Receival.

The state of Being that will change the world.

(I really like this weeks blog! It helped me clarify a lot of things I’ve been stewing on for years. It felt like a giant download for me. Enjoy! - Faolan)

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There are people in the world who will never know how positively they’ve affected my life. Some are too busy and some are already dead. Paolo Coelho. Thich Nhat Hanh. Elizabeth Gilbert. Khalil Gibran. Martha Beck. Rumi.

These humans all created such reverence in me for life. They instilled a value on living. They gave me answers when I was at my lowest points. They helped me become myself.

And so did some other people who I’ve told. My mom. My dad. My grandparents. My best friends. Their parents. My lovers. My clients. My coaches. My therapists. My mentors. There have been countless people who have left me with the opportunity to become a better person.

And each and every one of them gave me the chance to say, “I Will.”

They taught me that life is for being ALL of ourselves, for feeling ALL of what life has to offer.

Those were the lessons I gathered while writing my first book.

But today, I’m wondering, after years of studying not just the purpose, but the pain, what is the opposite of a society where hurt people are constantly hurting other people?

After years of trauma work with clients, I’ve seen just how nuanced being human is. There are so many people accidentally hurting the people around them. And it’s happening all the time, all around us.

It’s not guaranteed that one way of being a “good” person is better than another, so how do we know how to not hurt? How do we know how to actually help the world? How can we heal?

We live in a world too complicated to boil down to fundamental truths. The ten commandments tried pretty well, but even they can’t be fully understood or grasped, because they’re merely words, which can be misconstrued or misunderstood or miscommunicated.

Which, you may notice, leaves me as an author in a rather funny place. I’d like to acknowledge that I am writing this book to the very best of my abilities, but to convey the mystical in language is, at best, a poetic journey to the heart of the soul. I will endeavor, however, to bring you only the best writing.

Getting back to this point: How do we pass down the opposite of trauma? How do we leave people better off than we found them? How do we create a society that helps people feel safe internally? How do we heal, not just individually, but globally?

And what could that be called?

I don't believe it has a literal name in the world right now. But maybe it should.

let’s try. What is “this?”

The best I’ve got so far is:

“The collective and individual inheritance of healing and light; that sacred blessedness that we're all evolving, passing down, and shaping together; and which are allowing to grow. It is the collective Garden of Eden that we are cultivating for ourselves and for the people who will come after us. It is the utopia, which we all have a chance to contribute to.”

In a world where there is an antagonist, there must also be a protagonist. But what are those things?

For me so far, trauma has been everything that's wrong with the world—that experience of unconsciously acting from a hurt place. I believe that’s the root of all “evil.”

But what's RIGHT about the world? That's the question I've been trying to answer for a long time...

And it's actually really hard to put a finger on it, because people don't really talk about it beyond the "progress” we're having in "civilization"—metrics like economic wellbeing or life expectancy.

I'm talking about something else. I'm talking about the energetic upheaval of lifetimes upon lifetimes of hurt, pain, inherited grief, battles waged between the grandparents of our grandparents.

There's a regeneration afoot, and I feel like it's really important to let it be heard and felt all over the world. This movement is really here. It's happening already. There is healing here in the world. There is a next stage of humanity that has transcended all the hurts our ancestors passed along to us.

There's a world where all people are welcome, where we feel safe and heard in our communities, where we don't feel alone.

There is a world where we're all allowed to be ourselves—to contribute our greatest form of self-expression onto the dance floor of life. There is a world where all people dance; where all people sing. There is a world where a vegan and a hunter can hug. That is a world where people from all different kinds of backgrounds can come together and listen to each other, and dance together, and sing together. There is a world where love wins

That's the world I want to be part of building. That’s the world I want to help other people build.

And, the key thing is that that world is already here. Every moment, in the arrival of presence, that world appears before us. All the pain, loss, and hurt are washed away in the vastness of what is appealingly less painful, more loving, more real.

I’ve been obsessed with trauma for years. And, I think, for good reason. But what I’m realizing is at the bottom of a lifetime of trauma, and sorting through it all… it’s just life. Life is there at the bottom. Those little moments of connection with a stranger across the street, or the beautiful sunset at the celebration of a loved one’s birthday, or the laughter of a baby as they play with their aging grandparents on a playground in Milan. That’s life.

So, if the antagonist is dissociation, is the repression of reality because we’re limited in how much we feel ready to feel, to receive, to allow… Then life itself is the protagonist. Then presence is the protagonist.

What if the world we all long for is already here, and we just need to collectively pay attention to it?

Could we then let ourselves FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Could we EXPERIENCE ALL of what life has to offer? Could we receive ALL THE DIVINE BLESSINGS that are here?

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And what would happen if we all lived like that?

Could we create a world where every person was like Paolo Coelho or Martha Beck? Where we all feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of people who are grateful for our existence? Where we’ve contributed ourselves so authentically and courageously to the world that each and every one of us feels like part of a whole, like we each belong and are valued for exactly who we are?

Take a second. What if we all felt that?

Because that’s what it feels like to realize that we ARE all welcome, we ARE all here, completely and totally live, whilst spinning around in the vacuum of space. We’re ALREADY the luckiest people who’ve ever lived, just because we’re alive.

And that’s the lesson that comes from the trees, from the birds, from the whispers that Life speaks through the veil of mystical experience. We are already welcome here. The bears rumble that truth as they wobble through the warbling woods. The wind in the desert speaks of it.

When we realize it, we see that Life is constantly echoing that reality into our bones. As soon as we choose to hear it, it’s already there, accessible for all, beneath the patina of suffering, that veil of layered trauma and pain. Underneath that, it’s already here. The truth is already here.

And there’s a feeling for that that I believe is the answer for our world.

I call it: “Receival.”

"The state of embodied, sacred openness to life force—The inner posture of trustful receiving, where the nervous system, heart, and soul are in resonance with abundance, truth, and belonging."

That's the mission. That's the cultivation. That's the heroic journey of what I’m here to build. That's the storyline that my work will draw through the narrative of life. That's my next brush stroke onto the canvas of life. That's the feeling. That's real. That's it.

Receival.

The active noun for the state of being that allows for life to flow in, and to feel full of life. That utter and eternal completeness when we are finally whole with all of Life and Eternity again.

That's the feeling.

It’s a homecoming.

It’s a return.

It’s a remembrance.

We’re all welcome in the Kingdom of God, in the bountiful forest of our laboring elders. We’re all welcome in the land of Life.

Earth is home for us all.

Now, we must learn to get along. We must learn how to love one another. We must learn how to feel safe with each other, even when we disagree. We must learn to live in a global society, which holds many cultures and ways of being. We must learn how to help the hurt people who are unable to heal their pain, and in doing so, passing it on to everyone else. We must become A WE.

To recieve all of life. To experience RECIEVAL…

It requires opening our hearts. It requires healing the limits to how must presence, how much love, how much reality we can hold. It requires growing. It requires allowing the pain of our loved ones to wash through us and be cleansed from the lineage of our historical becoming. This process requires great tenacity and courage.

But it’s for all of us.

I promise.

So, let’s walk it together.

Let’s journey into a better world together.

What could that look like?

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What if we really answered that question instead of letting it slide by?

What COULD that look like?

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And how could we make it happen?

And there’s the collective path forward.

There it is.

Receival. Renewal. Regeneration. Remembrance. Reunion.

We’re already here.

Relax.

Blessings,
Faolan

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