Café Session Garden
Synchronosophy Coffee Break
There are things you do because they feel right,
and they may make no sense, and they may make no money
and it may be the real reason why we are here:
to love each other and to eat each other’s cooking and to say it was good.
〰 Brian Andreas 〰
For this Synchronosophy Coffee Break I’m inviting you into our garden. The air is vibrant with scents of jasmin, lavender, and roses, our resident birds fill the soundscape with a chorus of chirps and trills, and the raspberries are dropping off their canes, ripe with bright red juicyness...
Before settling into this Café Session I want to say THANK YOU to all kindroverts and fellow substackers who have supported the launch of Synchronosophy: A Rough Guide to the Feral Side of Life (and my paralled wordcasts on Symbiopædia). I am beyond grateful for your companionship, presence, restacks, recommends, heart-clicks and encouraging comments!
Big hugs especially to
: The Deeper Call, : Guardening the Spheres, : This Changes Everything, : The Rising of the Divine Feminine, : Death & Birds, : Elliot’s Substack, : Coincidence Speaks, , : Ecstasy Initiative, : Post Post Modern, : Cuoreosity- Living the Questions, : Witchcraft and Metaphysics, : Joshua Bond Poetry, : The Recovering Academic, : Sexuality Integration Guide, : The Matterhorn: Truth in Fiction, : Unfixed, : No Girl is an Island, : Trauma Conscious, : Mary Tabor, : The Perry Greenbaum Bulletin, : The Peach Monologues, , : Beyond the Comfort Zone, : The Hoop Temple, : The Rewind, : The Misfit Memo, : Evicence Based Homeopathy, : Grief, Gratitude, Love and Laughter, : Fortitude, : Earth Song, : A Hill and I, : Crone Speak, : Knowledge Collective, : When will you rest, dear heart? : Lies are Unbekoming, The Vortex.Having written about the materials I am sharing here now ~ on this Synchronosophy channel ~ for over two and a half decades in my own creative bubble, I just want to let you know that YOU are making a hell of a difference to my work! Seriously!!
Come on into our flower dome ~ an 8 m geodesic dome built by Josh 12 years ago out of cedar wood and placed on barren soil ~ a hemisphere of paradise where the leaves of wisteria, roses, jasmine and vines now filter the bright sunlight into dappled shade, keeping a pleasant coolish temperature, and songbirds nestle their homes into the interwoven branches.
Since starting to write on this platform end of September 2023, I have published 41 posts on Symbiopædia and 25 on Synchronosophy. Although the material is very familiar to me, and I have many manuscripts stashed away on my computer (some published, some in draft format) the pile of work has been intense, taking over my life.
Every chapter for Synchronosophy is written from scratch, updated with new research material, and most importantly, brought to life in an entirely new style. That’s because for the first time, I decided to marry my fiction writer’s voice with my non-fiction writing content. The result is a delightfully happy and productive relationship, which keeps coming up with new ideas…
This is both exhilarating and exhausting. Having covered the basics of the theory of Synchronosophy ~ working non-stop for ± nine months ~ and given birth to this giant baby ~ I feel a need to replenish my creative well (post-partum tiredness). This means, I won’t be publishing any new material over the summer (writer’s maternity leave).
I’ll still be on substack, reading, commenting, engaging with the community. And because I’ve mentioned the ‘practice of Synchronosophy’ a couple of times, I don’t just want to leave you dangling on some cliffhanger for a whole 2-3 months.
So I decided to create a little ‘Synchronosophy birth-gift’ for you to download at the bottom of this Café Session. The download contains a ‘Trail of Self-discovery’, inviting you to begin your practice in your own time.
But before I explain any further, you might like to grab a coffee, tea, or fresh juice ~ I made some delicious elderflower & apple juice, and a slightly fermented ginger beer.
Coffee is the liquid brown bitterness of memory.
