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How can we build conscious friendships?

Dear Creatrix,

How are you today?

What was it like to think about starting your own CREATRIX Crew, a support system, that may help you in your life from now on? Today, we will go a bit deeper, to explore how we, each of us, as an individual, would like to be supported. So we can learn to communicate this and live this.

You may or may not know this, but I earned a master’s degree in anthropology, and learning about humanity and all the different ways in which we can express our humanness has always been my biggest passion.

If you have grown up in different cultures, you know that there are many ways to see or do the same thing, which may help you now with your flexibility and openness to change and creating changes yourself.

If you haven’t, than this might be harder for you and you may still have some growing and opening up to do here, but as you are here, you know already how me we need each other and all of our different approaches and ways to learn from each other and to grow together in harmonious ways.

And creating a new earth, means living together as one, and to get there, it can help us to become aware that indigenous cultures everywhere are much more advanced than Western Cultures in many ways. Especially, when it comes to spirituality, healing, well-being, our cosmic connections, and acting as wise stewards of the land we are on, and living in harmony with Gaia, our mother earth who gives us life.

Just because the West has claimed dominance for so long, does not mean its ways are better in any way, in fact, they are what brought us here, and the reason why we now have to deal with poisoned water, air and food, and a way of life that prioritizes our functioning over our empowerment, health and freedom.

But we have the power to change, and luckily, as many indigenous cultures persisted, despite all attempts to eliminate and eradicate them, they are still here, and they can teach us now, as we are more ready to listen and learn.

So, when looking for new ways to connect, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel, we can learn from those who already know – and honour and bless the knowledge, wisdom and practices AND the people it comes from because all people deserve to be respected and loved for who they are. 

Cultural Appropriation is an interesting topic, which we might briefly have to address here, as it is something that always helps us to be aware of.

More than anything, you are human, if you can read this.

And all humans have an equal right to be here on this planet and to thrive. But western culture, through slavery, oppression, sexism, industrialization, colonisation, has created inequality, by claiming some people have more rights than others. Cultural Appropriation happens when you systematically devalue a group of people, limit their rights and practices, but use their cultural heritage, art, products and wisdom for your own advantage and material gain.

It’s practising yoga, eating Indian food, but not wanting to have an Indian neighbour or respect their holidays and customs.

It’s using Native American symbols, patterns, costumes but not wanting them to have equal rights – or even the right to live how they choose on their land.

When we look to learn from other cultures, to use the traditions and techniques, the wisdom and ideas of a different culture than the one we were raised in, that comes with the responsibility to also support these groups and to engage in any way possible to you to support equal treatment, freedom, access to resources for all people, especially those who are systemically disadvantaged.

And this isn’t just our responsibility when it comes to learning from other people and cultures, really. To make sure that every person has the right to thrive, no matter which family or culture they are born into, is always all of our responsibility.

So, today, we have an opportunity to come to understand that everything we had so far brought us here, but from here we can only move forward together, as equals, accepting our differences, and learning from each other. 

Do you agree?

Then, I’d like to share a story that I found on Facebook, that can serve as inspiration for creating conscious communities and friendships. I thought it was incredibly beautiful, though I will do some more research to see if it is actually true. But whether it is, or not, it paints a wonderful picture of what we can do and how we can create communities and support systems from now on, if this is what we wish to have.

As human beings, and in the preparation of becoming galactic beings as well, it’s essential to envision what we wish to create.

We can’t just complain about what is or isn’t there, we have to actively choose what we wish to have instead, so that we can actually create it and live it, and this story illustrates my ideas about the power a CREATRIX Crew or any kind of community we may wish to create, could have very well.

A CREATRIX Crew, can serve exactly the same function, that the people have, who sing the song in this story. A CREATRIX Crew can help us to replace missing family, community or friendship support.

• A CREATRIX Crew can help us by lifting us up when we’re down.
• A CREATRIX Crew can help us by celebrating us when we are winning.
• A CREATRIX Crew can help us by just holding space for us when we are grieving.
• A CREATRIX Crew can help to remind us of who we are (unique and beautiful light beings), when we forget, while we are growing, and expanding, exploring and experiencing.
• A CREATRIX Crew can help us in good or bad times, and remind us that we are loved and belong here on earth, no matter what has happened, what we did or didn’t do or what we experience.

Only that instead of our song being received by our parents before birth, we may have to write, receive or choose it ourselves and share it with those we want to sing it with us – while we do the same for them.

What do you think? How would it feel to be supported like this?

If this is something that feels right to you, then let’s start writing our song or sacred agreement so we can begin to thrive together, in community.