Wild Genius

Invitation

The modern world is orchestrated well to quiet the unique voices of people through industrial schooling, and the subtle and obvious paybacks for cooperating with the status quo and the subtle and obvious threats for not participating. Capitalism makes it possible for people to starve to death or freeze to death in the midst of wealth.

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Yet creative contributions that are outside-of-the-box thinking are needed more than ever. Yet some of these impulses to contribute to making a better world also get co-opted into the status quo.

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The most powerful fuel for creative contributions is a connection to a person's life purpose . . . in some indigenous traditions this is seen as a spirit that is born as the person is born. This is the very same spirit that is called to "reawaken " in traditional initiations.

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The course is planned to be structured as an eight month delving into the idea of life purpose defined by the idea that, as Elder and shaman Malidoma Somé said, "there is no way that a person was sent to this Earth without a medicine to deliver.

We will gather using some traditional tools and some modern ones to review the "Resumé of the Soul," as well as an affirmation of the more recognizable "Resumé of the Spirit" that people usually use for a job application to show their accomplishments.

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But it has been said that "the wound is close to the gift." In mythic language this points to the idea that the very things which wounded us did so because we may have already arrived with an extra dose of sensitivity to that particular issue. This points back to the Greek idea of the "daimon" or "guiding spirit" which James Hillman examined in detail in his book "The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling."