Something I have been collecting data on for quite some time is...

Spiritual Bypassing: Systemic Oppression & Dark Goddess Energy-Bypassing.

There is an issue with the phrase: “in the 5D we don’t see systemic oppression from the material plane”. 

For some reason many spiritual practices jump straight into believing we can bypass identity, or that by bypassing identity we are somehow ‘better than’ or ‘higher’ than. Of course there is an aspect to Identity which means separation from the whole, or discernment. But I actually do not think it is always a form of violence to define something out of ONEness. 

We need to hold dualities and polarities and this is about acknowledging the Spirit within Matter, which is the dark receptive feminine principle being found held in the body, through witness and holding space. Assuming that some of us are Spiritual Enough to be able to ‘Not seeing Race’ is an extremely selfish thought, because we negate the world (The World sees race), To me this is an ego inflation.







For anyone who is identifying within anything ‘other-ised’ in this lifetime (woman, or non gender conforming, non white) needs a simultaneous recognition for what they are carrying - we need to be able to recognise and respect identity and essenntial identity.

Identity level traumas and differences or diversities, are made in relationship with the world, and they also need to be healed in relationship to the world. (which is about mirroring and safe attachment). Also, because The World constellates them as much as they constellate the world.


I am really sorry to anyone who has come up against the types of spirituality and healing in practice - which is not acknowledging our own gaze, especially when it is taking space as trauma healing… It can be very confusing if groups working with soul healing are led by the belief that recognition of identity is somewhat superficial or not of great value.



I am really sorry to anyone whom I myself have not been able to hold space for with this through my entire life. I was also cultured to not be able to centralise this energy, so I have spent meany years in the squish, of not being able to recognise myself, too.









(“BUT YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR REALITY...”   ...yes, but *in context* to where we are at.... and in context to collective power-bias. We cannot just beleive ourselves out of hundreds of years of systemic oppression.)



Anyone who is talking about Zen Transcendence, astral body development, any kind of practice - 5D, yoga, breathwork, shamanic work - before holding space for intersectionality, *witness and acknowledgement of every human's right to an equal world*, and before respecting women’s experiences and their inbuilt intuitional power, and before respecting and acknowledging the inner knowing and experience of anyone BiPoC, or LGBTQIA+ is spiritually bypassing, and a problem of silencing.


This is a very regressive/dangerous oversight to be a part of, during this time on earth, in my experience.











Especially not recognising systemic oppression in the 5D is problematic - since many of the practices we are practicing and the wisdom we rely on has been carried to us through the lives of the most oppressed peoples of our world. How can we sugar coat or avoid to be able to be accountable to their experiences - of stolen lands and stolen generations? If we cannot speak to the experiences of most oppressed, how could we ever hope to be able to speak for Earth Rights, or Water Rights? 



In the age of systemic shadow work, silence is not always golden!

And if we - as identifiers of the liberation to the Dark feminine - are having emotions that are different from others, this does not mean we are the negative forces,

It means we are wisdom keepers, light bringers, truth seekers.

Most times we are picking up on all the other dark emotional content that is being refused by the bodies around us who remain in denial.









The problem is that many people are jumping over the search for truth, accountability and rather choosing denial and avoidance by thinking they can live in the 5D all the time.

Just because issues look too hard, or anger and rage gets a bad wrap.

5D might be a realm we might glimpse or percieve to touch into, to almost imagine, or to reach into in our dreams, in meditation, in ‘astral travel’ but 1. it’s different for everyone, depending on our own unique cosmology, and 2. it’s not possible to live in that reality all the time and avoid the material existence.

The material existence, public systems - are all routed to favour the centralised consciousness of whitness and maleness. Every system we move our bodies through in our world, is built from the consciousness that centralised the white male experince and made the female/black and brown bodies ‘other’. 

So if we are not also taking into account systemic oppression through our gaze and style of relating, through who we pedestal and how our projections flow - we create our 5D experience all from the same lense, and we perpetuate the same bypasses and gaslighting.









We need more people willing to dig deeper into what Dark-Goddess-Positive-Spirituality actually means and why and how far back it goes, and how somatic it is, how rooted in the limitations of Matter it is.

For me it goes back even before Buddha, and the time and space I bow to and connect to is the Wu Shamanic Matriarchy (South East Asia) who were the original dancers of The Tao. 




How many practitioners are not aware of how their language and biased-spirituality towards: unquestioning maleness, whiteness, politeness/efficiency, concepts of service, and heirachies as expressed through how language is used, and how systems operate and where recognition is going.


Connected with concepts of purity we constantly erode and boycott respecting the incubative dark - Her resting and peace. Her timeline, Her flow, Her boundaries. Her value systems.










The very structure of the shamanic journey is to value process and incubation. The Way. It is abstract and undefinable. I do not beleive that the same efficiency and progress can be expected of such a non linear and winding washy process.

I think it’s necessary to define that practice as one that must include shadow work and that the only way we can really understand what the messages and symbols from behind the veil pertain to - is through shadow work as a form of illumination.




Otherwise that energetic scalpel can be very biased and starts 'mining away' at the people around us’ wellbeing who are not centralised in the scalpel's vision.














We are alive in this time - here and now! The pressure for equal recognition on labour and identity has already built up. And noone is going to be able to do the inner work, [which is basically having to put yourself in the shoes of the other, fully, and grieve the situation and somehow find acceptance, or become an activist] *for* anyone else.


We practice what we preach - we need to be re-balancing and holding space for both - equally. To me that means to:

Reduce focus on
The Mountain,
and lift up
focus to
The Valley.

THE VALLEY - THE WOMB - THE WATERFALL & CAVE













I am approaching my work with the support of all of my supportive ancestors, Thanks to Luisah Teich and her ability to own all ancestral connections, and share this information - I have been working in order to OWN ALL of my ancestry.

The past few weeks I realised, I can [and do] kick out The Oppressor which is just overballanced power - regularly, in dreams for myself, and regularly for clients, in session - with fierce inner authority, alliance and connection to Dark Goddess Energy.

Some of this power was provided to me by a Wild Boar who ran through my body, obliterating a former self, in dreams in 2014.

There is nowdays no institution or body that I would put above the importance of my own connection to Dark Goddess Energy. I listen to her/them first and foremost....


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The need for social justice comes from the heavy emotional and physical toll that cultural and systemic oppression takes on us.

We understand that modern-era practices are often not sufficient in addressing the concerns of the historically or systemically oppressed - LGBTQIA+ BiPoC folk and anyone not from this group who is doing the inner ownership work and coming into real, embodied ally-ship alongside us.



Humans are brilliant learners, absorbing messages from our environments — families, society, culture. These external influences shape our identities based on creed, gender, colour, etc., which then shape our realities. To know who we are requires understanding these influences, and how it has shaped who we are. By doing so, we can tease out who we are at our “core,” from what we’ve been taught.



On a psychic level and on a shadow-work level, it’s deep.

Let’s sift through these layers to find our true selves.




With courage to keep showing up for ourselves and each other +++

Sarah



The discord commune I am building is very much for this kind of space holding and awareness - [check the offerings page]

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