Mainstream culture at large is permeated by a sickness of the mind that directly attacks the very life of the soul. This sickness has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. It has normalized the service to self above all else, allowing for mental illness and profound narcissism to be a hallmark of our society. It has placed the primacy of body far above the life of the soul, rather than seeking to understand the integral relationship between matter and spirit.
Such a diseased perspective is an outcome of one’s enslavement to their own undigested shadow nature, and the most base level of human consciousness. It is as if most of our species has been put under a spell - a collective amnesia - which serves to directly obstruct any embodied remembrance of our individual and collective soul experience. This spell binds us to our lowest nature, where the sole purpose of life is to satisfy addictions, and to seek endless pleasure and external affirmation while accruing material power. These are the fruits of an unexamined and unrealized life, a life which is reinforced by every structure within our society.
This disembodied adolescent state springs directly from a culture now moving blindly through time and space, lacking true guidance from it’s elders, having long lost its spiritual compass.
Most of our wisdom keepers were destroyed, infiltrated and consumed by the sickness embedded and injected within our society. The intuitive mind was buried, the divine feminine long cast out, and the divine masculine totally perverted as a result.
What culture can truly survive without the beating heart of the great mother?
What culture can truly thrive without the loving arms of the great father?
All of this reveals to us the absolute spiritual crisis that we exist within, though so many choose to remain blind to this reality. This is in some part because most have never experienced the inner life of the soul.
And how could they have?
The loss of truly meaningful right-of-passage experience reflects one very powerful way that our society has succeeded in totally arresting the growth of the soul. Within our modern landscape, all of our truly meaningful threshold rituals have been obliterated or usurped by useless ceremonies where we celebrate moving into various states of unconsciousness. In every major life event an excess of drinking and drugs are encouraged - and the role of the elder or guide has been all but lost. Very few elders have stepped forward to serve this most fundamental function within culture, as most have forgotten what it truly means to lead.
These rituals serve profound and vital functions in every healthy society by propelling us deeper into psycho-spiritual states of ever evolving maturity, where we begin to truly come to know and honor the life of the soul - both individually, and communally. Without such embodied knowledge, we are lost at sea, and such rich inner world experience becomes the stuff of story, myth and legend, having no real basis in our shared lived experience.
And so, within this bleak and most meaningless landscape, how can we not expect our children - who are drugged, drunk, lost, and profoundly confused - how can we not expect them to go entirely mad?
They are seeking meaningful soul and spirit connection in a world that has no knowledge of this, having buried it’s very memory.
How can we not expect them to go mad when we ourselves have not stepped forward to help truly guide them into their spiritual maturity, because we have abandoned our own spiritual life?
Children are not meant to lead.
They are to be protected.
The culture has failed them, as it once failed us. And, as a result, we have failed them, as well.
This is why it has become more important than ever to create our own truly meaningful rites-of-passage, forged from the strength and power of our unique ancestral lineages, inseparably tied into the life of the soul, and infused with the very flame of spirit.
This, in its most crystalline form, is the path into human wholeness, which is the deepest resistance in a world that has very literally gone entirely mad.
It is the refusal to acquiesce to a civilization that knows nothing of truth and beauty, and mocks the very reality of the life of the soul. To move along with such cultural madness is to tinker with the experience of a profound soul insanity, and a psycho-spiritual split from our most vital connection.
The cultivation of the lived experience of the reality of the union of matter and spirit reflects the most sacred aspect of a maturing and embodied life. Conscious ritual and ceremony is one of the single most powerful ways to reinforce this reality, and begin to heal and unify the pm consciousness.
When we honor the life of the soul, the unfolding labyrinth before us becomes increasingly illuminated in an upward spiral of cosmic embrace.
This upward spiral is built upon the cornerstones of free will, natural law, and sacred sovereignty, and is emboldened by the evolving creative and ceremonial life of the human spirit in its ever evolving essential quest for true meaning and liberation.
