Hello Spot Fund supporters! I wanted to let you know that I'll be closing out this campaign and shifting to the Open Collective crowdfunding platform which is a better fit for being able to document the circulation of resources and help people to visualize the shape and flow of this wyrd vision for transformative economy. The new main page for the Alembic Seed Resourcing Fund is now: https://opencollective.com/alembicartists
Alembic Seed Resourcing Fund
What does an ecosystem of support look like for visionary dreamings where the resources circulate to all the places they are needed?
Alembic is a creative incubator and seed resourcing fund for visionary collective projects piercing through dominant reality fields to potentiate primordial, ancestral dreamings.
An alembic has two sides
And what takes place between them
is the alchemy of the unseen.
There are those of us who are the weavers, carrying a creative pulse that is our form of expression on behalf of the wider field of life.
We stand at the gateway to the liminal, we tune the space between.
We feel what has been left behind, what has been exiled, and we listen for the weaving back in.
We support the actual fabric of relational culture, tending the secret webbing between bodies.
We practice attunement to maturation, to integrity, to the sacred protection of that which is whole.
The intent of this resourcing fund is to grow pattern recognition for mediating between humans and larger collective visions of embeddedness through an awareness of the process that I call "Relational Field Sensing."
We are not isolated bodies, we come trailing ancestors and ecosystems. Each word, each habit pattern, each institutional structure, carries the perceptual traces of its own emergence.
The refinement of Relational Field Sensing is Research and Development work at its most Alchemical—supporting the expression of the energetic mycelium which connects and circulates between us, remediating relational networks, tuning between the individual beings and their relationship within a wider microclimate of emergence.
To support the spreading of Relational Field Sensing to all the places it is needed, Alembic is incubating this R&D process by subsidizing my facilitation costs between September to December 2024 to help me develop pattern recognition across a variety of emergent projects.
This resourcing fund will nourish:
CONSULTING FOR VISIONARY CREATIVE PROJECTS
The ability to offer Consulting and Immersions for Relational Field Sensing at free or low cost to creators and collectives incubating visionary projects that are difficult to bring into tangibility within structures of capitalism and colonization. (Sponsoring $300-$1500 per project = $4500)
APPLY HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN RELATIONAL FIELD CONSULTING THROUGH ALEMBIC.
INCUBATION FOR ARTIST EXPERIENCING ASYNCHRONY
A Creative Incubation group for a small cohort for artists experiencing asynchrony due to chronic illness or neurodivergence to develop their creative dreamings together within a supportive ecosystem offering group facilitation, contributions of Relational Field Sensing, and visibility within the Mundane Mycelium for guest artists and projects who resonate with this vision. (Sponsoring $200-$500 per participant = $2500)
APPLICATIONS COMING SOON
ACCESS TO THE MUNDANE MYCELIUM
Scholarship access to The Mundane Mycelium, supporting individuals who would not otherwise be able to afford to engage in an animist practice space, while subsidizing the costs of running the space so that the artists are not absorbing the financial impact of offering scholarships. (Sponsoring $55-$600 per participant = $1000)
APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP TO THE MYCELIUM
You can contribute directly to the fundraiser or you can make a sliding scale purchase of the Ecosystem Spoons course to have or gift to a friend and your donation will also go towards this seed resourcing fund.
I am also looking for resourced creators whose work is supported by institutional structures or other sources of abundance to participate in Relational Field Consulting for their visionary projects or creative integration process relating their practice to ancestral and primordial themes, while also contributing to this wider vision of transformative economies through Alembic.
A seed is an alembic
A mediation of remembering
A portal between times.
If artists are mediators between humans and imaginal forces, who turns the lens of seeing back towards the imagination of the structures that hold the artists?
We need there to be a role, a shape here, for turning back towards the whole web of relationships, for seeing creativity back into the microclimate of culture.
Who can hold a wider frame outside of the institutional structures and cultural assumptions that the mediators are embedded in?
Who can accompany the mediators to the liminal places where honesty is reclaimed and integrity ripples out into nutrients for the whole?
Who sees what the creation is actually for?
