What if Getting Lost Was the Path to Finding Everything?

A special invitation to the Fugitive Futures Summit

You’re invited to join me at the Fugitive Futures Summit, a one-of-a-kind online gathering of culture makers, storytellers, mystics, teachers, and visionaries.

Get 15% off when you register through this link:

I also highly recommend you watch the film Village of Lovers, which I helped bring to my community in Portland and wrote about in this essay:

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We're all buckling under the weight of an uncertain future.

Culture has never been more in need of dire repair and reclamation, as late-stage capitalism, runaway climate collapse, and hyper-political factionalism continues to divide more and more people who, at heart, actually have more in common than not.

Culture is the operative word here - an amorphously defined set of rituals, beliefs, customs, and language that binds together a people and a place.

As an anthropology student, I studied culture day in and day out for the majority of my college career. I count myself lucky to have been able to pursue ethnographic fieldwork at the tender age of 20, traveling to Australia’s Northern Territory to spend time with the Yolngu Aboriginal people.

Culture has always been, and remains, a center point of my life. And recently I’ve been sitting with the understanding that much of the lens through which I see the world continues to be one of culture.

But it seems that never before has the question of culture, and how to both repair and claim this mercurial yet essential part of who we are. These days, hard questions around identity, values, and belonging seem to be all the more needed as these very structures seem to be crumbling and changing at a rate that is hard to fathom.

Fortunately, I’ve found some allies along the way. My friends at Re/Culture Films and the Mythic Masculine Podcast, Ian MacKenzie, John Wolfstone, and Julia Maryanska, (who I have yet to meet in person but whose work has affected me deeply) recently released their film, Village of Lovers, which I helped bring to my community in Portland last summer.

The film sparked deep questions and had a profound effect on me, so much so that I wrote an entire Substack post about it.

To accompany their film launch, they’ve put together a virtual gathering with a staggering level of weight and genius behind it.

Join me for a 5-day Rite-of-Passage journey, where, with some of the most edge-walking thought leaders and cultural revivalists, we will challenge the prevailing meta-cultural narratives that bind us.

Instead, we will be dreaming together of a more “fugitive” way forward—a multivalent concept introduced to me by the wonderful Bayo Akomolafe, who will lend his unique voice to the summit, along with a cohort of masterful, revolutionary, and inspiring thinkers and activists.

Truly, this is one epic group of people.

Fugitive Futures was born not as an escape, but rather as a confrontation with unexamined assumptions and uncomfortable consequences of what has been called the “anthropocentric” way of thinking.

This gathering asks: What does it mean to surrender certainty? How can we become "lost" to find more regenerative ways of being?

This will be a tender confrontation of mortality, reminding us of the stakes in fleeing from life’s most challenging truths. We will hold each other to stay present with the discomfort of endings—not just of lives, but of cultural paradigms.

This is not a summit for the faint but for those ready to reimagine and rebuild from the threshold of uncertainty.

I’ll certainly be there.

Get 15% off the Fugitive Futures summit by registering through the link below:

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There are still spots available in new 6-week course, Psychedelics and the Soul: Level 1 - Mythopoetic Integration.

You’re invited to join a vibrant community of psychedelic practitioners and inner explorers to learn about the world of symbolism, dreams, and altered states of consciousness.

In this 6-week course, I’ll walk you through the Mythopoetic Integration Method, a way of working with visionary and psychedelic experiences that draws upon the traditions of Jungian depth psychology, archetypal psychology, dreamwork, and animistic perspectives.

Course begins January 28th. Sign up here:

You’re invited to come to my monthly Mythopoetic Integration Circle, which is available for all paid subscribers. This monthly group call is an opportunity to see this method in action, and to engage in the type of collective, inner work that we’ll be doing on a more in-depth level in the course. It’s only $8 a month, plus you’ll get access to my full archive and audio essays.