Laura Olsen

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WORLD BUILDING 101

What do you do when everything that you thought was solid is suddenly pulled out from beneath you? Everything and everyone you counted on is gone. You're left with only what you possess... what then?

Before you can even get to the phase of rebuilding, first you must mourn and grieve what has been lost. The collapse happened. Letting go is hard. Give yourself the time and space to let it go. It is gone.

After a time, you will come back to yourself. We all do. You rediscover things about yourself that had been missing, obscured, and abandoned. It's a reclamation! Just look at all that you ARE!

Once you have gathered yourself together you are now ready to step into your power. You begin to embody it. Explore your superpowers and feel the electricity in your veins. You reintegrate all those pieces and parts of yourself and realize what power has been latent within.

Then you realize that you can't ever go back to the way things were. The world has fundamentally changed. YOU have fundamentally changed.

And so, now you accept the challenge of creating your world anew.

But wait… how does one even go about making a new world? That’s crazy!

What is the structure? How would it operate? What would the rules be if I could make them up? Who would be there? How does society function? What is the governance structure? What is the currency situation? What food and work and community frameworks are in place?

This may sound grandiose but this is not only possible to consider and construct, but I posit that it is indeed what's happening in our world as I write. And it is vitally important. We, as a society, are imagining new forms of government and policing. New food systems and currency flows. This IS happening.

And you get to choose what you will participate in. Will you energize the old ways and try to revive the old, dying systems that have failed us? Or will you step into the potentiality of an entirely new world?

I have so much more to say about this… stay tuned.