Sovereignty & Co-creation

Both are very powerful words.

Personally, they give me chills every time I hear them.

I have long carried within me the seeds of these two concepts, actually, ever since I can remember. And like all of us, to be honest. But I didn't dare speak them out loud for a long time. I didn't feel worthy of those frequencies. I considered myself not enough, not ready, and not mature enough to play this kind of game. The game of co-creating our shared reality, but exclusively from our inner sovereignty.

After several years, it became clear to me that fear is underneath all this hesitation and emotional complexity in naming things as they are. To act according to what is right and consistent for both us and our community. To name our truth at home, at the office, and even with our extended network. Fear is an obstacle to our authenticity. Fear closes the door to sovereignty and co-creation as well.

Or does it open that famous door?

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Fear of what? Well, of everything and nothing. It’s a very multidimensional concept. It’s a kind of fear that transcends our human experience and potentially even our history. This fear lives in our physical bodies and also has a permanent residence in our collective consciousness. It has no boundaries, laws, or logic, nor a unique color or texture. It lives everywhere and in each of us.

It’s a collective fear. That's also why the antidote must be collective.

It's often said that love heals fear. Personally, I don't believe in this simplification. Love has always existed. We don't have any less than before and yet fear doesn't always follow the same logic. Just like love, fear seems to have no end. Both are concepts that cannot be simplified and reduced to the simple: "everything is love" or "you're just afraid". These suitcase phrases mean absolutely nothing. They don’t get us anywhere. And they only speak of our unconsciousness and our inability to see the complexity of our reality, not of our spiritual transcendence, as some seem to believe.

A person who is only love and no longer feels fear is probably completely disconnected from the part of our world and our humanity that is still afraid. And that is still a very large part of our collective matrix today. Not being afraid is not evolution; it's called denial and dissociation from reality. It is being unconscious and closed to raw energy. The energy that creates. The one that fuels transformation and change.

If our nervous system does not perceive the incredible qualities of the frequency of fear in the mycelium of our collective consciousness and does not consider them as something valid and real; we are in judgment and in separation from the whole. We are in the fear of feeling the other and being in the real world. We think we are just too "woke" and above all that, but in reality, we are even more afraid than those who are authentic and transparent about the fears they perceive and experience in their nervous system and in our collective fabric.

We cannot be sovereign if we do not have the courage to feel fear. Not to destroy or transform it, to flee from it, and simply deny its presence. But to breathe with it. To give it space, to go for a walk in nature with it. To hold it in our arms, to ask it open-ended questions. To give it unconditional love and listening. To offer it the time and patience to be lived, experienced, and properly integrated, its wisdom, into our system and our consciousness.

We must listen to fear with the same ears and heart as love.

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Why is sovereignty important?

Because systemic coherence is impossible without it. Being sovereign means having authority over all of our personal power. The amount and quality of energy perceived by our nervous system can only be processed by us. The decisions we make are responsible for how we direct this energy and what we create with it. And we need our inner power in total freedom to embody this frequency in form and in the world.

For example, imagine you are in a team meeting and your boss proposes a strategy that you know very well makes no sense. You feel a big NO in all your cells, but you seem to be the only one in this situation during the meeting. Others are applauding and believing it’s the best idea of the century, but you know deep inside that it’s a disaster. What would you do if it were you?

The truth is that few would speak out loud in this situation. Even fewer would dare to be vulnerable and say: "I don't feel this strategy and it doesn't make sense to me, even if I can't explain it properly yet," despite the fear of being humiliated, fired, rejected, and judged by the tribe. And yet.

If you have ever been in this situation, no matter if you spoke up or stayed silent during that intimate moment when your heart simply knows it's a NO. You know very well that you were right! You know that your inner truth had value and that it was right. Even if others don't seem to see and feel the same thing as you.

But you did not have the right to your sovereignty of opinion and feeling in that situation. You did not grant yourself that right of freedom of speech. You were not in power and in a position to name your truth without being punished in some way (even if it was only in your head).

When you don't speak out about what is right and consistent for you, you act against yourself. You deny your own inner power. You say no to the voice of your own heart. In the long run, this is harmful, for you, for your boss, and even for your team and community. The fear that leads us to silence what is right and true for us is the greatest brake on co-creation.

A team where everyone is not free to name their truth exactly as it really is cannot co-create. Speech and the word are at the origin of creation.

If we censor ourselves because we are afraid, our word will be filled with fear too. When our speech is based on our fear and not on our inner truth, we create a fragmented, incoherent reality filled with the same fear at the same time.

The system we have co-created has emerged directly from all the unspoken, all the silences of our hearts, our censorships, and our fears. We are all responsible for what we are collectively experiencing right now. We are also all able and empowered to change this. To reclaim our power, to name our truth, to open our hearts to the fears of others. To learn to love and honor our own fears knowing that they are all seeds of a truth that will one day bloom and even bear fruit.

We should perhaps just make sure that the fruits we produce are not too bitter (or unconscious) to our taste.

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The Forest and Nature are key inspirations for me to contemplate the deep meaning of sovereignty and co-creation.

What the forest generates in terms of diversity, coherence, and abundance is honestly mind-blowing. The level of creativity and systemic engineering behind this basic technology we call Nature simply cannot be artificially reproduced. It is the mystery of ultimate efficiency, resilience, and evolution.

We can co-create with Nature, but we cannot create it ourselves. We cannot be so arrogant as to believe that we are intelligent enough to become the "boss" of the forest.

No one is the boss of anyone in the forest, that's why it works so well. No, it is not anarchy either. It is an interconnected and complex network that has a collective wisdom that unites all the habitats of the forest. I said wisdom and not intelligence. The trees may not be "intelligent," but in terms of embodied wisdom in the physical world, it clearly surpasses our libraries and even our internet.

Nature is a program of collective consciousness that is the most efficient and creative we know of. And the key elements of its success are sovereignty and co-creation.

Every element and every being in nature masters and has the unconditional right to express these two concepts. Every plant and every animal is sovereign and also free to co-create pretty much anything and with anyone.

It doesn't always work well, but they are always free to do so.

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Is Nature pure chaos?

Or is Nature the most perfect order that can be? Is Nature afraid to express itself? Do animals ask trees for permission to talk? Do fungi give their inner power to plants in order to survive and eat?

What makes plants grow against physical laws? When you think about it, every tree has defied the law of gravity itself to grow.

If Life listened to what is possible or not based on our limiting beliefs and fear, we would never create anything new. We wouldn't know that the impossible is possible. Trees wouldn't know that the world is much wider and more mysterious than it was in Mr. Newton's head.

Without Nature, we wouldn't understand that intelligence is not the same as wisdom. Is Nature afraid of love or is it in love with fear?

Systemic coherence, the existing complexity, and resilience would not be possible if the beings of the forest were not free to co-create with their fears while maintaining their complete sovereignty during this process.

No, they are not selfish. They are just sincere and authentic with what they are and what they are not. What they can and want or not. They are real. Because they know that this is the best way to contribute to the whole, to life, and to something greater than themselves in a coherent and conscious way.

They know they are not part of the forest, they are the Forest and Nature themselves.

They are all sovereign and free in this collective co-creation.

And that’s why it works so well and always will.