CLAIMING BACK THE DIVINE IN US!

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Human life is shaped by stories: the stories we inherit, the stories we choose, and the stories we pass forward. These narratives do more than entertain or explain. They organise how we understand ourselves, how we relate to others, and how we decide what matters.

I have always loved stories, although I listen to them with careful attention, especially when they travel across cultures. I experience belonging as something created by presence rather than origin. Wherever my feet touch the ground, I consider myself at home. Each new place offers new ways of seeing, and I welcome these into what I think of as my personal stories library. This library is living and fluid. It is continually revised, expanded, and refined. It does not preserve ideas as fixed possessions. It allows them to move, evolve, and interact. This way of living with stories reflects my understanding of transculturalism as an active practice of openness and responsibility. I avoid binding myself to any single narrative as final.

Even the stories often regarded as unchangeable, including those preserved in sacred texts, remain alive within an adaptive and questioning mind.

Earlier this year I shared a short video in a WhatsApp group in which I reflected on the way the term “Holy Spirit” is commonly translated for Swahili speakers. In much of everyday usage, the phrase is understood as describing an external presence that enters a person only after being summoned through prayer or mediated by a religious authority. Over time, this interpretation has contributed to the transformation of the Divine into a vast commercial enterprise.

The importance of this question becomes clearer through lived experience. Throughout my travels I have met many people of exceptional kindness, empathy, and moral clarity who have no concept of God, heaven, hell, or a guiding spirit governing their actions. Their goodness does not arise from fear of punishment or hope of reward. It emerges from an intuitive understanding of connection, care, and shared humanity.

This deserves recognition. The source of life does not reside exclusively within religious institutions or doctrinal systems. It expresses itself through every being. We are composed of the same elemental substance and animated by the same underlying energy. Contemporary scientific understanding continues to reveal the depth of our material and relational unity.

When life is approached with this awareness, reverence returns in its most grounded form. Respect for existence becomes inseparable from respect for one another. Ethical conduct follows naturally from this orientation, including the enduring wisdom of treating others as one wishes to be treated.

We live within a fabric of relation: interrelated, interconnected, interdependent.









I am a Tanzanian-born media anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in transcultural studies, exploring how cross-cultural encounters shape the ways humans perceive, judge, and relate to one another and the world. This blog shares insights drawn from decades of research, observation, and lived experience, showing how perception structures value, relationships, and ethical responsibility. Extended residence and research in North Korea, Russia, and Western societies have shaped my transcultural perspective: seeing ourselves through others. From this emerges the harmony gaze, an ethical and relational orientation that aligns perception with action, fosters interdependence, and nurtures wellbeing for humanity, non-human life, and the planet. I also develop and share the KEA framework—Knowledge, Empathy, Attitude—which cultivates positive vigilance, guiding perception toward alignment, care, and ethical responsibility in daily life. This space is dedicated to disciplined inquiry, mindful engagement, and intentional living, offering reflection, guidance, and insight for a more harmonious world. -Regina Kessy Wilkinson, (PhD) Transcultural Studies

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