the Wisdom of Suffering and Soul Activism

Soul whispered to me of "pathosophy" (the wisdom of suffering) since being a child. ​

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It will be through our willingness to be tempered, to walk with a broken heart, to compost collectively our immense grief and the courage to make amend, restore and regenerate the soil & soul of our beautiful home that we may know what it is to be a true human being. ​

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Whether we like it or not we are being initiated and 'passaged' into the next phase of being humans here on Earth.

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Like many of you I was diagnosed, pathologised, institutionalised and medicalised due to behaving 'oddly' and attempting suicide a few times. ​

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Since being a child I have been wondering how to transform suffering into wisdom, into a gift for Life.

As a Soul Activist ~ my whole life is now radically (rooted) in service to the sacredness of all Life. That clarity of purpose is a great ally.

To be a Give Away for the thriving of all life, as all other species do, is a sort of homecoming in a world filled with homeless orphans lost between being alive and dead. 

Whether we like it or not we are being initiated and 'passaged' into the next phase of being humans here on Earth.

All rites of passage can become a sacred initiation or it can stay a rough unprepared, unaccompanied and unwelcome initiation. It is up to us and to our capacity to create the world of our longing, the world of Soul, the world of the Soul of our Earth. 

Soul will always take us to the next edge of maturation and Homecoming. Our separation with all that Matters, with all that is made of matter is making life so very ill.  

It will be through our willingness to be tempered, to walk with a broken heart, to compost collectively our immense grief and the courage to make amend, restore and regenerate the soil & soul of our beautiful home that we may know what it is to be a true human being. 

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Life is challenge.  Life works us ~ as would a blacksmith who take a piece of steel to shape it gladly through fire, water and pressure ~ instructed by the movement of Soul. 

SInce I was conceived suffering was breathing her sulfurique breath down my neck

Life tempered me through great and regular sufferings from birth propelling me to a multitude of foster care 'homes', through being a war child in Beirut then a refugee in France, to then being regularly and brutally violated until early adulthood by two adults who were perhaps to traumatised to mature.  
What a fierce and fine training for where we are as a species.

Soul called me to her bosom when i had given up on humans relations including my own possible humanity.  I created havoc bringing much suffering to my immediate surrounding. The claws of our colonising culture grabbed me ruthlessly. 

Like many of you I was diagnosed, pathologised, institutionalised and medicalised due to behaving 'oddly' and attempting suicide a few times. 

Each Death visited event happened at the crucial stages where my Soul called for a rite of Passage, when my psyche was ripening for an initiation into the next ecosophical manifestation of what being a true human means.

Our society does not want true initiated subversive and mature humans 

Soul saw through the thick spell of pathologies (the science of suffering)  and spoke to me through the seasons of the wild lands, earth rooted art and the sacred ways of the marginals and outcasts.

Soul whispered to me of "pathosophy" (the wisdom of suffering) since being a child. 

I "knew" somehow that all this suffering will eventually be of use to others and to Life. 

Earth told me and deeply dreamt me through earth~based ceremonies, deep rituals, renegotiating ancestral contracts and mending what was broken through Making the world of my Longing. 

Each longing being a thread of Soul's wild imagination for a balanced way of Life.

She, Soul, speaks through you as well, through your deepest longings. I would say dare your life to give that longing to the thriving of Life.  What else is there to do?

So i propose that there is a deep wisdom belonging to our earth that knows when our soul needs an initiation ~ that time requires a death of one state of being to transmute into the more mature state so we can serve life fully ~ all in response to the community we live in of humans and non humans.

Most of us have not been ‘passaged’ , have not been guided by the initiated Elders nor the mycelium of deep connection with all our relatives, them beings trees, animals, fungies, the living and the dead, the visible and the no-thing.

I propose that ~ Our earth’s wisdom and care weave her psyche within ours through Pathosophy. 

'Passage' New piece of eARTh by Azul Valerie Thome

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I would like to invite you to join in the conversation below, the latest of Pathosophy's courting us back to her: 

For all the Rebels and Soul/Sacred Activists whose faith, beliefs, soul and spiritual practices are rooted in Ancient or New Earth Wisdom.

Earth Wisdom Tenders
We are called the ‘Earth Wisdom Tenders’. We are an eclectic group of people who are learning to deeply listen to the earth, the visible and the invisible and the non human world ~ to honour their wisdom and knowledge, and to hear what they need from us right now at this time of crisis and extinction.
We are guided by the wisdom of the past and original cultures and peoples of the present, we work with the cycles and rhythm of the earth, the planets and cosmos and with what we perceive as the great mystery. 

Many of us feel grief and great poverty that we have lost these missing practices that were and are woven in intimacy with our living world.

In the past we may have been labelled as pagans, druids, shamans, witches or hippies.

This longing to find a place of belonging and healing has created a re-emergence and a rewriting of these ancient ways, through ceremonies, rituals, initiation and rites of passage, to enable our deep soul connection and wisdom to reawaken.

We sit in Council of all Beings, we Tend to the Children of all Species, we Initiate our Young ones, we claim our Elders, we Ancestralise our Dead and we recreate Community as a service to all of Life. ​

We are called the Earth Wisdom Tenders : Tending to all Life on Earth in our troubled time

"We are Earth Wisdom Tenders...
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~When all sentient beings are our sisters and brothers
~When we remember that we belong to the living web of Life
~When no laws and no decisions shall pass that in any way could harm the children of all species
~When we know that our Earth talks through us of her deep knowledge and wisdom
~We are Earth Wisdom Tenders when no land, no waters and no one is owned, colonised nor commercialised for power and control.

Our dear Earth is 4.5 billions years of age, she is our Wise Elder whom we learn from and tend to”.

With Love and Cœurage
Azul Valerie Thome

Earth Wisdom Tenders 
GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/725194284575006/

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'SOUL Activism is when Maturing as a Species​ ​becomes a Graceful and Rebellious act!'

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Azul and friends at the Rebellion in October 2019 in London with the eARTh Flags as the Council of all Being