Seers, Seekers, and Radical Responsibility

So let's dig into a little bit more, Cheryl, how you conceptualize of what is a seer and a seeker and then we can talk a little bit more about some of the nuance teasing out some of the nuance of being a sensitive seeing seeking human being

Yes.

And I think the nuance as well that is more and more coming to light in our current pop psychology age with some of the language and some of the danger.

So we're going to dip into that as well.

The way I see a seer is the most simple definition is somebody who sees beyond the the first layer of things.

So is seeing into the under layers.

So the child in the family that knows that something is amiss and awry, but doesn't have the language for it.

So maybe on the surface, their parents' marriage looks okay, but they're sensing that something is not quite right there.

And then one day the parents tell them they're getting divorced and the seer in the family on one level is like, Yeah, I know.

I saw that coming.

Seers as children are deeply feeling, often prone to anxiety, are often seekers, are often plumbing the depths of our human experience at a very early age, like we've talked about many times on this podcast.

ruminating, wondering, questioning around the deep topics of life, including death from a young age, separation, separation anxiety, and thinking about this life and what more there is in this life and our purpose and why am I here and moving into adolescence and really sort of plumbing the depths of the human soul and the human experience.

So seers and seekers are often people who read a lot and take courses.

They are always the people who find their way here to this podcast, to my courses, and there's a great deal of comfort that can happen when you are in the company of other seers and seekers because If you are that child in the family that is seeing, that is seeking from an early age, right? Like, you know, I started journaling when I was six.

I started writing down my dreams.

That's not every six-year-old.

So that was me trying to make sense of what I was seeing through the lens of dream work, which is a way of seeking.

But it can also be a very lonely experience to be that child in the family that also doesn't have the language yet to say, oh, my mother has narcissistic tendencies, right? You're not going to say that when you're seven.

I mean, maybe you will these days if you're on Instagram.

I don't know.

But sometimes what comes out of the mouths of young people actually blows me away, their level of psychological awareness for better or for worse.

So it's the gift and the curse of social media and the world that we're currently living.

But for most people listening today, growing up in an era where we were not glued to our phones, there was an element of loneliness that you were seeing without the language you were seeing and therefore feeling into the invisible unspoken layer in your family home.

And that when you get older, you're able to hopefully find more language to that, but also find more people who had the same experience, who were watching similar dynamics, who found their way to similar kinds of language.

And it is one of the most deeply healing experiences.