Justice-Keepers
We were lawyers (in the deepest sense) before we entered the system
Justice-Keepers (audio and video)
These words came through very strongly last night following a conversation with another lawyer - about those deep, unseen blocks and fears we can experience while considering our options for practising law in different, more radical, more authentic, more embodied ways.
In an unexpected feat of technological prowess I somehow was able to craft this with video footage and background music. The message wanted to come forth!
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If you’d prefer to read, the words are copied below.
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Justice-Keepers (text)
It is important to remember that, in the deepest sense, we were lawyers before we entered the legal system.
And I say this because most of us that did end up working in law have a strong resonance with justice, with fairness, with balance.
We had this desire, this deep feeling, that we wanted to advocate for some person, or community, or the earth, or a place. We wanted to stand up for the vulnerable, the less well-off. We went into law with those sincere desires and that is, in fact, what makes us lawyers and practitioners of justice in the deepest sense.
Therefore, if we choose to step out of the system, we are still lawyers, we are still justice-keepers. This vocation still wants us and needs us.
Though it is easy to say, this is really important to remember and to feel deep in our bodies because the roots of law and justice are far deeper than what is reflected and maintained in our modern legal systems.
The deeper original source has existed since time-immemorial. The Earth herself is a field of justice, constantly balancing, constantly birthing and dying, constantly creating and destroying, constantly keeping things in perfect harmony. And because our bodies are of the earth, we also have this resonance with deep, true, organic justice, balance, fairness. And some of us particularly resonate with these sacred qualities.
Without this connection to the original source, law becomes an intellectual exercise. It becomes overly-complex, disconnected, disassociated, meaningless. This is where we are at, we have lost that deeper connection. This is what we need to restore.
And, although it might sound like a good idea, like the right idea, this is not necessarily easy to do. In practice, it does require us to really visit and acknowledge and feel this powerlessness, this personal sense of powerlessness. And also our collective powerlessness and how we are collectively plugged into these systems and rely on them for our stability and security and well-being.
Becoming sovereign and really feeling our deeper power and our roots is not necessarily an easy or quick-fix path. We can feel like we are reclaiming our power and then we can see how actually the roots are very deep in the ways that we are still plugged in. Because, although it might be easy to say that Earth is the ultimate field of justice, mother of justice, natural balancer, natural, creator of harmony - in fact, we have lost that connection and this is part of the restoration that we desire to recreate. This is part of the story of the powerlessness. This deep connection that we had, this deep holding from the the ultimate field of law and justice was broken.
We had to become dependent on a false system in a way. What I have been feeling and tuning into is that the Earth herself wants us to do this now. If we listen, she is speaking to us and, in fact, is holding us. We can trust and rely on her. She is guiding us and will support us as we forge the way forward. And reclaim our power and reclaim the original source of our justice. And feel this deep in our bodies.
You know, just to say finally, I heard this story once from a senior partner I worked with that, when he was a younger clerk in the courts, he worked for one of the senior judges and this judge used to hear a case and then he would say to his clerk:
“This is my decision, now find me the law to support it.”
This reflects very well, I think, where we need to go. Our bodies know, our bodies know justice, we need to trust this again. We already intuitively know what's right - particularly when we have restored that deep connection to our knowing and to the earth.
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Much love,
Elaine