by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/preparing-from-the-heart-not-from I am excerpting a portion of this work from Mark.  The article is quite long but I think it’s important for us to be awake and aware of the changes that are taking place and preparing for them.  Please go read the entire article and take what resonates with you. […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/how-do-you-walk-your-spiritual-path A reader asked me this in a comment. How do you walk your spiritual path when everything in you is breaking down? I want to answer her here, in the open, because she is not the only one asking. And I want to answer her honestly. Not with a theory. […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/who-gets-a-seat-at-the-fire People come to my house from time to time because of the writing. Most of them have read something of mine and want to sit and talk, and most of the time they are good visits. Once in a while, though, someone comes who is really disappointed in who I […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/the-great-unraveling This is one of a series of posts I made in December of 2025 and January 2026. I am resharing because it seems relevant now. For years, I looked at the map of the world and saw “The United States” as a solid thing, a protagonist in a complicated story. […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/terrible-things-are-happening-outside TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING OUTSIDE If we seek our own spiritual ascent through focusing only on happy thoughts and peaceful feelings, why did we come at all, and what truly did we really gain. “Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/why-everything-is-breaking-down-at I want to talk about a few things I have been thinking about over the last week. I posted an article about how I see certain systems in the world collapsing, and one reader wrote back to me. She said everything I was saying made sense, but that I was […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/thinking-like-a-mountain-living-in We are living through the collapse of a world built on a lie. The old way of surviving, the one we have been trained to accept as natural, is running out of road. The old survival model is a system designed around transaction, extraction, and a deep, systemic selfishness. We […]

By Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/the-black-blood-of-gaia Gaia is alive. James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis proved this scientifically decades ago, showing that the air, the oceans, the soil, and every living thing on this planet function as one single body, constantly adjusting itself to keep conditions right for life. This is not a metaphor. It is measurable. […]

by Mark A. Shryock https://markashryock.substack.com/p/food-and-vibrational-energy A reader asked: Does venison carry the same energetics as beef, as far as the grounding down of the upper chakras? It is a great question, and it needed its own article. WHAT CHAKRAS ARE The chakras are the body’s energy centers. They run from the base of the spine […]