We Are Guides:

Becoming a Guide, even if ONLY to ourselves…

The actual “Point” of it all… get centered enough, learned enough, wise enough, and well-rounded enough… to be capable of leading yourself.

Before you can do much good for anyone else, you’ve got to learn how to guide yourself.

There doesn’t appear to be any end to this: learning to be our own guide…

Many people try to help others, guide them, and coach them… when they can’t even guide themselves.

Fill your cup first, dude. It may seem selfish, but it’s damn hard pouring from an empty cup… and no one else wants the mud in the bottom of your cup.

Think about this for a minute:

For ages, we humans lived in small tribes, typically between 50 and 150…

You know what happens when you’ve built a tribe like that?

Generations of people spanning the age range. Babies, to the elderly (elders).

Guess what (almost) none of us have these days?

A dozen or so elders who know us, love us and have our ultimate best interests at heart.

Guess what we’re all “seeking”?

How to become an elder.

Your ideal identity. Think about it.

If/when you become your “utmost,”… what does that mean? What would you be like? Who would you be?

Yep. “One of the Elders.”

You’d have knowledge, wisdom, experience… passed on to you, built upon by you, passed on by you.

Call it whatever you want. This is what’s actually driving us all mad, freaked out, anxious, chasing the wrong shit to fill this big empty hole… that we ALL have —

knowing that we don’t have a lineage of elders who KNOW what’s coming for us and can help prepare us for it… and feeling like we don’t know what the fuck we’re doing, even if only part of the time.

That’s what people like us (Soul-Mountaineers) are after…

…sorting ourselves out, feeling like we do in fact have our shit together, particularly when the shit hits the fan…

If that resonates, you up for an…