I reject martyrdom as a valid spiritual path. I reject the idea that it is sacrifice that makes us inherently more spiritual. I rebuke poverty as a more genuine gateway to Divine. I evoke the wealth of my ancestral mothers. I invoke the liberated abundance of those whose ideas of themselves were unfettered by exploitation. I step fully into my own rich inheritance. It doesn't matter how many zeros you have in the bank, wealth is not an external condition. Now I'm not gonna si

I often come back to Alexis Pauline Gumbs talking about Mama Harriet Tubman & her declaration that "her people are free". Before we talk about leading by desire, we must talk about what desire is. True desire is not the avoidance of pain. It's not the accumulation of stuff that helps you to avoid how shitty you feel on a regular basis about who you are. It is the longing for a vision that has already unfolded inside of you to be revealed externally. What this means is that de

So much messaging out there that wants to put you back in a box. Tells you that your spiritual and inner life is secondary to whatever the headline of the moment is. That tells you that pleasure needs to fall behind a long torturous to-do list + lots of hand-wringing + worry. I'm here to tell you that not a single ounce of worry helps anybody and your to-do list can't be powered by caffeine forever, plus I've never had a single headline feed me or my family. I'm not telling y

one of the great delusions that oppression has taught us is that pleasure, I mean really just feeling so damn good is rich white people shit. That access is only granted marginally to people who align themselves as closely as possible to white & economic violence. And that for some people, true joy, ease, pleasure, goodness is not available to us. This is a lie created to sell us back our own joy in little encapsulated commodities and our own pleasure in the form of product a

Many people have spoken to the inability of new age & love + light movements to be anything more than just a spiritual bypassing hobby for bored, mostly white, people. So much so that the saying "follow your bliss" is synonymous with people who are so spiritually fragile that the mere whisper of "negative energy" is enough to get you excommunicated from those circles. But pleasure, real pleasure that is the quality of wide-openness with Divine, direct experiential knowledge o

In a society built on aggression, surrender is seen as a weakness and a vulnerability to be suspicious of. But the truth is that we are the key to our own expansion, and when we surrender to that which is greater than our current conception of reality, we unlock our own traps and step into a greater understanding of ourselves, our power and our relationship to Divine. We don't surrender to make ourselves small or humble, we surrender our ideas of smallness and humility to enl

When is the last time you made decisions in your life based on what you truly wanted? What about all of your decisions? when you're caught up in survival mode, anything beyond the basic necessities becomes a 'desire', and, I daresay, even the basic necessities are considered a desire here in this society. We live in a system that profits off of you suppressing your desire. I've lived many years of attempting to murder my own desire so that I can be 'good'. But suppression of

Too many of us still think that self-love is something that you reward yourself with after you've done something to be worthy of your own consideration. And so many of us have this tangled up understanding of our self-worth being tied up with our net worth. But you can't build a life you love on a foundation of self-hatred, self-denial, self-loathing and self-criticism. You can't welcome abundance into your life while also punishing yourself on auto-pilot for all the ways in