Hi Kyle - thanks for sharing - yes, the truth is being ridden rougshod over in many ways by those who profess to be 'in command'.

Here is a key to unlock the door (for each of us) which jumped out from your words...

I am still debating how to make peace with that chapter in my life.
I continue to encourage those I know and those I meet to stand up and defend the truth!

The "truth" does not need defending. Let's be clear what truth I am referring to.

Inside of you is an inalienable truth. That is your connection and expression of source. It does not need to defend itself. It just is.

In the moment you try to defend this truth, the risk is you disconnect from it. Rendering you more likely to be controlled.

If you can first connect to this ultimate truth (as I've expressed in the Sacred Ground of Being), then it becomes possible to engage in the relativistic "truth of the system" and not lose yourself in that which you're trying to challenge.

Whenever you fight something, the risk is you define yourself by that which you are fighting.

We have to work to remember the paradox: we are Being, and not Being, both at the same time. We are condition and uncondition both at the same time. We are defined and undefined, both at the same time. You are the presence in the Sacred Ground of Being, and by 'fighting for it', you inadvertantly remove yourself from it. We are the relaxed freedom at the core of it. 'Fight' from this place (which doesn't feel like fighting!).

This ultimate freedom - the sovereignty of God, the source creator - is always there and it's essential we keep working to connect with it internally, as you engage the external. We need to keep softening into it.

In this way, you'll find your behaviours and the way you act in the system changes. You start to transcend the system and encourage others to do the same.

We can unpick the system, but the best place to do that from is from the hallowed place of The One.

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