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Reflection of the week: “What can we individually do during these horrible times?”
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- Mar 10, 2026
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit reflectorsreflections.substack.com When I look at what is going on geopolitically, I feel disgust, fear, anger, sadness, despair. So much destruction, so much pain inflicted, so much unawareness of our interconnectedness. One of the things I feel we can all do is stand up for the awareness of that interconnectedness. My engagement with Human Design - and my deepest commitment to it as a kind of GPS for awareness - comes from a deep sense that it is a tool, among many valuable tools out there, that can remind us that we are one consciousness, one awareness, manifesting in a myriad of forms. Human Design, at its heart, is about disappearing as an identification with a self-concept or self-image and allowing Existence to be. We have developed sophisticated language and concepts to describe how consciousness manifests differently in each of us. At the same time, so much wisdom across traditions points to the same recognition: that we are the choiceless awareness witnessing it all. We are living in urgent times - times that call for us to stand up for love, for the recognition that we are one awareness, deeply connected in that awareness. We can no longer hide behind the oblivion and materialist blindness that are bringing this planet to the brink of collective suicide. At times we may feel powerless. The 47th Gate, in its abstract reflection on the human experience, can leave us asking: “What can we do?” But there is something we can do. We all have a voice. We can show our stance. We can remind ourselves and others of the possibility that lies beyond the collapse of the Cross of Planning - recalling the spirit of what Ra called the Return to Eden . We can step forward and put roses in guns. This has to stop. An…