"Spinning" you said it. That's the exact, I mean the very exact word that I've been using.

Last Wednesday night was, in all caps, HUGE. We were all expecting something to happen but when it did it came out of nowhere. It, effectively, went from back-burner to front and centre in a heartbeat, somehow.

I woke up to realizing our religious, spiritual, sexual, cultural and disability care identity including, basically our whole human-rights model, was on the line. Head's spinning and body's pretty shaken.  I even looked up parliament house to see some of the debate. It was intense.

Weird thing for me is, I'm a spiritual person but pretty much a solo practitioner. I play the spiritual card a lot but I've never had to play hard-ball with it. I don't know if I'm ever going to need to, but what if I did? What if, for some reason, conscience isn't enough? I don't know what I would do.

Even deeper, and I'm sorry if this is triggering and I'd rather not go to deep but I look at this from the perspective of someone who's experienced and witnessed some of the more serious and distinct forms of spiritual abuse. The conversation is bringing up the broader question. With all societies other moving parts, how do we protect our lambs better? And, how do we stop protecting wolves?

There's some real challenges trying to talk about these things, empirically. Oh, for a soul-o-scope that we could all practically agree on.