Thank you so much for having me and holding space for this potent yet difficult to hear conversation. And thank you to each person who chose to take the time to listen. I know it's not easy but we can only heal when we share truth. Thank you for being our voice!
I'm literally only 22:22 minutes in and I just have to say how fucking awesome it is to have you on the interviewee seat Sahara. I remember when your podcast on Iran came out last year listening to it unexpectedly at the gym and being in awe. Hearing and feeling every word. I had already loved your stuff but that episode broke open my trust and love of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. For your courage, bravery, voice, and creativity. You are a beautiful soul, you are a gift to the earth. Love, Libby
Yawn. If you think the future of consciousness is singling out the feminine and giving credence to this idea of oppression (which makes women female first, souls second) you haven't been paying attention. This romantization of "the feminine" (or the "divine" masculine for that matter) is a load of crap. But most spiritual people can't live without a bit of woo woo and superstition in their world view. And of course, people who identify with gender first, their soul self second looove this idea of "power" in the "masculine" or the "feminine".
For a Dr. you’re not very bright. The amount of oppression only shows the intent of the opressor, everything else is an assumption on your part. If the amount of power is yet to be discovered, how could it show?
Or they know the power and are fucking scared that if we come to own it, we will treat them like they did us. Which feminism to begin with is opposed of
I had the honor to be at the Sun Being event where Sahara’s beautiful grandmother spoke. I also had the chills and was in tears truly the whole time she spoke. And more so how moving it was to watch Sahara give this gift to her grandma. I had so much respect for Sahara prior to the event. I took her DCI course it was our graduation event. Sahara is beautiful loving kind and fearless in what she stands for. And the funniest thing ever. She definitely has the best tick-tock‘s lol. You also know how much I love you Blu Blu. Everything the both of you do is from your heart. There is zero ego. And your ultimate goal is to make the world a better place. We will fight for Iranian women until the day we die. I love you both so much! I feel super blessed to have met both of you. And I’m going to state this was a great podcast. I’ve thought I would know most of what you guys would be talking about and you guys had so much new content it was insane. You both should definitely do more together. Like have a dance party! I love you guys❤️
This really hit home and is so healing as a young Iranian immigrant🙏🏼 I am exactly in the same position of being the first for lots in my lineage. Sending love and positive energy to you and the collective.
I am so so amazed by you and I am so so sorry for your family Sahara. Standing with you. They don't get to exploit our light energy anymore coz we get un-shamed and not-guilty for expression. I love you and this is scary and I still have so much to figure out- I am from not so great a place myself and I think this is why I am so fighty. Love is power and getting to share our stories standing strong and firm is the dharma. Anyone reading this: its scary but and big and we're not alone :)
Thank you for this beautiful conversation. That moment at the end… “how can I with courage offer (my gifts) as a prayer and not a performance.” Transformational moment for me in regards to my own creativity. Thank you…🙏
Omg this whole episode is absolutely STUNNING, but I am resonating SO HARD with the being creative idea.. that we can ALL sing, dance, draw, paint and play music! Thank you so much for having these convos
I'm so so so grateful to have discovered these golden conversations, it's truly one of the blessings of this hyper-connected stage of society that I get to witness and engage with such grace and wisdom being beautifully articulated by beautiful people!! Sending endless love and gratitude for the work you're doing
Much love to the both of you. I am so drawn to your energy like a magnet! So empowering, enlightening, real, sincere and rich. Thank you for all you do for humanity ❤
Hahaha listening to you all sing Hillsong ❤️ 1:00:00 after I went through my own spiritual reawakening (thanks to the Baha'i revelation - also a religion birthed in Iran - currently being persecuted but working transform a culture from the ground up - so appreciate your in depth perspectives Sahara, also so powerful to know how many stories are happening in one place at the same time) -- I was able to go back and listen to Christian artists I grew up with but listen in new ways. I replace words all the time. I usually think of it as separate from the other spiritual communities I'm in. Beautiful hearing you sing Oceans Blu. And wow, hearing your story behind your own connection to the song. This single podcast I feel like I could share with my Christian, Baha'i and Sacred Sexuality communities alike and find resonance 🔥✨ Not always easy to do. Thank you sisters. Deeply, dearly. Feels Iike I'm in the room with you both.
