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 for healing work to be done 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 discernments 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.

• 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 trickster wisdom and guile that we seek to strengthen.

• 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.