The See(k)er's
Journey
Discover the Medicine within the Wound &
the Creative Source within your Difference
How will my life and my relationships be enriched by going on a See(k)er’s Journey?
It’s not always easy, to feel called to be a See(k)er.
Yet, in my own experience, and also from what I have seen in my work with others, going on a transformational See(k)er’s Journey and exploring your inner depths can help you to:
- Connect more Deeply with your Inner Truth and your Soul’s Path
- Discover your Unique Gift within your Place of Wounding
- Empower you to create more Authentic and Fulfilling Relationships
- Transform Conflicts into Deeper Connection
- Grow your Inner Powers and Authority
- Create a more Meaningful and Congruent life
- See the Mythic Flow of your Story—its Patterns, Obstacles, Allies and Treasures
- Unleash your Creative and Visionary Expression
- Experience and be an agent of profound Reconciliation and Healing
- Embody your Sacred Purpose and Ancestral Legacy
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What’s the See(k)er’s Journey like?
See(k)er’s Journeys involve a spirit of curiosity and exploration. This may bring up a mix of feelings, both exciting and edgy, because it is often about going towards the unknown, towards that which feels outside your familiar experience or identity. The way this looks is different for everyone: it depends on your life’s trajectory and what you meet on the way and what you are called to explore.
But whatever it looks like, it will involve ‘crossing Edges,’ like for example: exploring new ways of relating, having a courageous conversation, looking at a part of yourself that’s maybe not easy to see, bringing out your unique voice, learning to say no, and so forth.
The benefit of this process of crossing Edges is that it is the way through which we build our inner powers. In my upcoming online courses about the See(k)er’s Journey I will offer more detailed guidance on how to work with your Edges.
Because it is a standalone term, just like pilot or doctor, the term See(k)er should be taken here as applying to all gender expressions.
But whatever it looks like, it will involve ‘crossing Edges,’ like for example: exploring new ways of relating, having a courageous conversation, looking at a part of yourself that’s maybe not easy to see, bringing out your unique voice, learning to say no, and so forth.
The benefit of this process of crossing Edges is that it is the way through which we build our inner powers. In my upcoming online courses about the See(k)er’s Journey I will offer more detailed guidance on how to work with your Edges.
Because it is a standalone term, just like pilot or doctor, the term See(k)er should be taken here as applying to all gender expressions.
How did you develop the See(k)er’s Journey?
The See(k)er’s Journey described below is inspired by the original template of the “Hero’s Journey” by Joseph Campbell. I adapted it specifically for See(k)ers based on my personal quest to transform the impacts of intergenerational trauma in every realm of my life, ranging from sexuality and relationships to my spiritual quest to my ability to connect with myself and my soul’s path and purpose.
My journey of personal and ancestral healing took me around the globe from Europe to India to post-Apartheid South Africa, to Israel/Palestine and the West Coast of America.
I have studied Tantra and bodywork, explored Advaita and visited Ashrams in India, but also worked for a prominent anti-Apartheid activist and leadership consultant who mentored me in the field of leadership development and organizational development. I facilitated processes around joining sexuality and spirituality, personal growth and relationship development as well as dialogues between former enemy groups.
I have explored the mysterious process of intergenerational and ancestral healing with the living as well as with those who have passed and in the process have connected with the powerful wisdom of the ancestors for our lives and challenges today.
All of these experiences have shown me how our hidden wounds—when made conscious and engaged with—may become sources of healing for ourselves, our relationships, with those we may think of as “other,” and even with the dead.
I developed the See(k)er’s Journey by looking at the universal and archetypal themes within my personal trajectory, as well as my four decades of working with transformational processes in others around the world. These perspectives infuse my meaning-making process, allowing me to bring a unique set of lenses and illustrate transformational pathways, based on my lived experience in combination with a Process-Oriented framework and skills set.
Process-Oriented Psychology or Process Work in short, is a methodology evolved from Jungian Psychology by my beloved late teacher Dr. Arnold Mindell. It offers a highly practical and innovative methodology for connecting with the deeper layers and meaning of your process and for working with various issues and dynamics that may come up on your journey.
You can read more about Process Work, here, here and here.
My journey of personal and ancestral healing took me around the globe from Europe to India to post-Apartheid South Africa, to Israel/Palestine and the West Coast of America.
