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©Olivier Tryba
Welcome to Deep Freedom Now!
The word “Freedom” is an incredible buzzword in our cultures, isn’t it? It’s become almost meaningless. I’d like to challenge you to just feel what “Freedom” means for you. What words follow “Freedom” when you say it? For many people it’s “Freedom To” or “Freedom From.” Here we’re going to explore a very different and deeper Freedom; the Freedom FOR the authentic experience you’re having right now. In other words, I’m inviting you into the Freedom to BE. Instead of Escape and Reaction, we can enter into Relationship and Response-Ability rooted in the Cellular, Breathing, Pulsating Reality of your Experience Right now. Now let me give you a little background:
The views expressed at Deep Freedom Now are the fruit of an unusual journey into different cultures and into the heart of my own joy, desire, grief and pain. These words point to something in OUR experience as human beings on this planet. Although I make assertions that may open, liberate or contradict your world view; any benefit you can derive from what is offered can only be obtained by going within and FEELING, SEEING, HEARING & MOVING within your own experience. You may experience profound change, not only in your views of culture, humanity, psychology, spirituality and biology but, most importantly, in your relationship to yourself. Integrating Deep Freedom, which is YOUR Freedom to BE, right now, as you are, and to come into relationship with how you ARE (not how you imagine yourself, not what you tell yourself about you, but how you ARE) is not an overnight proposition, nor is it some long-winded project. It is an allowance for the flowering and unfolding of the Wisdom in your biology. We can allow our lives to be born from reality itself, rather than from a 2 inch square part of our brains that we are trained to use to overlay every experience with a description that may be largely absent of roots in the world we actually inhabit.
Deep Freedom Now is the freedom to connect to the entirety of our right-now experience, including those experiences we have daily yet are taboo to FEEL in some cultures and specifically in many Western cultures, especially English-speaking ones.
Seeking to understand my own experience growing up in four different cultures, my search to understand human experience began in earnest over 30 years ago. I studied, lived and worked in a variety of religious, “spiritual,” linguistic and cultural contexts but what has most marked my understanding was time spent with indigenous friends in the Americas, especially in remote communities where conquest has not totally disrupted a vital way of living in relatedness. On a journey to the Zapotec homeland in Mexico, I was surprised to find vibrant communities where newborns did not cry all night, two year-olds did not interrupt their parents’ conversations and competently used sharp tools & fire, parents did not say “no” to their children, and adolescents actually enjoyed and sought out the company of adults, small children and elders. Having these experiences in different parts of the world made me look deeply at what drives our experience and holds us in a generation-to-generation pattern where our experience is not so harmonic.
In 1984 I began my apprenticeship in the Latgawa-Takelma shamanic tradition with a Danish-American man who carried the male and female sacred bundles and teachings which he received from his Latgawa-Takelma teachers. Through him I became close to several Cheyenne and Klamath people, participated in ceremonies with Klamath, Cheyenne and Lakota people in the Northwest, and then traveled, befriended and learned with indigenous elders in Canada, Mexico and Guatemala. At the same time I studied Tai Chi and Qigong since 1989, launched several businesses which I owned, spent twenty years in Critical Care medicine, and consulted on international healthcare ventures.
As I sought to understand my own experience, as well as those of other human individuals and communities, it became clear to me that certain forms of cultural disruption and conquest cause fundamental disconnections within the individual and society at large that are “blind” to most attempts to “fix” them. Deep Freedom Now addresses these cultural blind areas that challenge our ability to adapt to our planetary reality and to live in ways that are fundamentally more vital than reducing all people, places and beings to an evaluation of what can be extracted from them.
Please note: although I may share from experiences, friendships and relationships with indigenous friends of mine, I have never met any indigenous people who desired for others to adopt their way of life. Almost all of the elders and teachers I have known amongst indigenous people have said to me, in so many words, “Look to your own history, your own ancestry, and to your own experience and you will find the path to YOUR indigenous heart.” This path which I speak about here at Deep Freedom Now is not a path outside of yourself, nor is it a path that excludes parts of your experience. It’s a path of being Naturally Human. Your being itself is its greatest teacher.
I’d like to welcome you into an unusual view of our amazing human journey and to YOUR Deep Freedom Now!
Thank you.
Olivier “O” Tryba