Lineage, Initiation & Oracle: Finding Your Way to Truth

Story is sometimes described as “the first technology.” We’re made of stories; they’re how we make sense of an often senseless-seeming world. Yet when it comes to our own backstories, many of us feel alienated from them. We sense there’s a buried history inside us but we can’t seem to access it—or we never seem to find the time. Why bother? Who would care, anyway?

But when we reconnect with our buried stories, it frees us—and those around us. Sharing them is a form of permission, allowing others to approach the warm glow of reconnection. And it’s far easier than you might imagine. All that’s required is to steal past the gatekeepers of habit and self-protection. And I think I can help.

This 2-hour event is a sharing, conversational, and writing exercise designed for non-writers. If you’re looking for a deeper relationship with your own buried story, this event will help you bypass the internal blocks that have kept you exiled from it. You’ll leave in deeper touch with your ancestry, your agency, and the transformative power of sharing your own story.

All Ages Sliding Scale Admission $12-$22

About the Facilitator:

Leapfrogging off his book Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir, Seth Lorinczi returns to Eastside Jewish Commons to explore some of the book’s most provocative themes: The gifts of rediscovering our lineage, the power of initiation, and the power of nonlinear modes of exploration, including creative writing, dreamwork, and psychedelic journeying.

If previous events are any guide, this will be a provocative and liberating exploration of the facets of family and self that often remain shrouded. Show up ready to bask in emotionally resonant storytelling—and to share what it illuminates in your own family backstory.

“A very unique, courageous, and deeply moving book; I have personally never seen anything else like it….a journey through our individual and collective trauma in order to find the hidden treasure enfolded within the darkness—our creative self. Bravo!”

-Paul Levy, Undreaming Wetiko; The Quantum Revelation; and others