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America Awakening - Casting Off Our Cloak of Shame

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Jai Daemion
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But I know that if hope lives at all, to have hope in anything

We must let go of our conditioning of fear and shame

And we must come out into the sun together

And try to leave behind he terror that we have lived.

Just walk away and bear the karma we will have to face

When America comes out and we are all set free

From a decade of guilt and faux self-righteousness.

I repeat the words to myself as I walk:

"Tomorrow I will walk through foreign lands without shame.

I will meet the eyes of other human beings in new openness.

We will share what different lands and cultures have given us.

We will learn what can be realized eye to eye and heart to heart."


It is a simple resolve.

 

I try to believe it.

 

Can you?

Is it really finally time?

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Jai Daemion (MS, MEd couns) explores a meta-perspective that integrates realms of psychotherapy, psychophysical integration and the study of culture and consciousness, using eastern-western and inner-outer tools. Still holding (more...)
 
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