Stations of Identity
“Don’t take it seriously, but take it VERY seriously.”
A diffused spirit asks “defected” Claudia what the federated or unfederated states of Claudia might look like—separate from a Republic of Claudia—and how this differs from the democracy already at work within me. I wake myself from the dream, because it’s such a good question.
In the dream, I defected from a governing force that sought to demean and violate me. As a free woman, I broke the law unafraid. These diffused spirits want me to swallow or merge with them, but as I observed the states that make up my singular identity, I said: “Let’s imagine space between their borders, so they are not merged or touching.”
These many parts, archetypes, and energies within me require their own space so that movement from one state of being to another is possible—each in its own domain.