<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">David </div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">~ In rereading your piece below about </font><font size="3"><b>“Integral consciousness” </b>and the </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">"initiatory processes designed to bring Participants into direct, personal experience </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">of their own soul”, or I would also describe as “awakening” or conscious realization </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">or at minimum a glimmer or insight through a rite of passage Eleusinian ceremony </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">that was celebrated for </font><span style="font-size: medium;">two thousand years ~~~ no doubt there was something very </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">powerful that kept </span><span style="font-size: medium;">generations coming back to the yearly ritual in which previous initiates </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lined the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">roadside to encourage those entering the temple underground to have taste of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">mythic awareness into the underworld and the afterlife~. To awaken to the reality </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">of a transpersonal experience i.e. expanded consciousness~ This was seasonal ~ scheduled </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">by a calendar of the </font><span style="font-size: medium;">solar system~. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">~I agree with what you are saying about </span><font size="3">“a state in which the healthy dimensions of all previous states </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">of consciousness (are archaic, mythic, magical, and mental-rational) are reclaimed and integrated</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">into a new, coherent wholeness” ~~ This is a way of saying “Personal Growth”</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">I’m looking forward to your Zoom group tomorrow morning at 10:00 </font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">see you there with my “Rising Sign” ready to fly into the Astro Zone~.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3">~Ron🙏</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">This is not just a conceptual learning space, it’s an </span><span class="m_-4038034338685141237jb m_-4038034338685141237lb" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; font-style: italic;">immersion into mythic awareness</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> For the initiated, the rebirth of Persephone symbolized the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(106, 96, 176); background: none; border-radius: 2px; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif;">eternity</a><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of life which</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> flows from generation to generation, and they believed that they would </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">have </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a reward in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife" title="" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; color: rgb(83, 79, 163); background: none; border-radius: 2px; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif;">afterlife</a><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. A rite that continued for two thousand years. </span></div><br><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 16px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto; max-width: 700px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-color: currentcolor; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px 80px; text-align: center;"><div style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 540px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 0px transparent; border-radius: 0px; vertical-align: top; padding: 20px 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="font-size: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">In the early 2000’s, I had the privilege of studying with a number of brilliant visionary philosophers in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">One of them was David Ulansey, a philosopher of religion known for his work on ancient mystery traditions and the evolution of religious consciousness.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">One of Ulansey’s most profound contributions was the insight that the Ancient Greek Mysteries — such as the Eleusinian</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;"> and Orphic rites — were not merely religious ceremonies but </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; font-style: italic;">initiatory processes designed to bring participants into direct, personal experience of their own soul</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;">.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">He argued that the pivotal shift of that era was from communal or tribal identity to individual self-awareness. The ritual processes of the ancient mysteries were intended to evoke direct knowledge of the self, serving as <span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; font-style: italic;">practical initiations into individuation</span>.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">That shift, Ulansey claimed, helped birth the inner life and personal subjectivity that underpins much of Western psychological identity today.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Today we are living through another inflection point in the evolution of consciousness.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">What is the pivotal shift being called forth in human awareness in our times?</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I believe German philosopher Jean Gebser offers a compelling answer.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Gebser saw the crisis of the modern world as preparing the ground for a fundamental mutation toward <span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; font-style: italic;">integral consciousness</span> — a state in which the healthy dimensions of all previous stages of consciousness (archaic, mythic, magical, and mental-rational) are reclaimed and integrated into a new, coherent wholeness.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">But what does it really mean to recover mythic awareness?</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I don’t think many of us have grasped yet just how radical this shift might be.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We are reaching back and forward in time to (re)-awaken a sense of ourselves as mythic beings.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">For this we need new initiatory rites — designed to bring us into conscious contact with the archetypal dimension of the soul.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Astrology is the discipline <span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 25px;">par excellence</span> for understanding our personal mythic journey.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">And ritualized group consciousness is the vessel for activating and stabilizing our mythic self-awareness at an entirely new level.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">That’s why I’m thrilled to invite you to a special workshop this Sunday, July 13:</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 25px;"></span><a href="https://earthastrology.one/so/8bPVmtnqa/c?w=s3s6idHIX4ufQgCDuAgavgQThG4oAF_acdDq2etWd4A.eyJ1IjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZWFydGhhc3Ryb2xvZ3kub25lL215dGhpYyIsInIiOiI5ZjVlYjlhMi00MzBkLTQ4NzgtYTJkOC00OWI4ZTMzYzgyNmIiLCJtIjoibWFpbCIsImMiOiI5NjlkNjgyNy0zNzE3LTQ4OGUtYmJmZi03MDg1ZjhlMjYwZTAifQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(16, 159, 255); text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: underline; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mythic Metamorphosis: A Ritual Activation of Your Rising Sign</span></a></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We start with your Rising Sign, which represents the outermost layer of identity. By understanding and embodying the core myth of your Rising Sign, you can transform how you show up in the world.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: bold;">In this workshop, you’ll receive:</span></div><ul style="list-style-position: inside; line-height: 25px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px; margin: 0px;"><li><div style="margin: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A deeper understanding of your Rising Sign as a gateway to soul purpose</span></div></li><li><div style="margin: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A personalized activation of your core mythic essence</span></div></li><li><div style="margin: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A Chrysalis Light Chamber to hold and amplify your metamorphosis</span></div></li><li><div style="margin: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A guided process to open channels of communion with your ruling planetary deity or archetype</span></div></li><li><div style="margin: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Ritual witnessing from a soulful community — so your mythic nature is seen, felt, and blessed</span></div></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This is not just a conceptual learning space, it’s an <span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; font-style: italic;">immersion into mythic awareness</span>.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">And while we may do this in small, private groups now, we are seeding a shift that may one day take root in the very heart of culture.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I’m holding space for anyone who feels ready to step in.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px auto; max-width: 700px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-left-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; border-left-color: currentcolor; border-right-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-color: currentcolor; direction: ltr; font-size: 0px; padding: 0px 80px; text-align: center;"><div style="direction: ltr; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 540px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; 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