NEW STORIES

MYTHIC ADVENTURES
 by Genevieve Boast

LISTENING TO OUR BODY

In times of massive transition, I have come to recognise the voice of my body as an integral guide.

 

It is a voice we often ignore or drown out in distraction.

 

It speaks in feelings, dis-comfort, dis-ease and erratic sleeping patterns.

It also tells us when we are ‘on track’ by manifesting synchronicity, joy and miracles.

 

The voice of my body is ancient and carries within it the wisdom and lessons of my ancestors.

 

It carries in its DNA and cell’s the potential of my future ones.

 

My body is an incredible instrument of divine will.

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THE ECSTASY OF WATER

I am a day late writing this.

This week has been a whirlpool of work, outer world noise and stories all clamouring for my attention.

 

Yesterday, I felt all the competing deadlines swirling around me like currents in the every changing trajectory of the global river.

 

And yet still managed to keep my head above the water.

In fact it was actually exhilarating (for the most part).

A bit like rafting on rapids.

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EASE AND JOY

Years ago I spent my first ever day alone on the land at Sacred Ground.

 

I have written many times about this special place, and you can find out more here (https://www.sacredgroundintl.org/).

 

During this day, I was met by many beings of many races.

 

The Coyote tribe came to visit me, dancing past where I was meditating and stopping within a few meters for a moment to greet me as I smiled right back.

 

The Eagle beings flew over my head throughout the day as I passed the hours in contemplation of my life and soul commitment on Earth.

 

The Buffalo family came to see me, whilst staying half an acre distant so as not to alarm me with their numbers and the force of their love.

 

My Pine siblings gathered in circle with me and our Aspen cousins, offering the embrace of their leafy arms to shield me from the burning radiance of the midday sun.

 

I was one with the ecosystem of Earth and I felt in harmony.

 

That was until the sun started to set.

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NATURAL LAW

Today, I broke camp in the wilds of Wales where I have been playing with my family for a week. It has been a joy sleeping on the land for 7 nights and allowing my body, mind, and soul to adjust to the natural rhythms of the elements of life.

 

I have found that I slept more deeply and fully.

 

I ate less and enjoyed my food more.

 

My emotions have settled into a smooth tempo where the crests and dips of the waves are rolling and flowing naturally – never getting stuck nor heavy. Like the waves of the ocean at play.

 

Natural rhythm, natural law.

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THE LIFE OF A WANDERER

I stand here in the kitchen of what has been my home for the last 9 years (on and off).

 

When I came to Avebury, I assumed I would live here for the rest of my days, as magical and ancient as it is.

 

Yet the Universe had other plans for me.

The Universe always does.

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MOLECULAR MIRRORS

 

Does anyone else feel like they are living in a hall of mirrors lately?

 

In fact, over the last year, it has become increasingly obvious to me that the Universe around us is reflecting back in the molecular structure of our lives the very beliefs, stories and thinking that we are consciously or unconsciously allowing to exist in our fields.

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THE SACRED GROUND WITHIN

This week I have been walking in one of the most powerful places of truth teaching in the world. It asks us to enter here with respect for ourselves and all of life. The essence energy demands nothing less than a complete surrender to our soul and our journey.

 

There is no running away

There is no hiding

Anything that is not complete love must fall away

 

And it is here that we come to rest in the very place that most of us have longed to return to most of our lives.

 

“What are you Sacred Ground?”

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THE EONS OF TIME

Here I sit, located in time.

Fingertips brushing the stone beneath me as I contemplate the mountain of which they are a part. Of which I am a part.

 

The stones beneath me hold within their bodies the memory of Earth.

Of her passing cycles and her transformations.

Of her creations and her destructions.

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THE BELOVED

A week or so ago my sister asked me a profound question.

And I answered it perhaps a bit too quickly.

A bit too tritely.

 

So I have been contemplating it ever since.

She asked me

 

“Gen – who is the beloved?”

 

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HARMONY

Harmony: the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole

 

 

This is one of the dictionary definitions of harmony.

The word that jumped out to me was ‘pleasing’.

 

This week I have been extremely busy with clients before I jump on a plane and head to the US for a few weeks of work. At times, my days have felt chaotic, overwhelming and crazy yet they were in harmony.

 

Why?

Because they were ‘pleasing’ to me.

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THE MEDICINE OF SAMENESS

This week has delivered to me some huge lessons in humility.

 

Why?

Because each time conflict or challenging emotions have arisen in my space, I have seen that I am the source.

 

Me.

 

Sounds odd I know, but it’s far too easy these days to look outside of ourselves at the person, place or situation and blame them for our inner turmoil or dissatisfaction.

 

Humans do it all the time.

Because we have been taught to defend ourselves (and therefore our stories) against ‘external threats’.

 

But why do we feel the need to defend in the first place?

