Hello!
I’ve been receiving a lot of emails about the upcoming Finding Your Wild Soul Course and would like to provide some clarity about the technical details and the content of this course.
I hope it helps!
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The 3 Reasons We Need to Find Our Soul
Reason 1: Because socialisation alone does not make us fully adult
In childhood, we learn how to fit into society. We learn its rules, norms, roles, and expectations. This process of socialisation gives rise to a middle-world identity – a functional ego-self that knows how to survive and operate within a culture. But becoming socially competent is not the same as becoming fully adult.
In animist cultures, discovering one’s Lower-World Soul required conscious effort and deliberate intervention. It was a crucial rite of passage, marking the transition from childhood into true adulthood.
Without this initiation, people may grow older yet remain identified solely with a constructed middle-world self. This state of perpetual childhood is not benign. It is closely linked to widespread mental health struggles, deep social inequality, and ecological devastation. When people are disconnected from their Soul, they are also disconnected from their deeper nature and their place within the living world.
Reason 2: Because finding your Soul reconnects you with the web of life
Finding your Soul reconnects you with nature and with your rightful place in the web of life. It restores relationship – with yourself, with other beings, and with the world around you. When this connection is absent, life is experienced from a position of separation. You see yourself as isolated, detached, or standing outside of nature. When Soul is present, belonging returns. Relationship replaces separation, and life is experienced as participatory rather than abstract.
This reconnection deepens existence, grounding it in lived relationship rather than surface identity.
Reason 3: Because without Soul, life is flatter, thinner, and incomplete
It is entirely possible to live a decent life without finding your Soul. Many people do. Most people in this culture do.
Yet such a life is like living in black and white rather than in colour. Much of the depth and richness of existence remains unseen and unfelt. A quiet sense of something missing often persists beneath the surface.
Many attempt to fill this absence with achievement, status, or material success, but these do not address the deeper hunger. Finding your Soul does. It brings wholeness, authenticity, meaning, contentment, and a felt sense of connection with life.
Finding your Soul is not a one-time event. It is the birth of a lifelong practice – an ongoing journey of growth, self-discovery, and living from who you truly are, rather than who you were conditioned to become.
Miss the deadline, miss the course!
I have been getting a stream of emails from people saying they want to do the Finding Your Soul course, but who don’t want to sign up for it now. The expectation seems to be that we will still let them sign up for it at some point, even when the booking window has closed, so I want to clarify our position on this and explain the reasoning behind it.
This is not an open-ended registration course!
Some of the confusion may have come about because we have begun to offer some courses with open-ended registration (the new self-directed courses). To be clear, these are only some of the Next-Steps courses. The reason we have set these up is so that students who finish a First-Steps, and who are keen to keep exploring, have something to go straight onto.
Our other courses still have limited booking windows, though. The reason for this is that, without a booking deadline, if people think they can book a course whenever they want, what happens is that the number of bookings plummets. The reality is that, without deadlines to encourage people to book, the college would go out of business pretty quickly.
So, if you are interested in the Finding your Soul course, you need to book before the deadline closes in February. Otherwise, you will be waiting a long time before the course is open to bookings again (as the course will go back to the bottom of the pile again regarding which courses we offer, and it will likely be several years before we can repeat it).
Remember, you can pay for the course in 3 monthly instalments (if you aren’t offered this by PayPal when you book, contact me, and I can set this up for you manually). Plus, even if you don’t feel ready to do the course at the moment, if you book on it, you have access to it indefinitely, so you can always do it in your own time and at your own pace.
Ongoing access and free course repeats
Ongoing access to the course
When you sign up for the courses, and this includes the Wild Soul Course, you have access to the recordings and the other teacher materials for life – life, of course, meaning for the life of the college. So as long as there’s a college running, and as long as the internet exists, you’ll have access to the recordings. So you can take as long as you want to work your way through a course, and you can come back to it and revise any bits of it as often as you want. It’s sort of like buying a book – once you bought the materials, you know, they’re yours and for as long as you want.
Free revisions
When we (re)run any course that you have done previously, you can sign up for the new version for free!
When will the course run again?
Considering the number of courses available and the constraints of the number of weeks in a year, as well as the time and energy we have, courses are typically repeated, at best, on a two-year cycle. More often, it’s on a three or four-year cycle. So, if you don’t sign up for Wild Soul now, you’ll probably have to wait another three years, possibly even four, before it’s offered again.
Another thing to consider when signing up for it now is that I can’t guarantee it will run again. I mean, living with an awareness of death is a central theme in shamanism. Shamans are deeply connected to the cycle of nature, and death is an integral part of that. I’m not being morbid; it’s a reality. I’m not getting any younger, and I don’t know how long I’ll continue teaching. So, don’t assume the courses will be available indefinitely. Please seize the day and take the opportunity to sign up when the courses become available.
