Ethical Foundations of Spirituality
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Maybe you identify as Spiritual, but not Religious. Maybe you’ve seen all the options available to you—spiritual coaches and retreats to spiritual teachers and temple stays. Or perhaps you’ve observed cultures, spiritual practices, rituals, and methodologies trickling into Western society.
Each place you turn in the spiritual landscape, you’re not sure where or how to begin, especially since there are varying power dynamics at play too.
You just want to journey down a meaningful path. But knowing how to wisely navigate it all requires preparation. It’s preparation that we don’t typically receive within Western cultural upbringing today.
BECOME SPIRITUALLY LITERATE.
This type of preparation is about gaining adequate and ethical fundamentals of spirituality. It’s to become spiritual literate in the hidden, secretive, and fragmented cultural knowledge that provides you with more clarity and confidence for whichever direction your path guides you.
Without the wisdom of such cultural knowledge in the face of imbalanced power dynamics, generation after generation can circle the merry-go-round, repeating old mistakes, and taking one and all further from collective and individual progress.
Centuries ago you would have been anchored in your own lineage’s religiospiritual practices. But without that anchoring, modernity requires us to take more responsibility. Now is the time to pack one’s proverbial backpack with resources. Now is the time to review the spiritual landscape.
The Journey to Spiritual Literacy
Spiritual literacy creates freedom. The entire focus of the offerings here are rooted in guiding you towards your spiritual liberation—however that looks for you.
In our modern times, the pathway of spirituality is cluttered with fragmented spiritual teachings and exploitative ‘experts’.
There are people curious about spirituality, spiritual awakening, and the spiritual journey as a rite of passage, but they feel arrested by the vastness of the spiritual landscape—an influx of modalities, paths, coaches, sages, pills, plants, and the validity of teachings available.
Distinguishing between what is helpful, and what is not, without risking a loss in your time, money, or psychological trauma from bad spiritual teachings—is what you’re up against in these times.
Before you go hurling yourself at or into the spiritual landscape, I want to suggest a better way. You don’t have to wing-it. You can close the knowledge and wisdom gap between you and the spiritual buffet out there.
To confidently embark on your spiritual journey, you can develop spiritual literacy through globally minded, ethical fundamentals of spirituality. In my perspective, this exists across 5 foundational stages.
The 5 Stages
Awareness. The last 500+ years cut humanity away from spirituality, and replaced it with low agency belief systems.
Understanding. Slide your beliefs under the microscope and retrieve what’s useful.
Development. Inside of you lies a powerful force that is critical to your ability to face any oppressive or systemic fears that desire to hold you back.
Upgrade. At the individual level, your spiritual freedom requires you to close the wisdom gap and upgrade your beliefs and perspectives.
Commencement. With your proverbial backpack full of tools and resources, you chart your own spiritual path.
The Medicine for Chaotic Times
There is a reason why the population, Spiritual but not Religious (SBNR), is growing wider each year. The old answers that used to explain the world no longer hold up in the face of so much chaos and upheaval. The old answers only work in a structure of the world that is restrained, less free, and paternalistic.
And that rigid, oppressive structure is breaking down.
The uncertainty of the day requests new answers to be uncovered in the quest of modern times, a rite of passage for modernity—The Spiritual Journey.
The journey is a path full of all sorts of medicine. Full of answers for these times, and your questions. But there are so many folks offering to sell their maps to you, promising to take you into a spirituality that is highly personal.
The gap between what the map sellers know, and what you don’t know is so wide. So, let’s start with the foundations, and understand that spirituality is a medicine that needs its time with you—to unwind the last several centuries of cultural amnesia.
Becoming spiritually literate is no quick fixer upper. It’s fundamental to a holistic process, path, practice, or journey. And it’s meant to be protective for the long haul, rooting and grounding you in knowledge and wisdom so that you get your medicine—instead of getting got.
Cheers, I’m Danver.
I help people gain clarity as they pursue their spiritual journey. I’m a mystic, storyteller, educator, cosmopolitan rebel—a culture worker in the vein of nonmaterial culture transmission. It is a role I’ve held since the mid 2000s. From my position as a public school teacher delivering historical facts, perspectives, and knowledge to a desert community matriarch within the world’s largest leave-no-trace counterculture collective, to my current state as writer and online educator, I am working to close the wisdom gap by transmitting mystical knowledge and wisdom ethically, through storytelling and teaching globally minded fundamentals of spirituality.
Seem Like We’re a Match?
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Here Are 3 Ways to Begin:
Free Resources
You can take the courage quiz and get a course direct to your email inbox. And you can get this Worldview compass course that will explain worldviews and their underlying elements. Both are delivered to your email inbox.
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Self Study
If after you’ve explored the free materials and want more, then take a deeper dive into your courage or worldview with the develop your courage self guide or the understand worldview self guide.
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Full Course
Each person’s spiritual journey and passage into that journey is personal, and often complex. Whether you’ve already begun, or you’re not sure how to begin, this full, 5-week course provides you with the fundamentals of the landscape for a more easeful journey.