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Jax Faulkner on Freedom, Domestication and Choosing the Illogical

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Jax Faulkner speaks on identity, intuition, freedom, and choosing the path that makes no logical sense.

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Jax Faulkner does not speak about transformation as something polished, linear or easy to package. Her language is spacious, exacting, and strangely practical. She is not interested in performing spirituality. She is interested in what can be lived.

“I don’t have a vision,” she says. “I don’t attach to anything outside of my current trajectory. More than anything, how I love operating in this world is within the subtleties and the nuances of opportunities and potential to become greater.”

For Jax, this is not abstract. It can be as simple as “waking up consistently at 5 a.m. to go train and noticing the subtleties of shifting my own system,” embodying “a next level frequency, a next level behaviour, a next level echelon.” Life, for her, continues to present opportunities to “keep growing,” “keep discovering,” and “keep responding.” She describes herself plainly: “I’m very much a responder to what is present. I’m a responder to the field and therefore then I don’t ever feel like I’m locked into a certain identity and I love that.”

But that freedom did not arrive untouched. “There’s so much to unravel,” she says. “I believe we are trained from a very young age to lock into an identity. The first question we’re asked when we’re in grade five is what do you want to be when you grow up?” She calls this training “domestication.”

Her own life once followed the expected architecture. “I went through life just doing what I thought was meant to be, being successful at 30 or having it all together at 30 was what I was gunning for.” By 28, she had decided to settle down. She had children, married, bought homes and, at one stage, owned a restaurant. “And then I lost it all,” she says. “I lost it all because life threw big curve balls, including the death of one of my parents and a divorce that I went through with my ex-husband.”

When everything she believed was life “completely collapsed and disappeared,” Jax says she was given “an opportunity to ask different questions.” That was when her journey started. “It wasn’t necessarily spiritual,” she says, though there were “spiritual aspects to that in terms of meditation and being present and learning those skills.” More than anything, it was “an ability to ask different questions now.”

Her gift, she says, “literally just appeared out of nowhere.” She did not practise it. She did not think it was possible. “It just appeared. And I had the choice and the decision to think that it was too weird, or perhaps it was my purpose, and I chose to believe that it was my purpose.”

That choosing is central to Jax’s story. At 36 or 37, while driving from a small studio to a larger home, she had what she calls “the lightning bolt moment.”

“A flood of energy moved through me,” she says. “I was seeing in another perspective, I was in another dimension with four interdimensional beings in what I call a cosmic courtroom. I was still driving my car. I was still present, but I was also there.”

In that moment, languages began moving through her. She describes being reminded of her mission. “I was being asked, do you remember your mission?” In that dimension, she says, she was “a bald headed Zulu warrior, spear in hand, bone through nose,” while in this timeline she was “a woman driving a car.” She answered yes. “I said yes in that dimension. I said yes in my body, in my system here. That was the moment that changed the whole trajectory of my reality.”

Afterwards, she was crying, shaking, with “snot pouring,” terrified that perhaps she had “taken way too many drugs” in her twenties. She had to choose: “Is that just weird? Is that just a one off? Is that real? Am I just crazy? Or this could be what I’ve been asking for the whole time.”

Jax chose the illogical.

“I had more logical choices that made more sense versus illogical, but I chose the illogical,” she says. “I chose the illogical, the one that I didn’t understand and I just fully surrendered. I surrendered to the current.” Within a month, she hosted an event. Within four months, she had sold out events in different locations in Australia and hosted a three day retreat that generated over $70,000. “So needless to say, I completely left the employment industry completely and utterly within the first four months of that happening. And I have not looked back since.”

When asked what she puts it down to, her answer is not certainty. “I don’t. Loyalty to what I don’t understand.” Then she returns to domestication, especially for women, and “the willingness to set ourselves free from the thought forms that keep us domesticated because domestication is only a training. It’s only a thought.”

“We want freedom, but we behave like we’re caged,” she says. “You cannot have one, they both cannot exist together. You’re always going to be caged and desiring freedom versus living free and uncaging ourselves.”

For Jax, women hold something specific. “We are the oracles of the planet. We are the ones who receive all of the advanced data and the intel, yet unfortunately we’re programmed to doubt ourselves.” The work is choosing what is true over what makes sense. “I didn’t even try to understand. I just went ahead with it, even though it didn’t make sense because I had this feeling that this is new data that I have inherited and it’s my job to bring it through.”

Freedom, in her language, is not aesthetic. It is responsibility. It is congruency.

“I believe in congruency down to the nth degree,” she says. “Because I wonder what is it all for if it cannot be applied or if it isn’t applied? Like what are we actually sharing if we cannot ground it in, if we cannot be living examples of the work?”