The Everyday Wizardry of Ritual, Making Your Myth, & Unlocking the Genius in the Room
PLUS: Breathe. Meditate. JournalâMature Masculine ArchetypesâThe Lost Art of CryingâConjuring Scenius & Other Dope Newsletters
Jonny Miller đ˘ | Jun 24, 2020 | 3 |
Buenos Dias Amigos Curiosos đ
Mid-way through writing these wordsâthe ground started shaking. Literally. Here in sleepy Puerto Escondido, we felt an earthquake registering 7.7 on the richter scale.
It felt appropriate for these groundless times weâre living throughâwhere the structural integrity of our certainty + beliefs are being shaken to the core.
Perhaps the invitation is to find that solid ground deep within ourselves. A reminder to practice courageous curiosity + lean into those edges of our human-ness.
For me writing these newsletters feels like that sturdy groundâa place to re-centre my own monkey mind and introduce you to others living at their own curious edge.
Onwards!
đ How to Read This // Welcome new readers! I donât know about you, but I rarely read every newsletter word for word. So this has been designed to be skimmed in a non-linear manner. I strongly encourage you to scroll first and then use curiosity as your guide.
đ How to Human User Manual // This life-force in this book idea from last year has been reignitedâIâm drafting a proposal for an âaudio-firstâ book which I intend to open-source in the coming weeks for feedback, critique and ideas.
đ¤ Can I Help You? // Iâve begun opening up space for 1-1 coaching clients, specifically helping startup founders process unaddressed emotional debt. If you might also be interested in having me in your corner then letâs chat!
đ§ Breathe. Meditate. Journal // My creative amigo Conni and I are back in action with these free weekly live zoom gatherings. Join the conversation in our FB group with 574 others embarking on inner adventures.
đ¨âđŤ New Resilience Masterclass // Iâm thrilled to announce dates for the final Emotional Resilience Masterclass of the yearâspecifically for startup founders and team leaders. Previous attendees have hailed from Slack, Google, Salesforce, Harvard Business School and other rad organisationsâfind more details here.
Without further ado, I give you this long-overdue buffet of interestingness to feast your precious attention upon.
Pura Vida,
~JM
p.s. if we havenât been in touch before, hit reply to this and let me know where youâre reading from and one thing that youâre excited to learn more about.

Left: Flying into Puerto Escondido đ˛đ˝ // Right: Attempting to ride a scooter with too much stuff đľ
đď¸ Allow Me To Introduce You To Three Awesome Humans
1 // đľď¸ââď¸ The Myth Maker: Erick Godsey
Iâve had more emails and messages from people regarding this conversation with Erick than perhaps any other episodeâyou're in for a treat! He uses cognitive, evolutionary, and Jungian psychology to help people discover, articulate, and change the stories that rule their lives. Listen here: âMake Your Myth, Face Your Shadow & Own Your Truthâ
2 // đ§ââď¸ The Ritual Crafter: Casper Ter Kuile
Casper is one of the most genuinely joy-filled humans that I have had the pleasure of knowing. In this conversation, we do a deep dive into his new book 'The Power of Ritual'âwhich I found to be a perspective-shifting and heart-warmingly beautiful book on discovering the sacred amidst everyday life and seeing the world through the eyes of ritualâhis description of why the sabbath is the antithesis to a tech break was also fascinating to me. Listen here: âThe Everyday Wizardry of Ritualâ
3 // đ¨âđ The Experience Designer: Andi Cuddington
Andi is an old friendâI think of her as a modern-day renaissance woman and Iâll typically turn to her for advice if Iâm going through something challenging. Andi is endlessly curious and has a totally unique lens on the world. She found her calling designing + facilitating workshops and has mastered the art + science of âunlocking the genius in the roomâ. Listen here: âThe Subtle Art of Facilitationâ
đ§ Four Mind-Expanding Ideas
1 // Getting Curious About Masculine Archetypes
As mentioned above, I believe the invitation of these times is to look both inwards and outwards with a lens of Radical Enquiry at the emerging weltschmerz (world-pain), individual challenges and insecure canyons that we find ourselves in. One such canyon I found myself in was in the realm of masculinityâspecifically the disconnection and lostness I felt in this area. The specific book that pulled me from the brink is titled: âKing, Warrior, Magician, Loverâ and it has given me a whole new lens to view my own masculinity through. Erick Godsey goes into more detail on this topic in our conversation above, but thereâs also a powerful youtube series that outlines the four archetypes of KingâWarriorâMagicianâLover.
2 // Reviving the Lost Art of Crying
I challenge you to read this in full and not resonate on some deep level. In Nibrasâ words she: ââŚgrew up learning not to cry. Only young children were allowed to cry and once I neared 10 years of age, I was encouraged to stop. Crying wasnât something I saw adults do freely; it was taboo, a sign of weakness and a public loss of control.â Does anyone else relate to this? Tearsâwhether from joy or sorrowâ connect us to the rawness of being alive, so letâs not only normalise crying but celebrate it. Read in full here.
3 // Conjuring Scenius
Every so often I find an intimidatingly long essay that feels worth reading in full, and this is such an essay. Heâs pulled together a toolkit for creating modern sceniaâor gatherings of brilliant humansâthat reshape the world: âLooking backwards, itâs striking how unevenly distributed progress has been in the past...the discoveries that came to elevate standards of living for everyone arose in comparatively tiny geographic pockets of innovative effort.â I thoroughly recommend bookmarking this to read in full and complementing with the book âGeography of Geniusâ. Read Packyâs essay here.
4 // Sketch of the âAmateur's Mapâ
Curious Humans reader + podcast guest Buster Benson created this fascinating personal websiteâwritten using Dropbox paper with the intention of âlooking for a new, untethered way to organize thoughts in some spatial dimensions that arenât by chronology or topic, but more around how to function in terms of connecting me to my own intuitions, the world, and to communitiesâ. I guarantee you will enjoy diving into this rabbit hole.
đ Five Free Newsletters I Subscribe To
Long ago I lost my faith in social media algorithms to surface meaningful things online. I increasingly find the most interesting and human-feeling reflections come from newslettersâso I wanted to share these five that continuously bring joy and thoughtful wisdom to my inbox:
1 // Not Boring from Packy M.
2 // The Institute of Belonging by Victoria S.
3 // The Flow + Wonder Letters by Conni B.
4 // Poetic Reflections by Casper TK
5 // The Museletter by Jason F.
đ Et Cetera
đ¤ Operating systems for life
đ§ââď¸ Passive income for the soul
đ¤ Auto-correct for negativity
đŚ Natureâs incredible gyroscope
đ° 9 ways to smoke test new ideas
đ Navigating this human moment
đşď¸ From mental map to mental atlas
đ 17 superb questions to negotiate reality
đ Every type of zoom call illustrated by cats
đą My new favourite IG account: visualizevalue
đ¸đŞ One solid reason to consider moving to Sweden
đ§ Why our moods are extrapolation engines (superb read)
đ¤ Donât question your purpose. Make your purpose a question.
đš Thought-provoking perspective on wokeness + shaming in light of #BLM
â¤ď¸ Interested in forging a conscious partnership? Check out Carmenâs coaching
đ Parting Poem
This one is called âHow to Humanâ
If you can listen deeply,
without merely waiting for your turn to speak.
If you can sit with the dying,
holding space for their grief.
If you can sit and observe the nature of your thoughts,
without needing to change them.
If you can hold a question loosely,
Not grasping for the easy answers.
If you can fall in love with a sandcastle,
Knowing that the tide is coming in.
If you can let go of everything you think you know,
to make space for something new.
Then you'll be a human, my son.
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