Thank you Blu and Sahara for this amazing podcast! Soo inspiring and full of courage and love. #WomenLifeFreedom #creativity #express #FreeIran #FreeOurselves
Thank you so much for this incredible interview! It amazes me how little we know about the reality of this oppression. And I really received some rich insight about Patriarchy and my own longtime definition! Two brilliant and intuitive women!!
Yes our voices are powerful and I am glad you're speaking openly about helping the women in Iran because truly they're doing something Big. There is so much truth in what you're saying about the fear of helping those that aren't 'in your house', even at first I truly didn't know what to do nor do I have Iranian friends so I didn't know how to approach the situation, yet educating ourselves is key. Yes there's fake activism, however, if you know your intention is true, trust and go with that without fear of others. Acknowledging one another, listening to each other & being present for the changes being made quantifies the healing on a global scale
52:00 "We heal together." Rwandans kicking the American psychologists out. Stunning paradigm shift on our psychological models. Thank you for bringing this knowledge and wisdom @sahara rose
This is such an amazing conversation thank you both! It brings up so many thoughts and issues, but for some reason it brought to mind the difference I think of between masculine and feminine energies in terms of intuition and faith, in a way like the sun rises and sets daily, but the moon cycles monthly, I feel like this relates to the feminine faith in larger cycles, we’re able to see further and have faith in longer time frames, feminine cycles are larger than the masculine cycles, I find it hard to articulate but I hope I’m making sense 😅 there’s a big process going on at the moment and hearing this conversation I have such faith in the human race, we just have to keep these conversations up, thank you again ❤
You are so brave. Thank you. I am in awe at how composed you maintain yourself during all of this unfairness. Please make a reel or short of what Sahara says between 30:30-34:00 about how we need to be a voice and not let the fear of pretend activism prevent us from sharing as much as possible what is really going on in Iran. I had no idea about the genocide of 1,500 students 💔 Women are dying! Girls are dying! We need to share as much as possible!
Incredible. I'm from saudi and deeply resonate. The shift happening now is all about liberation and the seed of revolution. we are all feeling it sisters. Thank you for the platform.
I'm an Iranian myself, living abroad for about 15 years now. I'm a PhD in philosophy of religion and consciousness studies and I'm fluent in five different language of the ME including Persian. I've lived in Iran, mostly Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad and some other cities for years before moving overseas. I just wanted to say that even though the so-called government (during its course of almost 43 years, it basically became a kind of a political mafia system today) of Iran is a pure theocratic, dictatorship that has been brutally killing writers, political activists, and even scientists and philosophers before (including many members of my own family), but what Sahara is saying here is VERY one sided and far from the reality of life in Iran. It seems to be that, she is not even aware of the fact, that Iran had the first democratically elected prime minister decades before many European countries in the time of Mosaddegh (please refer to 1953 Mossadegh coup). She is not saying that women are able to get their driving license and drive cars freely (unlike let's say in Saudi Arabia), women are going to work and have high positions even in the government. Women have the right to vote and their vote, and the voting system does not discriminate between women and men at all. She clearly never REALLY lived in Iran and all his information is from what she heard, or when she went to Iran as a tourist, period. I'm also a musician and almost all my families are also musician, and before migrating overseas (to continue my study and finish my PhD) I used to have my own fusion jazz band in Iran in Tehran, and even though there were very tough restrictions in place, we also had female members that were playing all sorts of traditional and modern instruments in the band alongside men without much problems. What Sahara is saying here is just not true and far far from the reality of lived experience in Iran. Again, please don't get me wrong. I lost my own uncle during the eight years wars between Iran and the Iraq of Saddam Hussein. where he was chemically wounded because of the Halabja chemical attack and died 20 years after that suffering a lot of pain and basically lived a torturous life. A good friend of mine spent nine years of his life in solitary confinement in the Evin prison in Tehran basically because of his democratic ideas. This brutal, inhumane and absolutely barbaric so-called government who kills his own people and is practically a puppet of Russian government is NOT what i'm defending here, far from it. What I'm trying to say is that what she is saying here and almost all his superficial claims and assumptions are mostly half-truths and have nothing to do with the reality of a normal life in Iran. I would gladly provide links, including videos and pictures (which can be found easily with a simple google search) that shows the ordinary life of people in Iran. Honestly, this channel seems to be a nice one, but superficial, cheesy ideas and attention seeking guests WOULD NOT help real activists who are REALLY working in Iran and are being prosecuted and are paying the cost of it with their life. Please be more truthful and don't believe whatever you're hearing everywhere. Thanks,
Being able to drive is good but they are still literally murdering women (which is true and what she was bringing attention to and what is most important). Obviously murdering women over wearing a headscarf means they hold misogynistic beliefes, wether the women can drive there or not.
