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This Day is so precious, You are Awakening
The journey of self-discovery, the shamanic path, and its initiations is always the most adventurous, challenging, and exalting one can ever undertake. So often, the students in our school join the path in search of meaning, ease, magic, and liberation. Even if some of those might be met on the path, it is too often forgotten significant sacrifice and deep, long struggles might be born out of that sacred quest as a necessary purification process of deeply rooted false narratives.
This day is so precious; you are awakening.
For me, without it, I would have probably stuck with and been killed by the violence and conformity of the capitalistic and colonial model of life. I would have stayed in a life too often described as “the way” our world is and not met the most daunting and yet essential questions of the soul.
There have been so many canyons to cross. Often for long years. But I also remember clearly a couple of the tipping points on that journey.
One was on stage for the “Entrepreneur of the Year” awards in NYC, giving my speech about “success” and realizing it was all a lie (that version of success) as the mask of external achievements I was wearing was hiding a deep inner turmoil, unhappiness, unhealthiness and profound lack of meaning and purpose. I often saw myself as a dying soul in a…
