Forget about spirituality for a minute, let’s talk about humanity. As philosopher-mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has famously observed,

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

And humaning can be really f*cking hard.

Being human is complicated, and it often includes periods of darkness. This is what interests us at Enlightened, Apparently. The concept of “embodied spirituality” – which isn’t about snuffing out the dark and victoriously meditating at the top of a mountain. It’s learning to dance with the light and the dark.

Because most of us aren’t living in a secluded cave, we are HERE doing the hard work of humaning: going to a job, paying our bills, navigating complex relationships, illness and ailments, heartbreak and grief, love and loss, compassion and anger, victory and failure, joy and despair.

THIS is the human experience. We can touch the light…and yet *still* have to navigate the dark. A bit disappointing, isn’t it?!

That’s why our goal at Enlightened, Apparently is to offer resources and experiences that help you navigate the often-messy journey of humaning, and to answer the very real questions we hear you asking:

When will life stop feeling chaotic? What can I do to be a good person? I’ve seen the light, now how can I feel that way all the time? How can I create a better future? Why am I even on this planet?

Our aim is to do this with a lot of encouragement, a bit of irreverence, and a dash of sass – because we also believe in keeping things FUN.

We believe there’s a place for the reverence and seriousness of healing and growth, but we also believe in laughter and levity and childlike curiosity. Because light and dark work best when woven together.