I have taught some form of deathwalking every Dark Time for almost two decades. I’ve taught what deathwalking is, why we need it, why we haven’t done a good job of it in American settler culture/European diaspora. I’ve even talked about the forces that are against us doing it well and the weaponization of the suffering of the unquiet dead.

This year we need to have a different conversation. Whether my age is showing, the tone of the times requires something more tactile, or it’s not a conversation I hear many spiritual folx having, we need to talk about spiritual practice preparedness. If you are on a non-conventional spiritual path, whether it’s a personal practice or you work with others in a professional spiritual capacity–you need to have a preparedness plan. Hear me out.

This Dark Time I am teaching No Loose Ends – The Practice After You,
to help people prepare their spiritual practice for their extended absence,
emergency, retirement, or death.

Whether we’ve actually organized around personal estate and finances, we’ve put some thought toward how those would look. I’ve only heard one other practitioner–besides myself–of a non-traditional spiritual path express how that path would be engaged after her death. That’s not enough. We spend our lifetime creating our sacred space, especially folx on non-conventional paths. Our plans must think bigger.

This is a class for everyone who:

• experiences a living world
• is on a non-conventional spiritual path
• works with a specific pantheon/cosmology
• tends a particular piece of land/ecosystem
• maintains an altar
• works with Ancestors and/or Ally
• care for animals, plants, trees, elements…
• keeps devotional practices
• maintains relationships with place
• participate in a spiritual community
• keeps journals, ritual objects, or years of accumulated practice