So Important to Discharge on This
Dear Azi,
Thank you for your thinking on “enemies” [see previous article]. I think it will be so important for us to discharge this material [distress]. We have been hurt in ways that not only lead us to oppress people but also have us giving up on ever being together with them. This leads us to a world of permanent division, antagonism, and violence. I find that particularly important to look at in the United States right now.
Part of what the current U.S. administration has done these past four years is vilify and demonize group after group of people—immigrants, Black people, Muslims, Latinos/as, Chinese people, women, activists, Democrats—on and on. Four years of restimulating people’s oppressor material and the early material you refer to has left us even more divided (and feeling even more victimized) than before.
I have been discharging on “enemies” since the Allies to Muslims Workshop and accessing big feelings and big discharge. We in RC have worked hard to take our work on ending racism and other oppression into the world. Discharging this material and adding “no enemies” to our work seem valuable to me. It is encouraging that the recently elected U.S. President has focused on building unity and ending “demonization.”
I hope that as we in the RC Community discharge these early hurts, along with the early separation and discouragement, we can play a bigger and bigger role in uniting our society.
Shoreline, Washington, USA
Reprinted from the e-mail discussion list for RC Community members
(Present Time 202, January 2021)