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    Amaya Gayle Gregory

    Avatar or Game?

    February 22, 2022Updated:February 26, 2022No Comments4 Mins Read
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    By Amaya Gayle Gregory

    Amaya Gayle Gregory
    Amaya Gayle Gregory

    What do you really want from life? Really. Be honest just this once. Don’t give me the pat answer, one of the ones you’ve been selling yourself since you were a kid – to be fearless, to have enough, to have control of your life, to be enough, to quit saying stupid things, to know what’s true, to be included … and on this day in February, someone you can love who will love you too. 

    As powerful as they all are, they aren’t really it. Come on now. What is it? What do you REALLY want?

    Isn’t it pretty darn simple? Isn’t happiness what you really want? Isn’t it what everyone really wants? 

    That’s the reason it comes in so many flavors, why there isn’t one path for everyone. Happiness, or what we think will give it to us, is personalized – made up in the moment, a constantly evolving target, individualized for the avatar we believe ourselves to be. As long as our focus is on the person we think ourselves to be, we cannot but be in search of happiness. 

    The game also has different levels, just like a video game. Heck, there’s better than good odds that this is a video game! 😉 The goal is constantly augmenting and intensifying itself, just out of reach, always just beyond the fingertips of the player. Hit your target on one level and the next level magically appears – the game levels up with ever ascending difficulty — so what we think will make us happy changes as we move through the maze of our personal game — life. 

    In video games there are secret levels and bonus rounds – levels that appear for no reason at all. They open doors to things you weren’t looking for, and wouldn’t consciously choose, just like life. Life has many of these detours, bonus routes, and unexpected derailments than those that you intentionally envision. If you look close, it’s pretty much all secret levels and bonus rounds. Life seems to be made of them. They’re fed by change itself, the losses and yes, even the gains that send you spiraling into a rabbit hole, walled up in a cave or strolling down a winding road. We never know when the game will level up again, when one path will end and the next begin. It’s rarely what we expect. Life is made of surprise and fueled by love which is nothing if not pure unconditioned potential.  

    So what’s the end goal? What if there isn’t one? Would that be bad? We play our roles, don our different avatars, move through the levels of the game … and feel happy, feel sad, feel angry, feel mad, feel ecstatic, feel lost, feel included, feel star-crossed. We feel. WE. FEEL. With each new level we feel more. We lose a bit of our hide and the scales of armor containing the person weaken. We feel more alive. We learn. We live. We learn to be fully alive, to feel it all, and when the next level pops up, when the old is left behind, there we are, at the beginning once again, but no longer the avatar, we are the game. 

    What a love story this is. No harm, no foul, just unending levels of play, every possible experience, love taking form after form, feeling the sensations of life, its sensuousness, its raw reality, its aliveness.  Sounds pretty happy to me … but what do I know.  

    There is no appropriate bio for Amaya Gayle. She doesn’t exist other than as an expression of Consciousness Itself. Talking about her in biographical terms is a disservice to the truth and to anyone who might be led to believe in such nonsense. None of us exist, not in the way we think. Ideas spring into words. Words flow onto paper and yet no one writes them. They simply appear fully formed. Looking at her you would swear this is a lie. She’s there after all, but honestly, she’s not. Bios normally wax on about accomplishments and beliefs, happenings in time and space. She has never accomplished anything, has no beliefs and like you was never born and will never die. Engage with Amaya at your own risk.  www.amayagayle.com

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     THE MOMENT IS UPON US

    Dear Sedona,

    The moment is upon us. The time for a united effort to shift the focus back to our community is now.

    The ability to thrive in our community, our environment, our workforce, and the tourist industry, is entirely possible because we have all the resources needed for success.

    Still, we need a council that isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions, that makes decisions based on data and facts, and through discussion, rather than moving and voting in group unison as they so regularly do.

    This is my home. I have been a part of the Sedona community for 28 years. I witnessed the road debacle, the lack of planning, the city circumventing the local businesses ability to thrive, while making choices to expand the local government and be in direct competition with private industry.

    I am a unique candidate because unlike the incumbents, I don’t believe the government should expand in size, nor in operations, nor would I attempt to micromanage every aspect of our community.

    City government should stay in its lane and allow the competitive market of local private industry to prosper. And it should defend our community from corporate takeover and infiltration of our town.

    I do not agree that we should sign onto International Building Codes and regulations by signing Sedona up to the ICC. It is imperative that we remain a sweet, rural community.

    Where are the arts? Where is this organic thriving element that we allege to be animated by. Where is our culture? Where is our community?

    The discord between the decision making process and the desires of the community have never been more clear. It has been nearly a decade in the making.

    It is time for a new era of energy to take charge. An energy that is reflective in the ability to succeed rather than be trapped in out of date consciousness.

    It has been a great honor meeting with each of you. I hear your concerns over the insane and out of control spending and I echo them. A budget of $105,000,000 in a town of 9700 residents is completely unacceptable. A parking structure (that looks like a shoe box) originally slated to cost 11 million, now projected to cost 18 million, is incomprehensible. Especially, considering there is no intention of charging for parking.

    For those who are concerned that I lack the political experience within our established system- that is precisely what Sedona needs… Not another politician, but instead a person who understands people, who listens to the voices within the community, and who will act in service on their behalf with accountability, for the highest good of Sedona. What I am not, will prove to be an asset as I navigate the entrenched bureaucracy with a fresh perspective. Business as usual, is over.

    Creative solutions require new energy.

    Every decision that is made by our local government, must contemplate Sedona first.

    • Does this decision benefit the residents?
    • Does this decision benefit the local businesses?
    • Does this decision actually help the environment?
    • Will this decision sustain benefit in the future, or will it bring more problems?

    What we have now is a city government that expands to 165 employees for 9700 residents. Palm Desert has 53,000 residents and 119 city employees. Majority of our city department heads are not even in town. I find this problematic.

    Efforts towards championing in and courting new solutions for our medical needs are imperative. We are losing our doctors. We must encourage competition with other facilities rather than be held hostage by NAH, who clearly have their own set of dysfunctions.

    We must remember that so many move to Sedona for its beauty, hiking, and small town charm. Bigger, faster, and more concrete does not, in broad strokes, fit the ethos of Sedona.

    The old world must remain strong here in balance, as that is what visitors want to experience. Too many have noted that Sedona has lost its edge and charm.

    As Mayor I will preserve the rural charm of our community, and push back against the urbanization that is planned for Sedona.

    As mayor I will make it a priority to create opportunities to support our youth.  After school healthy, enriching programs should be created for our kids, and available to the Sedona workforce regardless of residency and regardless of school they belong to.

    As Mayor, I will create an agenda to deliberately embody the consciousness of our collective needs here, allowing private industry to meet the needs of our community rather than bigger government.

    I hope to have your vote on Aug 2nd. I am excited and have the energy to take on this leadership role with new eyes, community perspective, and the thoughtful consciousness that reflects all ages of the human spectrum.

    Thank you deeply for your consideration.

    Sincerely,

    Samaire Armstrong

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