Manifesto

Let us commence with a battle cry. RAWRRRRR!

1. You are entitled to be who you are.

Your complicatedness, that you thought was the source of all your suffering in life and that you would never transcend? That complicatedness is a gift.

You have the struggle and the privilege of making your life for yourself—drawing from the components you inherited, if you like, without being bound by them.

You – and no one else! – get to take it apart and look at it up close and put it back together in a way that nourishes you, keeping some parts and leaving others.

You are blessed to be able to see and hold complexity in your mind and in your heart. You contain multitudes, and bridge divides with your being.

2. Yes and No are both your birthright.

There are many, many ways to do a thing.

All options are yours. You get to create and assign meaning.

The only right way is the way that you choose for yourself — the way that integrates all your knowing and experience and life force and wishes.

You can bring in stuff from new sources as you wish, so the You that results is a sturdy, magnificent new thing, unlike its sources, but drawn from each, and better all around.

3. You save the world by your own aliveness.

It is not selfish. To the contrary – the biggest gift you can give the world is to save yourself. To find where your life is and to be alive.

In nature, hybrid offspring are a new, third thing, distinct from and hardier than their parents. Hybridization is a mechanism for making new species and entire new lineages on the tree of life.

By choosing the elements that make up powerful, beautiful You, you create the possibility of newness and freedom. Your aliveness enlivens the world.