The Wild Sovereign Soul Show Practical Spiritual Support For The Overwhelm Of Modern Life - Caitlín Matthews
Lian and Celtic author and shamanic teacher Caitlín Matthews explore why so many people feel overwhelmed by world news, technology and everyday complexity, and how a minimum daily spiritual practice, prayer and ancestral support can help.
Caitlín is an internationally renowned author, a teacher of shamanic training programme, a facilitator of Systemic Ritual® and the co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS). She is the author of over 80 books, including Diary of a Soul Doctor, Singing the Soul Back Home, the Art of Celtic Seership, Celtic Devotional and The Celtic Book of the Dead. Her books have won a number of awards. She is known internationally for her work on the spiritual, mythic and ancestral traditions of Britain and Ireland. She teaches and works with communities and spiritual institutions worldwide from Iceland to Portugal and from USA to Australia.
Caitlín is a co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS), which is dedicated to the sacred arts that shape the landscape of the soul, via vision, dream and memory. FÍOS hosts masterclasses with exemplars of living, oracular sacred traditions that are rarely recorded in writing or given an honourable place in modern society. Caitlín has had a shamanic healing practice in Oxford for the last 30 years, working in the community to deepen connections to the ancestral traditions which are our heritage.
In this episode, Lian and Caitlín talk about the heavy, hairy overcoat so many people are wearing in these times, made of 24 hour news, letters full of QR codes, local upheaval and the wider troubles of the world, all layered on top of whatever personal difficulty they have. Caitlín explains why that overcoat makes something serious feel catastrophic, and why it needs laying aside before anyone can see where they really are.
They look at why spiritual practice is so often the first thing to go when life gets hectic, although it is the thing that can really help… what a minimum practice might look like, along with prayer, calling on the ancestors who already know how to meet plague and upheaval, and asking for spirit allies when things get stuck.
Listen if you feel weighed down by everything happening in the world, or you’ve let your spiritual practice slip and wonder how to find your way back to it.
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What you’ll learn from this episode:
- Why spiritual practice tends to disappear first when life becomes overwhelming, and how knowing your minimum practice keeps you connected
- How to tell which parts of your overwhelm are yours to act on and which belong in the hands of something greater
- What happens when you ask for a spirit advocate to help with something stuck in bureaucracy, like court papers sent to the wrong city or calls that never get returned
Resources and stuff that we spoke about:
- For Caitlín’s books & courses see: www.hallowquest.org.uk
- For more of Caitlín’s writing on a range of topics visit her Substack page here https://substack.com/@caitlinmatthewstigerna
- Join UNIO, The Fellowship for Wild Sovereign Souls https://www.unioacademy.com/ : This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth.
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