Thank you for telling women can conceive perfectly healthy children after 35 years old. As a labor and delivery nursing assistant, we delivered many healthy babies in older women. That data of 1800s is appropriate for the life span time, now not relevant. Educated women are changing the world. 🇺🇸🌹
We are both female and male in perfect balance let's stop putting it out there that being strong is one or the other it's both that we can draw from they both live inside us. Level up!!
As an Iranian woman lots of things she said about people's situation in Iran has been exagereated. Yes the situation of Iranian women and people in Iran is bad but not totally what she said and I was offended as an Iranian.
Can we take a moment to recognize these undertones here in America? We get spoiled because we've always had it good here in our lifetimes, but it wasn't always this "good" and the undertones to go back are seen everywhere. Women can't ever relax or close their eyes, the rug can be pulled out from under you at any moment and it can be a lifetime or more to correct. if we don't stay on top of and maintain our own liberation we can't help women in worse-off places.
I was in Iran on a Island in 2004, for a week for renewal visa to Dubai. I never seen such injustice against women in my entire life. ( and I already born in country where women is a nothingness) . But there....already in airport starts everything with wearing enother clothes! It was a pure jail. Thank an Angel make it easier for me in this times 🙏
For me, personaly, others do it their way, a word is not healthy in me if I give it a meaning that make me against it. I am not against patriarchy because I like what it means for me. For me patriarchy is the ability of a society to work centralized like an animal organism: fast, coordinated, specialized, agreeing, with selfless cells working for the whole organism. Matriarchy is the ability of a society to work like a vegetal organism: resilient, with all abilities in every cell, coordinated from the independent creativity of every cell. The perfect society is complitelly developed in both.
The situation is bad for women in Iran, but it would be good if the guest also added that there are women in Iran that walk around without headdress and there is also positive things to be seen. It's not all just moral panic and bad bad bad. I urge people to do a youtube search for "Iran vlog" or similar and see that there are infact women in public places showing their hair normally.
There were also more than that when she was talking about people situation in Iran. Playing card is not allowed but not because it is for gaming basically the gambling stuff are not allowed. I want to write a full comment on this page cuz she was really extreme.
Hearing the amount of women’s injustice in Iran makes me just cry!! I can’t believe this is actually happening Today! I can’t imagine not having any creative outlet, No Dance, No Art, No Authentic Expression😢 Omg besides all the rest, that is enough for me to want to die
she's lying all the women that want to work in my family work in iran. teachers, doctors, engineers, hair dressers.... i lived in iran and shes making this stuff up... mixing truth and lies
People doing unfortunate things because of poverty in certain cultures/countries is much much different than cultures/religions that have laws written into their way of life or rules imposed based on their religious books. Besides that, these same religions that have this kind of laws went all over the world, massacred millions of people, forcefully converted the rest to their religion and imposed their laws on other cultures. There is so much to this and so many layers than just casually saying these atrocities happen everywhere in many parts of the world.
