To handle increasing levels of uncertainty and overwhelm in the world by drawing on the deep resources of our self and soul.
Fear can serve as a guide when we are faced with the need to change our lives.
To navigate crossroads in life by finding the resiliency to recover from early life issues and the courage to change.
Being on the threshold involves awakening to the purpose of our life and following our calling and destiny.
We are not alone in times of change, but rather archetypal forces can help us find new ways of healing, and creative ways of transforming our lives.
The bridge of life stretches between the daily world, where things become divided and stuck and the Otherworld of great imagination and endless potentials. Even as we sleep our dreams serve as a bridge between realms, revealing hidden parts of ourselves and stirring the essential waters of change.
In troubled times it becomes important to know that at every threshold there are creative energies waiting to enter the world through us. As everything else seems to fall apart, the deep “knowing self” within us moves closer to the surface and seeks to become known.
Personal and collective crises may threaten our habitual ways of being on one level, while opening the doors of vision and understanding on another level. Threshold moments and transformative events can break time open and reframe our entire life, altering its trajectory and renewing its vitality.
The inner medicine of the soul is found in the creative middle way which involves the power of becoming; becoming aware of new ways of being as well as coming to know ancient wisdom again. In the timeless moments of change we come to see the world as we are intended to see it and find the genuine aims of our lives.
Welcome to the "Thresholds of Change" Course
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Session 1 Overview
Opening Song - Azisona / Introduction
Thresholds of Change
Three Ways of Thinking
Being on the Threshold
Messages from the Threshold
Question 1: Can you speak to the threshold of death as an archetype? How do we cultivate that threshold as a liminal space without fear as a culture and as a world?
Question 2: I was really struck by the line of "a false sense of security is the only kind there is." Would you say more about this idea as it seems that so much in the modern world is about finding and holding on to literal security?
Question 3: As an artist and writer I've focused upon creative work dealing with the threshold for decades. I'm wondering what you feel the role of art might be in this time?
Question 4: Can you speak to the idea that fear is an indicator of where we might individually be aimed, as we stand on the threshold?
Audio: Azi Sona - Full Song
Audio: Azi Sona - Commentary
Audio - The Realm of Myth and Imagination
Book Excerpt - Run Towards the Roar
Book Excerpt - The Story of Apocalypse
Session 2 Overview
By the Light of the Soul (Hindu Parable)
Story Commentary
Individuation
Origin of Healing Ceremonies (Native American Story)
Story Commentary
Question 1: Please say more about shrinking from the future and how that is reflected in how we live our life. The decisions we make, what we avoid.
Question 2: Can you say something about cultivating the capacity to move through thresholds more gracefully?
Question 3: I understand holding the tension, but doesn't there also come a time to act, to not be stuck in the tension and make the move, even if the third thing is not yet clear?
Question 4: In times of change and uncertainty, the little self can sometimes hijack spirituality and turn the quest for soul into a form of spiritual superiority or narcissism. How can we avoid this and not to follow the little self's false directions?
Conclusion and Closing Song
Audio - Finding Purpose in Change
Audio - Facing Darkness
Book Excerpt - The Roar of Awakening
Book Excerpt - The Last Thread
Session 3 Overview
Opening Song - Pura Sa Meni / Introduction
The Creative Middle
Crossroads, Old Woman (Bushman Story Part 1)
Story Commentary
Question 1: Do we in the mesocosm have to heal ourselves before we can begin to heal the macrocosm?
Question 2: Can you talk about the outsiders, especially as it relates to sensitive, seeking people, who may have fallen through the cracks or are torn apart by the tension of opposites?
Question 3: There's some aspect of the little self that has to die for the creative movement to happen. How do we identify what aspect needs to die? Is it what we fear? Some area of the self where we are afraid to go?
Audio: Pura Sa Meni - Song and Commentary
Audio: Pura Sa Meni - Song (small choir version)
Audio - Resistance to Change
Audio - News from the Otherworld
Book Excerpt - Holding the Thread of Life
Book Excerpt - Die Before You Die
Session 4 Overview
Intermediary Realm
Crossroads, Old Woman (Bushman Story Part 2)
Story Commentary
Question 1: What questions can we ask to evoke the intermediary space between people?
Question 2: Can you say something about relationships coming and going? I've learned that it is shameful to let a relationship go that has ever had intimacy. I feel like I'm dragging the weight of untended relationships and being tormented by guilt.
Question 3: The story exemplifies the importance of embarking on a journey to find one's gifts. The journey is often dangerous and arduous. What are some modern versions of the journey that can help one discover their gifts?
Question 4: Talking about soul connections, I recently lost my husband of 47-plus years. I want to find a new relationship with him. Do you have any guidance?
Question 5: Can you point to places in the modern world where the realm of the intermediaries remains acknowledged and related to? It seems so hard to locate such subtle middle ground at this time in the world.
Conclusion and Closing Song
Audio - Thresholds of Initiation, Part 1
Audio - Thresholds of Initiation, Part 2
Book Excerpt - Inner Eyes of Soul
Book Excerpt - The Second Adventure of Life
Book Excerpt -
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