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Shifting realities - spiritual activism as a way of life (You synthesize…
Shifting realities - spiritual activism as a way of life
Develop a different way of living
How you preceive others
How you view the world
how you perceive yourself
This is the seventh and last stage on the Path of Conocimiento, el camino de conocimiento
For her, each stage had purpose and value
Each stage is important to the overall path/camino
But Anzaldúa didn't build it up as some kind of pinnacle of conocimiento
Each stage offers opportunities for growth and learning
Anzaldúa diligently worked to access the spirit world,
Using different mediums, like the true artist that she was, to paint her life, she gained through many different spiritual practices
Reading was one of her favorite ones
prayer
yoga
tarot cards/readings
she used Animal spread cards
meditative walks in nature
Her spiritual practices taught her to
seek connection
seek commonalities
even with those who hated her or hated what she wrote, or for who she was
access the spirits of los antepasados
changing the narrative of how women are perceive
especially las diosas de la gente Mexica
Who she was, how she lived her life, what she wrote about made her political,
combine her spirituality with her political awareness
impact and inspire the each other
coined, developed, created the term spiritual activism
Shifting realities,
opening up your mind to other realities
other ways of living
you are not the center of the universe
Pull together all that you are learning
both inner and outer world
people around you
world around you
promptings of your spirit and soul (soul and spirit promptings)
You understand that what you learned and are learning is not only for your personal knowledge and growth, but also to share with your community, otra mujeres, el mundo
this gives your life meaning, your sustos y sufriendo have meaning, to share with others, to heal them, to learn that you don't have to live in miedo y suffering.
Knowing that what you learned and how you healed can help others gives your life purpose, being able to share todos los secretos with others and believing they may help others heal too, is important because otherwise you may have volverte loca,
You synthesize all that you've learned
spirit guides
you heed her call
if no soul or spirit promptings, you continue your contemplative practices, which have taught you to pause and help you stay connected to spirit
you develop the capacity to be more trusting, care, compassionate with yourself and others
where self-loathing, harsh criticism, self-neglect prevailed, the seed of self-love pushed through
you realize the seed had always been there since your birth, lying domant
all the crap that your family, society, sustos presente y pasados buried the seed
but instead of killing the seed, you use the crap as fertilizer, to help it grow and thrive, your stalk grows taller and stronger and even if more crap, sustos piled upon the seed again, you continue to use it all, malo y bueno
you combine your spiritual life, with your social activism, your political life, you engage in spiritual activism as a way of life, essence and practice you choose to live love, learning that Justice is Love in action.