Dear Ones,
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Here’s a truth that matters to me, one I learned from Bob Marley. He said, “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
Dear Ones,
it is time to uncolonize our minds — right now. By this I mean liberating ourselves from the unconscious constraints and burdens most of us aren’t even aware we carry. We’ve been navigating this paradigm in our consciousness for generations, and for many of us, we’re no longer aware of the phenomenon at all — that we have been colonized. We may believe we’re fighting oppression outside of ourselves, but the alchemy that needs to happen actually begins within.
You already know this, and I’m here on your path today to remind you.
I’m also here to invite you. On Saturday I’m teaching a class called Threshold. You can join live or watch the recording for up to 30 days. Find it at intentionalcreativity.org — Shilohsophia with the Muse — and you’ll be on your way.
So let’s get on with this.
Here’s a way to recognize that we’re still navigating the uncolonization process, no matter how far we think we’ve come. These are the areas constructed by systems — systems that create paradigms, which become beliefs, which eventually become our actions, relationships, and the patterns held in the body.
There are nine areas, the same nine we study in Stardust Initiation. Just tune in for a moment. These are the areas impacted by colonization:
Identity — the self you have constructed
Mind — the thoughts you think
Voice — the stories you tell yourself and others
Self-Expression — the way you create and think about your creativity
Spirit — the things you’ve been taught to believe
Sexuality — the way you relate to your sensuality
Prosperity — the approach you have toward money
Calling — the capacity to bring forth your purpose
Initiation — the ceremonies you have, or don’t have, to honor who you are, where you are, and what you’re called to create in this lifetime
Big breath. All of these areas are impacted. These nine areas of your life have been shaped by sources outside of yourself, and they touch every relationship and every choice — including your relationship with yourself, often without your conscious consent.
Yes, you’ve been collaborating. Yes, you have an authentic personality. And yes, you’ve been part of how you filter and translate that information. But the way you originally thought of each of these areas was taught to you by someone else, and then you interpreted it.
There’s a moment I call a threshold moment, where you choose, once and for all, to cross over into a space where you are completely at cause for creating your experience of these nine areas — where you consider yourself co-creating with creation.
The default settings we carry operate in the subconscious. Even if you learned them from teachers, spiritual beings, parents, and mentors. Even from well-meaning self-help books and workshops. Even if those things were nourishing. Even if you learned through trauma recovery and healing — still, they came from outside of yourself. And liberating freedom comes from within. We emancipate ourselves from internalized mental slavery, and it stays trapped in there until we choose.
I believe there’s a call within us — not to have more or be more, though sometimes that too. The ultimate longing is a call to be connected with the truth of who we actually are. To feel the presence of living soul within our stardust bones — humming and thrumming and drumming, sounding us alive. Bringing us into vitality, into pleasure, into expanded consciousness. Showing us how intentional activism can be life-giving. Showing us how to step out of extraction and into sacred sovereignty.
And yet, the survival strategies, the hypervigilance, the caretaking, the self-protection — these are often lived as if completely normal. Being in trauma response, in a perpetual state of working on ourselves, has become almost ordinary. It’s part of the day-to-day dialogue: always on a healing journey. But when do we arrive? When do we cross the threshold into healed enough — even if there are still things that need healing?
There’s a currency flowing through the universe that we’re born with. When our minds and bodies are in a colonized space, governed by outside influences, our access to that currency is moderated, constrained, siphoned from. Our minds must be liberated to reach it — to feel the energy of creation begin to move within us in new and dynamic ways.
Our brains, based on what they’ve been fed, don’t always have immediate access to the regions where we can liberate ourselves and begin to think, feel, and connect with our highest soul self. Training is needed to reach there — moving from beta to alpha to theta, where new thoughts become available that we can bring back into our day-to-day lives. Increased capacity for ideas, intuition, sparks. Insight reveals.
You already know everything I’m sharing. It’s humming in your stardust bones. We all do.
Listen — this is less about remembering something we forgot, and more about revealing what is already innate. You do not have to earn your emancipation. You do not have to earn your liberation. You do not have to keep struggling for it. You already are it. You are a cooling sack of stars currently having a human experience. What can you make of that? Lots. You can have lots of influence — and we need to recognize what the impacts have been, and are.
Over 13 billion years ago, the cosmic happening began. As the Milky Way formed, our potential as humans began to be realized. Eventually, the organization of organic materials made it possible for you to be here — all in relationship with what many of us call creation, or creator. Within your DNA, blood, and bone are the codes of creation.
Right now, we’re enduring a toxic load so severe that our physical and mental health are reaching a point that’s almost unimaginable. You already feel this.
You might wonder: what are my qualifications for sharing a specific process, a ritual for decolonization? Who am I to suggest I have a few clean, clear steps toward liberation?
Here’s where I learned it. I had elders who taught me exactly this — my two mothers, Karen and Sue; my father, Greg; my Native American elders, Toa Not Seen and Carmen; and Alice Walker. That motley crew already knew this. They showed me from a very young age. I sat at their tables, listened, and I learned. Of course it made perfect sense to a young girl child who was bullied in school — a young girl child who watched her activist community care for people being marginalized and harmed. This is part of the Stardust lineage.
And here’s where I practiced it. I’ve been living daily practice for 33 years of intentional creativity — well beyond the 10,000 hours considered mastery.
And here’s where I shared it. I’ve taught these practices to tens of thousands of people for more than 17 years, and written many books about them.
Our teachings share that we all arrive with knowings that arise from who we’ve been before — what some call the Record of the Soul. Part of my sacred assignment this lifetime has been to share what I carry, so you can share what you carry. My content reveals your content. My curriculum reveals your curriculum. That makes it ours. Our ancestors are supporting these sacred containers. If you tune in closely, you may already feel that this ceremony has started.
May all of us come into the highest level of awareness available to us. May all of us consciously choose to curate our consciousness. May all of us experience the joy that comes from liberation of mind and body. May all of us choose to honor the sacredness of life. When we are all liberated, we are free to live our calling — and that feels so completely real and right and good.
I am a curate, reporting for the sacred duty of my station in this lifetime. A navigator aboard the mothership entrusted to my care. I remember enough of the codes in my stardust to bring this medicine forward now. Be welcome. Few are called — and if not, carry on, beloved.
This is signed in stardust that remembers: the origin of identity began a long time ago, and continues into this very moment, as you and me. The iron in our blood came from those original exploding stars, now reorganized as who we are.
Let’s leap into the quantum identity calling your secret name right now. That idea of quantum identity was taught to me by Carmen Baraka. She also said, “Everything is not always fleeting.” And it isn’t. This work is here and now.
I will see you in circle. I’ll be the one in the cowgirl hat, offering you a cup of tea and a flaming paintbrush. See you there.
