I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid to take a stand.
Take a stand, everybody. Everybody, hello and welcome
back to the Tiny Pod. This week I want to talk about
terror. The word terror comes from the
Latin terere, meaning to frighten, to fill with fear, to
cause, to tremble. Terror is physiological nervous
system level fear that shakes the body.
It is paralysing fear that activates the sympathetic
nervous system response of freeze and panic.
Historically, terror was how power governed.
The French Revolution made this explicit with the Reign of
Terror. Terror was government policy.
Kill enough people publicly and the rest will obey, submit and
self police. The word terrorism was first
used during the revolution in France to describe the
calculated use of violence to create fear by a government
against its own citizens. The word terrorism has been
weaponized by the very people creating the terror through
corruption, exploitation and systemic abuse.
They call the people naming the terror terrorists.
The people asking questions, demanding accountability get
labelled domestic terrorists for refusing to be compliant and
complicit in their reign of terror.
Much like left liberal, woke anti fascist, the word terrorist
gets inverted and suddenly citizens, mothers, protesters
and truth tellers are the threat while the corrupt politicians,
governments, federal forces, arms dealers are merely
enforcing order. Terror has always been a tool of
control rooted in the idea of destabilising people so
completely that they cannot think clearly or act freely.
Modern terror is psychological. We are fed endless conflicting
narratives made to fear invisible enemies and live in a
state of permanent crisis. Terror collapses time.
Everything becomes urgent, reactive, defensive, a permanent
emergency mode to shake our psyches.
We are constantly terrorised by lies, gaslighting on
institutional levels with disinformation that erodes
trust. Trump is terrorising because he
normalises violence, chaos and shamelessness.
Epstein is terrorising because he reveals global impunity for
wealth and power and just how very protected abusers are.
War is terror because it reframes the mass slaughter of
innocent children, families and civilians as necessary.
Terror always externalises danger to hide the extraction,
violence and corruption that sustains governments.
Power believes that if it can keep people trembling, then it
can strip them of their power to unify, resist, rest, love and
heal. Terror is only debilitating and
exhausting if we let it. Terror only works on people who
are disconnected from their bodies and each other.
Terror thrives on separation and disconnection.
Community and connection to truth, to yourself and to one
another breaks the power of terror.
Clarity and unflinching truth free from hysteria is lethal to
terror. When a person can slow their
nervous system, steady into the parasympathetic state of rest
and digest into calm rooted in reality, terror dissolves.
When you are rooted, you can tremble and still move.
Much like trees, their roots keep them stable in the storms.
Grounded, regulated people can't be terrorised.
The solution to the reign of Terror is sovereignty, wholeness
and unshakeable, unwavering belief, faith and trust in
ourselves and in something higher.
Whether you call it God, the universe, the natural laws of
physics, or the arc of history bending as it always has, Robert
Gulrick writes, there is a loveliness to life that does not
fade. Even in the terrors of the
night. There is a tendency towards
grace that does not fail us. Rooting in yourself and faith
gives you courage and the power to speak even when your voice
shakes, to stand even when you're standing alone.
Power labels people domestic terrorists when they are not
terrorised anymore, when they are free, Vasily Grossman wrote.
The extreme violence of the totalitarian social systems
proved able to paralyse the human spirit throughout whole
continents. We will not be paralysed by the
government's relentless onslaught of violence and
terror. As William Shakespeare wrote,
there is no terror in your threats.
For I am armed so strong in honesty they pass me by as the
idle wind which I respect not. Terror cannot dominate,
manipulate, coerce or control anyone.
Rooted in honesty, truth, and love, terror seeks to make
people powerless, anxious, restless and afraid.
But the only thing to fear is fear itself.
When we look honestly at the cause of fear, we find the lie
it is built on. The only people who benefit from
terror are the powers starting the wars, inciting the hate,
creating the division, and enforcing violence.
Dressed up as law enforcement, we are stronger together, but
much like every team, is only as strong as its weakest member, we
are even stronger when we fortify ourselves with our own
wholeness and have the courage to heal individually so that we
can heal collectively. As Bad Bunny just displayed at
the Super Bowl last night, the only thing more powerful than
hate is love. I'll see you next week.