Conjuring Wildness

Perhaps us humans are better manifestors than we know...

Welcome to my newsletter community exploring the what it means to become wildlings in this domesticated world. I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.

In this newsletter I explore hidden, wild and thriving landscapes that live just beneath the surface of our polished societal veneer - mythopoetic landscapes where the psyche meets the world. This untamed terrain lies underneath the masks we wear to navigate social norms. It lies below the neatly paved streets and beyond the footpaths in the forest. It lies in the dark spaces in which we often fear to tread; the dark thoughts we try to will away but never can; the unspoken spaces between the people we want to be close to.

For too long the cultural tendency has been to try to explore this landscape with rational thought alone, oppressing our inner wildness as a result. In this way the wild mythopoetic jungles have been tamed into a barren imaginal plain. But the fairies and dragons and demons have not been vanquished. They simply hide under the surface festering. Until they emerge.

These wild and so often unwelcomed parts ferment and grow in individuals and, when ignored, can ripple across an entire culture. They emerge as mental health crises. They emerge in increasing social division. They emerge in the election of repugnant leaders. Buried under the rug in the depths of our civilised minds are toxins not dissimilar to those that pour into the atmosphere and oceans. Perhaps us humans are better manifestors than we know.

I believe that our times are calling us to rekindle our relationships with the mythopoetic and rewild the imaginal plains that have suffered the desertification of oppression and rationality. I believe that in doing so we might just find the inspiration we need to realise this in the physical world too. Exploring these wild inner and outer landscapes cannot be done with our minds alone. They live in the subconscious, in the body, in the unprocessed emotions. They often don’t make sense to the rational mind. They need different mediums to explore and express. They require art

In this newsletter I want to share my adventures in the mythopoetic. I want to share the art that I create, the beings I meet and the adventures I have as I traverse these worlds. I do this as an invitation for others to do the same. And I’d love to find community with fellow explorers in the imaginal realms. I hope you’ll join this community and I can’t wait to hear of your adventures!