Tree of Knowledge
Roots of My Knowledge
Seed Architecture of Knowledge
Circular Cosmologies
Pathways for Lighting the 8th Fire
Long ago, the Circle was broken.
But its memory lives in the seeds, the roots, the rivers of our blood.
Circular Cosmologies is a journey of growing that memory back into form.
"To decolonize is to re-circularize"
Dr. Laura Batson
In Circular Cosmologies we remember the unique curvatures of our own soul's purpose while also remembering the cosmologies of our ancestors, which are circular and follow nonlinear principles of nature and universe, keeping harmony with the whole. These nonlinear principles can be symbolized as: Circles, Fractals, Landscapes, Webs, Spirals, and Vortices.
We come to understand the scientific and spiritual significance of these symbols of nonlinearity - their use in creation, in spirit technologies and medicines needed for these times.
We braid complexity science with Indigenous wisdom to remember how systems heal themselves when they come back into rhythm and pattern with these nonlinear principles of the universe.
Through practicing and embodying these principles, at all levels of life, we also re-circularize
- our souls, society, and cosmologies - we remember how we belong to the whole, how to dance our threads in the web again, and how our re-memberings ripple outward as medicine for a new way forward for humanity and Earth, as foretold in the 8th Fire prophecy, by Elder Dr. Dave Courchene of Sagkeeng First Nation and the Turtle Lodge, Manitoba,
...and as inspired by
professor and Huron-Wendat Elder, Dr. Georges Sioui, when he wrote:
"Human societies that believe life functions in a linear mode have forgotten that life is a great and sacred circle of relationships...
My prime motivation has been to bring about a spiritual healing - the re-circularization that we all need so desperately if we wish to prevent the loss of the Circle, that is, of life, this marvelous gift that we possess as a species belonging to the Circle.”
- Georges Sioui, Huron-Wendat: Heritage of the Circle
What I bring to you
I bring 25 years of study and practice at the intersection of Western nonlinear science and holistic, traditional knowledges systems.
I completed my BSc in Biology and MSc in Holistic Science, with my focus on biological and artistic creativity as complex nonlinear systems that share the same creative process. This led to a 4 year degree in Naturopathic Medicine, and the study of traditional medicines (including plants, music and rituals) as creative complex nonlinear systems capable of shifting biological systems back into health.
I have learn from the ancestors, and from Elders and teachers of circular cosmologies, primarily from Turtle Island and West Africa. I have been initiated into African divination in the traditions of Malidoma Some of Burkina Faso, and receive direct guidance from Spirit, as recorded in The Book of Curvature.
In a world of fast and artificially generated information, I offer a slow study, a weave of knowledge and story, 25 years in the making - organically grown and gathered, watered and waited, guided by academic, natural and ancestral intelligence.
This course is for you if
You’re burnt out by the straight-line logic of modern life
You’re seeking something sacred, not performative
You want ceremony, not just information
You speak both science and Spirit — and are tired of choosing between them
You’re an academic, activist, healer, artist, seeker (or all) who hears the call of the 8th Fire
You do not want dogma; you want to hear your Ancestors and the medicine you carry inside
You want to live in rhythm with your soul, your lineage, and the Earth
The Initiation
Walking this course is an initiation.
It is a Spirit technology. It is designed to transform you as you move through its teachings and practices.
The course videos will be emailed to you weekly, and you will have access to the course webpage/ tree with all videos at all times.
Viewing one video per week, you will journey through this course over 6 months.
The book of Curvature will be mailed to you, and you are welcome to read it on your own time and rhythm. However, each week, with your video email, I will indicate the pages in the book that speak to the teachings for that week.
I recommend walking this course while also receiving an African divination with ritual prescriptions (you can book a divination with me online from anywhere), as well as a personalized naturopathic medicine protocol (you can book a naturopathic consult with me if you live or work in Ontario, or seek a registered naturopathic doctor in your area).
Women+ are also welcome to join our New Moon divinations and Full Moon rituals.
These personalized natural medicine protocols and community-based rituals carry out the fullness of the “re-circularization” of your being, at all levels of life - mind/ body/ soul/ earth/ community/cosmos.
You will be changed forever in a way that you remember how to re-member who you are and why you are here.
Asé.
Course Pathway
Circular Cosmologies is a 6-month journey.
You enter through The Seed - the first month of foundational teachings.
After that, if the path feels aligned, you'll receive an invitation to continue with The Council Around the Tree.
Full investment: $888 or $148/month
The Seed
$148
New Cohort Coming soon
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3 Foundational Course Videos - the opening teachings of Circular Cosmologies
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4 Weekly Live Gatherings
(Fridays at 12-1pm EST) - intimate circles for sharing and guided remembering journeys
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Weekly Practices - practices to embody the principles right away
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The first 3 chapters of The Book of Curvature, in PDF
After The Seed, if the path feels aligned, you'll receive an invitation to join The Council Around the Tree.
The Council Around the Tree
$148/month
for the remaining 5 months
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Continued weekly course videos - delivered to your inbox.
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Guided monthly online gatherings - (the first Sunday of the month, 1-3 EST, for six months), ritually held and led by Laura
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A hard copy of The Book of Curvature - mailed to you ($200 value)
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Full access to the entire Tree of Knowledge - all videos and resources, always — so you may wander, return, and re-watch in whatever order your soul requests
Rekindling the ancestral flame
" It is possible that we have been brought together at this time because we have profound truths to teach each other. Toward that end, I offer the wisdom of the African ancestors so that Westerners might find the deep healing they seek. From an indigenous perspective, the individual psyche can be healed only by addressing one's relationships with the visible worlds of nature and community and one's relationships with the invisible forces of the ancestors and Spirit allies.
The spark of this ancestral flame, which I have brought to the land of the stranger, is now burning brightly. Increasingly, I have been and will be encouraging westerners to embody these traditions as a testimony to the indigenous capacity to assert itself with dignity in the face of modernity. In this way the ancestors will know that this medicine has found a true home- that it is more than an honored guest.”
Elder Malidoma Patrice Somé,
Dagara Tribe, Burkina Faso
“ One of my Elders said, he said something I’ve never forgotten: ‘You must go home and light the sacred fire,’ he said, ‘fire is going to become a very important element of the return of the people. You must go light the fire, the sacred fire that will act as a doorway and entrance for the spirit to come and support and inspire and help the people spiritually because the fire is a doorway to allow the entrance of the spirit to come within our presence and influence in this human life.”
“Now it is time. It is time for the fire to be lit within each and every human being. This is about lighting the fire inside. We will light the world in such a way that it will truly bring light to the world in the way that we feel it in our hearts. That there will be light. Light will be what prevails.”
Elder Dave Courchene, The 8th Fire,
Turtle Lodge, Sagkeeng First Nation
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