A clearer Substack
This post does three things:
Clarifies how this Substack is now organized
Names what I’m orienting toward this year
Points to a few concrete ways to connect
Quite a few of you on this list are personal friends and acquaintances from my legacy list “Marc’s Life and Travels” (aka “Marc’s narcissistic ramblings”) which has been running for nearly 30 years. There are a couple changes happening to the list which I want you to be aware of, whether you are on the legacy list of old friends of mine, or whether you are here because you are interested in Authentic Relating.
The news is: yes I will continue writing my trademark “confessional style” posts, which I like to imagine as being entertaining and thought-provoking. This is the style of my latest book, by the way, I call it “spiritual psychological entertainment”. However, I am fundamentally re-orienting this substack towards Authentic Relating, Circling, and related integral we-space practices.
To make that navigable, posts are now organized into clear categories:
Stories and Ramblings (this post) Personal writing, reflections, and life updates. If you’re here mainly because you like me and/or my writing, this is the category to follow.
Authentic Relating & Circling Practical orientation for people new to the field: basically, how to get value from AR. This includes an upcoming series starting with [Part 1] Authentic Relating, A Map of the Territory: Practices, Lineages, and Communities.
Monetizing AR Writing about the business of Authentic Relating: running groups, building programs, applying relational practice to entrepreneurship, and newer approaches like We‑Flow.
You can subscribe or unsubscribe by category at any time, without leaving the Substack entirely.
What I’m orienting toward this year
For the last 3-4 months I have been in a very rapid transformation. I wrote about this in the We-Flow articles, and while I cannot assume causation, I do want to note the synchronicity of my attending my first We-Flow immersion at precisely the time that this cataclysmic shift started occurring.
Moreover, the shift seems to be accelerating. The best way I can describe it is as “consciousness is taking over”. The changes are scary and disorienting, and I am continuing emotionally all over the map. But the level of success I am having, the quality of my relationships (especially with my wife Sophie, the most important person in my life and whom I adore), my optimism about the future and my level of happiness, have all taken a decisive and undeniable turn.
In addition to We-Flow, I’ve been influenced recently by work around Fundamental Well‑Being (FWB). I’ll keep references light, but if you want to explore on your own:
The extraordinary book The Finders
45 Days to Awakening app (recently released)
I may write about this more later—but it will stay clearly contained within Stories and Ramblings.
Ways to connect
If you want to say hello, you’re welcome to reply directly to this email, or write to marco@marcbeneteau.com.
If you want to connect through practice, Sophie and I are currently offering:
Connection Game – Tuesday, Feb 10 ($25). More information and register here.
Authentic Relating in Community (ARC) – starting Feb 17 (from $350, with some scholarships available). More information here.
Thanks for being here and accompanying me on the journey, whether you came across this blog just now or have known me for 30 years.
Note: My other Substacks, Relational Erotic Intelligence, which explores deep sexual intimacy along the lines of my book As Lovers Do; and Creating Utopia which explores Intentional Community (IC) in the we-space, will probably remain dormant this year. Both topics however are active areas of investigation, and I am 100% clear that I want to live in an IC which is directly sourced from the we-space and that this will happen.