Spiritual Awakening: The Ground of Love

Spiritual Activism: From Aloneness to Togetherness. (1/3, EP12)

• OLIVIA FRAZAO

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True power as the Power of Love, empowerment through remembering our togetherness and connecting with spirit guides and Divinity. We begin here, on our multi-episode exploration of Spiritual Activism, where we look at how to be of service during these times of global turmoil, from the spiritual perspective. 

In this episode we consider how on both the individual level and on the collective level, we have been manipulated into aloneness, separation, and disempowerment. We find empowerment via the Power of Love, the great true power of Life itself. And we return to a remembrance of connection even beyond human relationship, where we remember and connect directly with the nonphysical beings and forces that guide and protect us, knowing we are never alone. 

Keep an eye out for Part 2.

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1:18 - True Power

2:24 - The Risk of Aloneness

7:12 - How to Get Back Up?

10:32 - Spiritual Empowerment: The Power of Love

16:08 - Being Small in the Universe

18:45 - Our Angels, Guides, and Protectors

21:43 - Exercise to Connect with Heavenly Beings

26:03 - The WE

30:08 - We're the Tip of the Pencil

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Activism, spiritual activism, connect with your guides, connect with guides, connection with angels. Patriarchy, social change, root causes, healing patriarchy, collective healing, collective awakening, societal healing, trauma healing, embodiment, emotional trauma, inner healing, emotional healing, colonialism, capitalism.

Meditation, consciousness, esoteric, esoteric wisdom, nonduality, spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, mindfulness, psychology, trauma healing, emotional healing, somatic healing, personal development, embodiment, ego-death, meditation, new age, bhakti, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, indigenous wisdom, indigeneity, energy healing work, ancient wisdom, sangha, holistic healing, wholeness, groundedness, grounded spirituality.

