
Research
PhD Candidate, Transart Institute for Creative Research
Practice-Based Research
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Connect, Transcend, + Heal
My research is a living inquiry into how humans connect, transcend, and heal through community, ceremony, and altered states. I call this archetypal living — treating time, land, and bodies as co-arising expressions of a larger ensouled cosmos.
I navigate this work through what I call Cosmic Wayfinding: a system of orientation that moves between inner and outer worlds, connecting psyche, body, and cosmos.
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Terrains of Research
The journey spirals through five living terrains:
Plants — teachers of intelligence, allies in altered states.
Animals — guides of presence, boundary, and relational knowing.
Land — sacred geographies and ancestral calendars that hold memory.
Sky — stars, planets, and cycles of light and shadow as cosmic maps.
Humans — story, ceremony, and community as integration.
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Practice + Orientation
I draw from:
Depth psychology (C.G. Jung, James Hillman)
Archetypal, ancient, and modern astrology (Laurence Hillman, Chris Brennan, Rick Levine)
Maya astrology, cosmology, and timekeeping systems (Mark Elmy, Barbara Tedlock)
Medicine traditions, psychedelic work, herbalism (Shipibo cosmology, Maria Sabina, Baba Kilindi Iyi, Mike Crowley, Ash Ritter, Acacea Lewis)
Ethnobotany (Terence and Dennis McKenna, Mark Plotkin and Richard Evans Schultes)
My work is shaped by both ancestral transmissions and contemporary frameworks like morphic resonance (Rupert Sheldrake), spiral dynamics (Ken Wilber), psychotherapeutic parts work (Internal Family Systems via Ralph de la Rosa, Compassionate Inquiry via Gabor Mate) and psychedelic neuroscience and emergent consciousness (Andrew Gallimore, Chris Timmermann, Leor Roseman, Michael Levin, Philip Goff, Bernardo Kastrup).
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Land — Sacred Time & Place
Engaging with landscapes, calendars, and sacred geographies that hold memory and meaning across generations.
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