What Is Your Reason?
Yes WE ASK… What’s Your Reason for BEING HERE… on this website? Why are you seeking to join us on a Dirt Temple Retreat?
Ask Yourself?
Are you feeling a deep ache of disconnection in the world… even though you’ve already done self-development courses, books, therapies and retreats?
Even still… Do you feel ‘something is missing’?
Are you seeking a deeper meaning to crush the chaos?
Are you weary of shallow certainty?
Have you lost a sense of the ‘sacred’ and organised religion and naive beliefs feel meaningless?
Do you feel caught in the “Meaning Crisis” – the silent epidemic of dislocation that leaves our lives fragmented, our rituals shallow and our hearts restless?
Attending the Dirt Temple retreat will challenge you to ‘wake-up, ‘grow-up’ and ‘show-up’.
To rediscover wisdom as a living practice, to reconcile science and spirituality, to encounter the sacred in service.
Our Meaning: DIRT
Dirt Temple addresses the central wound of our age: the collapse of meaning.
Once upon a time we found health and healing in religion; neighbourhood gatherings, interconnected communities, aspirational sermons and the study of ancient scriptures. To greater and lesser degrees of success, religious structures at least had an express purpose: to cultivate wisdom and, by extension, meaning. Inspired by secularism and scientism, we find ourselves without the deep roots of eldership, fellowship and discipleship that once grew from these ancestral ways of relating.
We now find ourselves in the throes of a mental health crisis in addition to a crisis of faith. Along with a crisis of conscience, a financial crisis, a drug crisis together with a housing crisis. Character, community and culture are crumbling before our eyes.
The sacred needs to take on new forms with ever increasingly cultural complexification. Secular spirituality sees us increasingly susceptible to a narrowing of experience, knowledge, and association. As siloed, self-appointed rulers to our own fortified king and queendoms, we neglect to cultivate a well-rounded ecology of psychospiritual practices to guard against self-delusion, self-indulgence and self-destruction. From within our respective echo-chambers, tribalism, narcissism and cynicism are too easily sprouting.
Never before in human history has there been a skillful synthesis of the best in psychology, science, philosophy and spirituality (East and West). All previous transformations in the evolution of consciousness, and the maturation of character have been strictly sequential.
This new soil into which we now dig, fully intending to get down and dirty, is an apotheosis and it is epic, revolutionary and utterly unprecedented. At Dirt Temple we sit at the literal leading-edge of humanities psychospiritual evolution. So be prepared to get messy while we ‘get up to know good’.
An increasing number of non-religious and spiritual-but-not-religious; folks turn to social media, sporting clubs, nuclear relationships or doom-scrolling to boost comfort, build connection and be of consequence.
Those who feel the inadequacy of traditional beliefs systems, consumer culture, or purely rational frameworks are the modern mystics without monasteries.
Expect to be disoriented – and then reoriented toward something deeper, richer and healthier. At Dirt Temple you will encounter practices that deconstruct, map and refine intelligence across all domains; noetic intelligence, emotional intelligence, somatic intelligence, relational and erotic intelligence.
