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The Capacities and Intelligence We Have Barely Dreamt Of - Join us in the ineffable mystery, grounded by Natural Law. One of our team members once described entering into the world of Soul Seed Gathering like a terrifying doorway into the mystery and unknown. She described how much fear and resistance had come up for her before joining us. Inside, she expressed that she found a space so lovingly held, grounded and supported and profoundly moving. She was incredibly grateful that she’d met that fear and come to work with us, because it was full of joy in research, learning and discovery. In this modern marketplace, where all of us have concerns and worries, bills to pay and things that seem more important, we’re inviting our community to join us in the ineffable, yet, it is grounded with knowledge, protocols and guidance in accordance with Natural Law. While new age spiritual spaces can often be ungrounded and untethered, allowing egos and fantasies to run rampant, Natural Law is the guidance from the Earth’s patterns, cycles and movements that anyone can recognize, resonate and feel the truth of it, when you allow it to move with you, through you and as you. When you allow it to move you, you move in right relationship with all of Life and you can recognize the special part you have to play. This is what magic feels like. “The Original Instructions are not ideas. They are reality. They are actually Natural Law, The Way Things Are - the operational manual for a working Creation.” — Return to Creation: A Survival Manual for Native and Natural People, Manitonquat (Medicine Story) tribal elder and keeper of the lore of the Wampanoag Nation of Massachusetts. So much is missing in our modern ‘western’ consciousness, due to our schooling, media, religious dogma and culture. We have all been shaped, trained and submitted into unnatural stuck shapes, narrow ways of seeing, binaries and tunneled vision, loops of guilt, shame and self-judgement, with a lack of sensory connection and trust in our instincts, cut off from an understanding of our environment, eco-systems, and relationship to Spirit. Soul Seed Gathering is not a healing clinic or, coaching service. You don’t join us because your trauma and wounding will be a focus. Healing becomes a by-product of showing up for something you care deeply about such as the Earth, your place in it, and understanding that the way we learn, connect and contribute is everything. Cultivating a right relationship to life, community, Earth and Spirit is not a morality to feel superior over others with, but a compass that feels so good to embrace that once you feel it, you continue to want to learn with it, move with it and work with it. Healing happens because all that you have experienced outside of Natural Law get’s kicked up. As humans we tend to gravitate to what we know and that is why we will continue to double down on patterns of addiction and distraction, unhealthy and negative choices, even when it doesn’t feel ultimately good for us. However, we are in a place in our human timeline where we have already played out those addictions and distractions to the tenth degree and can no longer avoid seeing the consequences all around us. The promise of consumerism and the dream of ‘making it’ has already hollowed itself out. All the shiny promises of coaching and success courses may have taken you somewhere but, likely not to a promised land that ultimately feels fulfilling (for you, your eco-system or, your bank account). What remains is the question of: what now? ‘I have previously talked about civilized cultures losing collective memory and having to struggle for thousands of years to gain full maturity and knowledge again, unless they have assistance. But that assistance does not take the form of somebody passing on cultural content and ecological wisdom. The assistance I’m talking about comes from sharing patterns of knowledge and ways of thinking that will help trigger the ancestral knowledge hidden inside. The assistance people need is not in learning about Aboriginal Knowledge but in remembering their own.’ — Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk In our work at Soul Seed Gathering, from holding cross-cultural indigenous gatherings to programs, courses and journey’s into our Library and research, we have found time and time again that our own ancestral knowledge gets stirred awake and, a remembrance begins to take place that moves us into a different pattern of seeing, living and being in the world. We learn to develop a healthy respect for indigenous knowledge, not to pedestal it or, to feel inferior to it, but, also not with a superiority, and an underlying sense that we are more advanced in the modern world. ‘When “respect for indigenous cultures” draws from Wikipedia reality, it is not real respect. Real respect is not to condescendingly “celebrate” other cultures with the unspoken assumption that our own knowledge and technology is superior to theirs. Real respect understands that other cultures have progressed along an entirely different axis of development. They may not have invented the integrated circuit, but when you immerse in their realities you may find they have cultivated capacities and modes of intelligence that we have barely dreamed of.’ — Charles Eisenstein There is so much work to do here at this time on Earth, and immense healing needs to take place but, it is needed in community again, with a focus on something outside of ourselves. We also need to recognize how important each of our roles are to play in this Great Turning, as coined by Joanna Macy. You and I are important and special because we are part of something so special here on Earth. We all make up this incredible world, and have so much to learn from one another. Our new offering: Living The Story Membership is an invitation into knowledge, wisdom and stories as ceremony, re-patterning our ways of learning and understanding, and ultimately cultivating wisdom to show up for what we are each here for — our own Living Story — while in community. “These ceremonies do not belong to Indians alone. They can be done by all who have the right attitude, and who are honest and sincere about their belief.” — Fools Crow words shared by Thomas Mails and Dallas Chief Eagle, Fools Crow, 1990 There is a tenderness and a protective instinct around our library because we have experienced transgressions, extraction and mis-alignment along the way, but all of this has helped us to develop the wisdom to guide better into it, with right intention, responsibility and awareness that this knowledge is vital for those who meet with it. “the ones who complain and talk the most about giving away medicine secrets are always those who know the least. If we don’t share our wisdom, the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.” — Frank Fools Crow, one of the most respected of the Oglala Lakota spiritual leaders. I keep returning to the above quote, as it is so relevant for this time. In our experience at Soul Seed Gathering, there are many Elders, Wisdom Keepers and communities who are willing and open to share with anyone with the right intention to learn, connect and show up for the world at this time for the betterment of all. We show up to remember who we are, where we can come from, and to look to where we can go next together. Join our first call this Friday 18th: https://www.soulseedgathering.com/livingthestorymembership Get full access to Soul Bloom Magazine at soulseedgathering.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode we explore.. * Re-Introducing What There Is More To Story means & the return of this podcast! * Living Research & Living Stories * Profound Dreams * Anthropologists Dreaming in Extraordinary Ways * Necessary Transformation in Academic Institutions * Future Design & World Building * Cross-cultural differently dreaming - from time travel, connection to earth & importance of community * The Ceremony of Research * Complexity of Song-Lines and Oral Traditions * & more! Join The Dreaming Worlds Program & Learn more here. Image: Sand Painting Western Desert Australia. Source: Slow_Roads Get full access to Soul Bloom Magazine at soulseedgathering.substack.com/subscribe

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