Letter #3 to Tikvah: Source

Tikvah,?

The atrocities and inhumanity that I have seen inflicted upon innocent civilians in Gaza in the last 24 hours has brought on a familiar feeling of despair. This could easily be one of those days where I curl up in a ball for several hours and cry, desperately begging the universe to wake me up from this never-ending nightmare.?

Instead, I’m forcing myself to write to you.?

The level of dehumanization and lack of empathy is breath-taking. I won’t share the stories because you are engaged in these actions first-hand so you already know. Also, in repeating them, I could easily fall off this shaky cliff of mental stability on which I teeter.?

Instead, I’m going to share with you this piece of art I created while living in Tel Aviv in 2016.?

It was during this time that I started to have profound insights into the human experience. The insight that inspired this particular piece was that our true nature or essence is Love. This is represented by the first layer of hearts. It is the foundational layer. Our Source. Here, we are one.

From this, we are born into human form and given the gift of thought, which we use to create our physical and emotional world. We used thought to create nationalities, countries, cities, religions, and all other forms, identities, and labels. All of it came from the human mind, via the gift of thought. This is represented by the paper words and symbols.

From here, we took it further, continuing to use our minds to invent names, professional titles, companies, and organizations, represented by the business cards precariously dangling in the foreground. These are the business cards that I had collected throughout my career. The size of the paper letters corresponds to the amount of business cards that I had from each place, like a word cloud. While our business card identities are what we present to the world and what is generally used to navigate how we interact with each other, in doing so, we further solidify the thought forms we created and move farther away from our true nature. Full identification with thought created forms results in atrocities, like the ones you are engaged in now.

Near the center of the piece, you’ll see ‘US’ as in, you and me, embedded in Jerusalem, leading us through an open heart portal, back to our true home, the place before we invented concepts like Jerusalem and all the others.?

Can you meet me there, Tikvah?

Stephanie