“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words.”
— Joanna Macy
Hello, dear friend! Welcome to my confused little corner of the interweb. My name is Eleanor Jasmine Lambert, and I use she/her pronouns.
I enjoy emphatically exploring the 'isms of our collective un/conscious, and experience deeply the inherently inextricable nature of the manifest and the unseen. Here’s what I can say today: I am first and foremost a human, being. Inhabiting a shared universe, and navigating a social location of immense privilege, it is my lifelong work to be a collaborator in creating a more equitable, just, love-oriented world. As person of this earth, I am unlearning the white colonial mind and continuing to dismantle the ways in which systems of oppression have been indoctrinated into my being. And I am gratefully always deepening ways of doing this (please see my Community page for more!). My work is to be an accomplice in restoring harmony and balance*, through deepening awareness, compassion, and wisdom in mind and action.
I am grateful for opportunities to further educate myself, as well as volunteer with orgs, mutual aid groups, and canvass and organize for local leftist candidates. As I learn how to operate within/work to dismantle an extractive, violent, consumer-capitalist, patriarchal society, I have had explored a few “professions” – as an actor, journalist, and model; within the production, service and fashion industries; in liberation spaces. Currently, I am employed (and for hire!) as a mindfulness-oriented creative shepherd of sorts, facilitating individuals, companies and organizations in responsibly enacting their mission and work in the world. This takes on myriad forms – if you are in need of someone to help hone your vision and/or support your creative, artistic or otherwise exploratory journey, please visit the Connect page to get in touch! :)
It is my deep belief that our need for a more equitable, safe, and sustainable world hinges on the interrelationship of personal evolution and ecosocial revolution. In the profound words of Karl Marx (introduced to me by way of Angela Davis), “Radical simply means grasping things at the root.”** To radically shift our systems, we share a duty to investigate our selves – our personal (hi)stories, our upbringings, our positionality, our experiences, and the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and choices they produce. We must be willing to get to our root – the conditions for our collective liberation rely on dismantling the systems of domination that run today’s world, and the ways in which these systems live in our hearts, bodies and minds. We deserve and owe one another a planet where we center, support and hold in reverence and love those who have been deliberately isolated from our systems, structures and psyches. As Glenn E. Martin of Just Leaders USA says, “those closest to the issues, are those closest to the solutions.”
It is my wish to prioritize and embody individual, communal, ecological and spiritual accountability in all of my affairs. It is my intention to bring into all that I do a fuller understanding of the depths of experience, and to recognize all of life as the expression of that deep, all-accepting, ever-present awareness. All of life is interdependent and intraconnected, and nothing – that is, literally, not one single thing, thought, experience, word, emotion, person, or place – happens outside the soil of awareness from which every expression sprouts. Those distinctions between “inner” and “outer,” of “subject” and “object,” get real fuzzy as we reach beyond the surface of manifest reality and dip into that fundamental being-ness, that foundational is-ness.
Note: While much of my worldview is beyond a doubt in my mind, ideas, beliefs, stories, and imagination, I strive equally to deepen and ground Knowing beyond what I can grasp with my mind.
I was born on unceded Tongva, Chumash and Kizh land, known as Los Angeles, and I now reside on Munsee Lenape land (Lenapehoking), known as NYC, with my partner and very small cat, both of whom can be seen all over my (currently retired?) instagram. I luv them. I spend my moments thinking (a lot), meditating, reading, writing, working my recovery, opening too many tabs, complaining about NYC/pining for a moment in nature, and eating. I also obv love a good TV veg-out moment (someone make a Love Island podcast with meeee), and I am usually enrolled in some kind of course or another. I am a learner and lover of life, an ever-evolving expression of life, the holder and the held humbly learning from and in service to that aliveness and its many beautiful expressions. (I’m also a regular person lmao and if you’ve made it this far into this then hi! Bios are weird!)
*thank you Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza for this language.
**Thank you to rim sghiri for their submission and guidance!
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
The Guest House – Jalaluddin Rumi
