Introduction
My previous blog post was about the features of being colonized. Being colonized is more prevalent now than in the original colonies. It’s more prevalent now due to human and civil rights violations, ignorance of our ancestral families, the industrialized economy, and the increased use of artificial intelligence. This post is about how to liberate yourself from being colonized. In it, I list ten ways to liberate yourself. The list is far from being complete. It’s mainly a place to start. Here are the ten steps for how to liberate yourself from being colonized:
Ten Steps to Liberation
- Step one: Learn about the colonial history of European white male supremacy, colonization, extraction of natural resources, slavery, and the genocide of indigenous peoples living on Turtle Island and other human and civil rights violations. Specifically, learn about the hierarchy of social classes in the American colonies:
- Gentry: rich landowners and planters, clergy, physicians, and lawyers.
- Artisans: craft workers, blacksmiths, cobblers, pub owners.
- Free small landowners, yeoman.
- Indentured servants: poor people who bought passage to the colonies and were temporarily enslaved.
- Indigenous peoples: slaughtered, displaced, robbed of their health, families, homelands, and ways of life.
- African slaves: captured in Africa, chained, and shipped to the colonies to be bought.
- NOTE: Much of this hierarchy is still in place after 250 years.
2. Step two: Learn how white European Christian males colonized Turtle Island (North America), decimated the indigenous peoples, bound indentured servants, and bought African slaves to beat, rape, and grow and harvest crops on plantations. They also generated personal wealth by extracting natural resources, slaughtering wildlife and selling their skins, clear-cutting ancient forests for lumber, and polluting the land, water, and air on which all living creatures depend. Colonizers, the owners and investors of corporations, continue to extract resources and wreak havoc on Turtle Island to this day.
3. Step three. Understand how European white male Christians violated the human and civil rights of indigenous and African peoples by imposing their white version of Jesus on them, separating couples and families, taking children away from their parents, beating and raping them, and using the Bible, sexual assault, and harsh punishments as weapons to control and force Christianity on them.
4. Step four. Discover how white European Christians used the Bible to cut people off from their historic ancestral families and homelands. They replaced people’s ancestors with Middle Eastern Biblical patriarchs.
5. Step five: Reclaim your own ancestral families. Their blood flows in your veins. They are still with you. Learn about your ancestors as far back as you can:
- What were their names?
- Where did they live before they came to the U.S.?
- What language did they speak?
- What did they do?
- What was their world view? What were their traditional ceremonies and rituals?
- Why did they come to the U.S.? When did they come? How did they get here? Where did they settle?
6. Step six. Make your way out of the “Matrix” of the industrialized, militarized, and capitalist economy. You’re far more than a “consumer” forking hard-earned money into the bank accounts of wealthy colonists and government officials who don’t produce anything. Be your authentic, unique self. Embrace it.
7. Step seven: Love yourself. Really love yourself. Prioritize your own health and wellbeing. Stop poisoning your human spirit, body, and mind. Know the life-affirming desires of your heart and realize your dream and joy. When you do this, you contribute to others and make the whole world more wonderful.
8. Step eight: Boldly trust your own human spirit, your heart, your intuition, your truth. It guards and guides you far better than colonizers and colonized people. It’s far better than being driven by clocks. Learn about kairotic time. It’s about doing things at the “right” time instead of according to clock time.
9. Step nine: As soon as you can, establish your own home-based, online or box store business. Earn your own money instead of working for colonizers who underpay and overwork their employees.
10. Step ten: Help liberate others who are still colonized and long to be free. Let your example influence and inspire others to liberate themselves so they can help other people liberate themselves.
Conclusion
Now that you know the ten steps for how to liberate yourself from being colonized, it’s time to start working on liberating yourself. You don’t have to follow the ten steps as listed. Pick a step that feels like a good step to take and go for it. The sooner you make progress in liberating yourself, the better and stronger you’ll feel.
Feel free to schedule a FREE Online 30-Minute Initial Consult with me and learn how I can support you in liberating yourself. I’d be glad to meet and talk with you about how I can help.