Female Sovereignty, Envisioning Constructive Futures, and Revolution with Maggie Ostara (half 2) – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 98
“We’re the tradition makers. And your ebook, I really feel, actually invitations individuals into that in such a stupendous approach. “ – Beth Barany
On this episode of How To Write the Future, podcast host Beth Barany talks with Amazon bestselling creator, Maggie Ostara concerning the idea of female sovereignty, the evolution of sovereignty, and about Thrutopia as a solution to envision constructive futures by way of reclaiming creativeness. They talk about the significance of the writers’ roles in shaping revolutions and provide recommendation to science fiction and fantasy writers to maintain creating and believing within the energy of their work. (Storytelling to Share Complicated Concepts with Maggie Ostara, half 2)
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ABOUT MAGGIE OSTARA
Maggie Ostara, PhD left her prestigious job because the Director of Ladies’s and Gender Research at Columbia College when she realized she’s not meant to work for anybody else.
She’s the creator of the worldwide Amazon best-seller, Female Sovereignty: 8 Pillars for Regenerating Ourselves and Our World (2023). In 2024 she’ll offer the Female Sovereignty Explorers Membership and the Female Sovereignty Management Incubator primarily based within the rules of the 8 Pillars.
With over twenty years of expertise supporting 20,000+ college students and a whole lot of shoppers, Maggie teaches construct your energy inside, make constantly dependable choices, keep away from overwhelm and burnout, create an even bigger affect with much less effort, and remodel inside liabilities into highly effective belongings and allies.
She’s a licensed Human Design and Quantum Human Design Specialist, Stage 4, a licensed Radiant Physique Yoga Teacher, and a licensed Readability Breathwork Practitioner. She helps her international viewers by way of her thriving YouTube channel and works with shoppers 1:1 and in teams.
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Transcript for Female Sovereignty, Envisioning Constructive Futures, and Revolution with Maggie Ostara (half 2)
BETH BARANY
Hey everybody, welcome to Easy methods to Write the Future. I’m Beth Barany, an award-winning science fiction and fantasy novelist and writing instructor, and coach, and I provide up this podcast as a present to the world with suggestions for writers and anybody who cares concerning the future, as a result of I imagine that after we imaginative and prescient what is feasible, we truly assist make it so.
Take pleasure in half two the place I speak with Maggie about her ebook, Female Sovereignty, Envisioning Constructive Futures, and Revolution.
And one thing I’d love so that you can clarify to our viewers because it’s proper there within the title: Sovereignty, I like the way you defined it within the ebook. And naturally, you don’t should regurgitate that. However I believe it’s a time period that has many meanings.
And I believe individuals want to listen to from you. What does sovereignty imply? And why is your ebook referred to as Female Sovereignty?
MAGGIE OSTARA
Yeah. So I first discovered of the time period “sovereignty” as utilized to me or an individual again in 1998, and it was in a shamanic journey that I used to be doing with any person I labored with fairly a bit, and he or she was speaking to me about what claiming sovereignty of my being.
For individuals who do shamanic work, they work with entities, they work with stuff, every kind of various issues and nonphysical. In order that’s what her orientation was, however I actually picked it up and I used to be like, I like that phrase sovereignty. I like the standard of it. And I knew that as a result of I’m a historicist and an Americanist, in my tutorial profession, I actually understood that what we consider as sovereignty modified actually dramatically with the American Revolution as a result of rapidly we went from sovereigns being kings, largely kings, generally queens, however largely kings to having a sovereign state, which then had sovereign residents. In order that’s a giant historic change.
And what we received out of that was the sovereignty of individualism, which is the citizen of the brand new United States, which over time actually turned males of European descent, mainly. And that they have been empowered by this new state and, and most of us have actually been very imprinted with this. I can do no matter I would like so long as I don’t damage one other individual. I’ve my autonomy. I’ve my company. And it’s very individualistic, it’s individualism.
And, that individualism has been an enormous contributor to the challenges we now have within the dwelling world. It’s simply led us to suppose we may do something we wished. We may mine something. We may lower down any forest. We may do something to the oceans. We may do all of that. People are just like the supreme being.
And we’re the sovereigns of the world and we are able to do no matter we would like with it. It’s that form of mentality.
So for me, after I was actually working with sovereignty for years, a variety of it was concerning the inside panorama and constructing energy inside.
In order that we’re, we’re grounded. We’re bodily wholesome. We’ve got command of our emotional vitality. After which more and more we all know work with our, our vitality and in addition our connection to spirit.
