I have been preparing my next course, which is called Invoking the ancient waters: dance as the secret intelligence of water”. I have been dwelling in the domain of the archetypal intelligence and teaching of water. I'm going to share some reflections with you around the water archetype, and importantly, what it offers for us in our times.
Read MoreWater is essential for life. And water is also essential as an archetypal invocation. Water deities are present in traditions across the world. We've got Neptune, for example, the goddess Aapah in the Indian tradition, who later morphed into the masculine deity of Varuna.
What is really interesting about water is that it holds the archetypal invocation of consciousness. And it suggests that this great mystery of consciousness, the source, from where we all come, is not actually very distant to us.
Read MoreWho Am I? is a terrifying question. We really want to land an answer to that very quickly. So when we pose it in the ordinary domains of our life, we want to say, I am a dancer, I'm a writer, my mother, I'm a CEO, I'm a social worker, whatever it is, but we want to really have a definition. And usually that definition, especially in the times we live in, is by what we do in the world. What we do in the world seems to define who we are.
Read MoreAnimal archetypes play an important part in allowing us to experience the intelligence of nature. What is interesting about animals as archetypes is that it's not about imitating the animals.
Read MoreThe warrior or the Archer is an ancient archetype which is seen in traditions across the world. However, today in many of our philosophical aspirations, we don't think that the qualities of an archer warrior, especially ferocity, is something that is spiritual. In fact, we think that spirituality should be cleansed of ferocity. But the truth of the matter is that if we want to venture into the cave of self-inquiry, we do need a degree of ferocity as well as skill. And these are the two things that the archer warrior archetype held in these traditions.
Read MoreNon duality is a very important principle of many philosophical traditions. And non duality is considered to be something to aspire for. Because it is said that when we can move beyond divisions of liking something or disliking something, or whether something is right and wrong or good and evil, then we are also able to come into a space that is more compassionate, less judgmental, something that is much more harmonious and more uniting rather than something where we judge not only other people, but also ourselves. However, non-duality is not a space that could always be very comfortable, it is a space that comes with experiences of unease or being unsettled.
Read MoreOne of the most important propositions in archetypal traditions is that nature is sentient. And by that we mean that it is intelligent and its intelligence is of itself. So this means that it is not the same as us imposing our intelligence upon nature, but rather, that we experience the particular intelligence of nature when we are able to mirror. And that mirroring was done through embodied ritual traditions.
Read MoreIn many ancient traditions across the world had dance was the central modality of their intelligence. Dance in these traditions had the role of being a technology of body consciousness. And that is because many of these traditions were alive to a more expansive intelligence that would allow them to mirror the multi-dimensional and expansive nature of Reality itself.
Read MoreSometimes we say that we can feel something in our bones or we know something in our bones. And my sense is that we're not just talking about intuition, but we're talking about something else, a visceral feeling something that is of the body. In this video, I'm going to share with you the archetypal invocation of bones, especially through this amazing goddess Chamuda.
Read MoreShould we always surrender and accept? Is it bad to resist? The current course that I'm doing is called sattva. And it is about the interspaces, or those experiences, and the intelligence between two opposite conclusions, or two dualistic propositions, for example, good and evil, or right and wrong, or in this case between surrender and resistance. In this video I share with you a very simple but beautiful story, which I hope will illustrate for you this interesting space in an archetypal way.
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