I have studied Tantra and bodywork, explored Advaita and visited Ashrams in India, but also worked for a prominent anti-Apartheid activist and leadership consultant who mentored me in the field of leadership development and organizational development. I facilitated processes around joining sexuality and spirituality, personal growth and relationship development as well as dialogues between former enemy groups.
I have explored the mysterious process of intergenerational and ancestral healing with the living as well as with those who have passed and in the process have connected with the powerful wisdom of the ancestors for our lives and challenges today.
All of these experiences have shown me how our hidden wounds—when made conscious and engaged with—may become sources of healing for ourselves, our relationships, with those we may think of as “other,” and even with the dead.
I developed the See(k)er’s Journey by looking at the universal and archetypal themes within my personal trajectory, as well as my four decades of working with transformational processes in others around the world. These perspectives infuse my meaning-making process, allowing me to bring a unique set of lenses and illustrate transformational pathways, based on my lived experience in combination with a Process-Oriented framework and skills set.
Process-Oriented Psychology or Process Work in short, is a methodology evolved from Jungian Psychology by my beloved late teacher Dr. Arnold Mindell. It offers a highly practical and innovative methodology for connecting with the deeper layers and meaning of your process and for working with various issues and dynamics that may come up on your journey.
You can read more about Process Work, here, here and here.
Use this Web Page to get a feel for your own See(k)er’s Journey:
- The steps below outlines the archetypal evolutionary journey that helps a Seeker become a Seer and bring forward their unique gifts.
- Use them to help you understand where you are on the path, to make meaning of your own experiences, to know that you are not alone.
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YOUR SEE(K)ER’S JOURNEY
THE FIRST GATE:
CONNECTING TO THE SEE(K)ER IN YOU
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
01. The Seeker’s Scar:
Getting to Know your Journey’s Landscape
I was born with eyes
that can never close.
~ Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses
Core Themes
- Often this is prompted by a painful experience, some kind of initial wounding
- See(k)ers often ask deep questions from an early age. Therefore, their experience can be one of a sense of disconnect or lack of resonance and belonging with the world around you, feeling different, like an outsider or outlier, being the ‘sensitive’ one, the one who feels what no one around you seems to feel or perceive. Even if you speak the same language, on an emotional and soul level it can feel like no one speaks your mother tongue. It can be a lonely and even isolating experience, and depending on context and circumstances this feeling can vary in intensity
- Because of the experience of not quite belonging, there can be a sense of “what’s wrong with me” mixed with a background yearning even if you don’t know exactly what for
- This feeling of ‘homesickness’ propels the Seeker to go on their quest
- Within this experience there’s often a hidden treasure: your unique gift and ally
- Getting to know the Seeker in you can help you find that treasure
02. The Flirt :
Deciphering Your Soul’s Language
And something ignited my soul,
fever or unremembered wings,
and I went my own way,
deciphering that burning fire.
~ Pablo Neruda, La Poesia
Core Themes
- The subtle sense of ‘homesickness’ of step 1 propels an urge to carve out and discover your own path in life instead of following the trodden paths
- Something is calling you, even if vague, often sparked by a crisis
- Your soul is as it were ‘flirting’ with you in the sense of trying to catch your attention in the form of a book that opens your eyes to something, a person who makes you see the world differently, a chance encounter that opens you to a new world or way
- Exploring your ‘Field of Resonance’ can help you connect with your inner path
03. Behind the Veil :
Unearthing the Stories in your Bones
Grief permeates life and grieving can take many forms, but grief can never be outrun or simply thought away, transcended, or meditated into nonexistence. Necessary grief when shunned or unattended can easily hide for years, even generations, in the skeletal structure of the family collective psyche. Like light, matter, sound, and energy, grief will eventually manifest even among those in the future who did not consciously experience the loss.
~ Martin Prechtel, The Smell of Rain on Dust
Core Themes
- Even as we carve out our own paths, we carry the untold stories and secrets of our ancestors in our bones
- Symptoms of the unconscious wound of step 1 begin to manifest but you don’t have any way to make sense or meaning of them
- Because the original wound is one of disconnect, this carries through into the inner world and manifests as a disconnect between outer experience and personal/collective/ancestral history
- The Seekers Journey is a quest to “bring all the parts home”
- Restoring connection is the fertilizer that grows inner powers
04. Develop Your Inner Knowing:
Meeting the Teacher Within
All that you are seeking is also seeking you.
If you lie still, sit still, it will find you.
