Soular Transformations

11/10/2021

Lawyer Bryan Stevenson brought the language of mercy and redemption into American culture in recent years – a gift he offers with his life. Krista draws out his spirit and moral imagination in this week’s On Being.

https://onbeing.org/programs/bryan-stevenson-finding-the-courage-for-whats-redemptive

09/27/2021

Dear spiritual bypassers: We don’t need your faux forgiveness. We don’t need your perfected asanas. We don't need your head-tripping meditations. We don’t need your detachment practices. We don’t need your fake names. We don’t need your victim bashing. We don’t need your love and light. We don’t need your (alleged) law of attraction. We don’t need your wishful thinking. We don’t need your superficial affirmations. We don’t need your perpetual positivity. We don’t need your pseudo-transcendence. We don't need your flight from feeling. We don’t need your obsession with illusion. We don’t need your stillness and silence. We don't need your patriarchal rituals and lineage. We don’t need your enbullsh*tment enlightenment.

What we need is for you to come down from your world-avoidant perch and take all that energy you have been selfishly hoarding and give it back to humanity. What we need is for you to exit your cave of cowardice, put your tender tootsies on the ground, and actually do something to heal our species. What we need is for you to help us shape a new lineage- one that is rooted in a truly inclusive and embodied consciousness. Not a non-duality that omits everything human from the field, but one that includes all that we are, and all of your fellow humans, in its unified fold. What we need is for you to understand that ALL OF THIS is real. And that any spirituality that is bereft of humanness, is a collective death knell. You want to wake up for real? Stop hiding behind your egoic badge of egolessness, come back into your body, and help us to heal this bloodied species.

08/29/2021

Reintegrating the shadow…

“One of the central tenets of dreamwork is to learn how to become curious about, and eventually hospitable towards, the scary, repulsive, ambiguous figures that appear in our dreams. These "dark guests" are what Jung called the Shadow.

Whether through personal, cultural, or ancestral forms of exile, we all become distanced from the parts of ourselves that are devalued, discouraged, or disregarded.

Eventually, those rejected parts become strangers, even to us. I call these the refugee aspects of the self because they are marginalised, disenfranchised, and exiled from belonging. They are, in a sense, living on the fringes of our consciousness. They seek to re-belong themselves with us our whole lives.” - Toko-pa Turner

Photo of an abstract colorful illustration of a woman embracing a wolf, by Keith Negley Illustration

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08/26/2021

Remember the days when you were asked as a child, “What are you making?” During those days, it did not matter who you were or what field you aspired to, the point was that you were creating something. That something could have been abstract or figurative, and of any number of materials with any number of instruments.

What are you making?

08/23/2021

08/23/2021

Rich and relevant conversation…
Listen here:

The author of “White Fragility” and an expert on racialized trauma together — a deep dive into the calling of our lifetimes.

08/23/2021

✨Slides are reposted from

✨Soular Coach Reminds✨
Spirituality without deep excavating, clearing and shifting defeats the purpose on being fully present on earth. We are here to remember who we are and to create on earth. Our actions have impact seven generations ahead. Don’t skip the work for your comfort. Do the hard work and marvel at what you have created.

05/05/2021

If you weren't able to join us tonight, then you can still support Hampton Roads Reproductive Justice League in the following ways.

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