After which over time, I used to be like, yeah, however that’s vital, however inadequate. Changing into sovereign of my very own private vitality subject and my very own bodily type, for instance, is vital. Like I want to grasp these elements of myself. I must know heal myself or develop myself, or no matter.
However then after I began having an even bigger view, I used to be like, sovereignty, in the event you actually take into consideration the upper expression or the woke up expression of the sovereign. And you are taking it out of this concept of royalty, which is the place all wealth accumulates to the royals, and the aristocracy and also you go, however what do sovereigns actually do?
Sovereigns are lawgivers. They’re those who assist the tribe operate. They’re those who assist us perceive who we’re as a individuals. They’re those who keep our values. They’re those who say, we’re the people who find themselves like this.
They usually get their energy as a sovereign from the individuals believing in them. It’s not from coercion. It’s not from violence. It’s not as a result of you could have armies. It’s not due to that. It’s as a result of this individual has a imaginative and prescient and, and, a caring and a compassion.
And so after I began actually fascinated about that, trigger the reality is you possibly can’t be a sovereign by yourself.
You might be sovereign of your personal subject and there’s a lot occurring in right here. So there’s something about that, however you want different individuals to be a sovereign, proper?
However then if we’re actually a Thrutopian imaginative and prescient of the long run, proper? We don’t wish to reinstill both the sovereignty of individualism or the sovereignty of royalty. We wish one thing new.
And that’s after I began fascinated about female sovereignty, as a result of I used to be like, what are the qualities of it?
So we’ve already confirmed that we’re the dominant species. Doesn’t imply we’re essentially the most clever or one of the best or something, however we’re the dominant predator, was like truly the way in which I wish to say, we’re the dominant predator on the planet.
Okay. And we predict that makes us higher, however does it actually?
No, it simply means we’re higher at killing issues than different species are. And and so how will we evolve ourselves in order that we turn into actually the caretakers of our world?
Sure, we want energy inside. Sure, we want to have the ability to share and rotate energy.
However how will we truly use our energy as this dominant species to look after our dwelling worlds and to maintain one another?
And that is the factor that indigenous individuals all over the world know and it practiced ceaselessly. They usually don’t see themselves as a dominant predator in relation to the dwelling world. They see themselves as caretakers and stewards.
Evolve Into Sovereign Stewardship
MAGGIE OSTARA
And so that is what female sovereignty finally invitations us to evolve ourselves into is to into sovereign stewardship, not for private acquire, however primarily based within the recognition that we’re actually all on this collectively. Yeah, and we now have received to discover a solution to relate to and talk and work with one another as human beings, but additionally with all the opposite species of the planet.
We’ve got an infinite accountability that we’ve been shirking, frankly, in my opinion. And in order that’s what the sovereignty is.
There’s an influence and a regalness and a radiance that comes with sovereignty that has to do with having actually advanced ourselves into the next state. And in order that’s what the invitation of the ebook is about is how will we evolve ourselves into changing into these those that a part of us already is aware of we should be.
However tradition doesn’t present us with the methods to try this. Western tradition doesn’t. And so we have to look elsewhere.
BETH BARANY
I’d say that you simply and plenty of others are writing the pathway. There’s the fiction. These of us who’re engaged on the fiction aspect. I really feel like as a coach, I’m additionally writing within the nonfiction house round that.
After which your ebook, and others, Braiding Sweetgrass, everybody’s telling me to learn. It’s on my shelf. Different ebook, Discovering the Mom Tree, and so many different books on the market. There are a variety of pathways that we now have been placing out into the tradition. So I really feel like Western tradition, we’re altering it, proper?
We’re the tradition makers. And your ebook, I really feel, actually invitations individuals into that in such a stupendous approach. I wished to present a stupendous shout out. I like all of the spirals in every single place in your ebook. And that’s my ogo that I’ve had for over 20 years. And I simply really feel like that stage of that natural nature.
You’re actually chatting with the natural nature that already exists. And likewise acknowledging how Western tradition has been very linear, very boxed, as if issues have been, machines. We’re very sophisticated. You might say we’re sophisticated machines, however far more complicated than something we truly perceive at this level.
About Thrutopia – Reclaiming our Creativeness
BETH BARANY
I wished to convey us again and speak about Thrutopia as a result of I’ve talked about it a number of occasions on the podcast, and I really need listeners to grasp what Is Thrutopia. And also you talked about just a little bit within the ebook, however perhaps we are able to say once more right here, the place the time period got here from and just a little bit about Manda Scott, who ran the neighborhood that we met one another in.
And truly, I joined the category due to you, as a result of I believe Manda was interviewing you, otherwise you have been interviewing her. No, I believe it was her podcast.
