diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index a4f38a4..b9a666c 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -3,20 +3,38 @@ icon: lucide/leaf comments: true --- -# Tree of Ascension Docs +# Tree of Ascension -

-A living guide for those climbing upward — practices for the body, teachings for the mind, and community for the soul. Not a destination, but a tree growing one branch at a time. -

+A small group of us kept having the same kind of conversation. Late nights, voice notes, walls of text — sharing things that had actually moved the needle in our own lives. Practices that stuck. Realizations that rearranged something. Books and teachers and mistakes and breakthroughs. -
+At some point we thought: why keep this scattered across chat logs? Let's put it somewhere. Not as experts. Not as a finished thing. Just as what it is — notes from people climbing, passing the lantern back down the trail. -
-## How to contribute +--- -- **Add a reflection** — short notes, practices, or questions -- **Plant an idea** — link into new themed pages -- **Tend the tone** — kind, grounded edits keep the garden coherent -
+## What we mean by ascension -

+Not floating off into the clouds. Not bypassing the hard stuff. Ascension, the way we talk about it, is waking up *here*. In your actual body, in your actual life, with your actual pain and joy and confusion. + +It's learning to hold more light without burning out. It's noticing when you're running a program that isn't yours — from culture, from family, from fear — and gently putting it down. It goes in layers. You think you've arrived and then the next onion skin peels back and you realize you were just getting started. That's the game. That's the fun of it. + +Some people call it awakening. Some call it remembering. The name doesn't matter much. What matters is that it's possible, it's happening to ordinary people everywhere, and nobody needs permission to begin. + +--- + +## Consciousness isn't abstract + +You can feel it. When your mind goes quiet and there's still someone there — aware, alive, unimpressed by the chatter. That's consciousness. Not a concept. The thing that's reading these words. + +Practices — meditation, grounding, fasting, silence, community, sound, service — are just ways of clearing the static so you can hear what was already there. The tree doesn't need to *become* something. It just needs enough light and water to grow into what it already is. + +--- + +## How to use this site + +The [Practices](practices/) section is where to start. Pick one thing and try it. Not all of them. One. Give it a week. + +The [Strategies](strategies/) section is for when a practice opens a door and you want to understand the room you just walked into. Frameworks, context, the bigger picture. + +Everything here is a draft. We update it when we learn something new or when someone points out we got something wrong. If something lands for you — or if it doesn't — [we'd love to hear about it](contributing/). + +

