In case you missed it, I'm offering a chance to win a 1:1 dharma day with me.I'll help you with your business, interpret your dreams, and we'll get some meaningful work done together.People have offered me thousands to do 1:1 coaching with them and I've never said yes because it didn't inspire me. This inspires me because the the winner will be chosen by chance.This is the only way to work with me 1:1.To be eligible: get a legacy pass to the Afterlight Summit be on my call at 6pm CST, Dec...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Jung said another name for his God is 'Chance.' I love that. Sometimes, when I'm stuck, I'll assign 6 behaviors to each side of a dice. dance for 5 minutes sing for 5 minutes read a poem aloud do tai chi for 5 minutes meditate for 5 minutes journal for 5 minutes Some little wisp of whimsy sparks the moment I cast the cube because a part of me knows I've just surrendered, and am allowing some greater force to guide me. This game is great fun. I really love games. In ways I don't know how to...
19 days ago • 3 min read
Idk if it's nature, nurture, or astrology (i got 7 signs in Capricorn lol), but I am not a chill guy. Idk if it's because my moon is Leo or because I grew up reading mythology and watching anime, but my interior myth-maker drips in dramatics. The interior me wants dragons and giants, heartbreak and plot-twists. He wants to know the struggle, what it cost, what was lost, and why it was still worth it. He's the one who loves to ascend on the wings of mania and revels in the mud and shit of the...
26 days ago • 7 min read
My voice is coming back. For the first time in over a year, I'm able to speak from my heart without feeling like I'm tearing muscles in my throat. I woke from a dream last night with the following sentence seared in my mind: "What is it about human beings that we are compelled to carry the songs we hear to the vast corners of the world?" In only the way gazing at dream gems can; I had the spontaneous recalling that when I first lost my voice, I had the intuition to learn to sing. The first...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Did you know that the creator of Lord of the Rings was lifelong friends with C.S.Lewis, the author of the Narnia trilogy, and also the most famous Christian philosopher of their generation? These men passed through the cataclysms we call World War 1 and World War 2, and decided together that humanity needed new stories. They knew stories could become myths, and that myths could touch the place in the soul modern warfare corrodes that scalpels can’t reach and pills can’t stop. The golden...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
The only thing I watched the week after my vision quest was Alone. Real people get dropped off in wilderness and record themselves as they attempt to outlast other contenders. It is refreshingly good. One of the crucified bodhisattvas was lucky and skilled enough to kill a musk ox...with a knife. For real. He shared the land with bears, and was 2 miles from his basecamp, so he had to skin the animal and begin moving it as fast as he could or else lose it to the bears. Working from dawn till...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
We’ve finally arrived at the end. After this Sunday, the last live Mentally Fit class will start, and this email is for the few who truly love to wait until the last moment. The Emily Blunt truth is; there is a 99% chance that if you take this class, you’ll leave it feeling like it was the best investment you’ve ever made (over 300 have joined and only 3 have asked for refunds). If you do each week’s homework and you arrive at the end without finding it to have been the best mfkn thing you’ve...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey I’m Erick and I want a renaissance. If we don’t ignite one, and future generations were able to represent themselves in a world court; the generations on this planet today would be guilty of crimes against humanity. (if this sounds like poetry or hyperbole, spend a week rabbit-holing existential risk theory, and listen to "The Shimmer Series." Because this is what I see, and because I am a child of the mono-cropped ultra-processed americana culture; I’m a little underdeveloped to aid in...
2 months ago • 25 min read
As of the minute I write this sentence, I am 24 hours away from stepping out of the steaming doorway of a sweat lodge, and walking to a spot in nature where I will sit alone for 4 days -- without food or water. The circle is made of 411 prayer flags woven through 4 long strands of string. A prayer flag is a little square of cloth with a pinch of tobacco in the center. I spent the past week cutting each square, adding each pinch of tobacco, wrapping the square into a little pouch, and then...
3 months ago • 3 min read