MAGGIE OSTARA
We interviewed one another
BETH BARANY
You interviewed one another on her Unintentional Gods podcast, and I used to be like, oh my god, I’ve to take this class. I shared it with a buddy. My buddy signed up.
I signed up. It was such an exquisite class. Launched me to people who find themselves in the true world right this moment doing issues to vary their communities, and have been doing them for the final 20 years or no matter. And I like that. I liked all these constructive examples. It actually fed me as a artistic author.
So yeah, are you able to outline for us Thrutopia and its genesis and the sorts of tales which can be popping out of that?
MAGGIE OSTARA
Yeah. Rupert Reed was the one who initially coined the time period in an essay, and the reference for it’s in my ebook. And, however you might simply lookup Rupert Reed Thrutopia and also you’d discover it.
And, he’s a, unimaginable visionary activist, very artistic in what he’s doing. He’s within the UK. And he mainly was saying, look, we now have so many apocalypses occurring proper now, like we, we don’t want any extra of these. We don’t want any extra dystopias. Like a lot artistic vitality has gone into the dystopias.
And one of the best that mainstream media can provide you with is superheroes who’re going to save lots of us. Actually? Provide you with one thing else. So there’s the dystopia stuff. After which there’s the utopia stuff, which generally might be, I don’t know, fascinating or fulfilling or entertaining or one thing, however I really feel that usually really feel fairly ungrounded.
And it’s Okay, however my life is de facto completely different and I don’t know get from right here to there, proper?
I don’t wish to go that, I don’t wish to find yourself in a dystopia and I don’t know get to a utopia, so then what?
And so Thrutopia is the concept of the way in which personally I maintain it’s it’s about reclaiming our creativeness.
It’s about reclaiming artwork, not permitting our imaginations to go on being colonized by the mainstream media leisure business, as a result of it needs to try this, proper? It says, Oh, I’ve to do all that imagining. We’ll simply do it for you. Right here’s your story, of the month or the week or no matter.
And so it’s like, how will we reclaim, and take sovereignty of our creativeness?
After which use that to be like, huh, how may it go? It may go this manner. It might be like that. This might occur. That might occur. And naturally, that is what fiction writers do on a regular basis, proper? Is we’re utilizing our creativeness to be like, how may it go?
And the way is that this character going to behave? And in the event you put this character and this character into this example, what’s going to occur, proper?
And so Thrutopias, it’s the identical factor. It’s simply with the intention of claiming, Okay.
The way in which I consider it’s decide one thing, some a part of life that’s significant to you that you simply care about, so for one individual that is perhaps oceans or one other individual, it is perhaps how young children are taken care of or no matter it’s, one thing that you simply’re like, okay, this must evolve.
The way in which that we’re treating it. The way in which that we’re partaking with it’s not working. It has to vary. How can it change? I don’t know. Let’s see what we are able to provide you with. And then you definitely discover it . And, ideally, you need it to be plausible. You need to have the ability to go, Oh yeah, what, that, that truly may occur. That might. If it’s too on the market, then it’s, it turns into just like the superhero factor, Though to me, like one of the best science fiction can also be plausible.
You don’t learn it and go, Oh my God, that would by no means there might be features of it which can be, which can be so past something we perceive, however there’s nonetheless individuals in it, proper? And it’s like, how do individuals function in no matter setting you place them in? So it’s the identical form of factor.
And it challenges us to be like, okay, suppose exterior the field. What are you able to provide you with? And how are you going to make it plausible? And to return to what I used to be saying about my ebook is how do you do it in a approach that retains individuals engaged and makes them really feel like they will take part indirectly? In order that’s how I consider is Thrutopia.
In Order To Write Thrutopia
MAGGIE OSTARA
So to be able to write Thrutopia, it’s actually useful I believe to have the ability to like, for me, my creativeness opened as much as be like, wow, I had no concept any person may do this, no matter it’s.
So she was actually helpful in that. And for these of you who’re listening, she could also be operating one other one in 2024. So in the event you’re , you might go examine that out: Thrutopia dot life. And I do know studying it actually impacted, pillar seven and eight in my ebook, as a result of there’s people who find themselves in there that I discovered about additionally stimulated me to go discover different people who find themselves doing stuff.
So I believe to jot down a Thrutopian novel or imaginative and prescient, having that form of understanding, due to course the mainstream media doesn’t cowl any of this.
BETH BARANY
It’s mainly constructive tales of individuals making actual affect and never simply doom and gloom.