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The power of love. The power of love is alignment to life itself, to that which is greater to unity. The power of love is inevitably, inevitably a surrender of the individual self to the great One. Welcome to the Ground of Love. I'm your host, Olivia Frazao. This is a podcast for people who are deeply dedicated to the spiritual journey. You are here for self-growth care, for others, and being of service to the world. This podcast is in service to you to help you remember who you are and why you are here, you will receive inspiration, clarity, and no BS Love. We are walking each other home. Let's begin. This episode is part one of series where we will be discussing how personal healing and how spirituality can inform collective healing, collective consciousness shifts and shifts on a political institutional level. we will be talking about power, the power of love and unity, the power of togetherness, and the power of truth, the truth of love and unity that is stronger than any power of violence, of oppression, or of mind on any level, including national and global. So we will look at how there are some spiritual concepts and some concepts around healing work and personal healing that will provide clues for us, guidance for us, empowerment for us to consider how healing can happen on an institutional level, on a political level, on a national level, on a global level. So how does the personal inform the collective? How does the non-physical inform the physical? How do we learn from spiritual healing and take that to political change. So let's begin. We're going all the way out, and then we're gonna come all the way in. Are you ready? What is this whole game? In episode one, I talked about the one story and the one goal. The one story is the story of forgetting and remembering. So in that forgetting, what do we forget? We forget unity. We forget ourselves as one. So what does that forgetting look like? It looks like separation. Separation into the egoic self that doesn't remember all space, all time, all beingness and that can't see, can't perceive past one's, own personal projections so that separation carries in it the one greatest wound, which is the misunderstanding that is believed of aloneness. We carry within us this searing almost too painful to carry experience of aloneness. And the reason it is almost too painful to carry is because it is so not true that holding it and believing it is such a contradiction to what's actually true, that it hurts so strongly. Because it's a searing contradiction. It's so off. It's 180 degrees off. Not one or two degrees. Five. No, it's it exactly the opposite. So there is a dissonance that happens within the self on a, an extremely deep level, on a primal level, on a subconscious level where everything stemming from that misunderstanding is standing on. Shaky ground is standing on the original mistake, the original misinterpretation, the original limiting belief, which is our aloneness, which is our separation. Now, what happens, what inevitably happens when we who are infinite beings, who are intrinsically interconnected, are sold the idea that we are small and separate, that we are isolated, that we are contained within our tiny little body mind and need to just rely on whatever is in here. Right? And stay with me because when I talk about this, it might sound really philosophical or esoteric, but we're gonna see the impacts very quickly of how this shows up on a tangible level that might be more recognizable. What happens when we are alone, when we feel alone, or when we are alone in any logistical way that might manifest itself. We're vulnerable because we're no longer empowered and we're no longer protected. We're no longer in our power. We're no longer emanating our true center, our true empowerment, and we no longer have the buttresses, the buoying, the. All the hands holding us. That web of mutual support and of shared experience. When we experience ourselves as alone, so of course being vulnerable, meaning we are exposed to something that could threaten our survival in whatever way, at whatever level. Then we experience fear. Of course, this is all, this is, there's no blame here. This is all obvious. It's like, of course we've experienced these things, right? When we are in fear, now we have confirmed that we are out of our empowerment because at this point, our field is no longer grounded and no longer centered. So our capacity to respond to whatever is going to happen is very limited. What happens now, a person who is in a state of fear or a group of people or a population in a state of fear, in a state of aloneness, which carries within it scarcity, probably mistrust a sense of incompetence, or any lack of hope or faith. What happens? This is a person or a group of people that is easily manipulated. That can easily fall prey to forces of malevolence control being used, being misinformed, and being trapped within that role. This is stuff that we're seeing very clearly everywhere. Yes. The worst part about being alone is where is the support to get back up? Okay, so let's look very quickly. Where is it in our lives or in the lives of individuals that we know where we can see that there is a block towards acknowledging and or developing one's inner spiritual empowerment. And we'll talk about what empowerment actually is.'cause people are very confused by the concept of power. So we'll get there. And where could there be a block to getting help? So we need to look at where, on an individual level, let's say someone's in an abusive relationship, two things are gonna happen. Let's say it's an abusive, romantic relationship, like a marriage between a husband and wife, just to make it easy archetypes. The husband is abusive towards the wife. There are two things he's gonna do. The first thing he's gonna do is he's going to abuse her. The second thing he's going to do is he's going to block her from her own empowerment and from her own capacity to get support from others. What did he just do? He blocked her from her two ways out. So let's look at this On a collective level, when there's a takeover, whether it's a colonizer culture or a dictatorship, an oligarchy or one group or one person to take over a mass population, what is the age old tactic? Age old, everyone knows this phrase. Divide and conquer pit people against each other. Take a vulnerable population that can't