Spirituality is not separate from the path of liberation. In fact, the disconnection from spirit has been one of the most effective weapons of oppression throughout history. There is a reason colonizers targeted Indigenous spiritual practices, outlawed sacred rituals, and forced entire cultures to assimilate into dominant religions. They understood that spiritual sovereignty is power. That when people are rooted in who they are—when they carry the memory of their ancestors, the guidance of the unseen, and the truth of their own soul—they aren’t easily controlled.

Many of us are the descendants of those who had to worship in secret. They lit candles behind closed doors and prayed in the forest when no one was watching. And this moment in time is calling us to heal what we’ve inherited, because it's not optional. Not if we’re serious about freedom.

Too often, spiritual healing is treated like a luxury—something we can tend to after the “real work” of organizing, resisting, and feeding capitalism is done. But how can we dismantle oppressive systems if we’re still agreeing with them without question and carrying them in our bodies? How can we co-create new ways of being if we’re not actively disrupting the patterns of trauma, disconnection, and fragmentation? There is no true liberation that doesn’t include the spiritual.

This doesn’t mean everyone's spirituality needs to look the same. Your higher power might be your community. It might be the Earth, your intuition, ushering babies into the world or sharing messages of the deceased. The point is that you are allowed to reclaim your magic, connection and divinity. And that we collectively honor the role spirituality plays in both our oppression and our liberation.

Our healing, joy, and expansion are medicine for a world that taught us to numb, to shrink, and to forget who we are. And who we are is not limited to only who we’ve been in this lifetime.

So many of us are carrying layers that span timelines—ancestral trauma, past life wounds, unresolved karmic stories that are still playing out in the present. The identities we hold in this life are one part of a much wider and deeper continuum of soul memory. Reclaiming ourselves means reclaiming the unseen, the unspoken, the hidden truths that live within our DNA and outside the "matrix." It means remembering that we didn’t come here empty-handed.

To truly know ourselves and walk a path of liberation, we must look inward more than we look outward. We must honor our own experiences while tending to the legacies we’ve inherited. This is sacred work. And it’s not always visible, awarded or scalable—but it’s always impactful.

When we do this work, we don’t just shift things for ourselves. We shift them for those who came before and those who will come after. We begin to dismantle internalized systems of dominance. We begin to embody something different that's whole, ancient, and sovereign.

We were never meant to simply survive a system that was not built for us.

We are here to remember. To reconnect. To reclaim.
And to build something entirely new from the truth of who we are.