Who are we?
Here at All Souls United, we’ve established a space that allows all our experiences to matter in hopes we can learn to listen and heal, not only ourselves, but each other as we journey together.
For these reasons, we administer a number of community programs. As you learn about these, please consider how you’d like to be involved.
For the insatiably curious, please see our FAQs page.
Community Opportunities
Remember.
We honor those who have lost their lives on the streets of this occupied valley by the violence of poverty, police brutality, and genocide.
Demand.
No longer asking permission, we demand livable conditions for all.
Celebrate.
The world is already changing. The time has come for settler society to pay the piper as the violence it has wreaked all over the world comes back to it tenfold in the form of economic collapse, climate catastrophe, and war. There’s much to mourn, but may our joy pave the way for a brighter future.
2022 Event: November 2 details to follow soon
Group meditation
Know yourself
Meditating, we know ourselves. Knowing ourselves, we live authentically
Reeducation Program
Sometimes it’s tough to know whether we’re learning or unlearning. Both are vital to the journey ahead of us, the learners of a new way.
We lay down the ways passed down to us, the ones we took on, often unaware, that continue to harm our souls and our neighbors’. We fail. But we keep unlearning, dismantling, knowing we will find a foundation of love upon which to build anew.
We take up the ways of our elders and ancestors, of the people of the land, and of those who teach us how to rebuild the human experience centered around the needs of all souls.
Study circles are forming now. Please email us to join one and to provide your feedback on curricula. Sample curricula shown here.
Topics
Intersectionality
Ecology | Herbs
History | Logistics
Authors
bell hooks
Angela Davis
George Jackson
Friends of the Beavers
Paws down, the most beavermatic (ahem…. no offense to dog lovers) program within All Souls United, this growing cadre of Beaver Believers exhibit absolute faith in their ideology, often referred to as EMANCIPATORY BEAVERISM. They’re a little tight-lipped about the details of their beliefs and rituals, but they assure us an abstract of their manifesto is forthcoming. In the meantime they are exchanging plenty of punny catchphrases, sure to raise an eyebrow or two amongst polite company.
From justifying every beaver-magnifying action with the aphorism “A Beaver Saved is a Beaver Savior” to ending their land-based prayers with “So Beaver It,” it’s clear the oft-misunderstood earth-healing rodents have inspired these faithful followers to rekindle a language-mythos around the hopeful promise of the human-beaver relationship.
And what a hope it is… No animal on earth, other than humans, comes close to the potential for positive impact on its environment than the almighty beaver. They store water, recharge aquifers, reduce wildfire impact, sequester carbon, and build healthy soils over many generations. Once filling the valleys of so-called California with fresh cold surface water microassets, beavers numbered in the millions until they were decimated by invading colonists. Healing the land means restoring these essential animals. Every creek needs beaver medicine.
So, while the rest of us at All Souls United may shake our heads from time to time at the lengths these adherents will go to show their devotion to the fuzzy denizens of the marsh, we appreciate their zany enthusiasm and for the way they open the conversation for other land-based worship and restoration practices to flourish in our community.
If you also have a beaver-shaped void in your soul and would like to have it filled, drop us a note by email.
Blessed Be the Beavers!