Cowboy Carter: The Shared Elevation of Humanity

Beyoncé Cowboy Carter Cover Art

Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s newest album debuted this past Friday, March 29th. While there have been various erudite takes on the album itself—I want to speak to its power and influence in more general and spiritual terms.

Like many Beyoncé fans, I rushed over to iTunes and YouTube to listen to this album and was stopped in my proverbial tracks. The vocals and the music styling were unlike anything I’ve ever heard. There were piercing voices that centered me straight into my own divinity.

I felt elevated.

As I continued to listen to the album, I felt my own vibration rising.

Then I started to scroll on social media and was moved by how everyone was feeling the same way. There was so much happiness and elation percolating throughout the globe.

We were all having the same shared human experience.

When was the last time we all felt, as a species elevated together all at once?

And then it struck me.

This was a tangible example of someone living into the fullest expression of themselves, and in doing so raising the vibration of the planet.

I want to be clear that I am not encouraging anyone to feel pressurized to deliver your life’s calling or gifts on Beyoncé terms. Because that can feel overwhelming.  There is already so much societal pressure to produce, to be overly productive, and to have something to give the world constantly.

What I want us to pay attention to is the intention of Beyoncé living into her fullest expression that allowed the literal world to elevate, together, for a moment in time.

What if we could all do this?

If you were part of the discourse on Friday, you know what I am talking about.

It felt like we were all floating on air. It brought the entire world together to celebrate and share something real, valid, and powerful.

I think it is also a shining example when we allow creativity to flow through us, when we move out of spirit’s way. When we trust ourselves and our internal guidance implicitly. And when we live with intention and harness our innate wisdom to birth something beautiful into the world.

Beyoncé was in full alchemical mode for this album--a response to her treatment in the world of country music. She transmuted that entire experience into literal gold.

She didn’t discard anything.

And if you know me…well you know this is what I am constantly banging on about it, when it comes to our integration and liberation as humans. We can either let our experiences define us or we can define our life by using our experiences to create expansion, meaning, and mutability.

We are not supposed to be the same thing year after year. We are meant to uncover and discover different parts of ourselves and reveal the core of who we are as the years pass through us.

Beyoncé is teaching us this lesson too.

It also reminds me that we are deeply interconnected, because you don’t get Cowboy Carter without a village of helpers, singers, historians, musicians, and other important influences. You also don’t get the elevation of Cowboy Carter, without you and me. Ingesting it with wild abandonment and clear resonance. Tuning ourselves to the frequency of Beyoncé.

We matter just as much as the album itself, even if all we contribute to it is our admiration of the work itself.

We are the collective reflection of Cowboy Carter.

In closing out the 27 songs, I felt that Cowboy Carter was also a call to action, to all of us.

To be brave and courageous. To challenge norms. To live outside the boxes society has long tried to put each and every one of us in. To break away from the duality of black and white mindset, to live in the spectrum of color and gray.

To find the unique way in which each of us can live into the fullest expression of ourselves.

So that we may elevate the world with the gifts we have and in the beautiful ways in which those gifts wish to be delivered into the world.