My world is solely my own. It is grasped within my own unique cosmological world view based on my own lived experiences and the experiences that I have shared with others via their stories. Even their stories though have been experienced through the lenses with which I perceive the world. My lenses are unique in their combination but also shared in their individual nature. The language with which I communicate is one such lens. Other languages that have found their way into my vocabulary expand and add subtle new nuances to my ability to not only perceive the infinite but also communicate that experience to others. Since language is the tool from which the stories of our lived experience are shared. The allow us to take the object that everyone is looking at and turn it around for an entirely new perspective.
Such is the nature of human experience we are story tellers and those stories are but narrow glimpses at a much larger world then our own. As such there a many different stories describing the same fundamental phenomenon each providing their own subtle perspective and aspect of truth. The adjustable lenses as it were limiting our ability to interact with what actually is going on beyond our present ability to understand.
What does this all mean? It means that my truth is not going to be your truth but in sharing it and being able to recognize those aspects that align and overlap with your own it might bring together some pieces of disconnected knowledge into a fuller and more dynamic picture of what is going on in this shared world of ours. When many students gather around a subject and describe, paint pictures, and share stories we can compile those expressions of experience and develop a more complex and complete understanding of the subject at hand.
The subjects that arise here in this website will be what arise in me to share. I suspect most will be Spiritual in Nature as this is the realm I spend the most time in. They will be informed by the limitations as a White Appearing Human, living on Turtle Island and raised within the collapsing structures of The Western Colonialist Capitalist World. These limitations can and do cause harm if I am not open to examining the assumptions the lenses of this background impose upon me. I want to state now that I intend to have this space be a Safe Place for Black, People of Colour, Indigenous and LGBTQ2S+ folk. I am also aware that intentions do not always execute well, and so in the eventuality that my ability to grow in confronting my internalized Prejudices that I am open to criticism and correction. I will uphold the boundaries of not tolerating intolerance, in this space. That course correction and information sharing are to be respected, but its my space and I will burn down what isn’t working for those within it.