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Becoming Spiritually Multicultural: The Pre-Requisite to Global Unity (EP29)

• OLIVIA FRAZAO

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In a globalized world where politics, economics, tech, etc are all global, we have the opportunity to be spiritually global. In a world seeking unity, ascension, and global healing, becoming spiritually global becomes a requirement. We are uniting across cultures and lineages to be in the One God-Nature together. See: www.thegroundoflove.com/healingschool

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1:35 - Cultures/Subcultures color metaphor

6:14 - Being Multicultural

8:29 - Being Spiritually Multi-Lingual

13:03 - Lineages Are Spiritual Technology

15:11 - Where Do You Judge?

18:12 - Digging Under Religious Traumas

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Becoming Spiritually Multicultural: The Pre-Requisite to Globalized Spiritual Unity

We are here to know and live viscerally the direct experience of the divine that is beyond any cultural game, that is true direct lived experience. So we honor the portals that bring us to this direct experience, these portals, in this case, meaning the spiritual lineages. 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. We all have the opportunity here in a globalized world, to be multicultural on a spiritual level so that we understand all of the multiplicities and the uniquenesses of different lineages. But we also see the one, the great one within all of them. The great same, same. The one God nature that they all point to. Can we become multilingual together when it comes to spiritual understanding across cultures? Being a global citizen spiritually, what does this look like? We are living in a globalized world. What does a globalized sangha look like? What does a globalized spiritual community look like? Because interestingly, check this out. Imagine whatever culture of whatever country you live in right now. Give that a color. Let's say you live in a culture that's blue or green or pink or whatever. I would love a pink culture. Let me know where you find one of those feels very loving. So let's say your culture is, I don't know, blue, okay? With a lot of weird scratches and blobs of stains, because that would symbolize the wounding within the collective consciousness. Unfortunately, that would be more realistic of a description. So imagine that there's a subculture within your culture that is of spiritual community. And I'm not even talking spiritual community that says that it's spiritual community, but that's actually really judgmental and hateful and kind of creepy. We're not even going there. We're talking about true spiritual community. People who really care. Some of these people, they're not even gonna call themselves spiritual, to be clear, okay? Because unfortunately, spiritual can sometimes mean particular religious beliefs, but actually still acting like an a-hole. Whereas true spirituality is unconditional love, and you can be an atheist and still live as unconditional love. And that's what I'm also calling spiritual. So you can be a very spiritual person as an atheist. By the way. There's an episode about this, actually two of them. cause it's part one and two, they're called Three Qualities of Spiritual Mastery, episodes three and four. So anyway, so you're in this subculture of spiritual community. What I'm basically calling people of the heart. Okay, that's a better way of saying it. This subculture has a different color in comparison to the main culture. Sometimes it feels so different. Like it feels like you're living on another planet even though you're in the same country. Right? That subculture, let's just say for just for the fun of it, let's say it's gold colored. Okay? So now you're looking around the world and if you're seeing each country or each general region's culture or kind of group of cultures as colors, then you're seeing, oh, there's the red culture, there's the blue culture, there's the green culture, there's the yellow culture. These colors aren't meaning anything right now. I'm just giving a metaphor. Within those, interestingly, they all have little bubbles. They have all these little subcultures, right? But I'm not gonna get into a whole cacophony of rainbow right now. We're just staying on our point. Within each of those, you have a little golden blob of the spiritual people in each of those places. And so interestingly, you can be from South Africa, I can be from Japan, you can be from Colombia. The other person is from France. And all of us actually have more in common with each other than we do with whoever is actually our neighbor in our apartment building in the same culture as us where we grew up, because we are all part of the same subculture of unconditional love, of desiring to be that, of desiring a world that's like that, and of actually doing our best to heal ourselves in order to be an emanation of that. Not just talking about it or dreaming about it or laughing about it or making fun of it or whatever it is that people are doing out there, but actually doing our best to actually live that feeling within ourselves. The truth of unconditional love, having the faith in unconditional love, bowing to unconditional love, being a lover of unconditional love. Whatever your way is of feeling, reverence, of feeling, awe of feeling, gratitude, of feeling, a sense of dedication and self-giving. Different people have different languages. So now this is the premise, right? We all across the world in different cultures can find each other. Those of us, let's say living in the little golden blobs, the little subcultures, within each of these greater cultures, we find each other and there's this feeling of global sangha. There's this feeling of, oh my God, I know you. Wow, I feel such brotherhood or sisterhood or whatever the the queer term of that is not