The Epstein Files and the Breaking of the Iconized

Our society is built on iconizing ordinary people.

It’s built on giving up our truth and empowerment to others.

It’s built on the top 1% having all the power.

It’s built on fan-girling over celebrities.

It’s built on putting influencers on a pedestal.

It’s built on giving up our truth to spiritual and religious leaders.

Why do we keep doing this?

Why do we continue to enable this?

These are ordinary people. They are not magical beyond us. They don’t have superpowers beyond us.

Our society. Our collective consciousness has produced this. We keep giving our energy, our attention, our likes, our follows, our watching, our money, our time, our thoughts over to those we ‘iconize.’ Those that we deem ‘better than us,’ ‘prettier than us,’ or ‘smarter than us.’

This is so prevalent.

This fall, we took our boys trick-or-treating to our old neighborhood and low and behold Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell were there with their grandchildren.

They were swarmed. Everyone wanted to talk to them. Why?

Because they ‘acted’ some parts in some movies.

Are they really more special than the rest of us?

No.

I was assisting in the media center for a big event at one of our local ski mountains and some of my old colleagues were telling me about how they hosted Kylie Kelce–Jason Kelce’s wife. They were in awe of her.

Why? Because she has a crap ton of social followers and is married to a famous football player and has a popular podcast.

But the thing is–these people are all just humans. They are messy humans.

Iconizing and idolizing is a funny thing in our society.

We give so much attention to these people. And the media institutions manifest them into bigger and more grandiose versions of who they truly are.

But are they really doing better things for the world than my children’s preschool teachers? What about the nurses delivering babies? What about the neighbor who helps you in a time of need? What about the individual raising money for children in need?

What about all of those underrated people? All those who don’t have a huge voice and reach but are doing impactful and profound things?

Are they on a smaller scale usually–yes. But maybe that’s where the real meat of life is. In these small, every day, ordinary ways that people are actually doing extraordinary things. And sometimes way more loving, grounded, and impactful than that Influencer, or celebrity, or spiritual guru.

Influencers, celebrities, and the weathy–they have the megaphone in our society.

And maybe it’s time to acknowledge that sometimes this megaphone is coming from a messy human potentially lost in their own ego, in their own suffering, in their own need to heal.

I honestly can’t dive too deeply into the Epstein files here as it hurts my heart to such an intensity.

But everything that is coming to light is both unfathomable but also mirroring back to all of us that it’s time to stop giving up our empowerment and enabling our society to be run by the wealthy, by the iconized, by the celebrity, by the influencer, and especially by those who abuse, manipulate, and control with power.

This has so clearly come to the forefront with Deepak Chopra having an intimate relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. So many people iconized and idolized him as this incredible spiritual guru.

Let’s face the music here. We don’t need to keep putting people on a pedestal. It perpetuates ego consciousness and it distracts us from realizing that everything incredible already resides within ourselves.

It is time for all of us to truly transform and fully step into our own empowerment.

I have written about empowerment over and over–but the Epstein files are coming to the forefront for a reason. It’s time for us all to acknowledge what is happening in our society, to look within ourselves, to transform and to heal. Because when that happens, there will be no more giving our power away to those that control, manipulate, and abuse.

It’s time for unity to join us together in a collective healing that will vibrate to all the nooks and crannies of our world and truly transcend and move on from the ‘idolized.’

We don’t need to keep ‘iconizing’ people. We don’t need to keep enabling our world to operate this way.

WE ARE IT PARTY PEOPLE. And we don’t need to keep elevating ordinary people above ourselves.

(**Disclaimer: Inserting here that there are people out there who are doing incredible things with their influential voice. And this by no means is meant to take away from that. I just want us to realize that we all have gifts, we are all amazing and to choose our own empowerment over continuously iconizing others.)