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/practices/daily-sadhana.md b/docs/practices/daily-sadhana.md index 310d963..61c640f 100644 --- a/docs/practices/daily-sadhana.md +++ b/docs/practices/daily-sadhana.md @@ -67,6 +67,6 @@ This is not magical thinking. It is the practice of orienting the subconscious t --- -**Related:** [Finding Your Purpose](../../teachings/finding-purpose.md) — when sadhana meets direction. +**Related:** [Finding Your Purpose](../../strategies/finding-purpose.md) — when sadhana meets direction. *What practice will you show up for tomorrow?* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/practices/digital-wellness.md b/docs/practices/digital-wellness.md index e7091f7..a097241 100644 --- a/docs/practices/digital-wellness.md +++ b/docs/practices/digital-wellness.md @@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ The internet is a tool. When it becomes the environment, you've lost the plot. --- -**Related:** [Digital Sovereignty](../../teachings/digital-sovereignty.md) — when wellness meets infrastructure. +**Related:** [Digital Sovereignty](../../strategies/digital-sovereignty.md) — when wellness meets infrastructure. *What's the first app you'll set a limit on today?* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/practices/grounding-in-nature.md b/docs/practices/grounding-in-nature.md index 6538379..fe9dfb3 100644 --- a/docs/practices/grounding-in-nature.md +++ b/docs/practices/grounding-in-nature.md @@ -48,6 +48,6 @@ Start tracking it loosely. You may find, as many do, that the nature hours becom --- -**Related:** [Nourishing the Body](../practices/nourishing-the-body.md) — bringing nature inside through food and materials. +**Related:** [Nourishing the Body](nourishing-the-body.md) — bringing nature inside through food and materials. *What patch of earth will you stand on tomorrow morning?* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/practices/index.md b/docs/practices/index.md index 4e3bea0..cb198f0 100644 --- a/docs/practices/index.md +++ b/docs/practices/index.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ icon: material/run # Practices -Small, doable actions. Each practice here is something you can try today — no preparation, no expertise, just willingness. +Small, doable actions. Each one is something you can try today — no preparation, no expertise, just willingness.
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Small, doable actions. Each practice here is something you can try today — no - [:material-food-apple: **Nourishing the Body**](nourishing-the-body.md) — Real food, herbal teas, fasting, natural materials, self-massage - [:material-meditation: **Daily Sadhana**](daily-sadhana.md) — Meditation, gratitude, shadow work, movement, visualization - [:material-phone-check: **Digital Wellness**](digital-wellness.md) — News fast, screen limits, curating what enters your mind +- [:material-spa: **Spiritual Hygiene**](spiritual-hygiene.md) — Cleanse your space, set intention, sound as medicine
-Pick one. Start there. The rest will unfold. - +Pick one. Start there. The rest will unfold. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/practices/nourishing-the-body.md b/docs/practices/nourishing-the-body.md index b33471e..a9e310b 100644 --- a/docs/practices/nourishing-the-body.md +++ b/docs/practices/nourishing-the-body.md @@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ None of this needs to happen overnight. One change, held consistently, reshapes --- -**Related:** [Grounding in Nature](../practices/grounding-in-nature.md) — where nourishment meets the earth. +**Related:** [Grounding in Nature](grounding-in-nature.md) — where nourishment meets the earth. *What's one thing your body has been quietly asking you to change?* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/teachings/spiritual-hygiene.md b/docs/practices/spiritual-hygiene.md similarity index 97% rename from docs/teachings/spiritual-hygiene.md rename to docs/practices/spiritual-hygiene.md index 30eec1a..4ab4696 100644 --- a/docs/teachings/spiritual-hygiene.md +++ b/docs/practices/spiritual-hygiene.md @@ -70,6 +70,6 @@ Create something tangible to crystallize the intention: a doodle, a piece of art --- -**Related:** [Daily Sadhana](../../practices/daily-sadhana.md) — spiritual hygiene as daily practice. +**Related:** [Daily Sadhana](daily-sadhana.md) — spiritual hygiene as daily practice. *What's the first thing you'll clear from your bedroom tonight?* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/teachings/collective-awakening.md b/docs/strategies/collective-awakening.md similarity index 96% rename from docs/teachings/collective-awakening.md rename to docs/strategies/collective-awakening.md index 1ac14c6..8432dd8 100644 --- a/docs/teachings/collective-awakening.md +++ b/docs/strategies/collective-awakening.md @@ -72,6 +72,6 @@ Fear-based activism burns out. Love-based activism regenerates. The most radical --- -**Related:** [Spiritual Hygiene](./spiritual-hygiene.md) — keeping your own field clear so you can contribute cleanly to the collective. +**Related:** [Spiritual Hygiene](../practices/spiritual-hygiene.md) — keeping your own field clear so you can contribute cleanly to the collective. *What does the most positive timeline look like to you — in one sentence?* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/teachings/community-sovereignty.md b/docs/strategies/community-sovereignty.md similarity index 100% rename from docs/teachings/community-sovereignty.md rename to docs/strategies/community-sovereignty.md diff --git a/docs/teachings/digital-sovereignty.md b/docs/strategies/digital-sovereignty.md similarity index 100% rename from docs/teachings/digital-sovereignty.md rename to docs/strategies/digital-sovereignty.md diff --git a/docs/teachings/finding-purpose.md b/docs/strategies/finding-purpose.md similarity index 100% rename from docs/teachings/finding-purpose.md rename to docs/strategies/finding-purpose.md diff --git a/docs/teachings/index.md b/docs/strategies/index.md similarity index 59% rename from docs/teachings/index.md rename to docs/strategies/index.md index 90e7fa7..478bbd0 100644 --- a/docs/teachings/index.md +++ b/docs/strategies/index.md @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ --- -icon: material/book-open-variant +icon: material/chess-knight --- -# Teachings +# Strategies -Deeper explorations for when a practice opens a door and you want to walk through it. Frameworks, context, and the why beneath the how. +Big-picture frameworks for when a practice opens a door and you're ready to walk through. These are the patterns, mindsets, and structural shifts — the strategy beneath the tactics.
- [:material-shield-lock: **Digital Sovereignty**](digital-sovereignty.md) — Own your hardware, software, data, and networks - [:material-crowd: **Community Sovereignty**](community-sovereignty.md) — Parallel economies, PMAs, seva, freedom networks -- [:material-spa: **Spiritual Hygiene**](spiritual-hygiene.md) — Cleanse your space, set intention, sound as medicine - [:material-compass: **Finding Your Purpose**](finding-purpose.md) — Passion, suffering into service, building your tribe - [:material-hand-heart: **Collective Awakening**](collective-awakening.md) — Mass intention, circles, crystallizing the vision
-These are living documents. Return to them. They'll mean something different each time. \ No newline at end of file +Come back to these. They'll mean something different each time. \ No newline at end of file