In Ama’s time, people were divided and fearful because they were complacent, listening to others instead of listening to what they know is true only for them. Ama knew that at this time it was hard to stand on your own fully because they’d been unknowingly and systematically turned away from themselves and were quick to learn how to acquiesce to The Model to please a parent or teacher when they were young or boss or spouse later in life.

Those who bucked the system were labeled “a problem” or challenging. Anybody who fell outside of things labeled normal thinking, normal behavior, or normal physical ability was to be controlled through shame, fear, and various punishments. While this was positioned as they were “not good enough,” the truth of the matter is they could see this was an ill system and acted against or outside of it.

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There is nothing wrong with this as long as it doesn’t hurt another. When people readily pushed against another, labeling them weak, or dumb, whatever they saw as weakness in somebody, it relieved their own pain, turned into projection for a moment, from living in a broken system that was itself wrong and the true problem.

It worked; the people no longer pushed further and accepted “that’s just the way things are.” However, pressing further is exactly what was needed, but those who did were ill-treated and often then labeled forevermore, the problem. Eventually, Ama could see a time when it seemed vulnerability was more available than before. An energy opened up and made it more possible for all people to tell the truth, to set things straight, and claim what they know is true more and more within their lives. Ama could sense things were ready to change, and Ama, too, was changing.

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