23 MAY 2023 · A Year of Living Miraculously is a year-long offering of conversations with Caravan community members who have been exploring The Caravan of Remembering by Daniel Goodenough. Each month we invite individuals to share their experiences and what it means to co-create the journey of their life’s mission, and the ways they have integrated their reflections from the book into their own lives. Todays guests are Sanaa Abouayoub and Morgan Fontaine.

14 MAR 2023 · A Year of Living Miraculously is a year-long offering of conversations with Caravan community members who have been exploring The Caravan of Remembering by Daniel Goodenough. Each month we invite individuals to share their experiences and what it means to co-create the journey of their life’s mission, and the ways they have integrated their reflections from the book into their own lives. Todays guest is Daya Harris. As a psycho-spiritual and transition coach Daya supports people in a kind, gentle, and positive with living an authentic, heart-filled, peace-based life while healing old, past, negative stories which keep them from moving forward.

14 MAR 2023 · In 2023, our monthly podcast is called “A Year of Living Miraculously” as a follow up to last years podcast, “A Year of Living Dangerously.” We could say that what was dangerous to the ego last year becomes this year’s miracle. Our format has shifted some, as we are now beginning to meet with members of the Caravan community who have been exploring the questions in the book for some time. We (James and Carissa) are interested in the lived experiences of each person we speak with, and the ways they have integrated their reflections from The Caravan of Remembering into their own lives. Like our pattern from last year’s podcast, we will choose a quote from the book and explore it together. Each of us will have been with the quote for at least a week, and will bring what we noticed and explored to the podcast. Perhaps it is because we tend to notice miracles as they show up in our lived experience that we are bringing in living stories from our community. As the quote below explores, there is also the miracle of consciously co-creating with the being of our life’s mission. We can begin to expect the unexpected in this co-creative exploration, in a way that is also a very safe experience. "Our work in Caravan assists our horizontal world selves in the work of embodying life mission. Together with the One that sent us we create a container for the work in the horizontal world. There is another kind of miracle that happens with this. Something is created in this that is a kind of life. We co-create the being of our life mission. Like yourself, your life mission is a being that lives in both worlds and moves with you. Your relationship with this being is as ancient as your relationship with Caravan and the One that sent you. Your work here requires your conscious participation in this relationship, at least here in Caravan. The being of your life mission travels with you for the entire journey. It can be your closest friend and greatest protector in times of danger. In fact, the safest place in the horizontal world is traveling with your life mission." The Caravan of Remembering, page 115 We welcome you to join us in this year’s exploring of what it means to co-create the journey of your life’s mission.

13 JAN 2023 · Welcome to week fifty-two, our final week! This week, we complete A Year of Living Dangerously with a reflection on choosing anything but our life mission, something that is within us from the beginning and doesn't originate in the horizontal world. Excerpt: Here in Caravan, I ask, is there a life that makes sense to live that does not include the reason we were sent? Can you conceive of choosing anything but your life mission?” The man replied, “Depth psychologist James Hillman addressed this question in his book The Soul’s Code. He referred to what he called the acorn principle. I think he is saying the code of our life mission is within us, and like the mighty oak tree is waiting to unfold over time in the course of our life. He wrote that it is inherent in us from birth, like the acorn, and isn’t created by our life in the horizontal world. The Caravan of Remembering,Chapter 5, Life Mission Across Culture and Over Time, p.94

6 JAN 2023 · Welcome to week fifty-one. This week David reflects in his expedition journal about the way that life mission brings out the goodness of life and the ability to make a real difference. Excerpt When I think about life mission and the basic goodness of people, I wonder how anyone could be doing their life mission and not be in a space of gratitude and kindness. Life mission brings out the goodness of life. Life mission keeps our eyes full of wonder and the beauty of life. If I think of all the times I looked around in the middle of my life in the horizontal world, in the midst of doing work I loved, I always feel enormously blessed. Doing the work we lovealways blesses us with the gifts we give. I can see the very thing we give is the gift that life mission returns to us. It may be that the gift of a life mission is that it’s the closest we can get in this life to seeing the face of God. I see the face of the One every time I make a decision to listen to the call. When I see someone answer the call, I look up and I smile and I say thank you for the privilege of witnessing it. I feel that humanity has a chance, after all. I see a great deal of that. Maybe that is one of the greatest gifts of doing one’s life mission. I see such longing in people. I see such heart in people and the pain of wanting to do more. I hear such longing to make a difference in life. It is good to see that in people. It is so easy to come to think people don’t care. It feels so good to experience someone willing to make great sacrifices to make the world a better place. The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 4, Committing to the Process of Life Mission, p.76.

31 DEC 2022 · Welcome to week 50. This week Jun shares about the co-creative aspect of life mission. Jun moved wood in the fire with his cane as he began again, his voice just loud enough to be heard. “Our work in Caravan assists our horizontal world selves in the work of embodying our life missions. Together with the One that sent us, we create a container for the work in the horizontal world. There is another kind of miracle that happens with this. Something is created that is a kind of life. We co-create the being of our life mission. Like our self, our life mission is a being that lives in both worlds and moves with us. Our relationship with this being is as ancient as our relationship with Caravan and the One that sent us.” He paused and looked at each of us. “Your work, at least here in Caravan, requires your conscious participation in this relationship. Your conscious relationship here will affect your horizontal-world life, even if you don’t consciously remember it there.” The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 11, Moving into the world, p.217-218.

