by Digger Barr
https://gaiasgardens.guru/
I have been struggling in this realm with things that no longer want to exist.
Not that they don’t still exist and yes I can touch them, I can see them.
They are actually in my way and I spend time moving them often at a loss at where to put them.
These are things that have lost importance in my life but still keep a connection to a previous level of existence.
A common example of this would be something we are all familiar with, the clothes closet.
At some point there are items that don’t get worn and sit in the back of a drawer or at the bottom of the closet.
In our everyday awareness they no longer exist. Yet there they are taking up space and eventually something is going to happen with it.
This is an easy example with a common solution.
We simply pick up that item and donate it, repurpose it as rags or throw it away.
Any variety of ways to clean our closets offer easy solutions to outdated items.
But what if this item is not tangible?
Or if its something we are expected to maintain to be good citizens for the greater whole?
I will stop being cryptic and get to the point.
While still in the indecisive world of how, when and why of filing taxes, I sat in a pile of receipts trying to find some sort of meaning.
This is important. I kept telling myself that. This needs to happen. Expenses need to be tracked.
This receipt is for…I struggled to read the worn print.
Sitting back in my chair I decided I didn’t care.
I mean I made money, I spent money. I am not independent of the system.
I am very much reliant on working and paying bills.
But keeping track of my everyday coming and going in order to report to others that I am still a slave to the system just didn’t have any meaning for me.
The pile of papers, the lists of lists of categories and schedules and forms all ran together as a blur that no longer existed in my sense of reality.
Here is a receipt for garden seeds, soil, cat food and a bottle of water.
I paid taxes on all those things. Why do I need to track each item, put it in a different category, process it through a numbers blender and find out it doesn’t matter?
Or worse, that I should pay more tax because paying tax the first time wasn’t good enough.
And if I made money off growing the seeds in that soil, It is my duty to pay more tax because I was creative enough to figure out how to generate an income?
I am getting carried away and a bit feisty now so I want to change directions. Because what I really want to talk about is Sovereignty.
Instead of thinking about paperwork and things that are phasing out of my reality, I want to sit in the warmth and magic of what it will be like to be sovereign.
Truly sovereign.
Determining what this means is a struggle as well. But one with a different feel to it.
This one captures my interest.
How does one define Sovereignty?
What does it mean to be truly sovereign?
I actually had a hard time defining this concept.
AI tells us that there is Political sovereignty, religious sovereignty and personal sovereignty.
But it still uses words such as supreme, dominant power and ruler.
These words grated against my sense of self awareness.
They represented more of a process to break from control in order to gain power in an existence still embedded in control.
It wasn’t viewed as a state of being but as a process toward that existence without actually achieving it.
Merriam Webster does a bit better in allowing sovereignty to mean ‘autonomy’ or freedom from external control.
Those are the words that resonated well with me.
AI makes a good point in that it is a process of getting from A to B that needs to be determined.
How one defines sovereignty and how one achieves sovereignty are two very different things.
I look at the pile of papers strewn about the floor in front of me.
This did not look like the process of sovereignty to me.
I consider myself a sovereign being. I am not living a sovereign life.
This introduced a third dilemma into the mix.
How do we actually achieve sovereignty ? Especially when we are existing in a world so far from it.
Is it possible to coexist in a world so hell bent on controlling everything?
But even more so in a world where we are so dependent on things being done for us.
To truly be autonomous means to actually provide for ourselves.
It means having to think , do, create and survive without being told how to do it.
It is more than coming of age and leaving the nest.
It is redefining ourselves from eons of subordination.
The question is: Are we ready for that?
And the follow-up question, How do we do it?
Not how we prepare for it. That time has passed.
How do we do it right now?
In my attempt to define sovereignty for myself, I landed on the idea of deregulation.
This was not a unique spontaneous thought.
It came from an observation of how one supreme leader is guiding us through the process of getting from A to B.
This idea fits nicely with what my idea of Sovereignty is developing into.
It is freedom from external control.
Ssooooo many regulations, everywhere for everything.
We can do whatever we want to do as long as we fulfill the requirements and meet standards and regulations.
Get licenses and permits and certifications and, and, and…Stop!
Couldn’t we just do what we feel is best and right by our own internal guidance?
Can we become the ungoverned and still not injure ourselves?
A sound and proper way of doing things because it feels right comes with the grace of goodness and joy.
Internal controls over external regulation belong in the definition of what it means to be autonomous.
Following the heart and what guides you should be the very thing we came to earth to experience.
Any interference with this is against our prime directive. It is a violation of our reason for being.
Adherence to Universal law is the only sovereign state we need to achieve as guidance into a place of harmony.
I have finally sluiced out my definition of what it means to be sovereign.
It is to be in a state of balance, in harmony with nature and oneself.
It is through the goal to function as a sovereign being that brings about this state of balance.
Even if it means to experience being out of balance, it is up to me, not from external controls to bring about balance once more.
If Sovereignty is a process but not entirely the goal, it becomes a medium towards an enlightened way of being.
We are in the sovereignty process now.
It’s not always obvious and it will mean being uncomfortable at times.
Be courageous, as this was never going to be easy.
Digger26