Crisis is a creative act for the soul’s flowering.

A culture is made up of structures, systems, conditions and beliefs that often govern the way we live, feel, and think. Individuals make up the culture and the culture also lives inside the individuals.

All of this amounts into a body of mythology — an identity woven by a tapestry of stories. When a culture is ending (inside and outside of ourselves), it is important to confront the myths that still serve and the ones that do not.

And what new myths are trying to be born?

So here we want to rewire the myth of CRISIS from the perspective of a soul culture where crisis is a creative act for the soul’s flowering.

In our current culture, self-destruction and crisis usually entail a sense of concern for the individual moving through it as well as the individual’s environment. There can be a pathologizing, fixing or focus on the outer forms breaking, so the individual (and those in close proximity) often resort to preservation of or distancing from what is trying to break.

As Carl Jung said, “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”

Crisis is an essential ingredient to soul initiation, consenting to an evolutionary point of no return and venturing forth into uncharted territory.

In a soul culture, ceremonies and rites of passage call us deeper into the value of our inner life. It is confronting and vulnerable for the identity we’ve come to know as our “self” to gradually crumble, and to remember in these moments, that a creative act is underway as the true note of who we are sounds its way.

The caterpillar inside the chrysalis cannot know it’s going to emerge as a butterfly. . . until it does.