Basking in the World's Wells of Wisdom
A Pan cultural exploration of Archetypal Intelligence, the Feminine Path to Liberation, and Finding Our Own Way in the Imagery and Felt Sense in the Body of the World's Deities
I sat in a mandala meditation the other morning, as guided by Lama Tsultrim Allione’s work. As I gazed into the four directions—north, south, east, and west—I reflected on the Dakinis that dwell in each, as held within the Tibetan Buddhist lineage. Simultaneously, I felt the presence of another wisdom system reverberating: the Five Spirits of Chinese Medicine, as beautifully explored by Lorie Eve Dechar in The Five Spirits. These are not abstract principles, but living intelligences, each associated with a meridian pair, a season, and a phase of transformation. Both traditions point toward a truth that modernity often forgets: that the sacred is relational, embodied, and already alive within us.
These energies—whether called Dakinis, Shakti, or Shen—are not metaphors nor idols to be projected upon, but archetypal presences that awaken and unfold through direct relationship. When we work with them, we’re not stepping into fantasy. We’re stepping into an energetic groove that transcends space and time, a groove cultivated by countless beings focusing their consciousness before us. In doing so, we magnify the field. We amplify the practice. We deepen the remembering.
My work with Sacred Counsel is to translate these experiences—sometimes veering fully into the mystical—into something accessible, embodied, and non-dogmatic. I meet people where they are: mystical, psychological, or spiritual. I love the dance between them because it’s all connected. It just depends on the lens through which you’re looking—or the direction from which you’re arriving.
We each carry our own ancestral code, cultural orientation, nervous system patterning, and personal mythos. Liberation, for me, means cultivating the capacity to meet life as it is—fully. To presence the truth, then act with congruence, compassion, and clarity. And to do so not in isolation, but in resonance with the lineages, the spirits, and the communities that shape us.
🔥 Dakinis & Shakti Are Not Just Metaphors
In the Tibetan tradition, the Dakinis are vibratory intelligences. In the Hindu tradition, Shakti is the primordial force of transformation. Both point to a felt experience, not a theological belief. This is what I want to really stress.
When we call them in—through mantra, visualization, mudra, breath—we’re not summoning an external god. We’re awakening an internal resonance, a pattern in our psyche and soma that aligns us with an ancient rhythm.
This isn’t about metaphor or literality. It’s about archetypal awareness arising in the body. A subtle shift of presence. A sudden stillness…or explanation that is a direct transmission. These are not symptoms to be analyzed, but invitations to remember.
💠 Making It Practical
So what do we do with all this?
My work with Sacred Counsel exists to bridge these spaces—to help you make sense of what emerges when your practice becomes alive. Whether your doorway is through archetypes, trauma repair, or song… I don’t have your path. But I can help you polish it.
We don’t need another dogma. We need mirrors, mentors, and mystics who help us see what’s already shining. Through integration support, microdosing immersion, somatic practice, and ancestral attunement, I offer space for your form to emerge.
This is not about transplanting practices from one culture into another, but about honoring their roots and translating their medicine. Not everything can be explained. And that’s okay. Some of the most meaningful shifts come through images, breath, symbols, and silence.
Integration is a Mystery We Walk Together
I held a community integration circle recently with my Beloved Luke. We didn’t have a theme. We simply showed up. And what emerged wasn’t lightness or clarity—but a kind of shared disenchantment with the world. An ache. A heaviness.
Rather than avoid it, we named it. We let the grief in. We gave space to the “negative affect” so often excluded from wellness spaces. And something happened. The personal dissolved into the collective. The isolated sorrow transmuted into a deeper existential longing that needed a witness.
This is the alchemy. This is the work- and really in this, what felt like a personal problem became a collective reckoning of the reality of life as it is….and to me. Thats pure realization:
As Chögyam Trungpa said, “Hopelessness is the basic ground... You see things as they are. You become real.” That moment—when we stop trying to escape or fix and instead let ourselves touch the ground—that’s where the path begins.
We aren’t just integrating personal stories—we’re remembering collective mythologies. We are healing not just our trauma, but our disconnection from the unseen, the archetypal, the elemental.
Gratitude for the Ground
To my beloved partner, Luke (@luke.destefano.music)—thank you for the soundscapes, the constancy, the devotion. You help me journey deep and land soft.
Art base: @realfunwow
Collage + words: yours truly
Sources & Inspirations
Women of Wisdom by Lama Tsultrim Allione
The Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing by Lorie Eve Dechar
Let’s keep walking the path—not toward answers, but toward deeper contact with what’s always been here.