Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called

Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?

Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke

them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to

marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.

Welcome to the gathering pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

I'd love to get a whole group vibe going because I want to start out with our traditional meditation today. And I've been putting it in the middle toward the end because I don't

want everybody to have to come in in the middle of that thing. So let me just tell you what the

topic will be today. It's letting the forest steer your life.

And then I want to just, I'll chat about it for a second and then we'll do the meditation

and go from there.

So I've been talking to more and more people that I've known, like I have lived long now

and I have traveled many places and I've had many jobs and I've met famous people

and impoverished people and wonderful people everywhere. And it just strikes me that because we come

from a culture that denies spirituality, at least those, well, you're either going to go with

religion or science, basically, in the way our culture is set up.

And from my childhood on, people kind of had to choose one of those two.

And there wasn't as big a group in the Western world that would sign a box that went, that would tick a box that goes,

I am spiritual but not religious. And I went, I had a wonderful experience a couple of weeks ago,

going to see Ani DeFranco, who is an amazing musician and poet, really. I mean, her songs are

really both. Great music and great poetry.

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