Meditation
What if we could hear the voice say, “I love you. I am listening.” Could we learn to say these things from our own hearts and really understand these words to be a reflection of our true selves? We might be changed, transformed.
Connection
The gap is in the mind. The sense of separation that we feel is a perception of the self as separate from other human beings and from the earth and from the rest of the universe. However, I do not exist apart from the other. The smaller self does not exist apart from the larger self.
Worldbuilding
Canada, since it has been founded upon a legal fiction, has been abolished. Crown sovereignty has been invalidated. Land sovereignty has been returned to Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis. All currencies have been rendered invalid. Thus, corporations are obsolete.
Change
As Canadian Settlers for Indigenous Sovereignty (CSIS), representatives of The Corporation for Apartheid Nationalism and Aboriginal Dispossession and Assimilation (CANADA), we admit to our crimes, surrender, and give the land back.
Culture
There is always a point of view, a particular perspective that is subjective rather than objective, a view from somewhere. My perspective is Canadian, outside of the United States of America, but adjacent, and deeply connected.
Culture
Racism and white supremacy are the foundation of the laws of the Dominion of Canada. To fail to recognize and acknowledge this fact is to be ignorant, to be a coward, to be complicit, or to be criminal. I see no other options.
State Violence
This invasion is evidence of the shallow commitment of colonial governments to Indigenous rights and reconciliation and the hollowness of PM Trudeau’s statement at the recent COP-26 in Glasgow that Canada will take a ‘leadership role in the fight against climate change.'
Change
I was considering a solution to the polarization that is being amplified, accelerated, and intensified by our social, economic, and political technologies.
Quants
They had the feeling of being alone in the universe, searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. What they could not see was that sentience was all around them.
Mind
The interregnum is fraught with challenges, uncertainty, ambiguity, confusion, and division. Yet there is hope. Not only that, if we are awake, we might notice a convergence. The mystery is found in the possibilities afforded by multiple systemic crises.
Music
In the experience of this performance, I am moved by the way we can transform perception when we shift from the dominant frame of standards and norms to the wider sphere of reality and the wonder, beauty, complexity, and diversity of life.
Conflict
From the beginning of time, we are told in one tale of our origins, the world has been formed by the separation of reality into opposing elements and forces. Ever since, we have been involved in a constant cycle of one versus another.