🌼🌺 Acedia and Joy 🌼🌺 Acedia is an ancient word, but its presence feels unmistakably modern. Traditionally described as a kind of spiritual apathy, acedia wasn’t simply laziness—it was a quiet disconnection from meaning, purpose, and the sacredness of being alive. A dulling of the spirit. Today, we often call it something else: burnout. Burnout…
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Making A Canoe – A shamanic story of energy and initiation
A shamanic story from our lineage. — “I was a shaman and lived in a village that was quite settled, we were not really nomadic, although we were situated on a river, so there was still a nomadic aspect to our existence. We also traded with other villages, we went by water and used canoes….