Hi guys,
It’s Felicity Taylor here! Adding my 1st post for SOMALIFE for 2024 and very excited to be sharing some very superb, inspiring and innovative pieces throughout this year developing as we explore the timelines further and go way back to our past and have a vast look at our future. As a historian and an anthropologist that explores the realms in all senses from art and culture to society and development, I love to take bits and pieces of all our historical data and see how it all fits into the here and now
I spent a lot of time talking to my colleague, Kathryn Asher at the back end of 2023 where after reading her incredible book DEAR CHILD, we delved deep into the psychological and systemic history of our generational timelines and how, why and where came all this emerging stress and emotional trauma that seems to have risen so evidently to the surface over the last couple of years. It feels like we’ve been walking blindly in a fog of false reality now for so many years and all of a sudden, the fogs lifted and somehow, so many of us, whether we’re conscious of it or not seem to be mass emerging victims of this overwhelming emotional cascade of deep grief, sorrow, pain, anger, shock and worry.
As Kathryn says, it is deeply embedded in our past though without knowing how or why, we just tend to trudge along clearly hurt and conflicted by these feelings but suppressing them because we don’t understand them or we cannot see a way out of the tunnel of darkness as it is far too deep and wide.
I’m going to spend a bit of time talking about something that occurred to me last night as the TIMING of this funnily coincided with a specific event that prompted Kathryn to write a POST yesterday. She wrote about how she’d been awake all night the night of the 4th and that thanks to the energies of an unwanted house guest she had been inspired to write about the traumatic consequences of TIME and CUCKOOS based on some old dark fairy tales from years ago stemming from cuckoos and the black forest in Germany, the host region of the cuckoo clock where the deviant cuckoo would kill the eggs of neighbor nests to clock watch her own eggs being nurtured by the mothers of her pray. Where in this region and other parts of Europe, children were known to go missing within the forest that was far from the friendly place we often think it to be. A slight dark spin on a topic that ended with the light at the end of the tunnel but nonetheless, a start of 2024 spending some time peering down the tunnel of ritualistic child abuse that whether we want to admit it or not has played a big role in the trauma we have ALL collected over the years whether it has happened personally to us or not
So after reading Kat’s post and speaking with her briefly yesterday afternoon, my husband and I settled in for a quiet night and decided to watch a movie. “What should we watch?” I asked. And we ended up putting on a movie called
SPOTLIGHT
If you’ve never seen the 2015 movie “SPOTLIGHT”, I highly recommend you do. Pardon the image for the movie coming through in Spanish, I live in Barcelona and this is what comes up but I assure you its a USA CLASSIC! It centers around an investigative journalist division of a Boston Newspaper that is looking for a scoop on the child sex scandals deeply embedded within the Catholic church. It explains how the cases were buried by various insider lawyers and the church cutting deals to silence the abuse cases, paying off victims and families to stay silent. And while digging for names to hold accountable for their heinous wrong doings, the head of the investigation decides it is not worth going after a mere few names of problematic priests who have been allowed to get away with their crimes, the only way to make noise and make a difference is to prove that the problem is systemic and show that these priests have been allowed time and time again to inflict their wrong doings upon the vulnerable without consequences.
In aiming to prove this systemic endemic of child sex abuse scandal, the numbers of cases rise rise rise and the cases just get buried deeper deeper deeper, clearly showing that the system in control is not only enabling this mass abuse ritual but hiding any evidence of it happening so that on it may continue with one priest blatantly admitting to ‘fiddling with kids’ but justifying it by saying that ‘It didn’t give him any gratification’, pointing out that “That makes a difference you know”.
I sat and thought about this. How could an old man, quite sweet and harmless looking, that himself admits to having been raped justify his actions by saying ‘well, it was just fooling around. I never raped anyone and I didn’t get gratification. That makes a difference”. And then it occurred to me
This is brainwashing. They are somehow deeply conditioned to believe that unless their actions have flesh satisfaction they are not doing anything wrong and deem it normal to behave in such ways. This stance on such behavior is how it has been allowed to pass down. Victims become perpetrators become victims become perpetrators and the cycle goes on and on. This validation of such behavior is the way a sick society is allowed to continue to run, targeting the young and innocent so it seeds them with this satanic bowel disgust of shame and contempt that will forever be embedded within our psyche and souls. Without this behavior being brought to punishable justice it is the way the world functions. And it becomes normalized.
Even if you’ve never been subjected to such disgraceful forms of human suffering, be very assured that we ALL feel the implications of what has happened to children that suffer sexual abuse as it is embedded within our collective human psyche.
Kathryn takes a very clear stance on defending herself throughout her work on her book ‘DEAR CHILD’ where she makes very strong points towards SYSTEMIC ABUSE of all kinds to fight her case on trauma and throughout the whole of this movie, this is exactly what she is speaking about. The unabashed and glaringly obvious entitlement of a very sick society that is based on laws that do not favor human rights and systems created within the system that allows for abuse of MANY kinds to run riot through our absolute existence. The only way to stop this is to see it for what it is and say NO MORE!
‘We heal one we heal all‘ – Be the motto of 2024 where instead of allowing such heinous systems to control us and steer us towards their despicable paths of destruction, we can start to create our own paths based on safe spaces, protect and nurture our young and old, look at ways to better our communities where the people are in control and hold accountable those that wrong do us in any way whether that be the church, school, services, government you name it. We’re coming for you!
I though I would make a point of speaking up about this today as this movie hit high notes about everything we have spoken and written about over the last year, especially when it comes to safeguarding children and protecting their innocence as they’re the ones often targeted so that the wounds can run deep and how when it comes to trauma, that trauma that exists around us is for all of us to collectively clear because it isn’t just a case of MAN ON MAN it is a case of COLLECTIVE ON SYSTEM. It is very evident that it is now time to demolish the old one and build a new one. One where ethics, values, morals, principles, protection and innovation can take the center stage and for this to happen we ALL need to work together to take our place and create the new
So my message for the beginning of this 2024, is to please stand true to your values and ethics. Do no harm to others and love thyself so that we can all rise up as winners in the new world!
A world where children, animals and the old can be safe and sound
BLESSED BE 2024 – So mote it be!
HUMANOLOGY 