Creating Culture One Person at a Time

Greetings on the path fellow traveler…

If you feel resonance with The Ancestral Now, chances are you feel an underlying call to reconnect with wildness, primality, and ancestral forces.

More than that, you feel the rumblings of a deep purpose inside you, that wants to be given to others.

More than that, you likely feel a pull towards magic, spirits, ecological relations, animacy, and the beating heart of the world itself.

I feel you. Me too…

As I myself have done work to rediscover these elements in my own life, I came to the understanding that we cannot wear the outer shell of contemporary culture and engage with these ways of being.

Thus at the Heart of the Ancestral Now, is a re-culturing effort. One that each person is asked to do, until a larger critical mass occurs. The skills, practices, and perspectives are really about the creation of a new culture connected to Ancestral wisdoms but occurring in modern times. If we want our lives to deeply change, the culture each of us lives within, must also change.

Each of us not only represents a vast ecology of personal forces (the individual), but we are also nodes for the ecologies in which we are rooted and grow within (culture). Culture in turn has its own taproot (mythos).

The mythos of modern culture are failing people, it’s time to call in a different culture…

Many of us in today’s world feel lost, akin to a buoy in the ocean or a leaf in the wind, facing down an uncertain future…all while knowing deep within that we have the power to alter not just our lives, but the broader collective. If we only knew how.

The modern world would have us believe that every challenge we face, lives between our own individual heads, yet it does this to turn our attention from the fact that many of our personal difficulties are collective, ‘but’ anchored in each person like an enchantment or spell.

This spell works a lot like a ‘binding’, for it keeps you trapped in the idea that everything is your responsibility, for if every problem you face is yours, and squarely on your shoulders alone, you are left with an insurmountable position.

What is closer to the truth…

Is that the more you can anchor into what is actually yours to do, and offer it to the collective the more power, love, and soul you get access to, for your local world and life story hold your connection to the whole.

The Modern World Seems Designed To Sever You From The Very Things That Make You Human:

The diseases of civilization, ancestral disconnect, depression, a looming sense of isolation, existential numbness, and a nagging sense of purposelessness do not just ‘belong’ to you. Yes, there are often individual aspects to these states to be sure, but they also result from a broader pattern that is not solely your own.

They are cultural byproducts. Built-in

This culture would have you live as an isolated island divorced from the deep ancestral currents that came before you, in a universe with no magic, in sick bodies divorced from the breathing cosmos, selling your life in a marketplace meant to devour your sense of authentic contribution. No thanks.

‘Rebellion and Responsibility’

I am fond of saying that to ‘rebel is to respond’.

+Rebellion: An uprising and dissent from the bindings as they show up in our individual lives and collective mythos. A counter-cultural movement towards a life of greater depth. For depth in today’s world is a rebellion.

+Responsibility: Many people fear the word responsibility, but it literally means the ‘ability to respond’. In this way, we cultivate the ability to respond to the call life is sending us. It is also about taking responsibility for what is yours to do.

Many of the challenges emerging in your life, carry with them mythological, cultural, collective, and transpersonal themes.

Yet…we cannot relinquish personal responsibility to the collective, expecting it to change without ourselves taking action. The change we seek requires deeply embodying the shift itself, allowing each body, each life, and each soul to be a transmitter to the rest.

I have come to recognize that this is something that can be utterly difficult, if not impossible to do alone. This is why I offer one-on-one work. If it were not for my teachers, lovers, friends, Ancestors, and spiritual allies, I do not think I would have survived some of the most difficult circumstances I have faced or currently do the work I do.

Through my iteration of challenges and blessings, I have been able to gather a particular kind of fruit, which expresses itself across a ‘triune’ of threads:

The Living Ancestor: A deep connection to a supportive ancestral line, and the innate capacities we have inherited over eons of time. Modernity does not make room for your ancestors, your wildness, or your primality.