Dear Ones,
These are curious and challenging times. But there are things we can do ~ and here at The Cura Council, we are doing them with a very clear action step of repairing our own consciousness in relationship with creation, as a way to begin. We do this in community and in the context of a path of practice and in seasonal ceremony that repairs our relationship with creation.
How are you doing this work of repair for yourself?
What message is rising up within you as you engage with our material?
If you are seeking a community to bring your sacred work to life AND you choose to be a conscious leader guiding the future - join us for the rest of the year at Animystica. I don’t think there is ANY doubt that people who really care are really needed in leadership.
To do this work of repair, we must look at the timeline that lead to the Era of Domination that we have been in for the past 10-13k. years. We must look at the artifacts for their story, what archeologist Maria Gambutas calls archeo-mythology. From the ancestral messages available in the timeline, left to us by artisan ancestors, we can weave our relationship with creation, and the future we are co-creating right in this minute. Note that as soon as artists begin to be paid to create specific messaging based on who is paying them, the artifacts may no longer represent the pure vision of our ancestors, but rather a manipulated storyline promoted by conquesters.
Here at MUSEA one of the reasons we emphasize being artisans telling new stories, inventing image and language is becuase - who controls the narrative and the images, controls the paradigm. We MUST exit the dominant paradigm by choice and enter the Era of Collaboration. This is not a default setting, we have to choose and move our entire being into a new place, including ending the domination within ourselves.
The future is being cocreated right in this minute, the question is just if you are going to be a part of it, and what part you’re actually willing to commit to.
We must look at the artifacts of our ancestors in order to discern a path forward that understands a little bit about where we’ve been. This particular timeline graphic is always in process and has mistakes that need to be corrected. What do you see? Is there a correction I need to make to the timeline? I can already see things that needs to change but I must not delay in this updated release. Please comment. Thank you to anthropologist Annie Melzer for her support and taking this to the next level. I updated it again this morning.
This image of the timeline is not fixed, but fluid and I realize the timeline is from just my limited perspective of study, and does not represent the whole world and was not derived from Indigenous sources, but histories that have been published. This will become ours when you contribute. Over a year ago when I released it I asked a lot of people for input. Very few people had anything to say about the changes and it made me wonder how many of us are actually clear on how we got to where we are today?! I looked at dozens of sources to create it and will update it for the rest of my life if it helps us understand where we are and how we can make the world safer for the children of the present and the future. This is a call to action to declare the Era of Collaboration.
The first call to action is to become at cause for conscious choice within yourself. Then begin to repair your relationship with creation. This is HOW we address collapse from the root within ourselves. We study the repair of this relationship in the eight ceremonies of the year at The Cura Council.
For those of you who are called to
mending within the community/communities
guiding others to their own repair through circle and ceremony and one-on-one client work
those of you who are healers inundated with the frequencies of what’s happening on the planet right now and aren’t sure of your next step
for those of you with Shamanic training but who are not indigenous in terms of it being your own culture, how do you do this in a good way and address the feeling of always borrowing - what is common amongst us that can be accessed without undue appropriation?
for those looking for ritual and healing arts you can access without appropriation, because what we are teaching honors the Indigenous root system, yet belongs to all humans because all humans have always done these four things in their own way -
painted with an intent to tell story and heal and honor relationship with the elements of all of creation and creatures (medicine painting)
drawn to illustrate internal and external imagery to respresent visions, ideas, dreams and maps to the sweet potatoe patch, to develop symbols and our first written languages (intuitive and gesture drawing while witnessing the creation - a form of journeying while illustrating)
practiced healing one another based on our understanding of how energy works (energy and quantum healing working with particle and wave)
practiced ceremony in cycles with the seasons, suns and moons and the natural habitat, sense of place where we live and are from (elemental ceremony)
Granted all tribes did it their own unique way based on the habitat, big animals, small insects and climate where they arose - but all original tribes worked with ideas like these based on the artifacts and the stories they tell. Of course there is always more, but this is a place to begin and to continue your good work in the world and bless our planet and our cosmos with your big hearted love.
These kinds of Healing Arts are what we will teach you for yourself to experience and to guide others in Animystica, The Intentional Creativity® Cura Certification. Cura is to cure, to heal, to mend and care - this is a call to the return of the village healer. The village you serve could be local, non-local or inter-dimensional - but where do you offer your healing gifts on the altar of creation?
