Last year or the year before, I watched a video by Lukas Becker, in which he shared his position on a controversial topic in the spiritual scene.
And what struck me was his skill to offer a truly differentiated perspective on the subject – something I immensely value in people.
My favourite people, in whose presence my heart goes wide open, are those with whom I can look at a topic from different angles – without taboos, anyone holding on to opinions for dear life, or someone getting their knickers in a twist.
But it kind of also seems to be in our nature to feel personally threatened when someone doesn’t share our world view.
(Jonathan Haidt actually has done some illuminating work on this. Though last thing I heard, he’s kinda controversial now, too.)
It’s a phenomenon we could very well observe over the last few years, especially during 2020–2023ish, when certain topics managed to blow entire families and friendships wide apart. Because these topics were emotionally charged to the max.
And there’s certainly no shortage of those kinds of topics today either.
Shall I dare name but a few?
Okay, let’s see…
One of the current wars.
Climate change.
Veganism vs. eating meat.
The LGTBQ+ movement.
Certain injections...
The list goes on.
You take your pick of the above and see which one has your emotions spike and go “ding, ding, ding” like the bell of the funfair game High Striker after someone slammed down hard on its lever at the bottom.
If you can feel your blood boiling over the possibility that someone has a different view from you on one of the hot topics above, it simply means you’re human.
But it’s also an invitation to realise that you’re more than that.
Being able to rotate her neck 270 degrees, White Owl from my The Return of the White Animals Oracle, for example, is a master of looking at issues from different angles.
She reminds you that every single point of view, whether it's your own or someone else’s, is just that: one point of many.
As humans, we often believe we are right and someone else is wrong.
Because, naturally, our own perspectives make the most sense to us.
But the same applies to everyone else, too.
We all have reasons for our beliefs and convictions, and those reasons are as manifold as our opinions.
So ask yourself:
Where am I convinced I am right about something?
Where do I believe I know better than someone else?
Where do I feel I have the moral high ground?
Practise humility when it comes to your points of view, and remember that, at the end of the day, we are all souls walking on this Earth.
When you look down at the world from atop your moral high horse, White Owl invites you to expand your consciousness and reassume a critical distance from your own way of thinking.
Try to see through the eyes of someone who looks at the world differently.
If White Owl’s message resonates with you and you’d like to invite the wisdom of her and 40+ other White Animals into your life, you can get your copy of The Return of the White Animals Oracle here:
Love,
Katharina and the White Animals
♡
PS:
If you’re wondering what controversial topic Lukas talked about in his video, hop over to his (German) YouTube channel Die Neue Erde, and search for “Meine Positionierung zu William Toel” to find out.