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BREAKING YOUR SHELL

It is the time of year where birth becomes a daily occurrence.

 

Following the resurrection times of Easter, we enter into longer days of light, the springing forth of green shoots and leaves and the beginning of warmer winds that herald the stripping off of winter layers.

 

In the North of England I am surrounded by the birth of lambs in the fields, the rising of early flowers on the hills and the co-creation of new ways of living as the pandemic restrictions we have been under for over a year are starting to lift.

 

Yet birth is often a struggle.

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THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS

We are at an exciting time on the planet.

Yes I say that a lot – but I do truly believe that to be the case.

 

Most of my life (excluding a brief foray into archaeology) I have worked in business.

 

Whether that’s for large corporations, smaller SME’s or in the last 11 years since I have been running Beyond Human Stories, a wide array of limited companies, multi-nationals, community interest companies and social enterprise. I have also worked with educational institutions and multiple not for profits, many of which are now run like businesses due to the way funding streams are structured and allocated.

 

Yet in the last year during a global pandemic, the world of ‘business’ has been able to stop, catch our collective breath, and take a good long look at what is truly important.

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FORGIVENESS

What is your relationship to the primal energy under this seemingly simple word?

 

Is it in your vocabulary?

In your life practice?

 

Perhaps not.

 

Forgiveness is neither easy to say nor do.

It is one of those words that tends to grate up against all the parts of ourselves that we would rather not look at or even see.

 

Yet it’s power to liberate is unimaginable.

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DEEP LISTENING

“Let the words you speak be worthy of the silence they break”

Anon

 

 

This phrase was spoken into the silence of a circle I was a part of over a decade ago and they have stayed with me ever since.

 

As a reminder of the sort of deep presence that I seek to cultivate on a daily basis.

 

How do you feel about silence?

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I AM GRATEFUL

On this day of new life

 

I am grateful

 

In this moment of new breath

 

I am grateful

 

For the past and the lessons it has taught me

 

I am grateful

 

For the present and the presence, I AM cultivating

 

I am grateful

 

And for my dreams and visions of a beautiful future that keep me going

 

I am so grateful

 

 

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COMPLEMENTARITY

Have you ever met someone by following the flow of synchronicity and suddenly ‘just knew’ that you would know them for the rest of your life?  This is exactly what happened to me when natural magic led me to Lorna Howarth, my lifetime(s) friend and co-author of our new book baby, The Soulistic Journey.

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BEING LOST

These are the times of unravelling.

I have said it before, and I will no doubt say it again.

Unravelling is as easy or hard as we make it.

 

The stories we have clung to over the previous hundreds of years are fading away.

 

Our choice now is whether we will fade with them or embrace a phase in human evolution where we simply don’t yet know the answers.

 

This is akin to being lost.

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CAN YOU HEAR IT?

Stop

Don’t rush

This is the moment of magic

The moment when you get to rest between choice and experience

 

Take a breath and

Listen

Allow everything outside to gently hush

And know that everything is really inside

Of you

 

In this ever-present eternal moment of silence

The pregnant catalyst of life

Can you hear it?

 

A new story is beginning to take form

Somewhere inside of you

 

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THE POWER OF HIBERNATION

As we approach the shortest day of the year on December 21st and the Winter Solstice, we are invited to step back from the stories that we live our lives by and find some deep peace and reflection space to rest and regenerate ourselves.

 

After the year that took us all by surprise, we are being asked to use the power of our conscious choice in new ways to create new personal and collective realities. One powerful technique to assist us in doing this is hibernation.

 

Yes – similar to the Bear tribe, we humans can also find our ‘cave’ and carve some ‘sacred time’ out of our day world to rest, enter into silence and care for our bodies, minds, emotions and dreams.

 

Taken directly from the December practices in The Soulistic Journey, the extract below invites you to withdraw from your conscious awareness or identity based stories for a period of time so you can discover the true gifts of the year that is passing.

 

 

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TIMES OF ALCHEMY AND AWARENESS

“The real challenge to humanity at this time – and always – is that of distraction. Most of us are living within a story of ‘survival’ our entire lives. Our ancestors were also locked into the same story but often with a different context. And now, we find the whole global community facing a collective story of survival, from the triple-whammy impact of climate-change, global recession and Covid-19.

How do you respond to the multifaceted challenges of change? Do you feel a sense of relief that things are transforming or a sense of panic that they are out of control? Are you easily swayed into anxiety by those who preach fear and apocalypse, or can you rise above the fear and hold on to the light of potential opportunity? It is important to be aware of your responses because these emotions are the messengers of alchemical transformation.”

Excerpt from The Soulistic Journey

 

These are the times of inner and outer alchemy.

And the fire that fuels this is awareness.

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FIRE CEREMONY

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your actions,

Your actions become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your destiny.”

Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

We find ourselves living through the times of fire.

