NOTES FROM THE FIELD
A.K.A. WHAT COMES BEFORE
ARC I
What I hope people get from this piece is a better understanding of what this first batch of lessons has been building toward and how to view them moving forward.
For years, my father-in-law has said something whenever we’re working on a project around the house and he was teaching me something:
“Always prepare your area before you begin work.”
He would go on to say this repeatedly, almost in a mantric manner. He spent thirty-five years in construction, so there was an expertise there to be respected.
I always understood it as practical advice. A key that determines the quality of the work before the work even begins.
I find myself thinking about that advice whenever I walk into my studio.
Especially when I’m ready to start working immediately and there are markers and things scattered across the counter - Scraps of paper, glue gun drips, half-dried clay pieces. Remnants of whatever Luna was creating the day before.
The deal is she can use whatever materials I have in my studio to create as long as she cleans up after her creative adventures.
Yet I always have to “prepare the area”.
Every time.
ARC I is the same in this way.
These first lessons are foundational.
Following questions I had. Following observations I made. Following realizations I came to, some of which arrived quickly and others only after years of living real life.
Many questions were asked about perspective, some about pain, a few about energy, a couple about authorship, a big one about identity, and a simple one about awareness.
What questions like those led to were eight lessons that helped set the field.
If you take them individually, each lesson stands on its own.
But if you take them together, they come together like Voltron. They reveal the larger purpose they were serving.
EVERYTHING IS A SPECTRUM serves discernment
THE POV PARADOX serves perspective shifts
BANK OF THE SOUL serves self-healing
LAWS OF GOVERNANCE serves self-knowledge
FRESH 100 serves presence
RELAX serves clarity
NARRATIVE ALIGNMENT serves authorship
SELF AS THE OLDEST HUMAN INVENTION serves recognition
Each lesson serves its own purpose.
Together, they serve the larger investigation at the heart of ARC I:
THE SELF
So they are preparing the area. Tilling the soil, if you will. Setting the field.
Creating the necessary conditions for the deeper work and growth that follows.
I think there is enough shared vocabulary and context. We are oriented.
The conversation no longer needs to begin anew every time. The lessons no longer need to arrive in sequence. They can now release when their articulations presents themselves as ready.
The lesson that comes next will arrive because it belongs there, not because it occupies a particular chronological position in the system.
Again, the area is prepared, the soil is tilled, and the field is set.
And I’m looking forward to the work and the growth that follows.
As always…in divine time.
