IDENTITY AS PATH: ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE TRUTHS EXPERIENCED THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF THE BODY

Identity exists as filter for every experience we go through in our lives and also is the basis of our whole reality. It is everything about relation. It is signifier, belonging, recognition, Soul, and due to White Supremacy, it also dictates how much receptive labour a body is asked or expected to perform within the collective.

Receptive Labour means BIPOC Bodies become an Image of Holding. The vessel is scapegoat, and survival-force (protector, builder). Bodies or Energy Feilds do not get to consciously choose what they are expected to hold, so the collective white shadow falls within bipoc bodies’ energy feilds. We could say this is karmic choice, reballancing some kind of karma that is too extended and infinite for a mnd to understand.

All Bodies are Unique.

A diasporic body, with mixed family dynamic around racial identity, especially a brown body with a white mother, within white colonial community and no representation, has a completely different (disembodied) lived experience of identity, as a body who was seeded and grew in a space of being mirrored through identity or with a mother figure who mirrors racial identity (embodied).

A body seeded and rooted within BIPOC origin which has not immigrated, with representation mirrored in society and family who reflect the same racial identity, even if that society has a different face to the co-opting and more separation to/or proximity to different faces of the colonial empires, less access to resources, is having a different experince of embodied identity within society as diasporic-colonised (migrant) bodies do. 

The world systems of greater colonialism and capitalism have different affects on different bodies and call Bodies of Culture into totally opposing modes of seeing and relating.

Of course a westernised gaze experience & body of diaspora will see their experience totally different to someone with a global south gaze /body of diaspora looking upon the world. There is no Monolith of expereience, nor comparison necessary.

No matter which identiy we have nor how much it is mirrored within society, our identity in relation to the world is unique to usm and is a spiritual path.

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel shares wisdom here in the video below.