Payment in three instalments
Money, of course, can be a challenge. We try to keep the courses as low-cost as we possibly can, and all of us involved in the college live quite modestly. Remember that in terms of signing up for the courses, our website gives you the option of paying for courses in three monthly instalments at no extra interest. For the Wild Soul course, for instance, you can pay 150 pounds upfront or in three instalments of 50 pounds each over the next three months. I hope that helps.
Live Sessions
You do not have to be able to attend the live sessions to sign up for the course, and to get a huge amount out of doing it. At the moment, probably around 50% of our students don’t attend live at all and of the 50% that do, probably half of those only attend some of the live sessions, so you do not have to attend the live sessions, to sign up for the course.
Having said that, obviously, the live sessions add even more and the people that do attend them tend to really value them and love them, which is why we keep doing, offering them really the live sessions. The feedback we get is that people love the experience of journeying together. They love the sharing of journeys. they learn a huge amount from listening to other people’s journeys, but more than anything, they value the discussion time and the sense of community and support and things that come with that. So the live sessions are great and they do add a lot. On the other hand, we have loads of people who don’t attend the live sessions and still keep booking on our courses, and still, we get fantastic feedback from them too. So don’t let not being able to attend the live sessions put you off.
The curriculum
What is Soul?
In our first session, we will explore the concept of the Soul. In modern culture, knowledge of the Soul has been largely lost, with many people confusing it with the Spirit or using the terms interchangeably. Our goal is to reintroduce the animistic perspective of the Soul, which is deeply connected to the Lower-World and nature. We will differentiate the Soul from Spirit and the Middle-World self, aiming for precise usage of the term.
We’ll also discuss how the Soul serves as a template for one’s unique individuality and achieving true Adulthood. In contemporary culture, genuine Adulthood, as understood in animism, is rare. We will explore what animism teaches us about growing into an Adult and the initiation processes. While traditional hunter-gatherer tribes had collective initiation ceremonies, we will discuss alternative ways to grow into the adults we are meant to be in the absence of such tribal rituals.
what it means to be human
We will delve into a detailed exploration of how Soul is an integral part of nature, mainly focusing on what it means to be human from an animistic perspective. To truly comprehend what it means to be human in an animistic framework, we must also understand both the similarities and differences between humans and other People – Animals, Standing People, Plants and Stones. This examination will help shed light on our unique human nature and what it means to be a healthy, interconnected human from an animistic perspective.
FIND YOUR TRIBE & healthy human relationships
In the third module, we will explore the animist template, often referred to as the original instructions, for healthy human relationships, particularly within human groups. This applies not only to tribal groups but also to modern human groups like families and work environments. We will highlight the challenges in today’s human groups and provide a blueprint for improvement and healthier relationships with other humans.
stages of life: childhood
In the fourth module, we’ll explore animist ideas related to child-rearing. This topic may interest parents or grandparents, but it’s relevant to everyone. By comparing how hunter-gatherer societies raise children with our own childhood experiences in the modern era, we can identify dysfunctional aspects and learn how to address and heal these wounds. This will involve examining concepts like the mother wound and the father wound, which reflects a broken and dysfunctional understanding of parent-child relationships. We’ll also explore how these dynamics impact our adult relationships and our connection to the sacred masculine and feminine. The module will provide insights into the challenges of the modern era and offer solutions to address these issues.
adulthood & living a soul-full life
In the fifth module, we will transition to a practical exploration of applying these principles in our everyday lives, focusing on the practical ethics from an animistic perspective. This section will address the fundamental question of what authentic animist ethics truly look like. We’ll examine how these ethics guide our actions and choices, offering insights into how to live in alignment with the original instructions, fostering a deeper understanding of how our behavior and decisions impact our interconnectedness with the world around us.
stages of life: elderhood
In the last module, we will explore the transition from Adulthood to Elderhood. Healthy elders, from an animistic perspective, are rare in our culture because elderhood is not solely determined by biological ageing. We will delve into the concept of Eldership, which is relevant not only to those who are already elders but also to everyone, as it offers a model and template for a healthy path in animistic terms. We will discuss what it means to grow into an elder, a stage that often involves reflecting on life as it nears its end. Additionally, we’ll address an age-old question: ‘What is the meaning of life?’ Or perhaps a more fitting question, ‘How shall I live my life?’
What are the benefits of connecting with our authentic Wild Soul in our daily lives?
In all of our courses, the aim is to provide you with enough knowledge and tools to explore and experience the material independently. Courses are designed to be experiential, with teachings and guidance provided. Your journey and self-discovery then become a lifelong practice. After completing a course, you can revisit the material, gaining deeper insights with each return, forming a lifelong practice.
Specifically, connecting with your wild Soul addresses a common sense of feeling lost in this culture. Many attempt to fill this void with temporary solutions like high-powered jobs or material wealth, but it doesn’t address the deeper sense of something missing. People often struggle to understand themselves and how to live in a consumer-driven culture. Discovering your soul is an ongoing journey that provides a sense of wholeness, meaning, authenticity, contentment, and connection with yourself and the world. The course equips you with the tools and knowledge to begin this lifelong process, with the understanding that it’s an ongoing journey of growth and self-discovery.
