Join me for the Running With Wolves Reading Group, where we explore reading as a door to the wild Self—to soulful, spirit-led wisdom and embodied becoming. In live meetings, we will individually and as a group integrate our insights, and create capacity to actively choose the aliveness available to us in and as consciousness and Earth-community.
During each meeting, I will provide unique frameworks for engaging with the readings so as to enable self-inquiry, collaborative conversations, agential ritual, and other processes of active becoming.
During each meeting, I will provide unique frameworks for engaging with the readings so as to enable self-inquiry, collaborative conversations, agential ritual, and other processes of active becoming.
DATES—2023
Please mark the dates for our upcoming live online meetings on your calendar:
You will be sent a link to access the live meetings once you register.
Please mark the dates for our upcoming live online meetings on your calendar:
- Saturday, January 14
You will be sent a link to access the live meetings once you register.
FOR THE NEXT MEETING (January 14)
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The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms (3rd edition)
by Mae-Wan Ho Chapters 1-5 "This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is treated to a rare and exquisite view of the organism, gaining novel insights not only into the physics, but also into 'the poetry and meaning of being alive.' The third edition includes new findings on the central role of biological water in organizing living processes; it also completes the author's novel theory of the organism and its applications in ecology, physiology and brain science." |
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
(1) How much is the investment?
Tuition for the reading group is based on a sliding scale. The actual cost of the class is $21, but I am also making tickets available for $15, $9, and $3. Please choose the bracket that feels most sustainable to you: MIYHLIYD – more if you have, less if you don’t. A sliding scale registration process makes these sessions accessible for folks with different financial experiences.
You can register for a single session, or sign up for a monthly membership. The membership can be stopped at anytime.
(1) How much is the investment?
Tuition for the reading group is based on a sliding scale. The actual cost of the class is $21, but I am also making tickets available for $15, $9, and $3. Please choose the bracket that feels most sustainable to you: MIYHLIYD – more if you have, less if you don’t. A sliding scale registration process makes these sessions accessible for folks with different financial experiences.
You can register for a single session, or sign up for a monthly membership. The membership can be stopped at anytime.
Please register early so that we can plan the live meeting based on who will be in the room!
(If you will be in university classes with me in the Spring, please wait until we have concluded that relationship to join me in these informal study/ritual circles I offer.)
(If you will be in university classes with me in the Spring, please wait until we have concluded that relationship to join me in these informal study/ritual circles I offer.)
(2) Do I need to have read the book/text by the meeting date?
Ideally, yes. It would help you drop into the fluidity of our conversations more meaningfully. But if you have not been able to finish the book/text we are reading, that's fine–you will still contribute to the field of the class if you were present with the pages you did read, and brought that to the meeting with you.
(3) I would love to be considered for an internship.
We would love to hear from you! Please apply here.
(4) What else has the group read before?
From July through September 2022, we focused on visionary literature: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin in July, The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar in August, and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende in September. Visionary literature, I often say, is the edge of revelation: visionary memory remembers what has been and what is possible. The questions that oriented these sessions included: What can we learn as we read about ourselves, our relationship to earth/nature and to each other? What can these books tell us about our/other worlds, so as to invite possibilities into reality? How can we image new ways of being through reading as we engage with reading in community? Recognizing that stories can either free the human brain or keep it enchained, we read for insights into the keys the stories hold for our personal and collective liberation.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Monica Mody, Ph.D. M.F.A., is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She writes and presents internationally on cross-border perspectives, visionary poetics, art and spirituality, and other ways of knowing. She is Core Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe, and also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Dr. Mody was born in Ranchi, India, and lives in San Francisco, ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. She has studied and circled with elders, wisdom-keepers, and medicine holders from many earth-based and indigenous traditions, developing an interconnected worldview rooted in ancestral non-dual practices. She was trained in traditional modalities of divination based on Dagara cosmology, and has also facilitated community, grief work, and women’s healing circles.
Monica Mody, Ph.D. M.F.A., is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She writes and presents internationally on cross-border perspectives, visionary poetics, art and spirituality, and other ways of knowing. She is Core Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe, and also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Dr. Mody was born in Ranchi, India, and lives in San Francisco, ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. She has studied and circled with elders, wisdom-keepers, and medicine holders from many earth-based and indigenous traditions, developing an interconnected worldview rooted in ancestral non-dual practices. She was trained in traditional modalities of divination based on Dagara cosmology, and has also facilitated community, grief work, and women’s healing circles.