〰 Trivarna Hariharan 〰
During my time on substack so far, I’ve been fortunate to meet and interact with lovely fellow writers and readers ~ on most days. Only on a couple of occasions I’ve encountered interactions of an ‘unhinged’ nature, affectionately identified by
as ‘goblins at the gate’.My latest ‘goblin encounter’ ~ actually it felt more like a dragon ~ gave me the material for the deceptively gentle but powerful medicine I’m sharing with you below. Dragons are guardians of treasures, as you probably know. I have learned to make friends with my dragons and in return they share some of their gems with me.
Before we get into the work, perhaps, you’d like to help yourself to some delicious food at the summery buffet, provided by our resident cook. We have a professional chef staying with us at the moment, here’s the menu he prepared for us:
asparagus + goats cheese quiche
tabbouleh salad
homegrown garden leaf salad
fresh tuna ceviche
asian spiced sprouts
beetrot + apple salad
broccoli with roasted sunflower seeds + parmesan
tomato + onion salad
fresh pesto sauce
For dessert there’s a raspberry and blueberry gateau (made by myself, not on the photo)
Sitting there, in the coffee house,
I saw so many stories behind the lips of people who had left them untold.
〰 Lidia Longorio 〰
Back to the dragon at my gate: A few weeks ago, I received an unexpected attack from a fellow substacker. It came out of the blue. They were making false and hostile accusations about some aspect of my work. While this triggered an initial shock and familiar trauma response in me, I recognised in hindsight that there had been earlier signs of microaggressions. I’d chosen not to ‘read too much into them’, taking my usual yielding route of giving the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, that’s what happened. As a seasoned synchronosopher, I took this opportunity to process the event ~ applying one of the sequences I am currently developing, based on the Map of the Noctarine, aka my newborn Web of Consciousness.
Here is your Café Session gift to download and use as many times as you wish or as needs must. Full instructions are included in the file.
If you have any questions, or want to share your process, you can either post them in the comments section below, for everyone’s benefit (the beauty of these trails is that we can always learn from each other). And I’ll respond as best as I can right here.
Alternatively, if you prefer a private interaction, feel free to send me a personal message via chat. Your questions and my answers will be kept confidential.
In case you struggle to get going with the Trail of the Instinct, I am adding my own sample of the same sequence, in which I answered those questions in relation to the goblin mentioned above.
I fully resolved the situation within myself by completing two of these trails, a couple of days apart. Each sequence of Qs & As took me less than 10 minutes (keep in mind that I am very familiar with this material and have done 1000s of such processes).
Without this work, I might have struggled with the aftermath of this attack for weeks or months… It might have affected the quality of my work. I might even have given up on Synchronosophy altogether…
I am offering this sample sequence in the hope that it will inspire you to take heart, whenever a goblin ~ or a dragon, or any other mythical creature ~ appears at your gate.
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as
spending our lives running from it.
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as
giving up on love and belonging and joy ~ the experiences that make us the most vulnerable.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness
will we discover the infinite power of our light.
〰 Brené Brown 〰
thank you so much for sharing 💗🙏
(in response to Camilla's comment)
There are things you do because they feel right,
and they may make no sense, and they may make no money
and it may be the real reason why we are here:
to love each other and to eat each other’s cooking and to say it was good.
The quote brings tears to my eyes. So true, so utterly frustrating at the same time. Have been reading Rebecca Solnit on how disaster takes away the confines of society and makes room for real interaction. These past months I felt myself waiting for that to happen, like firemen hoping for a fire to get permission to get to work, to do what they are here for, while knowing that attitude is not right.
Then I realised the fire, the disaster, doesn't lie in the future. There is no reason to wait, to step up and engage. No reason to not do what I am good at.
And right after, this amazing idea for a new book poured in. A narrative that fully mirrors my own struggle to find that path, that way to be in the world, the how to reconnect, to crumble the prison walls, to seek out the dragon....
I have started composing the plot for that story (I never plot in advance but feel strongly this is the way to go now), and I suspect it will be a deep therapeutic experience writing the damn thing. Of course there are many factors that lead me to this point, but reading your posts these last months certainly played an important role.
So, I too, was considering to take a leave from Substack to fully attend to the writing over the summer.
That slightly fermented brew, sounds good....glad to be invited to this richly laid table.
Hugs to you both, Bertus