"From knowing to unknowing, wandering sacred lands, until the ancient ones whispered: Remember"
When the world fell silent and my father joined that silence, every system I had built to connect souls suddenly showed itself as just another way to hide from each other. I had to learn to destroy what I loved before I could serve what I truly loved.
This path led me through the shadow work of what happens when grief and fear create a vacuum within you, leaving you vulnerable to every form of manipulation and false guidance. Nothing about this process was beautiful or transcendent. When I stumbled, I discovered who offered genuine support and who sought to exploit vulnerability. The journey became an education in discernment itself, learning the hard lessons about sovereignty, healing, and the nature of authentic transformation.
"I learned that missteps are not failures but essential initiations, free from the paralysis of others' judgment."
This journey led me from India to California, learning different modalities and being truly inspired by the practitioners' own journeys (my favorite part of my day). I am deeply grateful to every guide along this path, whether they earned a penny or not, they held space for my becoming.
The curious thing about spiritual evolution is that each breakthrough in self-love renders your current guidance obsolete, demanding fresh perspectives and often different modalities. The pattern revealed itself with uncomfortable clarity: an endless revolving door of spiritual practitioners, each promising what the last could not deliver. From this recognition emerged Munay:
"Munay is a sacred space that addresses a singular paradox: learning sovereignty while allowing oneself to surrender to different guides and modalities."
Rather than stumbling blindly from one practitioner to the next, users can trace the trust lines between guides themselves, discovering not just who to surrender to next, but whom their current teachers surrender to when they, too, need guidance.
"When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Rage with emptiness. " - Shams Tabrizi (transformative mentor to Rumi)
What struck me most profoundly was how every tradition, despite its unique language, was pointing toward the same essential remembering: that ancient wisdom lives within us, waiting to be recalled rather than learned.
The end of my journey? There is no end, of course, but along the way I discovered that most people fear precisely two things: death and life.
"I conquered death by understanding eternity, and conquered life by living my truth without fear: both acts of the same surrender and remembrance."
With Munay,
Chakaruna
