The expertise we are developing is how one proceeds when one is held in place and physically abused. That is happening now.

All of those people who don't recognize it happening to us are traveling their paths to their own experiences of it happening to them, if it's not already happening to them.

We have the means of communicating about this as a collective conversation, especially as public media, where we don't know anyone else who is capable of doing that.

What we are experiencing is not remarkably different from someone having tied us down and continuing to stab or beat us multiple times a day.

It's important that we recognize that that is happening, and that we release fear responses or anger responses about how we have been lied to about it.

Then we meet the challenge as warriors in the moments and locations we are in, we learn from rising to the experience, and we share what we learned with others.

If we were to go to someone and say, I am being physically abused, they would not understand what we are saying.

Our particular blessing is our learning about how to endure, reclassify, and transmute experiences of being targeted with extreme continuous violence.

We can only reach that blessing if we remember what is happening.

When people trick us into thinking it can't possibly be that direct or that serious, we can get mushy in our cognition around it. That is what results in lashing out in anger, thrashing in fear, drowning in despair. When some part of us believes that it isn't as serious as we say.

But when we do believe that it is as serious as we say, when we fully believe it and fully recognize it and we maintain contact with one another to have a resonating group body that remembers it, we can be calm immediately.

Because that is the lie to our bodies that has put us in such disarray. Not remembering that it was a lie is something that destroys our bodies, but remembering that it was a lie restores stability.

There is no thrashing or lashing out or spiraling into doom that is not immediately addressed by this.

Remembering it as isolated individuals can be extremely difficult and for long periods of time I did not find it to be possible at all.

Remembering it as a group body strengthens each individual's relational neurological recall.

The more we build the group body and the infrastructure that supports the group body, The more we remember this together.

That is what stops all of the other violence.

Some of the violence is stopped right away in the midst of that. Some of the violence takes time to fold into something that is not violent anymore.

When we watch for the movements of it, the pace of it, we can start to get indications about whether something will be relieved quickly or whether it may take time to feel that relief that we need.

The actual relief, the actual need, is for relational contact with resonating beings.