Following the Arrows of Longing

A pilgrimage on
the path of myth

What happens if you live your story till the end?
The spark that gave birth to that question, was a series of poems that came through me in the last summer. By entering a dialogical relationship with the poems, they showed my confusing way from the past, towards an experience of clarity in the present and reached into the future by sending me on a search on what to do with that new found clarity.
In a vision I encountered a white fountain percieved through a net made of many threads.
Even though I do not yet fully know what the white fountain stands for, I suspect it signifies a place where lifeforce can express itself fully by connecting to it’s environment.
Practilcy that means that I want connect to people, places and their stories who are interested to help others hear their calling by the means of myth and experiential pedagogy.

To find the white fountain, I’m embarking on a pilgrimage in search of the binding element: the thing that is No‑Thing, connecting oneself to One-Self, each other, and the between to the beyond.
I suspect this binding element to be myth: The stories we live from, through, and towards.
To test this suspicion, I am offering workshops and retreats based on a practice I’m currently designing, called Fateweaving.
Fateweaving aims to provide a way for people to reconnect with the story of life by telling and living out their own story.

In the old sense of the greek wordTheoria which could be translated into sacred journey, I want to test the theory of Fateweaving by going on a pilgrimage. Fully trusting that the truth is revealed only when one is changed.
I don’t have a destination where I intend “to find myself.” Instead, I will embark on an adventure like the heroes in the stories of old, guided by a strong sense of orientation towards the place where I once shot my arrows of longing.
But a true adventure is only real when others join the ride. Along the way, I will share my stories in the blog below and invite others to join in by telling and living out theirs.
Here is a link to the “wandering purpose podcast” where I will be interviewing people along the pilgrimage:
https://www.youtube.com/@Arrows_of_longing

The departure: hearing and heeding the call
Daniel Nebbe Daniel Nebbe

The departure: hearing and heeding the call

The following is an illustration of why I decided to leave my old way of life behind in order to go on a pilgrimage on the path of myth. With myth, I mean the stories that connect us by pointing us toward deep patterns within reality and therefore allowing us to gain orientation in life.
It is an invitation to reflect upon your life by giving you insight into mine. The pilgrimage is a Theoria – a sacred journey to test a theory of which I am part. It is an experiment, but not one where I am the supposedly distant observer; rather, the way I participate in the experiment will have a great effect on the result, and the process will have a great effect on me.

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