From a Wooden Mountain Cabin in a National Park to a 2-Week Authentic Transformative Experience on a Greek Island in the Aegean Sea
Our Journey Together, and Some Gifts for New & Existing Members
Dear voyagers,
The path has many turns, and this was a long one.
After yet another major personal transition—including the dissolution of a business partnership, the end of a long and dear relationship, my relocation from a wooden mountain cabin in a national park to an old stone house gazing at the Aegean Sea, and a new day-job in a kitchen—the hiatus is over.
Emerge Deeper is opening its doors!
As we fully step into a new season for this online space, I’d also like to share that I plan to host an authentic transformative experience—a 2-week gathering/personal retreat/rite of passage—on Chios Island in the Northern Aegean Sea, Greece.
This gathering will take place in the fall of 2025, marking the culmination of this cycle of emerging deeper.
Emerge Deeper is not just a publication on Substack.
It’s a process, a community, and a space for personal exploration, transformation, and growth.
Since you passed through the gate, dear voyager, let me present you with some gifts
The Offering
🧿All non-members who subscribe for free by the 27th of October 2024 will receive complimentary paid subscription status until October 30, 2025!
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🧿Friends already on a comp yearly subscription will also get an extension until October 30, 2025!
🧿Every member under the paid subscription status (comp or not) gets a 200€ voucher which can be redeemed on a 1:1 mentoring cycle with me, or an authentic transformative experience!
I’m making this offering available to mark the beginnings of this new journey. It’s a welcome gift for the newcomers and a token of gratitude to everyone already here.
Onboard friends! The ship’s about to set sail!
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The Subscription Plans and Benefits
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The Emerge Deeper Online Space
My intention with the real-life authentic transformative experiences is to create a space that fosters the conditions and atmosphere for people to reset, connect, engage, learn, understand, and grow, while accepting and honoring each person’s majestic uniqueness and allowing it to flourish.
This happens through relevant and suitable rituals, intangible micro-processes and interactions which give birth to new patterns and motifs, which, in turn generate new dynamics both individually and collectively in the group.
These new dynamics then evolve into a bigger overarching process—an experience and a “space” that expands simultaneously both inwards and outwards, and along it and within it, we, the participants and creators of it, evolve and transform.
With the exact same deep intention, I’ll be hosting you in this online space.
I’m inviting you to dance along and to feel free to pitch in with your own vibes. This space is safe. Even though we are online, everyone is a person. So together, let’s maintain the interactions here on a personal level too. This doesn’t mean intrusive. Respect for the other human is foundational.
The other person is us and through the encounter with the other, we often connect deeper with both the world and ourselves.
Themes We’re Going to Grapple With and the Architecture of Emerge Deeper :
The Themes
Here’s a list of the overarching themes we’ll explore in our endeavour to emerge deeper into our human experience.
Personal Growth and Transformation
The Odyssey of Life
Authenticity and Connection
Intuition and Spirituality
Embracing Awe and Wonder
Connection with the More-than-Human World
Fostering Vulnerability and Trust
Celebrating Darkness and Challenges
The Architecture
This is a safe space and a gathering.
During liminal periods and in life in general, things can get messy—both within and without.
We all know it. We all have been there. Let’s acknowledge this.
Remember, everyone is a person.
Sometimes though, no matter how vulnerable we allow ourselves to be, some things just aren’t meant to be put online for the whole world to see. And sometimes, some things simply aren’t for everyone’s ears and eyes.
The above informs the architecture of this space in the following ways:
The Chat
This is us, at our spot of the park, sitting under the tree talking things. Some passers-by may stop and say hi, some may sit with us one evening, and some may come again the next day and become our friends. This is Chat.
Chat is by default available only to subscribers (free & paid) of Emerge Deeper, but only paid members can start new threads. A key point about this is that they can also toggle the privacy of their threads, making them available only to the inner circle of the rest of the paid members.
Free subscribers can engage in open threads with everyone else.
There is an initial open thread for this: The Plaza. You can find it here.
The same approach will be followed with the posts and their comments, but first let me lay out the overall architecture.
The 3 Sections, and a Fourth
The publication is built around these three core sections:
Cross-Pollinations ~ Pollen From The Noosphere
Emerge Deeper (main)
Soundscapes ~ Music For The Voyagers
Every now and then, there will be some travel-log type posts with explorations of Chios Island. This fourth section is a side dish available only to Paid and Founding Members.
