We don’t embody new teachings unless we use our body and practice the teaching in some personal and experiential way. Transformation happens through the experience of our Spirit in the Land of our Body.

The check marks are for those like me that get a dopamine hit off of checking things off as they are completed. You don’t have to use them if it’s not your jam.

There is also a community Teaching Discord for those enrolled. There is also a community Cailleach Ken Discord for those enrolled in the Library. Purchasing Being + Belonging automatically gives you access to the Library and the Teaching Discord. I am manually adding people so it might take a bit.

Please contact me if it feels like it’s been too long.

Where I talk a lot about the Tri-Chasag foundation of Beloved Presence:

Tir agus Anam, Fite Fuaite Gu Bràth. Land and Spirit are Inseparable Forever.

(This is the first time I ever spoke these Gaelic words into the world and they had an immediate and emotional impact on me. My Ancestors love it when I speak Gaelic + Irish. It thrills them.)

Land + Spirit

This is the root of life, the root of my vocation, the root of my love.

Land + Spirit are woven and sewn together. They are inseparable and exist from the beginning to the end as intricately enmeshed fabric together. Forever.

Land is everything in the world of Form. Spirit is everything Unseen. They have never been parted.

Okay, that’s it. We’re done. Bye. Lol.

Being + Belonging is my response to the core wound of our collective belief in this cut off.

Cut off from Land.

Cut off from Spirit.

Cut off from Love and Warm Welcome.

Cut off from one another.

Cut off from love and joy and safety and peace.

Cut off from the source of Self.

This is a *belief* that we made real. Separation is a sickness that we believed was real. It’s not a reality that is possible. Land + Spirit are inseparable, so even in the world of Form we are never parted from the Unseen.

We are never parted from Spirit in the World.

It is impossible to be parted from the Self, parted from one another, parted from Land, parted from Ancestors. This teaching is specifically relevant to those of us who are no longer living in the Land of our Ancestors.

This is a common story for Celts on Mishiike Minisi. My Father’s grandparents are Celtic from Ireland and further back from Scotland and England and Wales. My Mother’s ancestors, for at least 7 generations have lived on Mishiike Minisi. They also originated in Scotland, Ireland and England - but I have yet to find the Ancestors that first came here. As I trace them back in time, they move closer and closer to the east coast.

In a Good Way

This is an English language phrase based on an Indigenous understanding of living from Being and Belonging. “In a Good Way” are the Spirit-lead decisions and actions that hold together all interconnections of life as beneficial for our existence. “In a Good Way” holds in wholeness the self, community and Land, today and 7 generations into the future. “In a Good Way” means choosing the path that brings the most thriving and benefit to all levels of Being and relationship.

In a Good Way is not just ‘okay’. It is living from Tir agus Anam Fite Fuaite Gu Bràth.

Tri-Chasag

1. The Great Binding Law

Ogichi Tibakonigaywin. There is only loving inclusion. We are all united in the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery. This is the foundation of Mystical Animism; everything has Spirit or Soul and/or everything is included in the Great Spirit / Great Soul.

Witnessing any person in our family being treated without warm welcome is a trauma and a wound to our Being + Belonging. Healing our Being + Belonging dissolves the fragmentation of the truth that we are whole together, and heals the separation sickness we have made real in the world we created.

The Great Binding Law holds that you are as you were Created; perfectly, exactly as you are.

Society and made-up structures say that you are not worthy, you are not valuable, you are not lovable unless you change and are different than you are.

This is bullshit.

This is bullshit made up and fed to us by those who have plans to gain by keeping us small and ashamed and disconnected from our power and acceptance of Self and Wholeness.

Ogichi Tibakonigaywin / The Great Binding Law holds that you were created exactly as you were meant to be - exactly as you are. You have gifts and skills and passions and interests and excitements and joys that make your life worthwhile and complete - and you know exactly what they are, even if you’ve forgotten. You have the wisdom needed to satisfy your fulfillment here in the world of Form. Your purpose is to be who you are.

Allow yourself to Be. Allow Belonging. This is the heart of this Teaching.

Just in case you were tempted to exclude Land from the Great Spirit, from the Great Mystery. Just in case you were tempted to read about the Great Binding Law and think that Land was not included. Colonization and Christianity and White Supremacy have taught us to exclude Land from teaching about Spirit, to exclude Land from teaching about embodiment, to exclude Land when teaching about purpose and love and joy.

Land based teachings are the only way we come to wholeness.

The Land holds Natural Law for us and we can reconnect whenever we are ready. Land is the expression of Spirit in the World of Form and They are in constant communication with one another. Existence is forever in dynamic motion. Land and Spirit are in an eternal dance of communication and contact, breathing each other in and out of physical being.

Land-based teaching is the only path of value for those alive in the World of Form and looking to be rooted in Earth. There is no longevity to a teaching that doesn’t unite Spirit and Land in every step.