only just, I know you in terms of yes, we've been soul family forever going through gajillions of incarnations. I literally know you, but also this understanding of we recognize that we are emanations of the same beingness, and in so doing, there's an empowerment here awaiting all of us if we don't fall into the trap of getting lost in our own languages and things getting lost in translation. What do I mean by that? Forget about spirituality for a second. Come with me on a little trip around the world, just in terms of being a multicultural being. What is a multicultural being? If I'm in the US and I'm traveling to France, I'm gonna be speaking French, I'm gonna be understanding the customs, the norms, the culture, how people do things there. I'm gonna be able to code switch. I'm gonna be able to understand that when people say pomme, they mean apple. Both different words, same thing, right? I'm gonna understand that when people act in a certain way, I'm not gonna get offended by it because in my culture it means this and in your culture, it means that. I'm gonna be like, oh yeah, I know what this means to you guys. I can do a cultural translation in my head from your value system to mine in order to find the shared reality, right? I do translation work sometimes across languages, and those of us who do translation work, we can tell you right now, it is not simply AI taking words and turning them into whatever the equivalent word is in the other language. It's understanding the mentality. It's understanding the, literally the mental paradigm, the cultural reality of one way of seeing reality, one's way of seeing the world from one culture, knowing it in another culture and using language to be able to bridge meaning. That's what actual translation is. This is our job for all of us. Even if we only speak one language, literally, in terms of linguistics as spiritual beings in Global Sangha, we now live in a globalized world. We are affecting each other in global markets economically, we're affecting each other politically, globally. We are now in the place of being able to unite spiritually, globally. So let's allow our globalization to actually have its greatest empowerment possible, which is on the spiritual level with each other. But it's only gonna happen when we get out of the blocks that we have of quote unquote only speaking one language in terms of spiritual lineage. So now let me take all the metaphors of being a multicultural person and put it towards spirituality. If I consider myself, let's say a Christian, okay, and my friend is a Buddhist, can I understand the main tenets of Buddhism? Or can I at least be open to being taught them? And as I'm being taught them, I can start mapping on what I'm hearing onto the Christian context and be like, oh, okay, you guys call it this, this, this, we call it that. Oh, you guys see things that way? Interestingly, we don't. Huh? I wonder why. Let's try to find the oneness even beyond what both of those symbolisms or metaphors or cosmologies are actually an emanation of. Where can we find the oneness? Right where when you say pomme in French, which means Apple and I say apple in English, sorry, French speakers. If I'm totally butchering the accent here by the way, where we can both be like, oh, that means apple, right? Like Helen Keller moment. Oh, you are moving your hand in funny ways. That means water, right? Can we learn other people's languages spiritually? Can I understand in Hinduism what's going on with this pantheon of deities? Can I understand that these deities are emanations. they're frequencies of energy, consciousness that are revealing different emanations of God beingness. Where can I see the great mother, let's say through Iemanjá? By the way, I'm, this is now a different topic. I'm no longer talking about Hinduism. Where can I see the great mother in Iemanjá,(Yimenya), in Mother Mary, in white Tara, in Durga, in white Buffalo calf woman, and I could keep going and going and going. every culture has its emanation of, let's say, a feminine deity or an emanation of whatever great mother means to each of us. Yes, there is going to be a different flavor of each one because they literally are slightly different frequency ranges, and at the same time, there is a same. Same. So how can we become spiritually multilingual? And as we become spiritually multilingual, check this out. A culturally multilingual person, when they travel to a place, they hang out with people who are actually from that place. If I'm American, I go to France, I speak French, I'm gonna hang out with French people. What happens when I don't speak French? I'm gonna hang out with other expats and we're all gonna speak English together, right? You don't assimilate when you don't learn the language. And so spiritually, we have the opportunity to learn each other's languages enough. to find those through lines where we can recognize and respect the uniqueness and the multiplicity across spiritual lineages, across spiritual cultures. And at the same time, we can find that shared language, that one, that great one, capital O one ONE, the great oneness within everything, that great emanation, that great esoteric core of all cultural homes for spirituality, which is God beingness itself. Can we learn how to excavate? Can we learn how to be detectives? Can we learn how to have x-ray vision goggles? Where when we see another culture's, let's say, I don't know, spiritual art, we're not like, uh, weird colors. What are all those weird faces? Why do you have wrathful deities? Why does your guy just bleed on a cross? Whatever. All these weird external symbolic interface points are for human understanding of divinity. Let's not get lost in that stuff or feel alienated by that stuff or each other. Feel foreign to ourselves. If we are looking for the One in everything, one of the first places that we have the opportunity to do that in. For our own empowerment