Anya Kaats

23/02/2023

William Keepin and Cynthia Brix are co-founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International - GERI. William, a climate scientist and physicist who also trained in clinical psychology with Stanislov Grof began GERI thirty years ago under the name “Gender and Ecology” in an effort to expose and heal the hypocrisies of working to end the exploitation of Mother Earth without simultaneously addressing the exploitation of women and the feminine. Over the years, GERI has evolved into an international program that brings people together from all walks of life to resolve the gender divide through honest and compassionate discourse, somatic work, and mindfulness practices. GERI prioritizes cross-cultural perspectives, and is inclusive of all gender identities, sexual identities and welcomes people of all ages and spiritual beliefs. Their book, Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family is available now.

William Keepin and Cynthia Brix are co-founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. William, a climate scientist and physicist who also trained in clinical psychology with Stanislov Grof began GERI thirty years ago under the name “Gender and Ecology” in an effort to expose and hea...

12/05/2022

“Slowly the fog did what fog does, eventually: it lifted, the way
veils tend to at some point in epic
verse so that the hero can
see the divinity at work constantly behind
all things mortal”. - Carl Phillips

12/05/2022

turn me into magic. build me a sanctuary of dreams.

12/05/2022

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you’ll find her sleepwalking,
following a shapeless form
into the gravity
of an orbit
she knows she’ll recognize.

25/04/2022

“To spare you all the details of my life’s collected works of signs and synchronicities, surrender has always been a particularly potent theme for me. From vivid, recurring childhood dreams of my house burning down, to ‘surrender and transcendence’ being listed as my karmic life purpose in evolutionary astrology books, to looking up the psychological cause of my myriad health issues in Louise Hay’s ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ and reading ‘inability to let go’ as the cause, the memo has been officially and uncomfortably received.

These days, my subconscious mind seems to become aware of the need to let go before my conscious mind can even identify what it is I need to let go of. It’s as if surrender has become the official groundskeeper of my consciousness, ready to greet anything I choose to hold onto too tightly with a look of apologetic sympathy and one of those patronizing ‘move along’ gestures…”

An excerpt from my most recent post on Substack… read more by clicking the link in my bio.

24/04/2022

Where clouds are born.

21/03/2022

An excerpt from my essay on Substack: “Ares & Aphrodite: The Unpredictability of Desire and Finding Creativity in Tension.”

I’m finding this app to be more and more unbearable as the days progress, and having a lot more fun writing on Substack. I’m sure the algorithm will show this post to absolutely no one, but if you happen to see it, you are officially invited to join the coolest party at the end of the world, so click the link in my bio and come follow me on Substack. ✍🏻

14/03/2022

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14/03/2022

Beaches, boats and endless shades of blue.

11/03/2022

There was something indelible about her presence.

She was beautiful, yes, but she emanated so much more than just beauty. Her allure was a potent cocktail of love, desire, and fertility, and anyone who dared glance into her eyes was overcome with a thirst they didn’t know they had.

Women acknowledged her power in the form of jealousy and rage, and even the most dignified of men were forced to put their dignity aside, magnetized to her in ways that overpowered their judgment and reserve.

Born of sea-foam, and daughter of Chaos, she embodied the unpredictable spark that precedes all creation - emerging from a void of formlessness and perched on a scallop shell, she arrived as the personification of potential.

Her name was Aphrodite, and this is where our story begins…

By modern standards, it’s safe to assume that Aphrodite would be considered “too much.” She undoubtedly contained the “chaos” Jordan Peterson equates to the feminine in his book 12 Steps to Life: An Antidote to Chaos.

Of course, any attempt to make “order” the antidote to chaos, as Peterson proposes, assumes a false premise, because order is birthed from the fertile womb of chaos. This idea – that order, form, and structure emerge from chaos and unpredictability – is the underlying premise of “chaos theory,” for example.

The word “order” stems from the Latin ordinem, originally meaning “a row of threads in a loom,” suggesting that order is an inherently creative endeavor. “Order” and “chaos” are not opposites then, but rather, two stops on one train destined for creative expression.

An excerpt from my article on Substack - “Ares & Aphrodite: The Unpredictability of Desire and Finding Creativity in Tension.”

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09/03/2022

Y’all have fun on Mars. I’ll be here if you need me. 🌍👋🏻