Most of the posts, in all three sections, will be available for everyone to access.
In Soundscapes, though, commenting will be available only to Paid and Founding Members, but the comments will still be available for anyone to read, even non-subscribers.
In the Emerge Deeper and Cross-Pollinations sections, commenting will be available to all subscribers (free and paid), but again available for anyone to read.
As we said earlier, though, not everything is for everyone’s ears and eyes.
So, for Paid and Founding Members only, there will be mirror private threads of every post under the Emerge Deeper and Cross-Pollinations sections, where the comments will be visible only to the rest of the invested core members of this community. We can pour our hearts out there!
I hope this structuring makes sense to you, since this way we’ll maintain a good balance between openness and privacy for this space.
For a third time, remember, everyone is a person!
Where to Now?
We’ll move a bit loosely this month while the offering is available.
Until we sail to the open sea and while people are onboarding, posts will be published in an ad-hoc manner.
From November on, we'll go with three posts per week, one under each of the three sections. Don’t you worry, it won’t be heavy.
The three posts per week is a basic blueprint to follow, not a mantra written in stone. We will be adapting and tuning to the ebbs and flows, as necessary.
So, dear voyagers, if at this part of your own journey this invitation appeared to you and you feel like it’s a sign, I encourage you to follow it. Now is the time.
The Authentic Transformative Experience
A 2-week gathering/personal retreat/rite of passage on Chios Island in the Northern Aegean Sea, Greece.
My intention with the real-life authentic transformative experiences is to create a space that fosters the conditions and atmosphere for people to reset, connect, engage, learn, understand, and grow, while accepting and honoring each person’s majestic uniqueness and allowing it to flourish.
This happens through relevant and suitable rituals, intangible micro-processes and interactions which give birth to new patterns and motifs, which, in turn generate new dynamics both individually and collectively in the group.
These new dynamics then evolve into a bigger overarching process—an experience and a “space” that expands simultaneously both inwards and outwards, and along it and within it, we, the participants and creators of it, evolve and transform.
Why?
Rituals. Ceremonies. Humanity has lived by them. We still do. You still do.
Birthdays, funerals, weddings, graduations, festivals, reunions, full moon gatherings, your morning coffee, your Sunday off or your Friday get-together. These are just some.
From ancient times until now, from North to South, from East to West, and across every culture that exists or has ever existed, humanity lives by them.
Rituals and ceremonies are interwoven into our very human culture and existence.
But now humanity is moving fast, really fast, faster than ever before.
Humanity is not something out there, it’s you, it’s me, it’s the collective expression of every single human’s life and experience and we are moving fast, brother and sister!
Most times, we barely manage to get a glimpse out of the window of our confined everyday automated existence. From one stage to the next, in a snap of a finger!
Big transitions, small transitions, all the same. Plunge through, they say. And we do.
Where are we going with this? How do we navigate our lives’ transitions? How do we mark the important liminal spaces we find ourselves in? How do we connect the before and the after? Do we? If not, what happens to our personal narratives? Is there a narrative then, or is it a soup? And without a narrative, is there a direction and a meaning? Yes, journaling is very powerful, but is it powerful enough to help you embody your narrative? Is it as powerful as a wedding ceremony, for example?
The cultural norms are in a fast-paced change all around the world. And so are our individual lives. Humanity is in a liminal space. At the same time, each one of us is in a similar but also very unique liminal space. I can really sense it! Do you? This change is making many of the existing ceremonies irrelevant. Not all, but many.
I believe we are in need of new, more relevant and appropriate ceremonies. Unique ceremonies for our unique individual circumstances and transitions of the times.
This is what I’m offering with the Emerge Deeper authentic transformative experiences—an immersion into a modern-day mystery!
Dear voyagers, I’m inviting you to join this first official Emerge Deeper mystery, and be part of a contemporary journey into our human experience!
Who is this for?
For 24 life voyagers from around the globe who seek to emerge deeper into their human experience!
When is it taking place?
In autumn 2025.
Where?
In Chios Island, Northern Aegean Sea, Greece.
Dear friends, this is the end of this letter. Thank you for being here! Talk again, soon!
P.S.: Please do share this one with people in your circle who might find it interesting.
Greece is beautiful. Spent 3 weeks on ParosIs Island.