Episode Summary
In this offering, Bryana Clover — midwife of the New Earth, sacred strategist, and threshold‑keeper — leads us through the fire of sacred travel, remembering the bones, the land, and the call. What began as a pilgrimage to ancient temples in Egypt became a mirror, reflecting not only stones and memory, but ego, power dynamics, and the subtle architectures of spiritual tourism. This episode is a truth‑bearing transmission about what it really means to walk as a pilgrim, not a tourist — vulnerable to rupture, but invited into reclamation, integrity, and soul‑seeing.
In this episode we explore:
- The call to Egypt: dreams, signs, bones — and the soul‑contract of return.
- What “sacred travel” asks of us when the land holds centuries of memory, resistance, and ongoing colonization.
- The tension between good intention and unconscious replication of harm: when reverence becomes consumption, when “spiritual tourism” hides under pictures and activations.
- A “temple drama” — group dynamics, facilitation imbalance, racialized power, and what it exposed about how spiritual space is too often built on colonial scripts.
- The unraveling: spiritual bypass, silent exclusion, fear, and the discomfort of truth-telling.
- The initiation codes born from rupture — the soul‑keys revealed through land, lineage, grief, and unyielding presence.
Why this matters — for those walking the edge:
This journey isn’t just about Egypt. It’s a reflection of every place we go when we claim to be “called.” Are we committing to sacred responsibility, or are we repeating patterns of extraction disguised as spirituality? This episode invites deep reflection, accountability, and an embodied recalibration of what it means to hold space, lead with integrity, and travel with reverence.
Resources + Mentions
- Join the waitlist for the Fall 2026 pilgrimage to Egypt — a journey re‑imagined with land‑rooted leadership, ancestral accountability, and decolonial medicine. Serious inquiries only please, as the waitlist will help inform the cost and possibility of getting enough sign-ups to make it accessible.
- Follow Bryana on Instagram: @BryanaClover
- If this story stirred memories, grief, longing — share it with another edge-walker, a truth‑bearer, or a sister on the path
A Prayer / Invitation
To you — threshold keeper, memory‑keeper, sacred rebel: may your journey be holy. May your pilgrimage not be for activation — but for reckoning. May every step you take be a return: to body, to land, to ancestors. May your edge be your altar. And may your return be medicine, not consumption. Ase. 🙏🏽