Relational Field Sensing is the collective application of over eight years of graduate research into practices of systemic liberation and animist somatic practice, influenced by core frameworks from Bree Greenberg of the Movement of Existence and Larissa Kaul of Animist Arts.
The convergence of relational field energies—including our perception of threat and resource— shape our nervous systems and our ability to respond.
The awareness of relational field presences has been distorted by systems of domination, abstracting felt sense energies into concepts dissociated from the intimacy of their embodiment.
We’re all of us working within fields that have been fragmented into energetic silos, contorted into commodities that are degrading the circulatory feedback loops of relationship, exiling the intelligence of the in-between.
For so many of us with sensitivity to these unacknowledged layers of reality, the role that we’ve taken on within dominant culture has been that of mediator, absorbing the impact of relational fields within our own bodies because we don’t have another model for how to exist where these energies are mediated and metabolized by wider forces.
There used to be a role here.
An acknowledgement of ritual.
An initiatory journey into sacred embodiment.
There is still an echoing call.
As a Relational Field Consultant, I support attunement to the unified field of creative potentiation, the place where the dreamings are coming from.
By tuning towards connection with the collective fields of guiding ancestors and primordial forces who are shaping your project, we open up your access to a networked ecosystem of primal intelligence that is older and wiser than structures of domination.
Through making space for the rhythms of your creature-body and the movement of that wider web of intelligence, we allow for a softening into organic intimacy with the unfolding process.
We create a widening of view that sees you in the fullness of your contexts and provides continuity and holding to sustain your vision over time.
Relational Field Consulting resources many aspects of the creative process:
* Energetic alchemy to clarify aim and right positioning within systemic context
* Catching the creative flow and articulation process through transcripts and note taking
* Support in attuning to the primary aesthetics that the vision is communicated through so that it embodies the spirit of the project
* Organizing large volumes of creative material into navigable systems
* Sensing what other nutrients or team aspects will allow for movement
* Offering an external sense of continuity across durational creative process
* Advocating for the wellbeing of your human-creature self in the midst of creative channeling
I also bring experience in website design, graphic design, video editing, fundraisers, copy editing, and designing online communities and courses.
An alembic is a body
Piercing through selfhood
To a wider creation.
Focus the lens here.
Into this place which is not a place.
Here is where the immanence becomes.
Do you feel it? The shaping of the growing.
The circulation of a water cycle.
Deep biosphere emerging underground.
So it is with creative dreaming.
With visionary process.
With any collective project that
undergoes its own unfurling into form.
There are particular creations coming through from the field right now, offerings essential to these times—stories, maps, and projects that are their own Creative Organisms, shaped from a wider dreaming.
These visionary creations have their own intelligence and agency. They carry an energy of potentiation and disruption, the ability to destroy and renew, to pierce through distortions of domination into alignment with energetic integrity that matures within the creator alongside their creation.
These Creative Organisms are in the process of seeding a lived aesthetic that can become a culture, setting the template for this possible reality, making it tangible, existing in the present moment, allowing people to feel what might become.
They are alchemy embodied into form.
And yet so often, these are the projects that are held back from their full emergence or compromised within contexts of capitalism and colonization. Because they’re coming from this other place, because they are sourcing from rhythms and time scales that move against productive standards of domination, they need a completely different kind of attunement and resourcing as they are coming into embodiment.
There is a mutual shaping between your human self and your creative vision. A trance journey that happens over time, through different rivers of creative expression, a slow accumulation of what is known.
These kinds of encounters change your entire perception of reality. Honing and refining to a clear point of presence, an energetic sweet spot that can pierce through to what is vital, honest, most potently alive.
Your relationality with these creative initiators over time will utterly reorganize your embodied presence, your ability to hold the energetic essences that are inviting you into this layer of reality.
And you will most likely be doing this work within structures that don’t have a ritual context for it, that see the being ness of what you are creating as a commodity, a concept, something to be consumed.
But you know the way that this being—this story, character, dreaming—webs us into a wider reality, opening other forms of perception in ways that potentiate the embodied reality within all the bodies it encounters, within the readers, within the audiences, turning everything it encounters into a space for its emergence.
An alembic is a microclimate,
Where what can be imagined
Can become.
