As we face a second Trump term some are delighted and people like me are downright horrified. In true Trump fashion things are happening quickly and the lies, intended to divide and overwhelm us are doing their job more effectively than ever. January isn’t even over and I’ve already deleted Facebook and Instagram from my phone in an attempt to stay sane. That said, my spirituality has been the touchstone that I’m becoming more and more grateful for as logic and reason, though important, don’t come close to telling the whole story in my opinion.
I’ve written previous articles about my feelings of inferiority when it comes to intelligence. I even created an alter ego named Sonia who embodies the characteristics I wish I had: alpha female, well read, powerful, unapologetically successful, highly educated- you get the picture. I was also happy to realize that though I wish to be more like Sonia, I wouldn’t trade my empathy, compassion, and perceived spiritual awareness for any of her qualities.
So what does that have to do with the current administration? Let’s just say I’ve noticed many people intellectualizing, fact-checking, and right-fighting with nothing to balance out the toll it’s taking on them in a non-destructive way. Now, before you accuse me of being on my high horse, I want to point out that I’ve been as guilty of this as anyone else, and that is why spirituality keeps me from going off the deep end. Still, it was going to take more than crystals, pulling cards, or meditations to find peace with all that’s happening within our country.
I look at Trump and all the billionaire yes-men (and some women) he surrounds himself with and my blood starts to boil. How can they allow so many to suffer and even cause greater suffering all for their own selfish purposes? How many lives could be saved if the money spent on launching penis rockets into space were spent feeding the hungry or trying to save the planet we currently inhabit? Yeah, I can go down that road pretty damn easily, but it’s my higher self that reminds me we all take a turn walking in each others’ shoes for the expansion of our souls. Think about it- if we only lived one life and could only draw from that one experience, how would we ever grow and expand as spiritual beings? I believe after all, that we are spirits having a human experience.
What it comes down to for me is this: I have already been a dictator, a bully, a wealthy misogynist, etc. I’ve lived lives where I’ve been the one causing great harm, both as men and as women. To me, the fact that I see it in others and feel such strong opposition towards it is evidence that my soul has evolved through having previously lived these experiences- not to imply that it’s done evolving, of course.
Though I absolutely despise the actions of our oligarchs, my higher self recognizes them merely as other forms of Source energy. We are inherently the same, but on much different trajectories. Elon Musk- Mr. Watch me Nazi salute at the inauguration (only to then deny it) will die in the Holocaust in a future life and have many lives of suffering in order to redeem himself and expand his soul. Remember, time and chronological order are third dimensional constructs that don’t apply to the spirit world.
I’ve said this before, I also believe Trump will come back as a female slave in a future life and have his own path to redemption in his subsequent incarnations.
Does all this sound crazy? Absolutely! But to me it makes a helluva lot more sense than us getting one shot at life where we either draw the short straw or the long one. Where we die at birth or we live to 100. Where we suffer or we are privileged. Where we work hard or not at all. Of course there’s a grey area to each of these examples, but you catch my drift!
No, my higher self tells me it’s far more grand and nuanced than that. And since none of us knows for sure what really happens after we leave our bodies (energy never dies, after all), or why we’re here, why not consider the possibility that none of this is coincidental and that these roles we play are entirely interchangeable?
While none of this changes a damn thing as far as the human experience we’re all currently having, for me it provides hope. Hope that there’s more to the story and to humanity than meets the eye, because separateness is and will always be nothing more than an illusion.