on our path. So that we can then do it everywhere else where it's more difficult. One of the first places where we can find the one is within our own, obviously, as well as everybody else's spiritual lineages. We all have our own way of connecting with the divine, each of us individually as well as within certain lineages, right? I have my own way of connecting with the divine. You have your own way of connecting with the divine, and both of us, if we're part of the same church or temple or synagogue or whatever, we have the portal that each spiritual lineage is. That portal is gonna give us a particular language, a particular structure that helps us, quote unquote, climb the ladder to heaven. Okay? These cosmologies exist for a reason. Mantra sacred song, prayer, sacred Dances. This is not quote unquote art in the way that, let's say the atheist mind thinks art is like anthropology museums, where you're looking at, let's say the metropolitan half the stuff in there are spiritual artifacts. It's not like, oh, what a pretty golden statue. No, that thing is part of a spiritual architecture multidimensionally that takes you where you need to go. So we honor that. These lineages are structures. They're literally like picture an architectural, let's say staircase or something like that, like a building that is a huge portal, a huge cathedral steeple going up into the heavens that you can climb because it has given you, rather than, in this case, stone steps. Rather than it being in physical form. It's in the form of prayers. It's in the form of mantra. It's in the form of a particular cosmology, of beliefs of, creation stories and myths and stuff like that. All that stuff is symbolic. What are all of these things? These are literally multidimensional pathways made of frequencies like grooves that people have walked across eons. It's spiritual technology. Just like if you're walking through the forest, how are you gonna get to the other side? You're gonna walk through the path that other people have walked before you. You're not gonna cut your way through all of the vegetation. You're gonna go where thousands of feet have stepped before you and cleared that path. That's what these spiritual lineages are. They are express highways to the one great beingness source. So we honor them. We honor them, we see the value in each of them. We respect them because what I am seeing way too often, which is why I'm speaking about this so much, unfortunately, what I'm seeing way too often, not just in rigid, spiritually dogmatic by the book type people in places, but people who consider themselves to be very open-minded, very progressive, very new agey or however you wanna describe your openness. And they're like, yeah, but those guys are weird. Or, yeah, but my way is the fastest or the best. What's going on, guys? That's called ignorance masquerading as superiority. That's called not understanding what you're seeing and judging it rather than trying to learn about it and trying to understand, trying to look behind the symbolism of whatever is turning you off and finding where that's actually the same as the core of what you most care about. That's the job required of us to have the spiritual sangha that is a global sangha, that is who we truly are in the great oneness of being, that provides the capacity for us to hold the light on a level that is necessary for where the world is right now and where it's going. We are being called to be global citizens. We're being called to be a global sangha. We are being required to actually become multicultural on all of these levels. So no more judging each other because first of all, we judge because we fear. Why do we fear? Because we don't understand. So let's learn so that we're no longer in misunderstanding. We're now in understanding, and then we're no longer fearing because now we're actually in friendship with what we understand, and thus we're no longer judging because we're actually in union and communion with each other. Sounds simple, right? Sounds like, oh, yes, of course. Unfortunately, it's way too often that I see the opposite happening. So we come together honoring our differences, finding the shared language of love. Love the language of love underneath the separate languages that each of our lineages speak like more literally. So we are honoring the many, and we're finding the one within the many, both of those are existing simultaneously, yes. To the many that is there. That is true. That is valuable, yes, to the one within the many. We find that it's all same, same underneath. So who we are, who we can be, and what is awaiting us, what we know we are already stepping into, what we have always done, is an esoteric group endeavor. We're not here to believe in dogmatic, mind based, culturally imposed belief systems. We are here as scientists of real direct experience. We are detectives moving past traps and walls made of cultural traumas. We're looking for the clues to find the real truth, the lived truth of true nature. We must learn how to discern between what the world has given us, which is a regurgitation of cultural traumas calling itself religion, claiming to know and teach God's truths, but spouting separation and judgment and fear and dissociation and masking, and we must instead together wipe the sand off of the surface of these artifacts that we're finding as we're digging through and seeing what is actually shining underneath. That's our job. That's what we have to do because the world is giving us all of this mishmash, mush stuff that's all mixed up and messy. If we look at the messiness, we're like, uh, your religion is weird. Guess what? Probably so is yours. Why? Because all of us, unfortunately at this point, have to sift through layers and layers and layers and layers and layers of cultural trauma, of people imposing all of this absolute BS that has nothing to do with God on top of our spiritual lineages. So