"While often associated with the metaphysical, mysticism maintains an older, and often forgotten, relationship with materiality commonly referred to as "eco-mysticism." Entwined with animism, this mystic channel of enquiry is guided by the wisdoms and intelligences of an enlivened matter, engaging our embodied imaginations in a conversation with the more-than-human, past and present. Mycelium, rocks, volcanoes..."

"Grief is not just a passageway for the cathartic, nor is it just an emotional experience of our animality. It doesn’t just affirm love and loss, nor does its presence only periodically show up. Grief is a creature of chthonic inspiration crawling and clambering along the edges of our peripheral awareness. An ecological force that enables a reshaping of the world through capably rendered bodies."

"These are whales that I hear, and their calls and cries are an oral tradition strung together by generation upon generation of their own mother tongue. A mother tongue that I know through the cells of my body, but have no conceptual recollection of how I came to know them. It is a native speech made up of codas (distinct and intentional clicks, pops, and drawn out vocalizations) that permeate the layers of forgetfulness, and reach deep into the core of who I am."

"Prayer arises out of our deepest longings, perpetually consummating our relationship with Mystery. As a result, our bodies become a solemn vow to listen for all the ways we long to dream with the world. 

Consequently, we are reciprocally met by all the ways the world longs to dream with and through us. In this way, futurism becomes an intra-imaginative act of devotion that channels our prayerful attention."

"Surrendering certainties within an overculture that seeks an abiding permanence can feel annihilative. And yet, knowledge of cyclic wisdom dwells within each of our ancestrally birthed bodies. Change is seasonal and transformation is Gaian, and because of this earthen truth each of us is cellularly equipped to cultivate an ongoing relationship with grief." 

"My greatest challenge yet involves a reconstituting of the cellular configuration that makes me me. It involves an obliteration of a self so codified by years of diligent practice that to live for myself means diving down through the dark, consuming depths of mystery. To swim with the night travelers of the deep that echo calls of connection and sing songs of longing. "