It has been waiting for you a long time.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women who Run with the Wolves
Core Themes
- Even as we carve out our own paths, we carry the untold stories and secrets of our ancestors in our bones
- Symptoms of the unconscious wound of step 1 begin to manifest but you don't have any way to make sense or meaning of them
- Because the original wound is one of disconnect, this carries through into the inner world and manifests as a disconnect between outer experience and personal/collective/ancestral history
- Connect with the characteristics of the teacher without to grow the teacher within
05. Bridging Worlds :
Deepening Intimacy and Eros
Lovers share a sacred decree -
to seek the Beloved.
They roll head over heels
rushing toward the Beautiful One
like a torrent of water.
~Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, One Whisper of the Beloved
Core Themes
- Shift relational patterns: Crossing Edges in relationships
- Heal the Split: Bringing your true self to sexuality and relationships
- Expand your agency and capacity through ‘Inside Out Relating’
- Discover new worlds of Intimacy, Pleasure, Eros and Transcendence
- Bridge Worlds: Joining Sexuality and Spirituality
THE SECOND GATE:
CULTIVATING YOUR INNER POWERS
06. Growing Your Ability to be
Enriched by Conflict
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
~David Whyte, Sweet Darkness
Core Themes
- Confrontation with unintegrated parts and (ancestral) histories: "fate"
- Meeting your shadow/core Edges - often in context of relationships
- Learn to ‘see with deeper eyes’ into your ‘opponent’
- The journey to wholeness: I am that too
- Finding the gold within the shadow
- Become more empowered and fluid in dealing with conflicts
- Discover portals into more expansive, lively and authentic ways of relating
07. How To Trick Your Critic and
Steal Its Power
These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness.
~Audre Lorde, Poetry is Not a Luxury
Core Themes
- Getting to know your inner critic and retrieving its power
- De-pathologize yourself
- Taking back the projection: having it out on the inside
- Inner empowerment
- Reclamation: Birthing yourself
08. Connect with your Deepest Truth:
Engaging Death as an Ally
Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings
~Wendell Berry, To Know the Dark
Core Themes
- Connecting to your deepest purpose: what is most important
- Integrating death: letting go of what isn’t essential
- Growing your inner power: Standing in your truth
- Discovering your authentic voice and inner freedom
- Death as a teacher for living & loving more fully
09. Enter the House of Belonging:
Growing your Inner Authority
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Core Themes
- Inner cohesiveness: Belonging with yourself
- Develop inner empowerment, sovereignty
- Connect with your soul’s calling and vision
- Discover an inner resource of power
- Meeting your Big Life Edge
THE THIRD GATE:
BECOMING A SEER
Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
~Joy Harjo, Remember
10. Becoming a Seer:
Discover the Medicine Within the Wound
The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.
~C. JoyBell C., The Sun is Snowing
Core Themes
- The See(k)er becomes a Seer
- Access the hidden powers/treasure within the original Seeker’s Scar
- Create inner and outer alignment
- Expand your ability to create authentic relationships
- Embody and manifest your unique powers: the visionary, artist, inventor, leader, healer, writer, inspirer, actor; the one with profound perception and intuition
- Re-enter the world with the Seer’s forcefield: unique and magnetic powers grown from within
- Being a force for good/ truth/ awakening/ transformation/ liberation/ inspiration
- Connect to your purpose and soul’s path
11. Finding The Elixir:
Embodying Your Unique Gift
We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light, with patience.
~Pablo Neruda, The Sea and the Bells
Core Themes
- Going full circle from the Loss of Home (the wound of not belonging) to finding an Inner Home to returning to tribe/community/family with Unique Gift
- Becoming a ‘Wounded Healer’
- Transforming your Nemesis
- Embodying your Leadership/Creative Voice and Vision
- Surfacing of family secrets, witnessing stories that could never be told, healing old wounds, resolving ancient conflicts
- Because this is about entering a subtler realm, this can also be the land of synchronicities, chance encounters, ancestral healing, dreams and visions
12. Song of the Ancestors:
Living your Ancestral Legacy
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house
~Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Core Themes
- Reconciling with the Living and the Dead
- Engage in Ancestral Healing
- Explore your relationship with your ancestors
- Connect with your ancestral legacy
- Deepening your purpose as part of an ancestral web
- Closing the loop: bringing the wisdom of the dead to the living and offering our responses to the questions their lives left behind
13. Integration: Connect With Your Calling
by Developing A Meta Position
Core Themes
- Looking back at the Journey’s themes, activities and explorations
- Seeing patterns & flow: connecting with your process from a higher level