

You are exploring, or want to explore, your inner wilderness and open to expanding your toybox of exploration.You are ready to own your shit, reckon with collective shit, and get real with all aspects of y/our wholeness.You are more interested in asking better questions than ‘finding THE answer’ or even “saving the planet”.You are inclined to trust that dreams, more-than-human kin, and so-called ‘dead’ matter are core to the story and offer abundant wisdoms.

You are exhausted by the same old personal and collective habits and even so-called solutions.You feel like a barbarian in an Empire your soul doesn’t recognize.
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TRICKSTER HEARTS CRACK
It means to crack open the paved super-highways of our hearts to allow the underground tributaries of our holy longings and wild purpose to flow into new/old landscapes.įalling Off the Map is premised on cartographic promiscuity with our holy longings as compass and structured around experimenting in an embodied way with 12-ish trickster values/practices/images, including: To cross the threshold into species maturity with a next-season guest pass requires experimenting with trickster moves and imaginable buds counter to imperially approved or recognized desires and habits. What might it mean to practice being a barbarian, to divest from Empire’s map? What happens when we take a breath beyond that water? Empire’s ‘doctrine of discovery’ was a primary weapon for dispossession of people from their own local, lived maps and modes of being. Modernity created a mono-map that has us seemingly trapped by “stories so core to our existence that we don’t even track them as stories.” It’s the water we swim in. If there’s one thing Empire is good at, it’s zealous map-making-ensuring everything is named and charted, dominating mystery with over-determined meaning and shallow sign-posts, and cutting us off from our true inhabitance in an animate world abuzz with vitality and emergence. We are being invited to fall through inherited maps into new/old territories of being and relating. To recognize that freedom requires a species scale betrayal of our founding mythologies.”

“It can be dangerous to investigate what our lives depend on, Description FALLING OFF THE MAP: Trickster Practice In the Great Composting is an 8-week interactive course dedicated to proliferating imaginal buds and practicing ways of being beyond the inherited coordinates of Modernity, through an animist, ecospiritual, liberatory lens
