Jody England

“What’s it like to be you?”Really like?As our humanity evolves from a judgment/fear based one to a compassion/love based one, we are struggling to find a way to love and include it All.Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, entrenched patriarchists, the uber privileged.It is SO much easier to judge them than to love them.And if we are going to try to love them, to do some from a distance (with a little “holier than thou” thrown in for good measure.)Charles Eisenstein suggests that a foundational question in our move toward a Compassionate Society is to ask, What is it like to be you?Not in a partial way, as in, “If I were you, I would do better.”But in a Whole Way, as in, “If I were you, I would do exactly as you are doing. I want to understand All of It.”This is a tall order and one we are certainly growing into.And… there is a playing field where we can begin to try on our compassion muscles that doesn’t require us having to align with or collude with racists right off the bat.(Thank Goddess.)A place where fully in