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Real Magic

Written by Lian Brook-Tyler

At this point, it seems to me it’s a case of ‘when, not if’ we embrace real magic in our culture… Modern science is slowly catching up with what shamanic traditions have understood for eons (which in turn, most anthropologists obediently papered over until recently).

As Dean Radin says in his book Real Magic “The new discipline will be the study of the psychophysical nature of reality, that mysterious, interstitial space shimmering between mind and matter.” As exciting as that prospect is, we won’t be waiting around for the results of that study before we include a generous sprinkle of magic in everything we do.

In Waking The Wild, we guide people along the paths of ascension *and* descension… it’s having one foot in the Divine and the other in the Creature, as paradoxical as that feels, that not only allows us to live open-hearted, soul-led sovereign lives but allows us to harness magic.

Waking The Wild Medicine will have the biggest helping of magic of anything we’ve created, so the ones who are feeling called to that path are also being called to be a pioneer in our culture’s understanding of magic.

Which makes complete sense, we believe that the ones with potent medicine would have been their village’s shamans in another time and place… and therefore are *made* for magic.

That propensity for magic will show up for these people in challenging ways, they’re told they are:

Too sensitive
Too truthful
Too deep
Too emotional
Too dreamy
Too much

…until they’re ready to make their abilities conscious (and then the real magic can happen).

You’ll know if that’s you.

And if you’re ready, despite the fear, to embody and express your much-needed soul work, now come and see whether joining other magical ones in Waking The Wild Medicine is for you.

#wildmagic #wildmedicine #wakingthewild #deanradin #realmagic #chaosmagick

Artwork by Aziz Acharki, Unsplash

2.5 myths about making a living from doing your Soul Work

The myth: The easy part is discovering what your Soul Work is (AKA if you really had a soul purpose, wouldn’t you already know it?).

The reality: For many people this is the hardest part of all. I spent decades searching, knowing I was here for something deeper and more meaningful than running corporate websites (not that I’m knocking that, that might well be someone’s Soul Work, it just wasn’t mine) but couldn’t figure out what the flip it was.

Discovering our Soul Work often takes time, a few dark nights of the soul, guidance, initiation, and a good dollop of magic – it’s very rarely the easy part. I’m in conversation with people right now who are feeling called to ‘Waking The Wild Medicine’ but are worried that not knowing what their Medicine is means they’re not ready for it.

In fact, it’s more likely to mean that it’s perfect for them – they’re feeling the call *because* they’ve already given it more than enough time and endured the darkest of nights and they’re now ready for the guidance, initiation and magic that will allow them to discover their Wild Medicine and therefore what they’re here to do.

The myth: Making a living doing your Soul Work should come easily (AKA “Build it and they will come”)

The reality: Discovering my Soul Work didn’t automagically create an obstacle-free path to actualising it, in fact, that’s where the gauntlet begins.

There’s a deep connection between our Wild Medicine and who it is for – I’d go as far to say, it’s not really Medicine until the right people are taking it.

And that’s where a huge obstacle to doing our Soul Work looms for many of us and we find ourselves saying things like…

-“I’m no good at marketing.”

-“I cringe when it comes to selling.”

-“Surely if what I do is needed then people would already be queuing to buy it?”

As is so often the case, the obstacle is the way.

When we’re truly embodying and expressing our Wild Medicine, no matter what we’re doing… even and especially sales and marketing… it’s *all* our Soul Work.

When our people read our posts, listen to our podcasts, or watch our fb lives they are already taking our Medicine, long before they’ve paid us a penny.

I meet very few people to whom this comes naturally – happily, I’ve also met very few people who we can’t guide into this way of being in the world.

2.5 The myth: You’re a dreamer to think there’s more to life than finding a decent job to pay bills until you die (AKA get real!)

The reality: Yes, you’re a dreamer (all the best people are) and actually, you can create your life however your soul desires, in the deepest alignment with the gift you are.

Come join us dreamers in Waking The Wild Medicine… discover how to *be* your Wild Medicine doing your unique Soul Work and playing this game of life all out.

#soulwork #soulpurpose #wakingthewild

Artwork by Alex Grodkiewicz, Unsplash

11 signs that you’re a Magical One

Written by Lian Brook-Tyler

11 signs that you’re a Magical One

You’ve never really felt like you fit in though you’ve tried your damnedest to do so (hello, Raven trying to be a pigeon).
You’ve struggled with hallucinations, migraines, visions or dissociative episodes (or maybe you’re like me and you can replace that ‘or’ with an ‘and’.)
You have an energetic struggle with your heart: either you struggle to feel your heart at all (I used to think heartache was just a metaphor) or you feel way too much.
You’ve often been called “too sensitive”: lights, sounds, textures, clothings and smells all can be too much for you. My husband has described me like a pedigree race horse, in that I’m so finely tuned the slightest change in light or smell can throw me off track.
You’ve spent your life cycling through different passions and obsessions (the latter being the word that your loved ones tend to use to describe them).
You may have a diagnosis of dyspraxia, dyslexia, dyscalculia or autism (if you’re a women, read up on Asperger’s in females – we present very differently to men) or even though you’ve been consistently told that you display the traits, you’ve never dared to get a diagnosis.
You’ve accidentally manifested incredible (and sometimes entirely unwanted) things soon – sometimes immediately – after a fleeting thought about them, to the extent that you’re now very careful what you think about.
You secretly fear there’s something dangerous within you that if freed could be harmful to yourself and others.
Money is a mystery to you, it’s not so much that you can’t have it, it just feels misty and intangible and therefore hard to keep track of or master.
You’ve experienced frighteningly accurate premonitions but you keep them to yourself for fear of what others might think of you.
You’ve always felt you’re here to do something important but worry you’re going to run out of time before you can do it.

