. (Samuel Butler, The Way Of All Flesh)

It was only those who took the first and most obvious step in their power who ever did great things in the end... (Samuel Butler, The Way Of All Flesh)

Rightly or wrongly, in a quiet way he believed he possessed a strength which, if he were only free to use it in his own way, might do great things some day. He did not know when, nor where, nor how his opportunity was to come, but he never doubted that it would come in spite of all that had happened, and above all else he cherished the hope that he might know how to seize it if it came, for whatever it was it would be something that no one else could do so well as he could. People said there were no dragons and giants for adventurous men to fight with nowadays; it was beginning to dawn upon him that there were just as many now as at any past time. (Samuel Butler, The Way Of All Flesh)

Activism Aikido means incorporating a higher level of subtlety into our way of being...

...and the ability to infuse tenderness into the hard-edged strategy...

...that comes from seeing reality....

We expect from "the state" what "the state" will do...

...and we expect from "the human"...outside of "the job"...

...the ability to evolve....

So we may never know if the seeds we plant ever grow...

...but when we honor our Grandmother Earth –

...recognizing her in our brothers and sisters first...

– and craft our lives to serve that purpose...

...we're powering up The Reversal.

(From Wading Into The Muck Of State.)

To enlarge the realm of the possible for each other, especially for our children (and they are all “our children”), we have to enlarge ourselves.

The corpses (‘corporations,’ vampires, podrunks, wendigos) and their bought-and-paid-for states have minimized "we-who-do-the-work" down to complete irrelevance. And they never miss an opportunity to remind us of our supposed ‘expendability.’ No matter how hard we try to hang onto the belief that we are precious, unique, good, special, as soon as we leave our bedrooms the world wastes not a moment trying to teach us otherwise – through our “bosses,” our poisoned communal legacies, those twenty-minute waits on hold, those ten-minute doctor’s ‘examinations’ after the hour-long heel-cooling in the waiting room, all the extravagantly elaborated fines, fees and surveillance, all the normalized harassment at work, or sometimes from our neighbors in the ‘hood…or our parents in the home.

We feel beleaguered, yet when asked it’s hard to isolate the problem. Nobody’s in our corner, it seems – we’re all so atomized, self-preoccupied, narcotized.

Without connections to true power, as opposed to those shallow symbols of status – the hierarchical mentality, the habit of ‘Mind-Worship’ – we’re as insubstantial as avatars.

When we stop to think about it – and the vampires hope you never do – we have to admit there’s not much substance to us, or our world, anymore.

We’re only as ‘good’ as the systems we surround ourselves with.

We’ve been ‘thinned out.’

We no longer have “our own things.” We no longer create our own world.

The roles assigned us cannot sustain souls.

Emily told us a hundred and forty years ago the only way to fill a gap:

To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it –
Block it up
With Other – and ‘twill yawn the more –
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air

(Pow. She kinda takes your breath away. Pulls no punches does our Emily.)

Our sources of power are the ancestors like Emily, the Earth, and Each Other.

Our allegiance must be to our sources of power and naught else – not to “the job,” not to “the state,” not to “parental pressure to conform,” not to “success” or “being the best.”

We can only enlarge ourselves, thereby enlarging the realm of the possible for all those around us, by reconnecting with our sources of power, by tending the gardens of our souls. Period.

There’s simply no other way to solder that Abyss.

But this is an exhilarating journey we’re about to embark on – reconnecting – not a sacrifice. We must run, jump, leap upon this steed.

It is our soul calling.

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Pamela's Blog 6

Published on Friday, May 8, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“To Enlarge the Realm of the Possible”