defend themselves to be the scapegoat. And then take another population that's also suffering to have this fake sense of empowerment by resenting or hating or competing with that scapegoat population. You're feeding people a false sense of empowerment by providing some type of competition and a, an avenue for anger. And an avenue for a belief in a false positive way forward. Where is all this going? Let's, let's find out. Okay. So r remember, we're looking at personal level and we're looking at political level. We're looking at individual and collective. So we keep kind of jumping between the two. Okay. Now, how does an individual in an abusive relationship gain empowerment to get out? They can either bottom out and there's a wake up call of like, okay, this got really bad. I can't, I, I can't deny this anymore within myself. And also, I'm no longer believing what I've been sold with all the gaslighting, right? And they finally reach out for help or, or there's some type of an intervention from the outside, like the best friend and the sister and whatever, finally somehow do some type of intervention. And then there's, support. And then there's a, oh my god, now I'm feeling more aware of what reality is and more empowered to, to do something about it, to get myself out of this situation. Now let's look on the collective level. Where is there a block to spiritual empowerment? And where could there be a block to getting help? Because anywhere where we're finding any of those blocks, those are our opportunities. That is where we enter, that's where we go in, that's where we apply ourselves. That's where we flip the switch so that those doors can be open, those doors to what? To unity, to togetherness, to mutual support, and thus to empowerment. So let's look at that. What am I calling? Spiritual empowerment. What is that? Empowerment is not the capacity to fight by being physically stronger, more mentally cunning, having greater weapons or in any other way, having a leg up within the worlds of polarity to basically be a bigger and worse and more potent version of whatever the enemy quote unquote currently is or is currently wielding There's a fantastic movie that perhaps you have seen. It's called Black Panther, Wakanda Forever. In that movie, there is quite a long period of time of this war. Between, I guess what you could call nations where they just each keep getting stronger and stronger and using more and more powers, and yet you're still seeing this polarity continue and continue and continue. And I think it drags on for so long to make a point, which is we are going to be in this spiral of who has the bigger muscles and who has the bigger guns, and just going one-upping each other over and over and over again until the end of time. If we don't realize that that way of playing the game itself has no winners and has no end, that the, the game that we're playing is flawed and that's why we're not winning. Nobody wins in the game of polarity with victim perpetrator going on and on to the end of time, and we know this because we have seen it historically, as far back as any history book can reveal it is the story over and over again of conquest and those being taken over. So let's look at something else. What is empowerment? If it's not simply learning how to fight better than your enemy, quote unquote, what is beyond that? So what is the power of love? What does that actually mean? Not as some cool radio song. What is the power of love? What is love? And love, not being limited to the concept of warm and fuzzy. The power of love is simply that. A power what? What is power? It's energy, it's a vibration. It's a frequency. It's a coherence. It's an emanation of beingness. It has no form. It has nothing that the physical eyes can see. But it is undeniable when it is felt. It's potency itself. It is life force. It is the force of creation itself. It is the force of creation that creates universes. Its pure power, pure potency, the vibration of birth and death of an entire universe within the great hands of the power of life itself. Life beyond birth and death. Life beyond anything that we understand, anything we can fathom, anything we can put words to, and anything that we could ever personally embody as an individual. The power of love. The power of love as alignment to life itself, to that which is greater to unity. The power of love is inevitably, inevitably a surrender of the individual self to the great one. And if there isn't that, then it's a false version. Because no individual from the egoic mind, from any projection, from any personal desire, from any limiting belief, from any misinterpretation, any one side of the story, saying that they're bringing forth power or truth or the power of love, it's not true. That's one fragment within the great whole, and the power of love is not a fragment. It is the whole itself. It is the potency. It is the life force. It is the breath, it is the fire. It is the being and the becoming and all of the great undoings. It is the eternity and the every awareness and the everythingness of the all. So when we acknowledge power as universes upon universes, as creation and as whatever, we could even fathom to be beyond creation itself, to be the absolute complete formlessness, this goes to a level that is so esoteric that that ends up being very difficult to fathom. But even that, rather than saying, oh, but I don't get it. Or, oh, but how is that relevant? Or, oh, but I can't feel that. Or, oh, but how do you really know and completely running away and going to watch Netflix and forget about everything and then be unprepared and pummeled. Because we're out of our center and we're not paying attention to what matters. Instead, we take this almost level of overwhelm, about the potency of the great unknown and say that, that is so much bigger than me. And by understanding myself in comparison to infinite and eternal and, and, and, and, and words and concepts that are even, they make my brain explode. It is simply a comparison that allows me to see myself as how small I really am to put myself in my own place of being one one tiny speck of light within the great galaxies upon galaxies of multiverses of life. And when we are in this place of humility, when we are in this place of knowing ourselves as so insignificant from the lens of the individual, that's when we, we pop out of the individual. We don't stay in meaninglessness or