https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/home-dfad76c02591

We have this word, homecoming. And we ‘ache’ for ‘a distant home’ somewhere ‘in the sky’, or ‘in eternity’. We have this all backwards. This home we ache for can only be within and as our origin, presence and humanity.

This heaven can only be here, now. This world, these ecologies. This is ‘where the spirits live forever’, in waves of generations. This is the heaven we are wiping out while passively pleading for admission to fictions that have nothing to do with anything other than our departure from ourselves and true relation.

There is no homecoming that is far away. There is no distant home, for which we ache like prodigals. What there is, is the fact that we have failed to live and become the arising and celebration of our origins — moment to moment — and having abdicated the position of agency, whine at the door of a lethal fantasy like delusional children who imagine that the there is ‘another world’ behind the door of a closet they cannot open. Actually it is just a water heater.

There is no home that we are not becoming. No distant spirit place or fiction. That distant place we imagine is precisely this place, and the reason we do not see and are not admitted to this ecstatic and nearly unsurvivable fact is simple: we long ago departed the heaven within and as ourselves ‘in search of’ spirit-fictions.

There is no homecoming. Either we become home, coming, right now, or we will remain ‘outside of heaven’. Not because we were not admitted or because it was distant or for the select. Because, immersed in it, as it, we had a fantasy. A spirit story. A book, or obsession with ‘magic’ instead. One who has departed themselves, intelligence, agency, reality and relation… cannot go anywhere at all, nevermind ‘home’. ‘Home’ is thus code for ‘come fully and ever-more completely to life’ — with and for each other, and the history and future of life on Earth. This is Home. And that is how you get here.

This is home when we become home, coming. If we do not become home, heaven is destroyed by this failure, and we, being its living body and agency, collapse into… shadows and deadly declarations of passivity, victimization, and ignorance.

You want ‘a home’ in the sky?

Become the sky, as a home, here, now. And give them shelter, one and many.