Conversations with Pete Grounds last night, recognising that we have a deep commitment needing to be made to become member. It will be a threshold to cross, when someone chooses to become part of it. Initiation is a very real tool for such moments and I look forward to co-creating the rituals we will be using to hold the core work we do.
Coming and going, we need to know that being here, in the work with Alchemical Worx is truly where you are meant to be. So, when you are done, we gratefully release and let go, trusting that a truth of self is being honoured. This is not a cult, there is ALWAYS a way out.
That place of “to thine own self be true, and as sure as night follows day, you can be false to no other” (something like that) it is how we gotta function. Because we want to work at the speed of trust, which is incredibly clear and clean way of working together. We want to respect the core value of every single person with us, actually, all humans, but we get to Show Respect to our fellow coop members, every day, in so many ways.
Knowing that this isn’t the way that most of the world behaves, we will be building tools for us all to learn to be honest with the self. To actually know what our truth is, what we stand for and what we wont let be the normal in our vicinity. Recognising we have built a myriad of coping mechanisms that have normalised so many levels of distrust and misinformation in our culture, learning to be real and clear with ourselves, with each other, will be quite the rebellion!
Our very first offering is bubbling away, coming to the boil for some good cooking. We should have some clear details by next week, even some film work to share, it’s all very exciting.
I trust that I am exactly where I am meant to be, doing what I am meant to be doing.
How about you?