Creating a New Mythos of Belonging w/ Teo Montoya

<p>What is your sense of belonging? Do you feel graciously knitted within a family, a chosen family, or a community? Do you feel able to show up in your true essence and be deeply received in your nature? Do you feel supported to be whole by the community you desire to connect to?</p> <p>In this episode of the <em>Regenerative Mystic Podcast</em>, I speak with Teo Montoya, a Human Design Analyst, a Metamodern Myth Mender, and Indigenous Futurist. His work focuses on the intersections of individual growth and healing, reconfiguring kinship and deep relationality for an emerging global collective in crisis.</p> <p>He supports individuals in creating a personal myth that contextualizes their gifts, healing, ancestry, meaning, spirituality, and purpose in a land-based ecology of reciprocity.</p> <p>In this episode, we discuss how it is natural to want to belong to a community and to connect to others even though the modern world isn’t very supportive of the complexities of what that means and the grace it requires. To step towards true relating, we have to get to the base of belonging, too. Belonging means that we get to honor our essence and show up as we are to community with all the complexity that comes with it.</p> <p><em><strong>“When we feel safe enough to be seen, that’s the only time that we actually feel safe enough to relate authentically.”</strong></em></p> <p>We discuss metamodernism and why it’s about being rooted deeply in Earth's story and the dissolving of black and white thinking. What we’re exploring with meta modernity is that there’s a meaning crisis and a meta crisis. The meta crisis is the collapse of the ecosystem and politics, while the meaning crisis is the collapse of the personal mythology and what it means to find belonging in place, people, symbology, and time.</p> <p><em><strong>“We need new meta-narratives for the world as it is to help bring us into context.”</strong></em></p> <p>We explore our skepticism with the “new paradigm” concept and explore a relationship with how we create a