the golden thread connects the healers, artists, visionaries and seekers who are waking up and weaving a better world.

the new paradigm is the world that the people on this site are dreaming into being.

it seems, much of the time, that everything is falling apart around us – planetary distress that seems unstoppable; failing governments; overt racism and systemic oppression; genocide;  anxiety about whether the collapse of our species is on the horizon. our greed has turned us against each other and against the miraculous planet that gives us life — this has been going on for a long time, and we are finally waking up as a collective to that fact.

you may have noticed that, underneath the despair, there are glimmers of hope - an equal and opposite rise of the tide of human consciousness. psychedelics are on the rise again in popular culture, and meditation and yoga seem to be the norm. systemic oppression and the crimes of colonialism are finally being talked about, and we hear whispers of revolution. spirituality and healing are no longer taboo topics, and invitations to slow down have begun to replace hustle culture. and there are witches everywhere (unafraid, for the first time in generations, to show themselves).

there are whispers that before colonial patriarchy took hold, matriarchal goddess-worshipping cultures covered the earth. some of these cultures still exist and continue to tend the threads of truth. earth-tending indigenous cultures believe western society to be a bad dream — they are urging us to wake up, before it's too late.

the new paradigm is quietly being born: a culture that will no longer be defined by excess, by consumerism, by accumulating wealth to no end, by stepping on natural resources and other humans to gain false power. we are learning to be responsible stewards of our planet again. we are learning that the most important things to tend are our communities and the ecosystems that nourish us.

underneath it all, we are weaving a web of golden threads that will catch us when we fall.