It’s true we live in a hyper-interconnected world that pendulums between extremes of self and the whole. With a whole lot of fear of everything in between for many. But what if that’s part of why tensions persist? Tensions across multitudes of dimensions. What if instead of abandoning our selfs in this way, we learned to be brave and break those spells of deep conditioning? While we can’t do this for others, we can do this for our selfs. And what if that indeed is more than enough?

In a world where so many have been fractured, fragmented, stolen, displaced, ghosted, exiled, or simply now are in ancestry an amalgamation of sorts, the first thing one should know is to just relax into your own body and self. Learn your heart ecology and you will know who you are.

Typical of likely a common European American experience, I didn’t actually anticipate heritage consciousness for myself to come into such richness and clarity. But the universe has mysterious ways of bringing us home so lovely so. Better than we alone could imagine all on our own.

In my experience, Nature, Source, the cosmos, consciousness itself, wants us to know and love who and all that we are. I for one can attest that never in my wildest dreams would I have come around to heritage in the ways that my life has led me to.

A wild child of forests and vast reaches of wilderness, my journey in ancestral presence began through stages of trying to maintain a practical grounding with that which on the surface appeared more obvious. When it all fell apart, however, slowly did I also find meaning with faith and irreducible wonder through it. And more than ever could I have asked for, in coming into intimacy and grace with my own heart ecology.

Dare I suggest we live in a world of mixed up heart ecologies. Where everyone wants to throw the label of love upon something and insist that it sticks. Possessive are so many with it. That universal meaning will override everything. Some even want to invoke it spell-like for tearing everything down. But what if that all is part of the unwellness?

What if we are here to learn, and grow, and decipher, and come to know our own heart ecologies distinctly? What if we are here to know our own diversity? Is it possible that if we cue into the words that so many hearts are drawn towards, we can better understand layers that matter to individuals decoupled from the toxicity of shadows?

I believe this and more is possible. And I believe that if you are here seeing this, perhaps you too have your own part within this. Fore once one surrenders to the unknown with such things, dare I now say God, something Celtic heritage alone brought me to, there is no fear with any of it, not within nor outside of us. Interdependence alone leaves that shadow in the dust. We are not in times of old.

I would propose that you don’t hide your difference from yourself. To glimpse into the layers I am touching upon, is to see it not coming from a place of lack, but rather coming into the richness of understanding just how much we each have within us. Everything we need.

In many ways, the whole of the world at present is straddling the shattering of all broken dreams. Even love can be toxic when this reckoning is bypassed. What if it is only by moving through all these verbotten and repressed depths, that we are able to dream again? That humanity itself is able to dream a more beautiful world through?