 

The fires of social, environmental and personal transformation are burning brightly and it’s up to us whether we harness them to transmute the old stories that are ready to die.

 

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WISDOM WEAVING

This month is one of the most fertile times of the wheel of the year on earth. Not because things are growing but because we are planting the seeds of our future stories deep in the soil of our lives.

 

We are able to sink into the inner realms of our imagination and harvest the lessons and blessings of the previous twelve months. This is the time of year when I draw a line in the sand and decide how I wish to co-create the next twelve months in harmony with Universal Law.

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ENTERING INTO REMEMBERING

For the last two years I have been living a wonderful story.

A story that romanced my friend Lorna and I for a year or more before she allowed us to catch her and bring it into form.

 

This story is called The Soulistic Journey.

And I remember the exact moment that she told us her name.

 

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CYCLES OF TIME AND PLACE

This week I found myself reflecting.

 

This Wednesday was the 11th November 2020.

 

11.11.2020

 

If you are a student of numerology like my mother or astrology like several of my friends this was an important date for many reasons. Master numbers, planetary conjunctions, Universal forces coming into form. The story of potential was big.

 

And yet amongst all the bigness of what is undoubtedly happening in the world right now, I found myself reflecting on the journey of the last 9 year cycle for me (9 being the number of endings and beginnings).

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RETURNING TO EARTH

We are all indigenous to Earth.

 

This is something I have spoken about frequently with many of the amazing elders who I am lucky enough to have in my life as teachers, guides and role models.

 

Humans are catalysed by stardust and yet made of Earth and clothed in her elements.

 

All our relations on this beautiful living planet are formed in similar yet different and diverse ways.

 

Our challenge is to return to a more integrated and interdependent way of living within the complex and intelligent ecosystem of Earth.

 

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THE POWER GAMES WE ALL PLAY

This week I have been paying a lot of attention to my version of power games. Primarily how I attempt to regain a sense of power and agency in my life when forces outside of me feel out of control and downright scary.

 

And I think we would all be lying if we didn’t admit to feeling somewhat out of control right now in the world!

 

I have noticed on multiple occasions the temptation to manipulate people and situations to fit the outcome I desire. Especially when I perceive that things are not flowing according to my inner plan and feel out of my control.

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FORGIVENESS AS FREEDOM

Forgiveness comes in the moments that really matter

Like those of life or death

It comes when we are asked to be bigger, wider, expansive

More than we have ever been before

 

Forgiveness opens doors

Doors that we have tried to close and lock

 

Forgiveness breathes us

Into places we have tried to forget

 

Forgiveness is a mirror

Into the parts of our soul that we have rejected

 

We forgive to create freedom

We forgive to liberate

We forgive to love

 

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TRUSTING THE MYSTERY

Ever heard the phrase “shit happens”?

 

Yes me too – this week has been one where ‘shit’ has happened unexpectedly (at least to my brain) multiple times.

 

Now I could have chosen to judge the ‘shit’ as wrong, bad, unfair, unjust but instead it stunned me into an inner silence that I wasn’t expecting.

 

And therein lies the gift of the mystery…..

 

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ON PATIENCE AND PRECISION

Years ago when I was studying for my master’s degree in sustainable business, I came across an article by Myerson and Scully called ‘Tempered Radicalism and the politics of change’.  Although the title of the article sounded dry, after reading it, I was caught by the powerful concept that the authors put forwards around the art of transforming communities and systems.

 

They spoke about how often when we are trying to create change, we can become derailed and frustrated by our own impatience and our need to ‘make’ or ‘force’ change before it is naturally ready to happen.

 

They also talked about the delicate balance between the states of persistence and desistence.

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THE BALANCE OF POLARITIES

Next week is the Autumn Equinox, falling in the sign of Libra on the 22nd Sept.

 

Equinoxes are times when the day and night are exactly the same lengths, bringing us to an alchemical moment of balance and awareness.

 

Libra, traditionally shown as a female figure holding scales in her hand, represents harmony and equilibrium in all aspects of life.

 

So this is a time when we are all invited to consider how we are dealing with seeming polarities in our lives.

 

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LIFE AND DEATH – DIFFERENT SIDES TO THE SAME COIN

This week yet again I am dealing with death.

But I am also welcoming life.

 

The two paradoxical concepts seem ever more merged as we move beyond the old stories of duality and separation in our world.

 

This week I am letting go of a home and an identity.

This week, I am embracing a new and ancient adventure back into the heartlands of my ancestors, human and more than human.

 

Let me explain.

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NEW NARRATIVE WATERS

“Stories are like the water in which we swim, all pervasive land yet easily imperceptible”

 

This year has felt like a whirlpool of change.

 

Largely it has been out of our personal control and yet, calling each and every one of us to take greater responsibility for the stories within which we choose to swim.

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