Getting to the Bottom of Things
The Quality of our Relationships is an Inside Job, a Frequency
Hello Everyone,
I’m in a deep retreat space and am sharing some time sensitive items and will be back with more essays after labor day.
If you’re roadtripping in August, Goodpods just named the Rose Woman #2 in relationship podcasts?! We were unaware that we were a "relationship" podcast, but I take real delight in the designation, as all of life is relationship or kinship. When we increase our awareness, precision, and ability to see more of what is moving in us, we get to an aha moment of kinship and relatedness: we are making the outer world from our conscious and unconscious inner world, and if we want our relationships to be more joyful and satisfying, we need to search inside. So the shows main themes on love and liberation are essentially relational.
There are only frequencies. Even if we overtly desire to be kind or courageous, if it sits on top of seeds of unconscious fear or hurt, the unconscious will win, and our actions will carry the frequency of the sponsoring seed energy. If we overtly want to be true and loyal, but underneath it we are always scanning and seeking approval, it will never happen. Will power doesn't work. External change without internal transformation is like rearranging furniture in a house with a cracked foundation.
It works the same way in the collective as in the individual. If we want a world where everyone has a voice, but it sits on top of deeply embedded hierarchy and bias, then our efforts will unconsciously recreate the very power structures we're trying to dismantle. The collective unconscious will sabotage our most well-intentioned efforts—we'll find ourselves inadvertently silencing the very voices we claim to champion, creating new categories of whose voices matter most. The frequency of exclusion and dominance will continue to broadcast through our actions, no matter how egalitarian our words, because we haven't done the internal work to excavate those patterns within ourselves. External change without internal transformation is like rearranging furniture in a house with a cracked foundation. The hierarchy will find new ways to express itself, perhaps even more subtly and insidiously, because the system will simply perpetuate the same dynamics with different labels.
New Episodes
On the podcast, we have two recent episodes for you! In "Pilgrimage," I explore a new format for the show, with four guests, stories, and music all interwoven on the subject of walking the soul back into the body and coming present with the self.
The Return of Pilgrimage: Walking the Soul into the Body, the Heart into the Earth
Another is with the amazing negotiator and peacemaker William Ury (the author of the classic Getting to Yes and advisor to presidents), on peace and possibility. What started as an exploration of his work ended up as a deeply inspirational conversation on imagining the future we might live into. He tells some great stories, and we end with his understanding of hospitality as the heart of humanity. Living Tantra
Living Tantra Fall 2025
My team is preparing for the next cohort of Living Tantra and our fall retreats. I invite you to attend an information session on August 26, or if you’d like to take the course without attending the session, the sign up link is here.
All Love, All the time,
Christine
@christinemariemason