existential. I don't matter. We, we pop out of the little encasement that would believe that. By feeling, allowing ourselves to give ourselves surrendering to everything that you and I can feel right now that has no name, but that's here. And speaking to us and through us. The remembrance. The remembrance, the remembrance. So we bow to that. We bow to the mystery, we bow to that which is so much greater than us that we literally can't even talk about it without words in our own minds. Getting all does not compute. So here's the good news for all of us, which everybody already knows. So this is just a reminder, and if you're not into this stuff, I don't know how you can handle the difficulties of life. To be totally honest, the good news is that we, humans are not exactly the ones running the show around here, even though we love thinking that we are. Right. That is such great news because. Inevitably, we get to these places of feeling incompetent, of feeling very afraid of feeling despair. And that's when we can remember, oh, I'm not the driver. And we look up and of course up as a metaphor, because everything is, you know, there's no space time, locations for these things. But I like up as an archetype. People understand that well, and, and, um, we can, we can experience that energetically. So we look up, or another way that I could say it is we, we look within, we feel within deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. And you keep going and going and going and going in the heart. Inside, inside, inside, inside, inside. And who's there? It's, let's do the look up one. I like that one better actually. For this particular example. Who's there now with the heart open and with the body grounded and rooted with ourselves in our central channel and in the heart, you look up, and this is where we have our angels. You can call them whatever it is for your lineage, deities, masters, ancestors, helpers, guides, multidimensional beings, higher self. There are so many beings each with different identities, bringing different frequencies, holding different planes of reality, protecting us, holding us, guiding us, giving us life itself So at this point we find who is it that we are personally connected with, that we are connected with through our lineage. Whether it's the lineage we were born in, our family's religion, for example, or whether it's a spiritual lineage that we felt called to and adopted within this lifetime, often perhaps as also a continuation of past life adherence and growth. Who are these beings? So just for a moment, Feel right now in your heart. This is not one of those, oh, I'm gonna keep driving or washing the dishes, and this isn't for me because it's too complicated and I'm lazy. No, this is while you're doing whatever you're doing, you're folding laundry. So now you're also at the same exact time opening your heart and just feeling, I am being held right now by specific beings. You could call it your guardian angel. You could call it your guru. Your spiritual teachers, or whatever your thing is. Everybody has a certain opening, a certain language, a certain consciousness or frequency that they feel held by, guided by guided to. identified with in some way. So just for a moment, don't give up the opportunity just for a moment. I swear it'll be fast. Feel right now in your heart. Open your heart and allow yourself, you don't have to reach, you don't have to use effort. You don't have to randomly create with your mind. It's simply allowing what already is, acknowledging what already is with gratitude. There's nothing we need to create here. There's nothing we need to fabricate. This is not us creating this experience. This is us opening for two seconds out of whatever our distraction is with our daily life, to feel what already is awaiting us to take two seconds out of our life to acknowledge and feel who is right here with us. Knocking at the door of our heart whispering to us, saying, I'm with you. I'm with you. You're not alone. I got you. We do this together. And so we're opening out of aloneness. This is empowerment. This is empowerment. Not just going to boxing class, which also can be awesome, or yelling really loudly in the car by yourself to get outta your anger at someone who you can't have an open conversation with in the house. That is totally awesome and. This is where it starts. This is where you come home to, you come back to, to refuel and to continue weaving your consciousness back into the truth of what is. What has always been, what is in every single second. Whether or not you pay attention to it, which is that you are held, you are seen, you are held, you are protected, and you don't do anything alone. And this isn't even talking about the humans around you who support you. We're only going non-physical right now. Feel for two seconds your relationship with your higher self, With the great mystery, with the great Mother, your relationship with Buddha, with Christ consciousness, with your guardian angel, With the archangels, with your deities, with your guru, with the masters. With your ancestors, with Mother Earth herself. So I said, look up as the metaphor, but it's everywhere within us, up, down, left, right, sideways. So whatever your thing is, I was naming, I was trying to name across traditions so something would land for each person feel just right now. Is there anything different from like a minute ago in your perception that just shifted to notice, oh my God, this is a we, I am a we, we are When I say I am, and then you say I am, and then you say your name. Right. Okay. We're gonna expand past that. And we're in the, we are, we are here, we are moving forward as one great river together. And then of course from that we are, there's the great I am itself that the whole we is, you know, one body of. Right. So my point here in this specific context of this episode is, yes, we can go from I am plus whatever your name is, to the great I am God, nature itself, source the absolute however you call it. Right now, we're actually doing the we. Why? Because this is where we experience togetherness. This is where we experience relationship, and why is that so important? Rather than only considering the absolute, because the wound that is running our effing lives right now. Every day in your own personal experience with yourself in your experience with your partner, your children, your friends, your community, look around at what's