One of the Earth School's lessons is learning to transcend a state of duality, and a soul is initiated into this lesson  when it descends into a certain body in the physical realm. The soul- which is neither masculine nor feminine- incarnates into a specific body to have certain experiences particular to that sex and gender. When a soul has experienced different bodies over many lifetimes, it begins to dis-identify with being either male or female, masculine or feminine, and begins to embody more gender expansive ways of experiencing being on Earth through an inner marriage of the expansive and contracting forces that are associated to masculine and feminine, yin and yang. 

Every soul and stream of consciousness is created with a unique essence and energy signature, and the soul's purpose is to expand this essence and self transcend through diverse experiences- particularly through experiences with other souls. However, this connection between self and community, individual and interdependent, can come with a cost if we do not walk the path with full awareness. Such a cost can include unconsciously opting into harmful collective thoughtforms, feeding the same systems we claim to be opposed to, or taking on limited beliefs that belong to our community but are not our own. When we become fully conscious participants in our own individuation, we develop the discernment between ourselves and our communities while contributing to a shift from separation to interdependence and the expansion of Creator Consciousness. Note: This episode expands on some of the ideas in the episode titled "Knowledge, Gnosis, and the Filters of Perception"- feel free to listen to that episode first if you haven't already! 

Karma, Sanskrit for "action", is often understood as either a positive or negative consequence to a previous action. This, however, is only one paradigm and understanding of karmic energy. In this episode, I will explore three different paradigms of karma, each supported by a scientific law or theory. In the final paradigm, I will describe karma as energy that is fluid and carried in our energy body, rather than as energy that is "sent out" into the universe and "returned" with equal force. Regardless of the paradigm, deepening our understanding of karma, virtue, and morality plays a role in the way we live out our lives and play out our dharma- our true life path and purpose. 

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I'm alive! In this episode, I will share my experiences on a (semi) cross country road trip from the Bay Area to Houston to live with my family. Some of my greatest lessons involved trust, release, and surrender, continually arriving to the moment exactly as it presented itself. As this new phase of my life continues, I am learning to ground and root in myself, to allow myself to be nourished by others, and to know that I can never be lost because I am my home.  I am my home, so I am always home. 

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The word death often brings with it associations to grief, sadness, heaviness, and loss. Yet seen from another perspective, death is the gateway to full life. Death is what allows us to evaluate whether we are living consciously, it is what helps us to let go and make space, it is what reminds us to feel joy in everything that is present. With this new relationship to death as a healer, we can bring death into lives and our relationships to help us create a higher form, align with our fullest integrity, and experience the lightness of letting go. 

Change is the nature of all things, and "truth" or "knowledge" itself is not exempt from this law.  Yet we have been indoctrinated to seek a certain form of infallible knowledge, namely one that can be proven by measurement or physical experience and fit into a permanent mental box.  A shift occurs when we come to the realization that these ways of acquiring knowledge are actually created by the perception filter of those doing the inquiry. This applies to science, history, politics, and religion alike. We are masters of storytelling and of creating stories of truth through our filters. So what begins to happen when we become aware of the filters themselves and begin to seek a different way of knowing that is not dependent on an outside source? This is the path of gnosis and intuitive guidance. 

To be inspired is to be "in spirit"- to be open to receiving guidance from the unseen and feel connected to intuitive and invisible energies present all around us. In this way, air medicine and the etheric element relate closely to the spiritual realm, guiding us to feel both a light-heartedness and a deep relationship with what consider to be spirit, Creator, God/Goddess, etc. In this episode I will describe how my own relationship to the spiritual realm has evolved and changed over time, and how we can use the medicine of air and ether to lift us from heavy places. 

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When we experience pain, loss, or rejection for who we are in a way that is traumatic to the soul, we unconsciously create a "separate self" as a protective mechanism that operates from a state of fear to "protect us" from re-experiencing a trauma. In reality, these separate selves tend to replicate that same fear based energy and recreate the situation in our lived experience. In this episode we will explore fear as an initiation to full freedom, how fear has played a role in the pandemic, and how to use the element of fire to work with anger wisely as a boundary setter and transmute fear-based energy both as individuals and a collective. 

Song Mentioned: "Get Free" by Mereba
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The water element is intimately connected to the emotional realm and, when coupled with sound, can be a potent healing ally.  In this episode, I talk about navigating the emotional spectrum from a non-hierarchical perspective and allowing ourselves to be fully human, as well as how we can use the power of sound and water to help us alchemize intense emotional experiences.

Books mentioned:
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren