Aubrey,

Thank you for stepping forward and speaking so directly into what so many feel but struggle to name your voice brings weight and honesty to a world aching for it. I believe the work we are stepping into as men is not only for ourselves, but for our kids and their children’s children. To leave a world better than we found it.

Carl Jung once warned that until we make the unconscious conscious, it will shape our lives and we will call it fate. That is as true for whole cultures as it is for individuals. Groups that cannot see their shadows will inevitably repeat them. And yet, when we dare to face those shadows, the light breaks through.

I’ve recently shifted my life toward remembering what I can only call the living Word, not frozen on a page, but alive in every breath, still speaking when we learn how to listen. It speaks through symbols, dreams, and signs the ancient language the mystics and saints trusted long before the world hardened into literalism. I don’t believe this is a special gift; it is the birthright of every soul the language it speaks. And when I slow down enough to notice, I encounter what I can only call wonders not surface coincidences, but moments that pierce beneath all labels and reach into the marrow of my life. These encounters shape my path in ways words can barely hold. They remind me that the divine is not fixed in the past but still unfolding, still speaking and that gives me hope that humanity, too, can remember and evolve.

For me, the danger comes when we try to make life a rigid list of rules. That too easily becomes control. But life itself is ever-giving, like the sun that shines on saint and sinner alike. Each of us has a unique path, yet the map is already here hidden in the symbols, waiting to be seen. We just have to remember the magical language that was lost.

If we can hold both roots and wings the eternal scaffolding of love, truth, and forgiveness alongside the humility to evolve, then maybe we can co-create the world religion you spoke of: not as uniformity, but as a field where all paths return home.

Please keep speaking and holding these conversations they are seeds of change in a soil that is starving for them. The world needs this more than we can possibly know. Thank you for standing in this work, brother.

With gratitude

Dan🌹🌹🌹