Welcome to
Awaken the Mystic Within
Reclaim your life as sacred ground
with Mirabai Starr
We begin October 1, 2024
Thank you for joining the Awaken the Mystic community!
We are honored and delighted to walk with you through the sacred landscape of everyday reality. The religious institutions have had a stranglehold on our spirits long enough. This is your time.
You get to call yourself blessed.
You are a mystic and your god is calling from the depths of your heartbreak and the heights of your sexual bliss, from the pile of dirty dishes and the heaping forkful of buttery eggs, from your baby’s first words and your grandmother’s slow decline. Everything belongs.
Let’s get started.
We look forward to gathering with you
October 1- November 12
Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm Pacific
All sessions recorded
"You already are a mystic of the sacred ordinary. This gathering is simply a bell to remind you. A symphony of bells!"
- Mirabai Starr
How to prepare to get the most out of our time together...
2. Prepare
Gather your materials and create your sacred space to best prepare for our time together.
3. Bonuses
Dive into an excerpt from Ordinary Mysticism, and an audio recording blessing, video and prayer.
To prepare for Awaken the Mystic Within
Create Your Sacred Space
We encourage you to gather a few items as we launch this journey:
1. Gather your writing materials.
Before our journey together, we ask you to get a designated journal for Awaken the Mystic Within where you will write during our 7 weeks. Invest in beauty!
2. Write a letter to the God of your childhood
Begin by writing a letter to the god of your childhood in your new Ordinary Mysticism journal and see what reveals itself.
3. Purchase your copy of Ordinary Mysticism
When you pre-order you will receive two free gifts.
"To be an ordinary mystic is to be on the lookout for magic, for moments of synchronicity and heartbreak, moments when common experiences like thundershowers and broken bones unexpectedly connect you to the whole cosmos and you fleetingly perceive the perfection of all that is."
-Mirabai Starr
What if the wild and scrappy landscape of your own life turns out to be holy ground?
The Flow
We gather
October 1-November 12
Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm Pacific
Join us as we travel together for seven weeks through each of the seven chapters of my new book, ORDINARY MYSTICISM: Your Life as Sacred Ground. Unravel the myths that have kept you small and separate, reweaving your days with radical amazement and enkindling your courage to step up as an instrument of peace, exactly as you are.
Week 1
Deciding to be the Mystic You Already Are
Tuesday, October 1, 5-6:30pm Pacific
We open with an exploration of what it means to be a mystic, and why YOU ARE ONE. Thread by thread, we unravel myths about spiritual perfection and reweave a net of sacred belonging. We invite you to set your intention to walk a path of wonder, reclaiming the magic swirling from the center of your everyday life.
Week 2
A Fearless Gaze
Tuesday, October 8, 5-6:30pm Pacific
Now that we have set our intention to be available for beauty and wonder at heart of everyday life, we tune our faculties to perceive it. Slow down and pay attention. Pour your awareness into the vessel of the present moment and watch it brim with beauty. This is a contemplative stance, a gaze of love, requiring fearlessness and fortitude.
Week 3
Radical Amazement
Tuesday, October 15, 5-6:30pm Pacific
We have cultivated a contemplative gaze. Now we can perceive sacred shining from the ordinary. We have renewed access to childlike wonderment and radical amazement. In this station of the journey, we become more willing to not know. We come back to beginner’s mind, dropping our preconceptions like pebbles, letting the house of cards come tumbling down. This is not a problem to be solved but the loving embrace of reality.
Week 4
At the Feet of the Masters
Tuesday, October 22, 5-6:30pm Pacific
We have set our intention to walk as mystics, surrendered to unknowing, cultivated a contemplative gaze and expanded our capacity for radical amazement. It’s time to turn our attention to the wise ones who have walked before us. Which books, poems, songs and artworks have been maps for your journey, beacons for safe passage, wellsprings of wisdom and hope? Turn toward the arts as a source of sacred transmission. And acknowledge that every time you create you are acting as a mystic!
Week 5
Beloved Community
Tuesday, October 29, 5-6:30pm Pacific
We have explored ways to be more awake and available to presence of sacred in all things, cultivated a contemplative gaze, enhanced awe and wonder, and turned to teachings of masters across the traditions. Now we remember that we belong to each other. We let go of the idea of individual awakening and private salvation in favor of collective liberation rooted in love.
Week 6
Broken Open
Tuesday, November 5, 5-6:30pm Pacific
We have explored ways to reclaim wonder and build community. Now we offer ourselves to the alchemical fire of grief. We become intimate with the landscape of loss, befriend death and relax into our own mortality, reclaim the holiness of desire and give ourselves whole-heartedly to passion. Rather than forsaking our feelings as “unspiritual” we harness them as vehicles to connect us to the divine.
Week 7
The Restless Butterfly
Tuesday, November 12, 5-6:30pm Pacific
If to walk as an ordinary mystic means reclaiming the landscape of your life as holy ground, then you can go ahead and release any illusions you might have been holding onto for ultimate enlightenment. Your soul is a work in progress. The spiritual path is an ever-unfolding adventure. Embrace the journey!
All sessions will take place on zoom and you will have lifetime access to recordings.
You are a mystic and your god is calling.
