In a world where billionaires and governments can manipulate public opinion, bend economies, and move people around like expendable pieces, it’s easy to feel small. This episode begins with a stark image: a ruler with sticky fingers, pushing figurines across a game board as if human lives were nothing more than toys. From the boat strikes in the Caribbean to the circling of oligarchic interests in Ukraine, we’re seeing what happens when power becomes so detached that it forgets the humanity of the people underneath.
But history tells a different story. When ordinary people remember who they are – and who they are to one another – the whole board can shift. From the People Power movement in the Philippines to the Solidarity workers in Poland, and even in the stories we tell, like The Lord of the Rings, the “small” ones have always changed the course of events. Not through domination, but through connection, courage, and love.
This episode is a reminder that we’re not pawns, no matter how the powerful try to position us. The strength that topples systems isn’t wealth or force, it’s the love that refuses to look away from another’s suffering, the love that binds us to something larger than fear, and the love that keeps calling us back into community. When we choose to see each other, the whole game changes.
Joni Miller, Ph.D., is a writer, researcher, spiritual coach, and speaker who uses her knowledge, education, and love of all things spiritual to help spiritual wanderers find a place they can call home, navigating by the light of Love. www.SpiritualGeography.net
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