Rise Rooted: The Body, Dream & Mythic Imagination

Rise Rooted: The Body, Dream & Mythic Imagination

Is it possible, as Mary Oliver says, that we are living just a little and calling it a life? In my recent podcast conversation with soul guide and wilderness therapist Rebecca Wildbear, we found ourselves wandering back through the "magic doors" of our childhoods. I shared my memories of jumping off my childhood deck to cross a split-log bridge over an ephemeral creek, eventually disappearing into the hollowed-out center of a rotted old-growth cedar tree stump that felt like an ancient sanctuary. Rebecca recalled a giant ash tree in her childhood suburban yard—so vast it took three children holding hands to circle its trunk—which she used as a "rocket ship" portal to other worlds. Rebecca said something that struck me. A profound insight that speaks to the stakes of our upcoming offering: "The child's body and mind before it unlearns really important things can just naturally go toward what is real and true". She is speaking to our 'original belonging' as children, a kind of primary animism in our childlike way of perceiving and relating to the world around us. Tragically, as we grow older we do 'unlearn' this 'I-thou' participatory perception that came so naturally as children. If you have been feeling "on the fence" about joining us, I invite you to consider that the world is a lover waiting to make contact through something as simple as a river shell or the branches of a tree. We often spend our adult lives living in a 'flat world,' but there is a deeper, extreme aliveness available when we remember that our own physiology—such as the tree-like dendrites branching through our brains, or our mycelial pulmonary or circulatory systems—is kin to the forest. Our upcoming program, Rise Rooted: The Body, Dream and Mythic Imagination, is a countercultural invitation to surrender to Earth’s intelligence and "rise up rooted like trees". Through movement, dreamwork, and deep imaginal practice, we will remember the symbiotic relationship between our individual bodies, the collective body, and the "body" of the earth. RISE ROOTED: Body, Dream, and Mythic Imagination Begins August 17th This course is a doorway to the mythic imagination, exploring how the world lives and dreams through us—through sensation, image, story, and relationship with the living Earth. Learn More and Register at mythicchrist.com/rise-rooted "Don't go back to sleep—the door is round and open." - Rumi

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