Who Am I? (About Jonathan Clark)
My name is Jonathan Clark.
I write, create, pray, and play in Charlottesville, Virginia. From this base of operations, I’ve helped create a community focused on what’s really important.
Connection to ourselves, each other, and the divine.
But how do we actually do that?
To hear me tell it, we’ve got to get back to being native to our time and place. This is where we are from. This is what it looks like, feels like. This is what our lives are.
To become native myself, I’ve had to go on a journey of waking up continually to who I am and what life is right now.
I do this through a synthesis of emergent relational meditations (like Circling), mystical practices (like contemplative prayer), and magickal technology (like vision and spellworking).
These days, I’m holding spaces where people explore states of consciousness and layers of awakening through presence and radical attunement. That includes documenting a lot of what we’re discovering along the way. I say “along the way” because this exploration keeps revealing itself anew, which is to say keeps changing. I have to remind myself that I don’t know what this will look like in a year or maybe even later today.
My work greatly benefits (maybe even requires) input from thinkers that span a wide range. On my podcast The Container, we talk with meditators, occultists, scientists, revolutionaries, and so on.
A lot of this eventually filters down and bubbles back up again into writing. That includes creative writing on my Substack and on my newsletter (and much more to come).
How does all this tie together?
I think that we are at the dawn of a Human Renaissance. It’s a time of rebirth (when we remember how to be native to our time and place). You and I are a part of that. So, enjoy the offerings I make available here, and reach out if you feel inspired to do so. I’m always happy to talk.