Jakkie DeCorsey
@northernedge
Jakkie DeCorsey
@northernedge

Perfect back to a running gift.
These folks do some parts of the certification process for holotropic breathwork. They also have a clinician who is working on psychedelic assisted therapy certification. Might be good to connect with them!
Chamber 1:
Because separation, or the void as we also call it, is unbounded , what happens is hard to nail down. Sometimes it can be hell - eliciting feelings of abandonment, despair, even terror. And sometimes it can be heaven - eliciting feelings of bliss, love, and Union. The key, remember, is your ability to recognize and respond to the call,
... See moreSuuuuper similar to encountering the void in psychedelic work. And how we work on stabilizing through anchors and just working with what’s there.
Wilderness recreation facilitates the dualistic understanding of humans as separate from Nature. We explore, we experience, we categorize ‘this’ as wilderness, untouched, worth preserving, worth connecting to and ‘that’ ad wasteland, exploitable and fallen. Then we return home, and we remain just as alienated from the nonhuman world around us as we
... See moreThought provoking and Relationship to Land
It’s the truth. All these companies set out these beautiful images, or back the most extreme contexts (mountain shredding, huge hikes, climbs in the most picturesque places, etc.) to sell their products. To sell us access. What ends up happening is that we discard the remaining spaces that don’t fall into that. We protect and preserve these beautiful spaces, and are sold access to them, and then we trash the rest that doesn’t fall into that category.
This is a great example of how recreation is a preliminary step towards extraction. And how recreation first acts as an impenetrable shield to other claims to the land, but is super flimsy when it comes to extraction uses in the ever present resource/energy crises.
This is also a good demonstration of how when we lean really heavily on corporations to save us, to have our back, to voice and stand up for us… they will until there’s a greater price tag to be had by selling out. We the consumers are just a vehicle for wealth to be created.

“You are the person you would have felt safe with when you were young”
“The little you feels safe around the person you are now”
Friend this is like when I disconnect or am called to separate. I like this a lot.