Martje Witzel is a life coach and surrendered leadership facilitator. Sharing space with her, you can immediately feel the power of her presence and the commitment she has to the practice.

In this discussion, she helps us orient to the profound (and often bizarre) features of fields created under surrendered leadership. We continue to broaden our horizons until we find ourselves at the ultimate questions.

And that's where we'll continue the conversation next week!

For more information on Martje, check out her website here.

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For those of us who circle and practice surrendered leadership, we've all tasted the magic in what we do. I think that means we could learn a lot (and grow a lot) from seeing how people in the world of magic organize themselves and create heightened states of presence and oneness (a cosmic version of connection).

To give us that perspective, Carolyn Lovewell comes back on the podcast. She helps us understand the importance of mystery schools and their place in the Western esoteric tradition.

To learn more about her work, go to her website.

To check out the Immortal College, go to their website here.

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We're back on the third rung of the Container spiral!

We discuss Existential K/nk with Carolyn Lovewell (formerly Carolyn Eliot). She guides us through her discovery and creation of the single best shadow work system available today.

To learn more about her work, go to her website.

It's Episode 42. As you may know, 42 is a powerful number in the Kabbalah. In this system, the 42-letter name of God is used to connect to the days of creation, the Sephirah with their corresponding planets, and more. Mystics can enter multi-level states of consciousness by repeating this name like a mantra.

And so, it is the perfect episode to launch our new series in "The Beyond." We'll be using the Relational Arts to go into the furthest reaches of consciousness, past our everyday life and into the occluded spheres of being that call to us in dream, as darkness falls and sky country twinkles with ten thousand points of angelic light.

It all starts here with Carolyn Lovewell, our High Priestess welcoming us past the veil into the mysteries of The Beyond.

Make sure to reach out and connect at our Facebook group. There, we are discovering the ways that circling can help us spiritually awaken.

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In this episode, we outline the six books we would recommend to anyone looking to take their circling practice deeper.

1. Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell
2. I Ching translated by Benebell Wen
3. Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
4. Getting Real by Susan Campbell
5. Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot/Lovewell
6. No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

We are also announcing a break! We'll be back to launch the next rung of the spiral on August 26th!

In the meantime, you can catch us at Circling Europe's International Transformational Connection Festival 2024.

Plus, make sure to reach out and connect at our Facebook group. There, we are discovering the ways that circling can help us spiritually awaken. More on that when we come back from break.

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In this deep dive into the Tao Te Ching, The Container dives into the second chapter. We discover that "the Master" described in the text can actually be used as a stand-in for the circle itself.

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Chapter 2
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master
acts without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn’t possess,
acts but doesn’t expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.

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This second episode is being offered on the free feed, but the vast majority of this 81+ episode series is only available for paying patrons on our Patreon.

If you need a refresher on circling, check out:

• this intro video
• this article

Here are some other resources:

• A website with multiple translations of the Tao Te Ching side-by-side: Tao Te Ching – translation comparison (tasuki.org)
• We mention Strongstyle Circling, which is fully described here: https://youtu.be/a_cRUPU0LF4
• Music credit: "First Snow" by Kerusu https://soundcloud.com/kerusu/first-snow?si=5bd82c9a51bf46e7ab01c7e8c49a16d4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Adam Quiney joins us once again to discuss the practice of Sacred Intimacy. This is a step-by-step process to build a strong physical connection from the ground up.

To find more Adam Quiney go to his website at: www.AdamQuiney.com

Connect with him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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This episode marks the beginning of our The Way That Can Be Told series, where Sigh and I go through each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. On our long walk, we'll circle ourselves taking in the wisdom and connect it to the art and practice of circling itself.

This first episode is being offered on the free feed, but the vast majority of this 81+ episode series is only available for paying patrons on our Patreon.

If you need a refresher on circling, check out:

• this intro video
• this article

Here are some other resources:

• A website with multiple translations of the Tao Te Ching side-by-side: Tao Te Ching – translation comparison (tasuki.org)
• We mention Strongstyle Circling, which is fully described here: https://youtu.be/a_cRUPU0LF4
• Music credit: "First Snow" by Kerusu https://soundcloud.com/kerusu/first-snow?si=5bd82c9a51bf46e7ab01c7e8c49a16d4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Adam Quiney is a coach, podcaster, and spiritual thinker. We had an incredible conversation about the spiritual path, roaming through how we work with the ego, trauma, and let go.

It's a beautiful walk through the spiritual path. So, join in!

To find more Adam Quiney go to his website at: www.AdamQuiney.com

Connect with him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Music Credit: "Clot" by Supertask