The world needs your unbelonging. It needs your disagreements, your exclusion, your ache to tear the false constructions down, to find the world behind

Active receptivity is the cessation of all striving, even for an hour a day. It might look like putting your bare feet in the grass, or letting the sun caress your skin, floating on your back in the lake, or wandering in the forest without purpose. It might look like pulling out your yoga mat or tinkering with art supplies, playing with your tarot

Now imagine that we could be symbolic travellers every day of our lives by becoming friendly with the awkwardness of all that is unresolved in our hearts.

Many will counsel you that there is a reason for your pain and that if you could only heal your underlying emotional wounds, pain would leave you alone.

modern medicine has been so consummately estranged from its sacred origins that it no longer sees how pain can be viewed as meaningful or even beneficial.

Rather than understanding time’s passage in relationship with the natural world, the artificial measuring of time shifted our cultural allegiance to the disciplines and expectations of capitalism. Clock time was also mixed up with religious doctrine,

Taken symbolically, alchemy is about turning the lower, primitive aspects of the self into a purified state; to illuminate the darkness with a sense of value or meaning, making conscious what is unconscious. This becoming whole is the process Jung called individuation, which is what we’re doing with dreamwork and belonging.

What if the ‘negative’ emotions aren’t wrong, but totally in their own right? What if they have something essential to communicate to us and each other,

With the expanded capacity to receive comes the awareness of how long one has lived constricted. How long one has felt unseen. How long one has hidden their tender parts away from hostility and invalidation. Imagine the enormity of grief and gratitude that flow in simultaneously, stretching the receiving muscle.