MAGGIE OSTARA
You simply do the subsequent factor. After which when you do this, you go, okay, what’s the factor after that? And after that, what’s the subsequent factor after that? Just about everyone that I highlighted in my ebook and who we discovered about by way of Thrutopia have been like that. Like they began with a spark of one thing after which they simply went, okay, what’s the subsequent step? What’s the subsequent step? And naturally, you run right into a useless finish generally and then you definitely make a flip or no matter, however yeah. and the factor about that’s actually nice is anyone can do it.
You simply have to begin the place you might be.
BETH BARANY
Yeah.
Yeah. I like that. Yeah, that’s step zero in My Author’s Journey Information. Begin from the place you might be.
MAGGIE OSTARA:
Precisely.
BETH BARANY
That’s nice.
MAGGIE OSTARA
As a result of so many occasions individuals take into consideration these massive points in our world right this moment and so they’re like, what can I do about local weather change?
I’m like, you might plant a backyard. They’re like, what distinction is that going to make? I’m like, I don’t know, however why don’t you do it? After which see how you are feeling.
BETH BARANY
Yeah. Yeah. Maggie, I’m positive you and I may preserve going. You could have so many fantastic matters in your ebook.
I actually wish to encourage individuals to learn it as a result of we didn’t even cowl what every of the eight pillars are, however I really need individuals to go and uncover these on their very own. In order we shut, do you could have any recommendation to science fiction and fantasy writers, individuals who wish to write extra constructive futures into their tales?
Yeah. Do you could have any recommendation for them?
Recommendation for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
MAGGIE OSTARA
Your work issues. Your work issues. You reclaiming your creativeness is deeply important. Revolutions are, evolutions are extremely supported by the artists. With out the artists, revolutions don’t occur very properly, proper? As a result of you must interact the creativeness of individuals to imagine that our lives might be completely different.
As a result of with out that, you’re not gonna have any buy-in to your revolution. Proper? Your capability to entry and use your creativity and your creativeness to create prospects that different individuals haven’t considered, however they will discover they, they will discover their approach in it. They are often like, Ooh, I may, I can really feel myself in there.
Don’t ever doubt how highly effective your, the pen is the compute. No, the pen. I’m a giant believer within the pen. By no means doubt how highly effective it’s. And I do know that it may be laborious since you spend a variety of time alone in a room with a notepad or a pc or no matter. And also you learn your stuff over and also you’re like, I don’t even know if that’s any good.
I do know that half shouldn’t be straightforward. However I simply wish to be an advocate so that you can preserve going, get along with others for assist as you want to, get your self a coach, rent Beth, no matter you want to do so as to get the suggestions. Like I stated, like with my editor, I used to be like, inform me what’s working.
That’s what I want is I must know what’s working. Get the assist that you simply want for that, but additionally simply construct within your self. You may even take into consideration the writers who’ve actually modified your life. How extremely vital that’s and don’t ever imagine this crap that individuals are saying no one reads anymore.
It’s simply not true. So don’t imagine it. Your work issues.
BETH BARANY
Thanks, Maggie. I really feel such as you’re telling me straight. It’s so nice. As somebody who works on her ebook day by day, I’m like, ah, sure, it issues. It issues.
MAGGIE OSTARA
It issues. It issues and it issues even when your ebook isn’t a bestseller. It issues, even in the event you’re, you’ve, you find yourself abandoning a manuscript sooner or later and transfer on to one thing else as a result of each time energetically that you simply’re creating these new prospects, they exit into the collective unconscious and so they turn into out there to different individuals.
So it issues.
BETH BARANY
Yeah, it issues. Completely. Thanks, Maggie. This has been actually fantastic speaking with you. I admire you and all of your work that you simply’ve been placing out into the world for all these years. And I hope that individuals decide up your ebook, Female Sovereignty, and actually take it to coronary heart and benefit from the journey that you simply invite them on.
MAGGIE OSTARA
Yeah. Thanks. And you will get the synopsis on the ebook’s web site if you wish to test it out before you purchase it. It’s simply female sovereignty ebook dot com and proper on the prime, it says obtain the synopsis. So I like to have the ability to have any person be like, okay, is that this truly one thing I wish to learn or not?
BETH BARANY
Yeah. Yeah. So everybody go to female sovereignty ebook dot com. Is that proper? Nice. All proper. Thanks. Thanks a lot, Maggie.
MAGGIE OSTARA
Yeah. Thanks, Beth. It’s pleasant.
BETH BARANY
In order that’s it for this week everybody. Please like, and subscribe, and share.
And I simply actually admire you for listening and for displaying up to your artistic work.
Write lengthy and prosper.
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