Mar 4 • Orientation
Let Us Reconcile
While it is good to discern between light and shadow, I invite you to see how they blend.
Aletreya is a place for reconciliation. All are welcome. It is a space offstage, outside of what has stolen your rest. It has the capacity to hold opposites without collapsing them into false unity or allowing them to destroy each other.
Reconciliation is not resolution, but learning to contain contradiction without fragmenting can certainly help with that, too.
This work becomes especially crucial now, as the world seems apocalyptic.
An apocalypse, in its original meaning, isn’t destruction. The Greek “apocalypsis” is an unveiling, a revelation, the removal of what obscures.
An apocalypse reveals as a primary function; any destruction is secondary. It strips away pretense, exposes foundation, makes visible the patterns we’ve been living unconsciously.
We have been calling for this unveiling. As it unfolds, and old orders fall, new opportunities are born. New ways of doing. New ways of being. New goals become available, born from our experience.
It is disorienting, so always know you can return here. As you wish to share, you may find someone who has been there, or at least enough so to be a friend. As veils lift, we see horror in the beauty, as we reconcile, we understand. This helps us see behavior as communication. This develops sympathy naturally. Even if nowhere else, that is beauty in the horror.
This is a sacred space. Shadows may come into the light. Even they can be reconciled.
Reconciliation is how we hold the revelation without shattering.
It is not choosing one truth and rejecting others, but understanding why others chose differently.
Contradiction does exist. Let us understand what does not sit well with us, as we consider it. Let us consider multiple truths, if only to honor others. In this way, we can approach what is uncertain from another’s perspective.
As we reconcile, let us also feel whole. Space can be held even for the incompatible.
Let our aim be for making such spaces. Aletreya is such a space. It would be a delight to hear what you make space for, or want to.
Aletreya exists for this integration. A place to bring what’s being revealed - in yourself, in the world, in the dissolution of old structures - and hold it with others doing the same work.
Not to resolve, but at least reconcile - to hold the opposites, witness the unveiling, and remain present through the transformation.
An apocalypse is also an ending. May good beginnings come from it. You’re not alone, and you don’t have to navigate it in isolation.
This is what sanctuary is for.
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Let Us Reconcile