23 DEC 2022 · Welcome to week forty-nine. This week David reflects on the timeless nature of Caravan. Excerpt: I saw Caravan moving through this universe outside of time, holding us, calling us to honor our agreement with the One that sent us. I felt the unending patience and grace of the work in Caravan. I felt the currents of collective mythic and cultural stories moving through the personal life missions of the hundred billion lives said to have lived in our world over its history. In a way that I have no words for, I felt my place in that stream, and a great peace moved through me. We all go home together because there’s never been a separation between us. We’re all held in the arms of the One, the One who sent Caravan to bring us home. A million-million years is but a breath to the One who sent us and calls for our return. The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 6, Life Mission—Individual p.115.

18 DEC 2022 · Welcome to week forty-eight. This week, David reflects that living one’s life mission is a process, not the end product. Excerpt: We're told we travel for eternity and Caravan. We adjust as many times and as often as we need to. This leads me to believe that living my life mission is a process, not the end product. Life mission is a journey and preparing the container for spirit. It's not so important that the big dream becomes a reality in this world, it's important that we're about the business of moving toward that vision or mission. If it's for what it'll change, transform and create than life mission’s goal is to be a vehicle, not a destination, quantum physics would say, the end is present, even in the beginning, calling us like a great attractor, it's the journey. When we row to the other side of the river, we're meant to get out of the canoe and leave it on the riverbank. When I get to the end of this journey called my life mission, I'll need to leave the vehicle on the side of the road and move on. What's important is that I use the vehicle of my life mission to transform the container for spirit. When spirit comes, in the end, I'll be able to hold this knowing as I move on. The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 11, Moving into the world, p.75-76.

18 DEC 2022 · Welcome to week forty-seven. This week, David reflects on the coming together of a new company of players for his life in the horizontal world. Excerpt: I reflected again on Viola’s wish in Shakespeare in Love to spend her whole life dreaming if she could do it in the company of players. She meant fellow actors. When I set out to do design and illustration, these incredible beings were my company of players, and I had come to love them. Now, I was being called to a new company of players. I thought each domain or life mission field must have its own stage, its own theater. Just as I had become aware of my company of players in Caravan, and Anna was to be first in my new horizontal world company, each of us in the horizontal world needed to find our place and our company of players. How do we move our part of the play, our work, out into the world? Every one of us has that question. My question now was how to move my life mission into the horizontal world. With help from my teachers in Caravan, I began to have an inkling of how it could come into form. There was also the question of how to translate the work itself to this world of more than six billion stages. As I watched the design team showing up over the morning and the assignments being delegated, I thought about the creativity needed to bring something into manifestation and completion. Bringing the work of Caravan to the horizontal world called for these same skills I had honed as fine artist, musician, graphic artist/designer, and even scientist. I had a sense of all the pieces of my life fitting together to support the embodiment of my life mission. Watching the meetings and early sketches beginning to surface, I began to see the horizontal world work of Caravan emerging. These people had been my family for one life mission, and now I would find the new family for the rest of my life mission. Creativity and surrender would lead me to these people and opportunities, along with synchronicity, serendipity, intention, and will. All of these had been foundation for the process before, and now I would use these same pieces to embody Caravan’s work. Colleagues and associates would come of the orbit of our common love and intention, I thought. I hoped. It was time to find my company of players, who played for the love of the game, and would choose a lifetime of dreaming the dream of their hearts. The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 11, Moving into the world, p.217-218.

2 DEC 2022 · Welcome to week forty-six. This week, David listens to someone sharing around a campfire and reflects on the process of telling a higher story. Excerpt: We stopped next to a campfire and listened as an elegant man completed a story. The pilgrims of Caravan appeared to have returned to dressing in more or less modern attire. The work with life mission moving through time seemed to be complete for the moment. As the man finished speaking, I realized it was his story. His was a story of a life between two worlds. He asked what it meant to be of these two worlds in the horizontal world. I wondered if remembering being part of the horizontal world and Caravan helped him. As he finished, others sitting around this campfire said nothing. The woman in the earth robe standing by the campfire next to him put her hand on his shoulder and said, “Tell us again. Find the highest thread of calling in your story.” Everyone in the circle leaned in. I could feel their presence to his story. What were they listening for? He started over, taking more time, weighing his words. He seemed to listen and watch for their response. As he told his story again, I remembered something James Hillman wrote. “It is not so much the damaging things that happened to us, as the damaging way we tell ourselves the story of what happened.” I wondered if this man would now tell his story differently. His story of the journey between the traditional and the modern, African and European, ancestral home and city, community and isolation, secular and sacred life interested me, and stayed with me as Verity signaled to move on. The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 3, Life Mission, Spiritual Agreement, p.99-100.