Year Long Soulcraft Immersion

This is where the story begins, although it began long ago, long before I came for this revolution around the sun.

On October 6th, 2024, I will join a small cohort of wanderers, visionaries, dissolving ones and guides for a year long immersion in the journey of soul initiation. I’ve been asked to weave together the numinous life experiences I am able to recall, those that feel most resonant to me in this particular time. NUMINOUS, what has felt sacred, holy, of the soul, in the underworld, in the realm of mystery. This might include recurring or supercharged symbols, soul encounters, archetypal resonances, big dreams (especially those remembered from early childhood), core wounds, significant intimate relationships (human and other-than-human) and how these have shaped me. What are they themes and motifs of my deeper life, encounters with remarkable people (human or otherwise). Gather the pieces of my deeper story, my mythic story, my soul story. This is not a biography of my everyday life, but more like “mapping”, possibly for the first time, the personal terra mysterium - the events, sensings, moments, encounters, and so on, when I most seemed to be in - or beckoned to- the deep under-stream of my life, or when the current beneath the surface of the everyday took hold of me.

As well as this narrative, we are asked to use verse or prose….drawings, paintings, objects found and made in nature. I might want to eventually weave or “plant” this story in a wild place, becoming a sort of map, or cairn, a mandala support by wild beings which have been placed in relationship with one another. Hang on to this until we meet together on October 6th in person in Joshua Tree National Park. Before my arrival to this council, take this story and spend time with it, embody my story, dance it, sing it, cry it, lament it, rejoice it.