Notes From A Psychic Part 2

Safety and Community for a very solitary job.

Note #1

I had two separate conversations about safe spaces in spirituality and queerness this week. In a space where the yung are teaching the not-so-young more than not, I’ve felt more and more that it’s up to the older generation to take what we’re newly learning and give it back by protecting our youth.

In a time where spirituality of different genres has more language for all to use, the spiritual space is filled with commerce and shame. No one is immune to it.

With one comes the other, yes, but the need for safety in any group is paramount for it’s health and survival.

When I formulated my class I knew I wanted to make it

1. Engaging. Interaction creates community.

2. Academic. I’m personally not great with academic things but I wanted a bit of 1+2=3 so we could have everyone find their own spirit. A class without dogma. My hope was that by creating building blocks I could halp guide each person with their results. Spirituality is personal even in it’s group mentality.

3. Multi purpose. My first title for the class was Psychic Level Intuition for Healthcare Workers, Wellness Professionals and Artists (or everybody). I wanted everyone to know that what I do everyone can do. I wanted everyone to know that people like nurses and artists are as intuitive as psychics and often more so. I wanted to show the bridge between how it comes up randomly and how we channel it purposefully. The “Wellness Professionals” inclusion was from my distain for the wellness industry and instead of rolling my eyes and complaining about it, perhaps I could help these professionals become stronger in their self understanding and have more compassion for the intuition of their clients. It’s a crap shoot but me bitching about it wasn’t doing anything positive as fun as it was.

I realize this could be a sales pitch toward my beautiful queer community but it’s not. I’m trying to start a conversation about sharing information and allowing folks looking for spiritual support not to be put into rooms and guided out of their energy. If we can turn the lens back onto each other to show our power, a far better spiritual space we would have. It’s the toxicity of the psychic space that concerns me with our young people.

In conclusion I am working on holding space and teaching specifically in a queer safe space. Best foot forward, this holds a lot of opinions.

Note #2

One thing a friend of mine said during these discussions was about what kind of actual physical space we would use/have/rent. Spaces are expensive. There are lots of crappy spaces we could make lovely for a couple of days and they said

“Why should we have to make it nice? Why can’t we have the luxury that non-queers have?”

That still rings deep in my body. We still hold the “just trying to get by and get what we can” mentality no matter what outcast group we are part of. And we expect it for others as well. This conversation changed the way I began to look at live classes. To offer the best for anyone that could show up would be exactly what it should be.