Ethical Foundations of Spirituality
The Journey to Spiritual Literacy
Spiritual literacy creates freedom. The entire focus of the offerings here are rooted in guiding you towards your spiritual liberation—however that looks for you.
In our modern times, the pathway of spirituality is cluttered with fragmented spiritual teachings and exploitative ‘experts’.
There are people curious about spirituality, spiritual awakening, and the spiritual journey as a rite of passage, but they feel arrested by the vastness of the spiritual landscape—an influx of modalities, paths, coaches, sages, pills, plants, and the validity of teachings available.
Distinguishing between what is helpful, and what is not, without risking a loss in your time, money, or psychological trauma from bad spiritual teachings—is what you’re up against in these times.
Before you go hurling yourself at or into the spiritual landscape, I want to suggest a better way. You don’t have to wing-it. You can close the knowledge and wisdom gap between you and the spiritual buffet out there.
To confidently embark on your spiritual journey, you can develop spiritual literacy through globally minded, ethical fundamentals of spirituality. In my perspective, this exists across 5 foundational stages.
The 5 Stages
Awareness. The last 500+ years cut humanity away from spirituality, and replaced it with low agency belief systems.
Understanding. Slide your beliefs under the microscope and retrieve what’s useful.
Development. Inside of you lies a powerful force that is critical to your ability to face any oppressive or systemic fears that desire to hold you back.
Study. At the individual level, your spiritual freedom requires you to close the wisdom gap and upgrade your beliefs and perspectives.
Commencement. With your proverbial backpack full of tools and resources, you chart your own spiritual path.
The Medicine for Chaotic Times
There is a reason why the population, Spiritual but not Religious (SBNR), is growing wider each year. The old answers that used to explain the world no longer hold up in the face of so much chaos and upheaval. The old answers only work in a structure of the world that is restrained, less free, and paternalistic.
And that rigid, oppressive structure is breaking down.
The uncertainty of the day requests new answers to be uncovered in the quest of modern times, a rite of passage for modernity—The Spiritual Journey.
The journey is a path full of all sorts of medicine. Full of answers for these times, and your questions. But there are so many folks offering to sell their maps to you, promising to take you into a spirituality that is highly personal.
The gap between what the map sellers know, and what you don’t know is so wide. So, let’s start with the foundations, and understand that spirituality is a medicine that needs its time with you—to unwind the last several centuries of cultural amnesia.
Becoming spiritually literate is no quick fixer upper. It’s fundamental to a holistic process, path, practice, or journey. And it’s meant to be protective for the long haul, rooting and grounding you in knowledge and wisdom so that you get your medicine—instead of getting got.
Cheers, I’m Danver.
I’m a mystic, storyteller, educator, cosmopolitan rebel—a culture worker in the vein of nonmaterial culture transmission. It is a role I’ve held since the mid 2000s. From my position as a public school teacher delivering historical facts, perspectives, and knowledge to a desert community matriarch within the world’s largest leave-no-trace counterculture collective, to my current state as writer and online educator, I am working to close the wisdom gap by transmitting mystical knowledge and wisdom ethically, through storytelling and teaching globally minded fundamentals of spirituality.
