REMEMBERING THE LIGHT: OUR LEGACY

There’s so much trauma woven into the fabric of humanity that it’s overwhelming to feel and tap into. Even those who live with less barriers than others, or those whose lives are relatively safe and secure, still have the layers of historical trauma embedded in them.

This trauma, both of the past and of the now, is damaging life on Earth. It’s endangering our very existence as a species. This trauma stops us from connecting to the things we have to see - the things we must remember - to save ourselves.

Those who came before us endured a multitude of hardships in their quest for safety, survival and power, and the effects of this fight still lives deep in our beings. The battle that arose between person to person, race to race as we tried to rule over land, nature and our own inner natures, has damaged and severed us from the light, the language of the universe, the very fabric of existence.

In our energy bodies (and all too often reflected in our physical bodies), there’s a severing of this connection. The light is the source of our blueprint, our reason for being, the thing that underpins all things. The whole universe is made up of this energy - plants, animals, rocks, stars, planets. It’s the thing that unites and connects us, and it’s time for us to remember it.

As a collective we are hurt, lost, displaced. We’ve forgotten what living can really feel like. We either see others as competition, someone to better or get ahead of, or, as something less than us, which gives us a false sense of comfort via status.

This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. There’s much more living and freedom available to us. We can find it, we can feel it, we can become it again. The light never went away, it’s right there, still, right there behind the severing and blockades that history placed in its wake.

This great disconnect has not only pitted human against human, but it’s barreling us toward the brink of environmental collapse; it allows us to watch silently as wars and genoc-des are committed, k-lling people because we want their land, resources or labour. It keeps us in survival, because we don’t have trust or faith in the way of the universe, making us easier to control by those hungry for power.

It’s this same disconnect that makes some need that feeling of power over others, for they too don’t have the faith and trust in the ways of the universe.

To remember our interconnectedness is to remember our light, and this is our duty now. It’s time to remember the deepest form of connection we have, to help restore inner knowing, community led initiatives and cyclic living. It’s time to create life around us directly from the light within us.

This is the legacy we can leave on the pages of history: we can be the generation who remembered their light.

— ab