Participate
I’m fascinated by how humans have experienced their miraculous, self-reflective consciousness through the ages. How do we engage the gift of intellect and reason while also honouring our ability to sense beauty, wonder and the sacred? We can plan and predict, yet we can also imagine and create. We can know facts, and also feel something ineffable yet real. We can accumulate knowledge, and also enchant the world with personal meaning.
As humans, we are seekers. We seek to know our world, but we also seek to relate to it. And sometimes it seems that what we seek wishes to be known.
As an independent scholar, these are the contemplations that motivate me. Following a kind of Hegelian dialectic, I believe our time calls us to remember the participatory spirit of the past and to feel again the heartbeat of life. In Jungian terms, it’s a collective individuation; reclaiming old ways yet engaging them consciously: a new participation mystique.
With this personal curiosity, I feel as though I’m tapping into a collective thirst to reclaim soul. Yet I worry that much of what circulates is pop-culture spirituality, stripped of the depth and sophistication found in wisdom traditions. There is true medicine in ancient thought and my aim is to remember it and consciously integrate what still speaks to us into modern life.
By tracing the history of our assumptions and worldviews, we can better see how they came to be and then consciously reimagine our own paradigm, participating more fully in the unfolding of the human experience.
Join the conversation
If this is resonating, I invite you to join me:
- Podcast – where I ‘make the case’ for the wild Being vision and voice ongoing explorations of philosophy, depth and archetypal psychology, myth, and other stories of sacred land and sky.
- YouTube – practices to strengthen ‘right brain’ or ‘whole brain’ cognitive modes and cultivate ways of Being that allow us to participate fully and trust our own interpretative experience of reality.
- Substack – reflections, practices and integration invitations in mostly written form; basically the Hub for the unfolding of the wild Being vision.
Admittedly, sharing is not my first instinct; I’m a thinker and a dreamer more than a doer. Yet I feel called to join this movement toward shifting the modern worldview. If this resonates and if wild Being is of value, I hope you’ll listen, watch, read and (most importantly) participate!
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