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We have forgotten how to Dream Our Life (opens the original)
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I asked my teacher how they built it.We were up at Machu Picchu, where I have been so many times I stopped counting, and I still never got “used” to that incredible place. A whole city, a hospital, a cosmic temple, a place of high knowledge, on the top of a peak. Stones the size of a small car, fitted so close you cannot slide a blade between them. Below, the valley drops away and the River is a mile down, and you stand there doing the arithmetic in your head. How, What, and carried up by whom a
The Initiation Nobody Signed Up For (opens the original)
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I don’t know about you, but I keep having the same conversation. Different people, different countries, same ending every time. Someone says it, or thinks it quietly: “Something massive is happening in the world (to our world) and I don’t think anyone is coming to really save us.”No cavalry. No initiated adults in the room. Nobody working on it quietly while we sleep.That sentence used to sound like despair to me. Now it sounds like something else, and I have been sitting with it for weeks…This
The Medicine We Need to Survive Modern Life (opens the original)
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I recorded this a few months ago and the episode is now live.This is the Transformative Harmonics Podcast with host, Paula Scatoloni. In this episode, I joined Paula to talk about initiation.Those moments where you can’t hold on to an old identity and the challenge of stepping into the unknown. I talk about why I walked away from a successful career following a powerful epiphany, my time in Kolkata with Mother Teresa and the teachers, cultures, and experiences that changed my views on transforma
Defending the Future of Humanity (and breaking the spell of Empire) (opens the original)
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I don’t know about you, but when I check my phone, what I see is something like a forest burning in one tab or a scroll. An election in the next. Somewhere in a third, a wall going up between people. And a fourth about that incredible permaculturiste, Pascal Poot, growing tomatoes in a semi-desert, despite everyone telling him 40 years ago it would be impossible.So my chest tightens, tightens, softens, tightens again before my mind has even caught up with the feeling in my body (yes, I know I sh
The Last Spell (opens the original)
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Someone wrote to me this week. Three words, alone in the inbox. No greeting, no sign-off.“I feel powerless.”I have read it maybe forty times since. Between watering the trees and watching the sky that refuses, again…, to rain. Four months now, here in Burgundy, the ground gone the color of old bone, the orchard rows cracking open, the local wells lower than les anciens here say they have ever seen them. I go out at dawn with a hose, and I pour water at the root of a young pear Tree I planted las
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