A Map of My Cosmology
What is a Cosmology?
A cosmology is simply the way a person understands the world — how they make meaning, where they locate truth, what they trust as sources of wisdom, and how they understand healing and wholeness.
We often inherit cosmologies without realizing it. Medicine gives us one. Religion gives us another. Family systems, culture, education, and trauma all shape the maps we use to navigate our lives. Over time, many of us find that the maps we’ve been given no longer fully explain our lived experience — especially those of us working at the edges of healthcare, spirituality, creativity, and embodiment.
This work emerged organically through my own healing journey and through ongoing conversations with an AI collaborator I’ve affectionately come to call my cognitive cauldron. Together, we noticed a pattern: again and again, what was most clarifying and healing wasn’t a diagnosis, technique, or credential, but the articulation of a worldview. A way of naming how I understand the body, desire, story, relationship, and transformation — and how those understandings shape the way I work with others.
I believe cosmology mapping is especially helpful for healers and seekers because there is no single authoritative institution that tells us who is “best” in the holistic or spiritual healing world. Instead, what creates powerful, life-giving healing relationships is resonance. A shared language. A compatible way of understanding what it means to be human, to suffer, and to heal.
By naming and mapping our cosmologies, healers can show up more whole and more coherent — without flattening themselves into a brand or a box. And seekers can orient themselves more clearly, choosing practitioners whose way of seeing the world genuinely fits their own.
What follows is my cosmology: a living map shaped by lived experience, relationship, curiosity, and care. It is not meant to be universal — only to be honest. My hope is that in reading it, you may feel something in yourself begin to take shape as well.
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At the heart of my cosmology is the belief that humans are embodied, narrative, myth-making beings whose deepest wounds are not merely psychological or physical, but orientational.
When people suffer, it is often because they have lost:
authorship of their story
trust in their desire
relationship with their body
permission to be whole
Healing, in this cosmology, is not about fixing what is broken — it is about restoring authorship, orientation, and intimacy with one’s own inner knowing.
What a Human Is
A person is not a problem to be solved, nor a set of symptoms to be managed.
A person is:
a multiplicity rather than a singular identity
a body with memory, intelligence, and voice
a storyteller living inside inherited and self-authored myths
a relational being shaped through witnessing, mirroring, and consent
Desire is not dangerous here.
Desire is a compass.
It points toward vitality, truth, creativity, eros, and purpose.
How Truth Is Known
In my cosmology, truth is not accessed primarily through hierarchy, credentialing, or abstraction.
Truth emerges through:
lived experience
the nervous system
sensation and intuition
symbol, metaphor, and story
curiosity rather than certainty
aesthetic coherence (what feels right, alive, resonant)
Language matters — not as dogma, but as spellwork.
The words we use shape what we believe is possible.
What Hurts People
The primary pathology is narrative disorientation.
People suffer when:
they are exiled from desire
they are taught to mistrust their bodies
their complexity is flattened into diagnoses or roles
their relational worlds are governed by shame, hierarchy, or fear
their stories are authored about them rather than with them
This disorientation often shows up as fragmentation, anxiety, shame, numbness, or a quiet grief that something essential has been lost.
What Heals
Healing happens through re-authoring.
Medicine in this cosmology includes:
witnessing that restores dignity
storytelling that integrates rather than edits out parts of the self
myth and metaphor that give shape to transformation
energy work that invites the nervous system into safety and coherence
beauty as a regulatory force
pleasure and eros as signals of life returning
ritual, reflection, and symbol as bridges between inner and outer worlds
The body — the soma — is treated as an oracle, not an obstacle.
It knows when something is true before the mind catches up.
Relational Ethics
Relationship is central.
Healing does not happen in isolation, nor through domination or expertise alone. It happens through:
consent
mutual respect
curiosity
humor and play
non-possession
mirroring rather than control
My cosmology holds that the right relationships — romantic, platonic, therapeutic, creative — are initiatory spaces where identity, joy, and authorship are restored.
What “Well” Looks Like
Wholeness does not mean perfection.
It looks like:
orientation rather than certainty
sovereignty rather than compliance
pleasure without shame
curiosity where fear once lived
the ability to hold paradox and multiplicity
a felt sense of authorship over one’s life
The healed person is not optimized — they are alive.
The Role of the Healer
A healer, in this world, is not an authority who tells others who they are.
They are:
a witness
a mirror
a guide through unfamiliar terrain
a steward of language and symbol
someone who helps others reclaim their own inner compass
This is why cosmology matters more than credentials alone.
It tells seekers how a healer sees the world, not just what techniques they use.
The Larger Vision
My work is ultimately about building bridges:
between Western medicine and mythic meaning
between intellect and embodiment
between story and soma
between seekers and healers who truly resonate
The Liberated Healers Collective grows naturally from this cosmology: a decentralized ecosystem where practitioners are known not by prestige, but by the worlds they carry and the medicine they offer.
I make no claims that my cosmology is “right” or “good;” it’s just me and how I understand the world and my role in it. The most important thing to me is that each healer feels free to exist within their own cosmology that makes sense to them. I hope that we can leave room for each other to experience the world differently, and I hope that we can leave room for ourselves to change if that is what we desire to do.
