Maya Kalaria

Consultant for decolonizing leaders.
Leader, speaker, astrologer & writer.
Substack and podcast 'how we lead'
Author of Half Woman Half Grief 🪔

[Maya Kalaria @maya_kalaria]

I've launched a new podcast and Substack! 👇🏾

As the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares to release his book On Leadership next year, I want to offer an alternative perspective as an Indian woman born and raised under Britain's imperial shadow.

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

Folks acting all shocked that an American President openly calls for ethnic cleansing.

America was FOUNDED on ethnic cleansing.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything
— Hazrat Inayat Khan #sufism

[Sick Sad World @YesYoureRacist]

My politics come down to one simple principle: We have enough for everyone, so everyone should have enough. We don't have a scarcity problem or even a logistics problem, we have a greed problem.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s not just that they tell us what to think, it’s that they train us HOW to think.

From grade school on we are fed a framework for thinking about the world whose premises are completely fraudulent. Any analysis which does not take place within that framework is framed as ignorant at best and dangerous extremism at worst.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about politics, we are trained to assume as our starting point that elections are real and that the official democratically elected government is the only power structure calling the shots in our country. We are trained to assume that decisions get made in our government based on how people vote in elections between two parties who oppose each other and promote the most organically popular positions on important issues in order to win votes. This is all complete bullshit, but it’s the foundation we’re taught to premise all our ideas and opinions about political matters upon.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about government, we are trained to assume as our starting point that the people running things in our country are known to us and occupy official positions in our capitol. We are trained to assume that if we have a problem with the way things are going, there are official channels through which the powerful can be held to account and real changes can be advanced. The fact that we are actually ruled by unelected plutocrats and empire managers who often have no position in the official government is never seriously entertained.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about the media, we are trained to assume as our starting point that we live in a free country with a free press instead of a dystopian civilization where the news media function as the propaganda services of our rulers. We are trained to assume that while some parts of the media may have obvious biases about which mainstream political faction they favor, it’s still possible to get a more or less accurate read on what’s happening in the world by listening to both sides of that ideological divide. None of this is true, but it’s the framework in which all mainstream analysis of the western media occurs.

Before we come up with a single thought of our own about foreign policy, we are trained to assume as our starting point that the US and its allies are more or less a force for good in this world, and that all the stories we hear about the governments and groups it works to destroy are more or less true. We are trained to assume that while the western power structure is imperfect and might make mistakes here and there, it must never stop killing and tyrannizing foreigners, because if it does, the bad guys might win. The easily quantifiable fact that the US-centralized empire is by far the most tyrannical and abusive power structure on earth never enters into the discussion.

This is the conceptual framework for thinking about the world that people are trained to espouse, first in school, and then throughout the rest of their lives by the mass media. If they go to university, as the most powerful people in our society typically do, then this framework is hammered home far more aggressively — especially in the most esteemed universities that the so-called “elite” tend to come from.

No thoughts which arise from outside this framework are taken seriously in mainstream politics, media, or academia. They might occasionally be entertained by friends over a bong or between chuckles on a podcast, but they are kept in the margins. This is reinforced by the way people learn that in order to ascend to influence and success they need to adhere to a specific way of thinking about things, thereby ensuring that all the most influential voices adhere to the authorized framework as well.

Ferocious disagreement is permitted, but before the debate even begins everyone involved needs to adhere to the founding assumptions of the official framework. After that you can argue as passionately as you like with the other side of this manufactured divide, because your ideas cannot pose any serious threat to your rulers.

And this, ultimately, is why the world looks the way it looks: because powerful people have been so successful at manipulating the way the public thinks about things. Our minds are inundated with propaganda telling us WHAT to think, but more importantly they are shaped and programmed HOW to think about any new information they might come across.

Most of us are psychologically bent to the will of the powerful before we would ever even be in a position to begin thinking about opposing the status quo. We are herded like livestock away from thoughts of revolution and change, led by tightly controlled minds the way a bull is led by the ring on its nose.

Once you see how pervasive the conditioning is, you understand why getting real revolutionary movements going faces so much inertia. We won’t be able to free ourselves until we find a way to free our minds.

[Fatima Mohammed @fatima__m7md]

The U.S. is not descending into fascism; it is the architecture, product, and project of fascism. You cannot descend into what you inherently are. Don’t get deceived by the theatrics of empire.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

"Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It's the destruction of all that's false and the fulfillment of all that's true."

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

Learn how to discern between authentic mystical/spiritual teachers and self deluded cult leaders.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

Ceasefire today, liberation tomorrow.

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

The incarcerated youth firefighters at Pine Grove are currently risking their lives on the fires in LA.

Working 48 hour shifts with no sleep. These are their faces.

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

There are 800 incarcerated firefighters fighting wildfires in Los Angeles right now.

One way to support right now is donate to @AntiRecidivism, which will go to the youth involved in the Pine Grove program. ARC will put the money on their books: https://t.co/H0UFtnKxjA

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

You betray yourself in relationships when you ignore you needs and convince yourself to accept chronic disappointment.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

I’ve witnessed too many miracles to ever lose faith

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

I’m here to be in divine service, I don’t water down my message because it makes some people uncomfortable.

When you are a catalyst you wake up people with the sound of your voice, the authority in your words, by making eye contact, just with your presence.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

It’s our job to wake up our brothers, sisters and families. But this has to be done in a way that honors others free will. There is no judgments to those who want to stay in the illusion. We always operate in full transparency, without hierarchy and without brainwashing.

[Maya Kalaria @maya_kalaria]

'shadow work for leaders', my latest newsletter and podcast is now out, where I explore the shadow side of leadership and how we can integrate our shadow to become more conscious leaders during these challenging times.

https://t.co/g9o3XnlVT4

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

Many don’t realize that when it comes to addressing the ecological crisis that it’s not solely about saving the Earth. The Earth can live and sustain itself without us. The wake up call is that we are headed towards a reality where the Earth will be uninhabitable for humans.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

At the heart of the issue is that the Earth is a living being, our actual Mother. The Earth is our home, is what sustains/nourishes us, what gives us life and provides us with what we need to not only survive but to thrive. We have a moral duty to treat her and her children well.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

Mother is coming. She’s not asking permission. Time to confront and destroy your distorted ideas of the feminine that are preventing the alchemy, the transmutation and the transformation to unfold. And to release the resistance to the inevitable changes that are arriving.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

Prayers for the people, the land, the ecosystem, the beings and all who are impacted by the fires.

[مريم حسنا @Maryamhasnaa]

So frustrating in a conversation when you realize you can’t get to the good stuff because someone doesn’t even have the basics.

I’m realizing that what gets triggered for me is a story about how it’s my responsibility to break everything down for people and it’s really not.