As we humans strive to move from from 3-D to 5-D, from old consciousness to new, from judgment to compassion, from head to heart, we are changing a paradigm. We are going from utterly devaluing and diminishing knowings and feelings, hunches and intuition, to actually centering them in our daily lives. We are learning to appreciate the language of the heart. We are beginning to see — and sense — its awesome power. I am comfortable calling this a heavy lift.
The trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd presents us with a multitude of opportunities to see all of this in action. It’s encapsulated in our listen to inspiration concept which, itself, is all about our intuition which, itself, is chock full of feeling, emotion, gut, hunches, instincts, and knowings. We will look at testimony from some of the eyewitnesses — Jena Scurry, Donald Williams, Genevieve Hansen, Charles McMillian, and Darnella Frazier — to Mr. Floyd’s death and how some of their testimony looked, nay felt, to this particular conscious politics practitioner.
I call this “The I Don’t Know/I So Know Paradox.” I don’t know how to explain it with words, but I so know what I know.
We are focusing today on:
1) some everyday, unmistakable language of the heart
and
2) the not-ironic requirement that we run said heart language through our, um, hearts.
But first: Did you notice how frequently anybody who had anything to say about the eyewitnesses described their testimony as emotional? “Witnesses share emotional testimony…” “Donald Williams…got emotional during his testimony…” “…featured new footage…as well as emotional testimony later in the day.” “In deeply emotional testimony…” “Key eyewitnesses give emotional testimony in Chauvin trial.”
When it comes to emotion in the public square these days it seems that we are both squeamish and resigned. We’re uncomfortable with it, but we get that we can’t ignore it. Anymore. To me, this is evidence of the new consciousness asserting itself. Meanwhile, we conscious humans are heavy-lifting: making space for it, adjusting, shedding 3-D debris. Yay us.
So let’s dive deeper now, what with it being Sunday and all.
Scurry: “My instincts were telling me that something was wrong. Something wasn’t right…I don’t know what, but something wasn’t right.” “It was a gut instinct of, in the incident, something’s not going right…I don’t know how to explain it, it was a gut instinct to tell me that now we can be concerned.” “I took that instinct and I called the sergeant.”
“Instincts”/“gut instinct.” Exactly. It’s not a construct of the mind. That’s why we almost always struggle to put words to our inspired experiences because, by definition, they’re beyond words. “Something wasn’t right.” “I don’t know how to explain it.” I call this “The I Don’t Know/I So Know Paradox.” I don’t know how to explain it with words, but I so know what I know. Scurry so knew what she knew that she called the police on the police. Period.
I feel her certainty and that’s enough for me. I trust it, I trust her, because I trust my own intuition.
Williams: “I believe that they didn’t … We just didn’t have no connection. I spoke to them, but not on a connection of a human being relationship.”
Hansen: “…this human was denied that right.” "I was desperate to give help."
Mr. Williams said there was not a “heart-based connection” between him and the police officer(s) who, as far as he was concerned, had just killed a man in their care. He was yearning for a human/compassionate repository for what he’d witnessed and had a knowing it was not any of the officers on the scene.
He uses the words “human being,” which I find extremely compelling. I’ve long noticed that people who suffer always say, we are human beings and people who describe suffering always say, they are human beings. Both Williams and Hansen are reacting to an absense of humanity. He was craving it. She was “desperate to give help” to a fellow human in distress. Humans seeing humans is pure compassion. Pure heart. Their anguish was about a dearth of compassion. I feel their anguish; their intentions are about compassion; I believe them both.
Williams: “I stayed in my body. You can't paint me out to be angry," he said.
Head to heart? Here it is. The head houses ego and fear. “I stayed in my body.” Grounded. Connected. That’s what I felt. That’s inspiration telling me all is well. Done.
McMillian: Attorney: Why did your concern grow over time? McMillian: “It grew because when the paramedics arrived…I knew then, in my mind, my instinct, that it was over for Mr. Floyd. He was dead.”
“I knew then, in my mind…” Again, he simply knows. He also says “instinct.” But what got my attention (at about 41:30 on this video) was a simple hand gesture when he talks about knowing/mind/instinct. It’s striking because he doesn’t use a lot of hand gestures and because it comes exactly when he’s talking about his knowing/his mind/his instinct. It’s like a mudra, a seemingly instinctual, otherwise unremarkable gesture rendering what he’s saying that much more emphatic. I’m all the way in.
Frazier: He “was suffering”
Again, a knowing. She’s 17 years old. She’s got her 8-yr-old niece with her for a quick jaunt to the corner store. She’s otherwise not thinking about any of this until there it is. And she knew it. He “was suffering.” Her words feel true to me. I believe her. I don’t need anything else.
With multitudes of examples just from they eyewitnesses in this one trial, I could have written ten times as much about this today. (You’re welcome.) Suffice to say that it’s up to us conscious folk to beef up our own antennae, notice the language when we experience it, and run it all through our own fortified systems.
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More about paradox please! I’m starting to see paradox as both a kind of wormhole to the Way and a device for becoming Present. If the Chauvin trial does nothing more than expose how Pre-Floyd “law & order” no longer serves humanity, paradox will have done its job.
Let me clarify that: the policies and procedures in most public policing permit the kind of inhuman action that happened here and immunity for the peace officers when it happens, which is why there were two OJ trials. But that law doesn’t address the heart of humanity, which has now been exposed and for which we all bleed. Paradox. Presence. Opportunity to reframe how our law serves humanity best. Make sense?
There is TRUTH and then there is fiction. What most of us saw on the news was pure fiction as it was video footage conveniently edited to make any decent person want to revolt against the police!
The biggest lesson I have learned from this whole event is to quit listening to what others have to say about a situation or a person because there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between opinion and what is often true. Better to watch the FULL, unedited footage of what actually happened or what the actual person (who is being attacked by the media) had to say.
Did any of you SEE the raw, uncut footage of the Floyd arrest or look at his police record? That was not fiction. The guy was on drugs in the first place, tried to hide them by taking them all at once right before he confronted the police… and was saying he couldn’t breath from there on. They couldn’t even get him in the car. That happened way before the cop put a knee on his back (not his neck). He was out of control! He was in the middle of having a drug OD experience (that HE caused) way before they got him down on the ground.
Yes. It was a white cop that happened to go on this call. Do you have ANY IDEA how many black children are killed in Chicago by other blacks every year? Yet you are not going hear about it in the news. Why? Because THAT does not fit the narrative “they” (corporate media) want you to hear. That information would not cause the Civil War that the media would like for us to have.
How does rewarding criminals to the tune of $27,000,000.00 while punishing police, who are trying to keep us safe from criminals, not motivate other criminals to do want to do the same?
So the dude is black. How is that any kind of an excuse for bad behavior? Black cops also arrest white guys who are engaging in criminal behavior too, as they should.
The bigger question is “how did this guy get to be the criminal that he was?” What would resolve that? If you think the answer lies with more subsidies for “free government schools” you would be wrong. (as you well know the public school system is NOT about educating our impoverished children or they would be educated and know how to support themselves, and understand the dangers of drugs well enough not to get hooked)…. Or if you think giving more welfare to people of color would solve this, you would also be wrong. THAT according to one of my favorite black history professors, Robert Woodson, is date co-incident with when the crime rate in the black communities starting going way UP.
Why would that be? By paying single mothers more than they would have made by staying married. That is what happens when you reward people for not taking responsibility for the wrong choices that they make. Would you like to know what would actually be a more humane policy to follow? Check out what this guy has to say. He is black and also wise——> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2CfiqBa9m8)
Then lets continue this conversation…