Individual Transformation

Humble Like the Earth

Journal Article

Suddenly, I remembered my vision from the woods. My hand trembled as I closed the Zoom room. I sat down and cried tears of joy.

Published in Volume 22 Issue 2 By Melina Bondy

What we have lost, in particular, is the journey of soul initiation — a psycho-spiritual undertaking that connects us in the most profound way to both the Earth community and the source of our deepest humanity.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 1 By Bill Plotkin

Vow of 120,000 Actions

Journal Article

When we make a vow, no matter the intention behind it, we’re doing so with the full strength of our will, rather than being half-hearted.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 1 By Hunter Liguore

Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual with Francis Weller

Journal Article

Alnoor Ladha interviews Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer and activist who pioneered the method of soul-centered psychotherapy.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 4 By Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha

Unlocking a Fresh Vision for the World

Journal Article

We already have everything we need to heal ourselves, our societies, and our planet. And we must, for there is no time to waste.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 4 By Thomas Hübl

Rough Initiations

Journal Article

Ritual initiation radically reshapes our sense of self. It is meant to break us open to the widest possible experience in identity.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 4 By Francis Weller

Mind Matters Most

Journal Article

An exploration of mind: how our thoughts create our reality and how we can use this time to gain awareness of their negative tendencies and come out of self-generated suffering.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2 By Tara Pinheiro Gibsone

The Selling of the Soul

Journal Article

Addictions are an indication of where we still long to be loved. What the selling of the soul has in common with trouble and craving is the instant gratification that the ego thrives on.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2 By Rick Haltermann

Unlearning Together

Journal Article

...We’ve entered the era that the Hopis predicted in their prophecies of the “great purification,” the unstoppable entropy of not only our external political, economic and ecological systems, but above all the unexamined assumptions underlying those systems.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 1 By Martin Winiecki

Diary of a Watts Princess: A Memoir of Hopes and Dreams

Article

As I watch the news today, old feelings of fear and hopelessness engulf me once again. As a thirteen-year-old girl, I saw my neighborhood, Watts, burn. Then I wondered what would happen to my home, to my life, as embers from the fire floated in front of my face. I wondered who I would be if I lived through the chaos of urban anger and despair. That night, I wondered what my purpose in life would be.

Published in Fall | Winter 2017 By Tamara S. Hamilton