If you’ve said yes to many of these signs… congratulations! It’s likely you’re a Raven, a magical one, someone with potent medicine for the world.

And if you’re ready, despite the fear, to embody and express your much-needed soul work, now come and see whether joining other magical ones in Waking The Wild Medicine is for you.

Artwork by Valentin Petkov, Unsplash

Creating your life through priming your mind

Written by Lian Brook-Tyler

This picture, a print of Waterhouse’s The Soul of the Rose was a wedding present from my husband 11 years ago, it hangs on our bedroom wall and reminds me daily of the dreamy, poetic and soulful way that I’m devoted to living.

This post isn’t just about this picture though, it’s about one of the powerful ways I create my being and therefore my very life.

I read an article years ago by the personal growth genius Steve Pavlina about the power of priming your mind.

Even though I was deep in spiritualising the heck out of life at the time (“Everything is an illusion.”), the idea still grabbed me.

I guess as someone whose top strength, according to the VIA strengths survey, is The Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence (yes, really… it’s officially a strength!) I didn’t require much convincing to put even more conscious attention on what I was surrounding myself with.

So I went about creating an environment that looked and felt beautiful, magical and wild.

Very little of what’s in my surroundings now is there by chance alone – from the pictures, desk and tech (and altar, feathers and crystals, natch) in my studio to the fairy houses, old fashioned roses and wild spaces in our garden… it’s all created in alignment with my vision.

Interestingly, I’ve never talked about any of this directly with my husband (he’s just always thought that I’m OCD about my environment) and yet he was using the printer in my studio the other day and then afterwards said that he noticed how intentional it all seemed, that there appeared to be a reason for everything that was placed there… “It’s like a reinforcement of who you are.”

Ah, maybe The Soul of the Rose has come to life.

How are you devoted to living? And how is your environment priming for that?

P.S. If you’re feeling the call to see how I can help you become your magic, follow your next breadcrumb to Waking The Wild Medicine

A homage to the hidden and often misunderstood precious gold of projections

Written by Lian Brook-Tyler

“Who does she think she is?” Projections: what they mean about you and them

I’ll begin this homage to the hidden and often misunderstood precious gold of projections by sharing some of what I’ve heard said about me – either first-hand (after they’d changed their minds about me!) or repeated to me by a person they’d shared them with.

Firstly, here’s a couple of descriptions of me dating back to when I was at college:

“Snobby”
“Up herself”

You’ll see how this theme continued, with a classic from the baby years, when I was trying to make friends with other new mothers:

“She thinks she’s better than everyone.”

Not exactly what I wanted potential (and much-needed) new friends to think about me. These comments used to hurt, confuse and worry me. I knew I didn’t think I was better than anyone (in fact, mostly I was just trying to figure out how to navigate the world without revealing myself to be a complete weirdo!) so why did I keep giving that impression?

How I looked?
How I spoke?

Something else? However much I analysed it, I never seemed to be able to understand, let alone change, this perception of me from people who didn’t really know me. It’s taken many years (and a lot of work to discover and rewild who I really am) to see that as much as I didn’t think I’m better than other people, I do (as is the case for others who came here to lead, disrupt, innovate, whilst paradoxically reclaiming the ancient ways too) have a sense of being different. I’m strange and otherworldly. I’m unable to fit in, be ‘normal’ and one of the crowd, even when I really, really want to… because of course I’m not meant to. It’s not my path.

And even today people continue to think these things about me, though now they’re even more pointed because, as I said in my post last week, the more revealed you are, the more impactful you are and the more the projections on you will increase in number and intensity, Inception-style.

Last week, the fiery Truth-Teller Sara generously shared her past opinions of me…

“Who does she think she is?”
“She’s a big headed know it all.”
“Oh look at her all glam and priestess-like”.

Sara also said… “Perhaps what was happening was seeing what I’d very skilfully placed in shadow, and how dare it be flouncing around like it’s ok to be like that in the world?”

Yes! She was watching me in the world and in doing so was risking bringing into the light of consciousness her very own wise, radiant and powerful priestess. That was something she wasn’t yet ready for, so she turned away, disgusted. Sometimes we’re self aware enough to know we’re not ready for that level of threat to our nice safe identity so we steer away from even allowing ourselves to be in enough connection with a person to feel the full power of our projections onto them.

As my precious client Tracey shared with me… “I steered away a little because I felt I would be jealous of your life if I got close to you, so I suspected I would get triggered and I wasn’t up for it. I wasn’t triggered from my ‘safe distance’ ”. And then she was ready to feel her own power to create an enviably blessed life so she was willing to come closer to me. So close that we’ve spent the past ten months working together in various Waking The Wild crucibles… and she’s now birthing her own much-needed wild medicine into the world.

How about you?

What are you projecting onto others (maybe me!) – what does that say about your own hidden gold? And what are others projecting onto you – what does that say about the parts of you that maybe you’re not yet claiming as the gift you are to the world?

P.S. If you’re feeling the call to see how I can help you become your magic, follow your next breadcrumb to Waking The Wild Medicine

N.B. Everything I’ve shared here from Sara and Tracey is with their permission and with deep gratitude for their courage and vulnerability (two sides of the same coin) to share it with me and then to say YES to me sharing what they said with you.