Wild Genius

We seek the catalytic release of the Wild Genius, and to critique contemporary organization of society and the colonized mind. We seek to reintroduce non-dogmatic practices of ritual into modernity and remnant cultures, while also being guided by the principles of intact customs and lineages of practice.

 

EMPOWER

• educate and encourage rather than foster dependence

• inform responsibly about the context and particulars of ritual processes

• show up as agreed with presence and attention

 

MAINTAIN PRACTICE

• reciprocate communication with our ancestors, totems, dreams, and spirit guides

• develop our awareness of sensitivities and remedies for personal self care

• maintain the active emergence of integrations and discernment in our growth

 

WELCOME DIVERSITY

• celebrate different religious, cultural, ancestral and socio-economic backgrounds

• include both genders, and all sexual orientations and body types

• recognize the intersecting legacies of colonialism, oppression, and ecological desecration

 

PROFESSIONALISM

• honour the limits of these healing methods, personal training, and client suitability

• refer as needed to other psychological, medical, and religious professionals

• encourage cooperation by resolving conflicts directly and actively supporting colleagues

 

INTIMACY

• We affirm that all people are indigenous and native to Earth, and that we best prosper with a human sense of inclusion, village and home.

• We work to call forth people to have better relationships over time with discernment between nurturing and toxic energies.

• We pledge to utilize collegial support navigating the relational complexity of this work with multifaceted stakeholders and contexts, with the understanding that it takes a village.  

 

INITIATION

• We affirm that each person has a unique guiding wild genius whose proper vocation is the contribution of renewal and the updating of traditions in an initiated way.

• We work to call forth the expression of life purpose, working with the awareness of challenge and opportunity presented by life separation and leadership moments.

• We pledge to recognize that expression has differing costs due to rank, class, accessibility, power, and privilege, whether in symptoms, body signals, or words said.

 

RECONCILIATION

• We affirm that everyone is injured by the grief and grief illiteracy of this time, whether personal, historical, ancestral, environmental, or social.

• We work to call forth the high style expression of grief and praise to feed life and send hungry ghosts onward to their proper vocation in the world of ancestors within ritual containers.

• We pledge to educate about grief and praise, to both listen to and encourage expression of, grief and praise in an initiated way connected with both life and death.

 

INTUITION

• We affirm that ancestors are a shared human heritage whose wisdom is meant to help the living, and that some of the dead remain un-ancestral-ized as hungry ghosts.

• We work to call forth the strength of relationship with the ancestral realm including the idea that there are a team of ancestors wiling to ally with each person.

• We pledge to encourage clients to claim ancestral gifts, especially through the medium of mythic imagery, to honour obscured and marginalized histories, to help the dead be dead.

 

ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDINGS

• We affirm that reaction and response are both biological intelligences which are a foundation of the healing trickster wisdom and guile that we seek to strengthen and guide responsibly.

• We work to call forth grit and grace in the service of the natural ecological dynamic equilibrium tension between sovereignty and community.

• We pledge to develop a managing, orchestrating, ringmaster present awareness to navigate in clarity between the grit and the grace with guile.