actually to summarize here, to finally conclude on this point, there's actually three layers here. There's the top layer, which is, oh, this is what Christianity is. No, it's not. That's all the BS that turned into weird missionary stuff and conquering all over the world. Killing indigenous people and deep, deep, deep spiritual traditions from some BS desire to use God's name to be able to conquer people and take all their stuff and everything that the earth had in those territories. Okay? That's not religion. That's a political project using God as its mascot. So that's the top layer, okay? Every religion has its weirdness in that top layer. Unfortunately, a lot of people have become alienated from their own religion, from their own biological lineage, whatever they grew up in, because of seeing that top layer and being so turned off by it, right? Because of having been personally hurt by it. So first of all, even to just walk a spiritual path within any lineage, we often need to get past that. Some, I think, are cleaner, like buddhism, I think, has less weirdness, but all the other main religions, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism. What are we looking at? We're looking at wars all over the place in the name of God. That's not God. That's not even religion. That's a political project co-opting religion. Okay, top layer, we get it. Total Bs totally messed up, violent. Nobody likes it. Everybody runs away from God because of it. We're not gonna be fooled by that. We're gonna look underneath. We're excavating now. We're in the layer that I was talking about before, which is my lineage. Your lineage. This is what I love. That's what you love. Now we need to actually learn how to understand each other's languages, honor each other in those places. Be able to be linguistic translators, spiritual translators with each other so that we can actually learn and grow together. By understanding what? By understanding that each culture is holding a puzzle piece of the greater spiritual whole. Because every culture, and thus every spiritual lineage within that culture does have a particular frequency range. So just like I said, that the mother field, or the mother figure in the deities that I was naming earlier, it's at the same time it is the one, but it also has its nuances, right? So realistically, when I gave the metaphor of, oh, I live in a blue culture, but I'm in a golden subculture, or you're in a red culture, but you're in a golden subculture. Realistically, my gold is a little bluish. Your gold is a little red, et cetera, right? So, wow. By seeing gold with a little blue gold with a little red, gold is a little greenish. Gold is a little pinkish. Gold is a little whatever. Then I can actually start understanding what gold really is. I can actually start understanding what God, divinity, reality, love, wisdom, compassion, true beingness really is when I can actually see the through line. So now we're getting to the last, layer in that three layers that I was saying about spiritual religions and lineages. Now we're at the esoteric core. Now we're at the One. All roads lead to Rome. This is absolute God beingness. This is no longer in separate emanations. This is the same oneness that then becomes all of those different colors. We can actually, through the multiplicity, we can actually understand what the esoteric core is more easily. So, I don't know who's still following me here.'Cause I feel like it's getting a little complicated. But my point is let's say I'm Christian and you're Buddhist. Okay? And, and our other friend here is Hindu. Let's say I can learn, oh, you guys do it that way? Oh, we do it this way. Oh, you guys do it that way? Oh, we do it this way, huh? Then all of a sudden I can be like, wow. Christianity is actually missing some stuff that you guys have in Buddhism. Oh my God. Now I'm starting to realize that there's a trauma in Christianity that I wouldn't have seen had I not seen through the Buddhist lens. Now I'm understanding that I was actually a little bit fooled by that top layer of all the cultural bs. I hadn't seen some of it within my own lineage. Thank you so much. Because now by seeing that esoteric oneness, right, that deepest layer between both of our lineages, by seeing the cultural differences that layer, that middle layer between both of our lineages, I can now shave off the top layer of BS that we need to excavate ourselves out of. Because I have that contrast, because I have these different angles through which I'm able to see divinity through these different cultural lenses of these different spiritual lineages. That's how important this is. It's obviously important for the basic reason that if we don't understand where each other is coming from, we're gonna feel alienated, and we're not truly gonna be able to be the sangha of that true, true, true togetherness of knowing ourselves as one, of knowing ourselves as carrying that same mission of caring about offering ourselves to great unconditional love and being, being able to bring it forth into a world that needs it so badly. So being able to be multilingual spiritually, to me personally, feels like an actual prerequisite to being able to come together at the level that I feel our world is truly calling us into. And it doesn't mean that you need to be like, oh, I'm five religions. It's simply at least being open to respecting and trusting that which we are not familiar with. We are here to know and live viscerally the direct experience of the divine that is beyond any cultural game, that is true direct lived experience. So we honor the portals that bring us to this direct experience, these portals, in this case, meaning the spiritual lineages. 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, who would be inspired, reminded of what matters to them by being in our energy that we've shared here today. 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