Do you need to be certifed to offer healing arts like what I am speaking about here? No. This is training for those who choose repair who also want to travel in a sacred container together and who are seeking logical and mystical tools to use in any situation to offer relief.
Animystica: The Intentional Creativity Cura Certification.
This training, Animystica is an experience for…
For those who are looking for a deeply embodied, practice of self expression and who want to share it with those they love, be welcome here.
For those of you who are carriers of medicine, who need to nourish your own imagery and language, I call to you.
For those of you with multifaceted gifts that you’ve already developed, this is a place for you, especially if seek image and language and healing arts to make your work visible
For those of you, looking for your deepest, truest voice, I call to you, will you answer me back?
For those of you seeking a community of consciously evolving, creative, and eccentric bringers of change, we are here - and we are going to keep meeting for 500 years.
The Cura Council is a leadership group within the community of Musea Center for Intentional Creativity and Consciousness. The Guild Members who are Graduates, run the organizations because they are the ones trained in this work and who desire to create the future together in a committed and resourceful way.
Would you like to spend the rest of the year with us doing your own repair work? Forming a vision for your contribution? Creating a physical or digital book that represents your vision for the future? Telling the story that aligns with your soul? What longs for self expression this lifetime? Let’s talk about it in a one on one conversation.
Spending time one on one with the women in our community is blowing my mind, opening my heart and expanding the training just because of who is showing up. The training is a sacred container shaped by all of those who travel in the cohort together. An application followed by an interview is open now through April 5.
Our work is available complementary to tens of thousands of people every single year, so that there is no boundary to access of the theories that we’re working with. We have been providing complementary education for close to 30 years in various forms. You can join the ceremonies complementary or make a contribution toward what it takes to bring you these ceremonies. But no one is turned away from the Ceremonoies. Thee specific offerings of great abundance and co-creative learning together are part of our community work of repair and celebration.
Trainings, Intentional Creativity Certifications are for those who are called to be leaders for the next 500 years - and yes, training and practice required. This is a rigorous Path of Practice that includes deep repair, but also holds ceremony and celebration joy and connection. This isn’t all about dragging up what’s happening in the current political or financial or warring climate, actually, we are working in a parallel paradigm. We already know what’s up and we want to do something about it - not spend all of our time fighting the structures, but creating new ones rooted in the awareness of the root causes of collapse, and love of creation.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
This is the training ~ a place to begin or continue, that will open up your relationship to all of the other activisms that you care about in the world. The essential content of our curriculum is available to all and it is what we share. The investment of resources goes towards covering the staff and the technology that it takes to bring you trainings like this. And, towards the education, it takes to bring you the gifts of the healing arts that we have been cultivating. But none of the gifts are actually for sale. They belong to all of us equally even though we don’t all have access. Training leaders, Curas, Teachers, Coaches, Guides, Practitioners and Guardians who are carrying the gifts of the healing arts, is what makes it possible to share it with more people who need it. In times of crisis and suffering, where do you turn? We will show you four healing arts you can turn to and use in any situation where healing is needed.
So I ask you - What is your message? This is my message - repair our relationship with creation and start today - this message is here to catalyze your message. Most true messages are not singular, the truest and most vital messages impact everyone in the community and creation. Let’s seek the common ground together.
I carry unreasonable hope because I am in love with creation and all of us.
This work is not some romantic ideal about who we are as a species, this is something deeply felt in my body and soul, that conscious evolution is possible, and it is made possible through choice. I have seen it with my own eyes and felt it in my own experience through the past 14 years of trainings in Intentional Creativity. I was raised in a culture of caring, by women who cared deeply for us as children and for the future of our planet, most of all, and for humans in tandem with our planet and cosmos. As Sue Hoya Sellars said:
”We are all cooling sacks of stars. Who is choosing to colonize this matter?”
In order to make a choice, you have to know that there is a choice to be made. Chances are, your entire identity will be relieved and ready once you choose to be on the path that you came here to practice.
Let us continue in a good way.
Curate Shiloh Sophia
Photo of me and Nikki Rhodes, a Color of Woman student and staff member at Musea University. We had a Ceremony in February at Wild Water Creek in Two Raven Canyon on Sonoma Mountain. The birthplace of creation, according to coastal Miwok legend.
Root cause of collapse (and how to begin repair)