Many people are feeling it.
Spiritual language is everywhere. Practices are everywhere. Courses, rituals, and teachings are easy to find. Yet, the world is growing more and more intense. Ecological collapse no longer feels theoretical. Burnout is widespread. Many people are questioning the spiritual frameworks they have been given.
Something important is missing. Depth. Guidance for how to be rooted in this moment.
How do we reconcile spirituality without using it to escape? How do we honor these teachings during times of intense upheaval? How do we live inside a moment that sometimes tastes so much like despair without collapsing into it?
How do we avoid internalizing the pain of the world so deeply that we become stuck in it, or worse, dissociated and numb?
How do we meet this moment open hearted and courageous enough not to look away? Not running from the news, from the world, or from ourselves.
If you are already sensing the conversation this email is pointing toward, I have opened a waitlist for a course called Remembering Right Relationship, which you can explore here:
Join the Waitlist for Remembering Right Relationship
We meditate. We study. We attend rituals and ceremony. We learn the vocabulary of healing and transformation. And still something feels unresolved.
Not because spirituality is the problem. Spirituality is actually a crucial north star during this time.
But something essential has been forgotten.
Modern life trains us to forget relationship. It teaches us to believe we are isolated beings, separate from land, community, and consequence—tossed out to the wolves. This forgetfulness sits at the root of the tension many people feel between spirituality and the world we are living in.
We forget that the land is our teacher, that she is inside us and we are inside her.
We forget that the ceremonies and rituals of our ancestors carry responsibility.
We forget that spirituality shapes how we live, not just how we think or feel.
We forget that accountability is about care and repair.
We forget that belonging in community requires reciprocity and limits.
When these relationships are forgotten, spirituality easily becomes language, identity, or performance rather than a way of living.
Over the past several years I have watched more and more people fall into the trap of ungrounded and unintegrated spirituality. Not because they are doing something wrong, but because many of the frameworks circulating in modern spiritual culture were never designed to carry the level of responsibility that this moment in history requires.
The deeper question is not simply “how do I grow spiritually?”
But instead, "How do we live in right relationship again with land, community, responsibility, and consequence?"
And in doing so, allow that relationship itself to grow us spiritually.
This is what led me to create a new course called Remembering Right Relationship. It is for people who are sensing this fracture and who no longer want to practice spirituality in ways that repeat the same patterns of disconnection and dissociation.
This is not a course about awakening, rapid transformation, or becoming a spiritual authority.
It is about integrity.
Integrity between what we say we believe and how we actually live.
Inside the course we explore themes that many spiritual spaces avoid:
- The condition of forgetfulness that shapes modern spirituality
- Ecological responsibility
- Ceremony as a real contract rather than performance
- Accountability as devotion rather than punishment
- Plant relationship and ethical discernment
- Spiritual bypassing and burnout
- Reciprocity, limits, and community responsibility
The work is slow. Reflection based. Grounded in lived practice rather than ideology.
This course does not promise answers or certainty, but it offers a way to walk through this moment with clarity and courage.
A way to stand inside this moment without turning away.
A way to practice spirituality that does not replicate harm.
A way to remember that devotion and responsibility cannot be separated.
Many are searching for a path that feels more honest, more responsible, and more rooted in reality.
If that resonates with you, I have opened a waitlist for the course launch.
Joining the waitlist simply means you will be the first to know when enrollment opens, along with early access and a launch discount. It also helps me understand who is feeling called to this work.
Join the Waitlist for Remembering Right Relationship
Sometimes the most important work is not learning or becoming something new.
It's remembering, no matter what the external world is showing you, who you are and what was always meant to guide you.
Relationship.
Responsibility.
Reciprocity.
With gratitude and devotion,
Empress Zella Taj Kan-Aset Xi
MoN CEO & Founder