happening globally, politically, all of this effing mess is a result of what our belief in our aloneness, our belief in our aloneness, alienation from ourselves, from our loved ones, let alone from those that we don't get along with. So what is the remedy? Relationship. Relationship. So yes, there's the one great absolute, and then we feel humility around that. And we feel a place of like, oh my God, wait, maybe I'm not the center of the universe. Right? Which every hard knocks of life reminds us of. But I don't say this in a way of, you know, judging us for our arrogance. Guess what? This is what we've been taught. You gotta do it yourself, right? You gotta effort, you gotta push hard, you gotta fight, you gotta compete. This whole Darwinian survival of the fittest mentality that has infested our culture where we think that we are fighting each other for survival in a zero sum game. That is, that is the mental illness of everybody, all of us, our entire culture. So, relationship. Relationship as the balm relationship, divine relationship, divine relationship, divine relationship. What is so special about divine relationship? Two things. Number one, it never goes away. We're about to get to the whole relationship with each other on the human level thing. But some people, when I get to that part, are gonna say, oh, but I really am alone. People don't support me. Everybody has left me, or whatever. And honestly, that can happen, right? That has happened for some people where they literally at some point, have no one else to turn to anymore. Hopefully most of us are not in that situation. But can people that you love and trust betray you and abandon you and all the rest? Yes, that does happen. Which is why I'm starting at this place of togetherness, of unity that is literally unbreakable. There's no excuse. There's literally no way for us to try to hold up our argument of, oh no, but listen, I really am alone. Because when we include this level of reality, the truth is no's impossible, we are never alone. We are never doing this by ourselves. Okay, so, so we have our crew, and what does that mean? How does life change when, rather than acting like a, like a solid, separate self, that's alone and that has to effort and fight and compete to get what we want and survive. We are now. Walking with this kind of funny word, but I'm just, it, it's like an entourage behind us taking us forward. We are the, the, this is like a, a violent symbol, but I don't mean it that way. We are the tip of the spear. We're the tip of the pencil. I like that better. We're the tip of the pencil that can draw new creation, but there's the whole pencil. We're just the tiny little final cell at the little tip of it that touches the paper. That's physicality. The paper in this case is gonna be the physical world, and then the drawing is gonna be whatever it is that our movements create as impact on our, our environment. Where is it all coming from? There's the whole pencil behind us, so every other cell in this great long pencil image that we're now using is all the beings that you actually can't see. Like, you know how the lead goes into the pencil and then you can't see it anymore, but you know what's in there. Okay. That's kind of a nice metaphor here. I'm really going with this pencil metaphor. All of that is the non-physical beings that are an equal part of your body. I'm saying it like that extreme. I'm saying your body, we are all one body. So your physical body, let me talk about what I, what I mean.'cause now I'm using all these different images. Your physical body with your head and your arms and your legs or whatever. Let's imagine that that is one cell, okay? The human body is now one cell. I'm a cell. You're a cell. We are all cells in one great body. And we happen to be this version, this, this aspect of us. We happen to be physical. We happen to be what does physical mean? It means whatever is now we're getting way too esoteric, but whatever is in, relevance to this density level that we share as our plane of interfacing with each other through these, little interface, identities that we have, anyway. We don't need to keep going there. So everybody behind us we can't see. Okay, I said first looking up, now I'm talking behind. Same thing. Sometimes we can feel above, sometimes we can feel behind. Sometimes we feel within whatever your thing is, we can't see them. Now, some people say, oh, but then how do you know that you can feel it or you can have faith if you have trouble feeling it. And find out what benefits you having skepticism or having faith because enough people, myself included, and I trust you as well, actually, no matter who's listening to this, I say this to everyone. I know that you have had undeniable experiences of grace, and I hope that, as I said, that maybe an image came up or a memory or a feeling. So we acknowledge those who hold us always and guide us and protect us always. And what does this have to do with political change? We are undoing aloneness. That's why I'm spending so much time on this, because aloneness actually does come as a result of not understanding, of not fully living within or not fully surrendering to these esoteric levels of reality. the antidote to the aloneness that we fell for as the limiting belief that our culture fed us and that the forgetting of this world fed us is togetherness the antidote is togetherness across dimensions. thank you for being with me in The Ground of Love. You can follow this podcast to receive the next episodes, and who is it that comes to mind to share this episode with? Who Could Benefit? Is it a family member? A friend, a client, a colleague who would be inspired, reminded of what matters to them by being in our energy that we've shared here today. So please go ahead and pass this along to them and go ahead and leave a review or a rating if you wish. I thank you for that. For other offerings that I provide, you can go to the ground of love.com I also provide one-on-one healing sessions and I will also be offering a group membership. All of that is on the website, the ground of love.com. Blessings to you. May you be protected, held, regenerated centered. And taken forward with all light, love, truth and highest and best health and wellbeing on all levels and taken forward to make the greatest, most beautiful impact doing exactly what you're here to do. God bless you. Protection, grace, protection, grace. So it is.