The original wound, the original cut off, is that we believed Land was separate from Spirit.

We believed that the World of Form could be parted from the wholeness of Spirit.

We believed somehow that Love could stop.

We have rejected and resisted and avoided being embodied because we believed that this place is different, this place is apart, this place is removed from the loving inclusion of Spirit.

Surprise!

The teachings of Being and Belonging are rooted in connecting you to your body. We are asked on this journey, to create personal ceremony (non-religious, land-based) and encourage centering intentional Spirit connection and embodiment when we do this work.

Being + Belonging is participatory teaching.

This is not passive learning. This is not sitting and receiving information in a lecture format. This is not passive accepting of authority. You are an equal co-creator in your development. A teaching is offered, then you come into participation and interaction with the material and develop your own understanding of how that teaching fits into your embodiment of Land + Spirit. There may be teachings where I speak and share from my experience.

You are the expert of your own experience.

You are the expert of your own life meaning and path. You are the expert of your Being + Belonging. A teaching circle holds space for learning to happen - but you are the author of your own learning. We hold space for one another to expand and grow and root deeper into the truth of our embodiment.

Many Ways of Knowing

In Fite Fuaite (woven + sewn together), there are many ways of knowing. There is the knowing of the mind and scientific method; which is the only acceptable way of knowing in the Western world.

Being + Belonging accepts that there are many ways of knowing. If scientific method is just one piece of the pie, then Being + Belonging utilizes all of the tools available in the pie. Intuition, empathetic and direct knowing from Land + Spirit are equally valid and valuable ways of knowing. There are no better or worse ways to be in embodied communication with Land and Spirit.

The physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies are all legitimate avenues of wisdom. We are whole with Creation and all knowledge is valuable. We encourage all the wisdom tools available. The key and the goal is rooted, grounded balance.

Submit and obey to who?

Submit and obey are accurate terms.

The ew part comes in thinking we are submitting to an outside authority - an oppressive, controlling force. When you connect with Spirit and build a personal, direct relationship with the Fite Fuaite - you realize that you are submitting to your Self, you are obeying your own highest guidance. It’s a pain in the ass because it requires so much dedication and persistence and habitual attention, but this is allowing the greater whole to guide the little perspective.

It is specific to you and exactly who you are in the world AND it is all of the everything, everywhere all at once. Spirit and Land is present, seen and unseen, forever.

There are no words that can fully express this reality and words can only ever suggest what They are.

They are yours alone. They are ours together. Your purpose is to Be + Belong.

Seek Soul Sovereignty.

We connect to Soul Sovereignty by dissolving the “what” that gets in the way of communicating and expressing Spirit in the World of Form. The Great Binding Law says that you were created in The Great Mystery and you are here in Place and on Purpose, wanted and needed, exactly as you are. You were given everything you need to fulfill your purpose and your purpose is simply to Be + Belong.

You are not broken.

You are not damaged.

You do not need to be fixed.

You have everything you need.

You are exactly as you are meant to be. You know what you like and you know what you need - it’s left to you to walk towards them.

What is stopping you from doing the things you want to do? Living the life you want to live? Being the you that you want to be, all out loud and real in the world?

Truth, trust and allowing.

There are a multitude of ways to lose our profundity and a million different delicious recoveries that bring us further into wholeness. I just recently learned and shifted my own perception of what I allowed to be channeling and psychic medium-ship. I had believed that it was ONLY a closed eyes/meditative/Buddha-type state of being because of what I had consumed and accepted as true through media and societal teachings. I believed that my way wasn’t medium-ship because it was not acceptable or received in my childhood.

The World of Form ‘informs’ me and communicates with me directly in Spirit. I turn my attention to feeling in my body and listening inside - while still being connected with the World of Form. They are Fite Fuaite and I access more wisdom and greater wholeness when I accept and trust my own ways.

Self talk of “supposed to” and “should” and “must” and “have to” are red flags pointing to where we sacrifice Soul Sovereignty for acceptance and value and love from others.

We are often tempted to discard our own way because it doesn’t look like what we’ve been shown or told it “should be”. We’ve actually been shown so very little of the vast possibilities that living in the world can be. Why limit ourselves to what’s already been done and discard our own ways as wrong or unacceptable or inferior? Our ways are perfect for us.

When I was re-reading this I stumbled upon a reference to “profound parts” and went searching. I don’t remember what comes through in moments of connection - so I make a record of it in some way, so I can find it again.

We lose our revelations unless we keep a record.

What does this even mean? What did I mean by profound parts? Oh. It’s an audio note…

Geezus Christ - I just listened to this again and it makes me weep. It’s a little child sitting in the dark, waiting patiently to be found and taken back into the light and the warmth of together. 💜