Why Diverse Perspectives Are Needed Now More Than Ever

How are we doing, creators?

We are experiencing a pretty hectic era: our ecosystem collapsing as a consequences of wild capitalism, war and colonization, xenophobia and racism, economic recession and right-wing advance, social impotence and depression.

(Yes, we all know that, and this is not meant to be a dis-empowering article, completely the opposite. Keep on reading, and beware: this words are intended to be slightly abstract. Go for them with openness)

The world slowly burns under our feet and we, creative and sensitive people, are feeling completely helpless. Voices are being shut down, trends are turning towards scarcity, the world pretends to keep-on-going and-working and-producing, even though everything-is-collapsing.

People is aware, or choosing to ignore, people is fighting back, some others turned inwards. Our unexpressed emotions and dis-connection is only perpetuating a mediocre reality: sad and sick people is more malleable.
A good question to ask to ourselves is:
What are we doing with our grief? With or dreams and hopes? With our perspectives?

A world that cannot be imagined, cannot be created. In this moment, more than ever, we need diversity: We need your voice. Resistance is not only fighting back with fire and screams. Is building sensitive spaces. Is giving place to emotion, to grief, and mostly: to hope. Having conversations, creating art, and putting it out there.

All of our eyes, brains, perception, attention and energy is creating our collective reality. Helplessness is the least creative state. And I don’t only mean artistically: creativity is having the certainty of how precious our own energy and will is. We shall not neglect our power: a revolution can be started from within. And how powerful is to have a vision. To embrace it with connection, passion and love.

As delusional as it may sound: We need creativity. As much as we need wild & native nature, connected resistance, community and cooperation. I adore the concept of Río bajo el Río, from Clarissa Pinkola Estés (which -in my opinion- can be applied to every living being):

“Each woman has potential access to Río bajo el Río, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.”

―Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves (1989)

The creative energy is an endless source, channeled by connection - with ourselves and The Other. Every person has its own way of flowing with the river, it is our own adventure to find it. Some of them can be:

Listening to the silence, the earth, our dreams. Diversity, new voices and ideas, playing, improvising, automatic writing. Reading books, learning about different worldviews, cultures and rituals. Meditating, nurturing and listening to our body, allowing ourselves to feel all the emotions. Trusting. And trusting a bright perspective.

Keep and embrace this word: perspective. It defines us as humans, and the course of our lives.

Thank you for being here,

Rocío