Permission to Reclaim Your Desires, Your Life Force, and Your Power
This podcast was originally shared inside of the Futurewriting Collective as a private podcast episode. Enjoy.
I think it's kind of wild and amazing how intelligent, how magical, how mystical humans are. How creative we are. How much imagination we have available to us. And how, inside of Western culture, we have been conditioned since we were five years old to give our imagination and our creative power over to the machine.
We've been told this is the right thing to do. This is the right way to live. You need to prepare yourself to be a contributing member of society. That to be an adult is to be prepared to contribute a job description to some kind of corporate agenda. That that's where you're going to find your power. That's where you're going to find your life force—giving your power, your voice, your time, your energy, your imagination away to the regime.
The Great Psyop of "Being a Contributing Member of Society"
When it comes to things like mysticism and magic and manifestation and creative power and animism and our life force and our shakti and our voices, we're told to have a lot of skepticism—unless we're religious in some approved way—to have skepticism for these kinds of processes that call us to engage with our own power, our own life force, to engage with source energy, to engage with the spirit and the mother of the earth.
People will tell you you're crazy if you think that manifestation works. And I think it's such a psyop. I think it's such a weird thing to think about and such a strange story to be playing out collectively.
We all are, on some degree, at some level, playing out the story that by paying taxes and showing up to the voting polls and being a contributing member to a society—particularly in the Western world—that is literally burning alive, that somehow that's being an adult. That's somehow being responsible.
There are many layers to this conversation, many layers. But the moment that we engage ritual and spirit and depth and soul to build a life for ourselves and for our families and for our communities, all of this doubt creeps in.
( I could literally scream this.)
The Fracture Between Body and Soul
It's really, really painful because it's the kind of doubt that is connected to our sense of belonging to this place, to our people, to culture, to community. And it's so deep that even people who want to touch into their own magic experience such a fracture between body and soul that they go through what we call a spiritual emergency or a psycho-spiritual crisis that, when not met with loving care and rites of passage, splits their soul off from their body. Causing them to not know who they are, to not feel who they truly are in essence, to not truly know their potential in the world.
The Original Template of Creativity
Through the Futurewriting Collective, I really want to see us reclaim the permission to honor the original template of creativity that lives inside of us.
The original template of creativity is not just about picking up pen and paper and watercolors and creative rituals. It's not about going to art school. It's not about having anyone else validate what you are bringing through.
It's about sacred reclamation. It's about knowing your own name, knowing your own voice, knowing the frequency of your own soul enough to walk the path that you're here to walk, to create the world you're here to create, or contribute to the world that nourishes your life force and nothing else.
That permission to step away from a story of reality that says, "Well, if I don't play this part in culture, then I fundamentally won't belong."
Remembering Who We Are as Seeds of the Earth
Futurewriting is about remembering who we are in essence as children of the earth. It's about remembering that we have more inside of us to offer than we can ever give to a 9-to-5 salaried position at some corporate headquarters.
We have more magic inside of us than we could ever possibly imagine. And we've been shamed out of using it for ourselves, for our people, for building the worlds that we want to see, for creating projects that actually change lives.
I want to see that change.
Your Desires Are Earth's Desires
I want you to see that your desires—your core, deep desires—are the desires that the earth has for herself. There's an interconnectedness to the way that the soul sings. And this is really what futurewriting is.
It's not just about manifesting the rich life, although you could do that with futurewriting as a technology, as a praxis. You could manifest whatever life you want to live.
But what I want to encourage you to do is to recognize the deeper abundance beneath just material desires. I think material desires are a great place to begin to play with power, creative power, and to see your power to craft, your power to call in new futures. But it's about going a little bit deeper than that.
Radical, Inherent, Irrevocable Belonging
It's about remembering that as a seed of the earth, as a child of the earth, as someone who radically inherently belongs to this world—belongs just as much as it does to anyone else—the futures that we're here to craft through that remembrance are otherworldly.
We cannot even begin to imagine what can become available when we move from this place. Probably because, as a culture, we've never truly moved from this place before.
But I want to see a culture of people like you and me crafting worlds from the heart space. Crafting worlds from that place of radical, inherent, irrevocable belonging. Seeding futures that feel like life being affirmed with every single breath.
It All Starts with Permission
I think it all starts with giving ourselves permission for wanting what we want, for desiring what we desire, and choosing to spend our energy, our life force, calling it forward.
This is your invitation. This is your permission slip. You came to Earth at this time to do something specific. You have magic inside of you that the world needs. You have a voice that matters, imagination that can literally reshape reality, and a life force that is meant to be spent on what feeds your soul and serves the whole.
The question is: Will you give yourself permission to reclaim it?
