Longing to Belong:
An Unsettling Journey
familiar-level course • prerequisites include Foundations Program or equivalent • open to all 18 and over
This course picks up the shadow-working magic from the Burning Times Never Ended course and explores how the ancestral trauma in Europe exports into a global system of enslavement and colonization.
Once again into the Holy Dark, this time to approach the Wisemind. Continuing to blow over the bones of the indigenous soul, and stir from an amnesia of empire’s ensorcellment.
Befriending discomfort, reconciling with identities of unearned power and power denied.
Contemplating the impulse of annihilation present in extinction, and the patterns of inner and outer collapse.
Complexity. Inquiry. Intuition.
The essential themes of this spellworking are: belonging, shame/superiority, relationships and responsibilities, and blessings.
The container aims to court Holy and enduring questions through games, magical exercises, movement of the body, and a culminating ritual of sacred conversation.
The ritual of Councilway invites the wise and loving ancestors, guides, and the elemental avatars of curiosity, courage, compassion, confidence and creativity to help generate flow state reflection about collapse, supremacy, and liberation magics to name a few topics.
This course aims to have whiteness-privileged people, (and people with other privileges), stretch toward questions about accomplice-ship, resiliency-building, and consensual kinship to land and culture with aspirations to act from those questions.
Longing to Belong encourages the Refugia Village Mystery School spiritual scholarship in preparation for course three: Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation: In It Together.
Expect to get unsettled.
Part history lesson about time and culture, part sacred activism of grief and commitment, and part political analysis about fundamentalist organizing and recruitment.
This working entails less heady presentation and more morsels of evocative information to be worked with through games, artwork, movement, trance, partner work, journaling, and a hand-spellcraft.
This course is part two of four intermediate courses featured in the Continuing Program. Prerequisites for joining are both courses in the Foundations Program (or equivalent experience).
It is strongly recommended that each course be taken in a self-organized group of 2-7 people. Groups may be affinity, collegial, coven, collective or some other form. This recommendation comes from years of observation and participant feedback.
Taking these courses in groups creates forms of support throughout the study, strengthens the likelihood of practice (as individuals or as groups), and enhances and amplifies learning and self-reflection. Individuals may be able to find group members (inviting/seeking) through the course materials page once registered.
If you cannot or choose not to form a group, still register and feel well-comed.
These four courses build upon each other and are designed to be taken in succession, however each course contains all the courses in its own ways. All course content will be delivered via a password protected course materials page right here on the website.
The Spell:
To whom do you belong? What lives within your spiritual and genetic DNA?
This course offers a facilitated ritual learning container for participants to call upon a willingness to explore with vulnerability, response-ability and compassionate courage.
To wonder aloud and to contemplate if, how and where shame lives inside.
We’ll examine the consequences of the exportation of institutional and historical gaslighting, and the coercion of estrangement from the World’s Song.
We’ll endeavor to investigate supremacist patterns and how they creates challenges for interrupting the widespread harm to the earth and the Web of Life.
This is messy, imperfect magic, non-linear, non-dualistic – potentially awakening new spiritual muscles.
The Offering:
A template for sacred conversation about the inherited coercion into empire-orientation: a Councilway in which to notice the impulse of ‘needing to know/solve/fix’ and recognize that as a symptom of colonized thinking.
Intuition supports “staying with the trouble,” as we greet a shame-superiority shadow cycle with our rooted resilience. Raise the mirror and know in our blood that the incarcerated soul powers must be freed and reallocated toward our struggles for liberation.
Forgive what you could not control happening, and don’t mistake it for being non-accountable. Commit to engaging what is possible to change.
Wisemind helps navigate our self-truths and opens us to the our-truths. Our own creature vessels open to the conjurings of motion toward solidarity and mutual aid. Antenna unfurled seeking the beacons of guidance through our longing for justice and regenerative life ways.
All around us the face of collapse shows itself as the hungry ghosts feeding off personal and cultural annihilation. The impulse to turn the terror of seeming powerlessness onto our own and others’ bodies; a longing to belong.
Course Premises:
The cultural identity of whiteness was constructed to facilitate the colonization of other peoples' lands and cultures in service of Empire. Whiteness as a construct is irredeemable and inherently, pathologically destructive.
Engaging feelings about whiteness is necessary to dissolve the egregore of whiteness, and to turn the focus of whiteness-privileged people toward difficult and enduring questions about accomplice-ship, amends and reparations. This work is for the ancestors, ourselves, and the descendants.
Competing realities command subservience to the Truth, and promise belonging through subjugation and simplification. Imprisoning vital life force inside unmetabolized intergenerational trauma – making it inaccessible for the coalescing of collective power.
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