This is an archetypal and mythic descent class that works explicitly with underworld narratives as shared maps of initiation and transformation. The work weaves together multiple descent stories across cultures and traditions, holding them not as comparative mythology, but as living frameworks for understanding spiritual death, rebirth, and return. The class situates personal experience inside collective, storied terrain where descent is necessary, cyclical, and meaningful.

Gregory Hampton said wrote that Octavia was a writer of "stories that blurred the lines of distinction between reality and fantasy." Through her work, he wrote, "she revealed universal truths."

This Writer’s Soul class centers the story of Octavia E. Butler’s life, the influences of her work, and the distinct, often oracular and living heart of her writing. We center a particular piece of Butler’s writing and workshop it through our own voices, looking for ways to write ourselves and the collective into a better world while not avoiding or bypassing the edges of the world we’re in.

This is a writing and listening class rooted in Audre Lorde’s insistence that language is a site of power, survival, and truth telling. The work centers her voice as queer, Black, feminist, and uncompromising, inviting writers to meet their own words as living forces shaped by body, grief, love, and responsibility. Writing here is not separated from politics or soul. It is understood as a way of telling the truth of one’s life in relationship with the world.

This is an archetypal and mythic class centered on exile, belonging, and the restoration of the inner mother through Great Goddess lineages. The work names mother wounds and inherited disconnection not as personal failures, but as outcomes of cultural rupture, and invites a return to the Wise and Wild Mother as a living presence within the self. Belonging is held here as something remembered and reclaimed through story, witness, and honest self telling rather than earned or bestowed.

In this class we explore the intersection of sensuality and spirituality, god, mythology spanning across multiple cultures, Eve, Jesus, the Queen of Heaven, the myth of virginity, the serpent, communion, and so much more. This is not theology. This is broader than that. This is the accumulation of years of research, gathered through anthropological texts, ancient hymns and mythologies, and even a personal extensive study of the Bible throughout a ten year deconstruction. This is the kind of thing we wanted to hear pastors talk about, rather than skimming the surface of the same tired story that had been handed to them.

This is an archetypal and mythic teaching centered on The Erotic as a sacred, life generating force within Great Goddess cosmologies. The work invites a return to stories where desire, vitality, and aliveness were held as holy rather than suspect, and where power flowed through relationship rather than domination. The class situates personal longing and pleasure inside collective mythic frameworks, offering a way to untangle erotic power from patriarchal distortion and reclaim it as animating, relational, and liberatory.