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If you could track your way out of the burdens of modern life and create an existence that is much more an expression of who you are, then your own life could become a living mythology.

Boyd Varty • The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

MERIT ......... When I was in Mongolia, I had several conversations with the shamans who I was travelling with, and they were very keen to encourage me to talk about a concept which they consider highly important, but which they see is often sadly missing in the shamanism being practiced in the West. This is the concept of MERIT. Now, MERIT is a Bu

“God doesn’t plant lawns. He plants meadows.

But we belong to a Church that, currently, values lawns--their sameness, their conformity, the ease with which they can all be cut to the same height, watered on schedule, and replaced by new turf if necessary. (And against which it is easy to spot dandelions.)

All organizations are limited in their abil

In developing a platform, we eschew the promotional apparatus that must be rebuilt and picked up anew with each and every launch. Instead, we choose to bind ourselves to an audience, to become one with that audience, and to become one with our weapon.

Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

Ecologists have re-oriented their field as a “crisis discipline,” a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a s... See more

Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet

“I look better in black

I’ve heard it said that heaven’s gates only open to those who rise above the dirt of Earth on the glowing wings of love and light. But when I suspend my superstition and perceive instead with my own naked vision, I can’t help but notice that darkness and light are distributed here in equal measure. And searching for God is li

While animistic cultures live in a reciprocity with what author and Mayan shaman Martín Prechtel calls the “holy in nature,” we have become a culture infatuated with literality and rationalism. Divorced from myth and the symbolic life, our personal stories cease to have meaning in a larger collective momentum. Also atrophying in this separation, is

Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

The space between stories calls on us to reclaim our freedom. To let go of the need for a coherent story and prefabricated structures in favor of creativity. Collectively, we must break through the walls of habit and socialized ways of knowing and doing that define the old story of western culture.

Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown

The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking. It always was. Not punditry, allegory, or mandate, but mythmaking. The creation of stories. We are tuned to do so, right down to our bones. The bewilderment, vivacity, and downright slog of life requires it.

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Boyd Varty • The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet

Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown

Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries