A working definition of Spiritual Futurism

Falling in love with a vision for the world

Back in July when I had my Soulful Prosperity Workshop on the brain, I wrote an article about what I was considering calling Spiritual Futurism.

I haven’t stopped contemplating the term or the potential for what this movement could be.

Essentially it’s a movement for modern mystics.

For those of us who are what Caroline Myss calls “mystics without monasteries.”

Modern life is the monastery, the temple, and the mystery school.

The term Spiritual Futurism hasn’t left my contemplation since I wrote that first article back in July.

Read it here for context if you want.

A few weekends back, right before my 40th birthday, I immersed myself in a book I had picked up in 2021 (The Hathor Material by Tom Kenyon) and promptly put it down, moving on to something else that caught my attention.

I always experience divine right timing with books.

I’ve had this exact experience so many times over the years - maybe you have too - where I put down a book because it’s not resonating (or because I’m not in the right place to really take in what it contains), but when I pick it back up it’s the absolute perfect thing for the moment.

Down to like, the page I left off on containing a message that is extremely relevant to something going on in my life.

When I picked up The Hathor Material this time, I couldn’t put it down.

Of all the nuggets and reminders I got out of it this go around, this passage stood out to me as both highly significant and hilarious:

The life situations that arise today on your planet and the emotions they generate are actually the initiatory phases of higher consciousness leading to ascension and mastery. In the ancient temples of Egypt, an Initatie on the path to higher consciousness would go through different initiations, each becoming more and more intense. Today, however, your daily life is this process of initiation. 

There is no place you need to go to receive initiations, for you are being initiated by life wherever you are.  The key is allowing yourself to be aware of your feelings and emotional responses to situations so they can be noticed and balanced.

With that in my contemplation for the last few weeks, I began working on the definition of Spiritual Futurism. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Spiritual Futurism is a mystical and multidimensional renaissance (and maybe also a revolution?)

It’s an invitation to imagine and practice a future of spirituality without limits, dogma, fundamentalism, or the signature ungrounded and out-of-touch flavor of bypass that the New Age movement proliferated. Whereas other types of futurism focus on speed and technology, Spiritual Futurism focuses on creating lives and a world where we can all slow down enough to engage with the divinity within us and around us.

Spiritual Futurism uncovers and cultivates awe, reverence, and grace for the human and the divine, the natural world, and all of creation. All that we are truly capable of is the guidepost. It's about defining and relating to God intimately, on our own terms - potentially inspired by but never dictated by outdated patriarchalized world religions. It's building a spiritual future by acknowledging and honoring our spiritual past - the good and the bad.

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I love a first draft so much.

Maybe because I love the process of refinement even more.

More on Spiritual Futurism coming soon…