AN INVITATION TO MAKE LOVE WITH LIFE ( THE EROTIC LIFE OF A MYSTIC, PART 2 OF 3 ) “To Make Love with a Lover is to love not only their flesh, but to love the way Life moves through their whole body and, at the same time, through our own body, and, at the same time - with the most ecstatic and expansive intuition - love that The Life in Them, and The Life in Us, and The Life in Everyone and in All Things, is One.” From The Preface to ´The Conscious Tribe, A New Extended Family

This is the most intimate article I've ever written. In it I describe my personal experience of awakening in an interconnected world in which everything is relating with everything. THE EROTIC LIFE OF A MYSTIC I MYSTIC Why do I define myself as a mystic? Because I look like one? Because I´m an old man living by myself, out in the countryside, off-grid, in a caravan? Because I wash outside, and meditate and pray? No. I define myself as a mystic because my primary moment-to-mom

Appropriately for the brightness that comes with the summer - the title of this newsletter is ´clarity´- because over the last few months The Conscious Tribes Movement has arrived at a new clarity - a clarity I find very exciting. A New Name This new clarity is reflected in the name changes we have undergone. We changed from ´Conscious Tribes´ to ´Conscious Relating Tribes´ and then, most recently, to ´Tribes of Awakening Through Relating´ (with the tagline ´combining persona

CHERRY TREES IN BLOSSOM AT FUENVALERIA Over the last three months Workshops, Groups and Private Sessions on Conscious Relating have continued, Interviews about Conscious Tribes have continued, Articles have been published, so - WHAT´S NEW? 1. THE CONSCIOUS TRIBES MANUAL 2. A PHILOSOPHICAL FINE TUNING 3. THE ACCOMPANIERS TRAINING + A Note About The Membership Programme * THE NEW CONSCIOUS TRIBES MANUAL At the moment, if you want to find out about The Conscious Tribes Movement

CONSCIOUS TRIBES (TRIBES OF AWAKENING THROUGH RELATING) Presence, Intimacy, Nature, Sovereignty Combining Personal & Social Transformation "The Path of Making Love With Life THE PROPOSAL (previously ´The Manifesto´) 1. A New, Foundational Social Structure Cultivating spiritual, psychological and emotional awareness isn´t enough - we´re stressed and exhausted because the structures of society keep us individualised, alienated from nature, and absorbed in superficiality. As

"THE INNER MARRIAGE" THE CONSCIOUS TRIBES MOVEMENT SPRING RETREAT 2026 Everyone´s Welcome! This Easter the Conscious Tribes Movement's Spring Retreat will be held on our new land at Fuenvaleria, near the town of Bolea (Huesca, Aragon), from Wednesday April 1st to Sunday April 5th * We will be a Conscious Tribe for a few days... What´s a Conscious Tribe? A Conscious Tribe shares the indefinable path of feeling, and relating and acting from, one´s own, unique reality. And what

Societies Are Relational Energy Fields. Therefore - To Change Society We Must Change The Way We Relate. However - The Way We Relate Depends On Our Beliefs. Therefore - To Change The Way We Relate We Must Change Our Beliefs. What Is A Society? What does the definition in the title - “societies are relational energy fields" – really mean? Individuals aren't societies. Societies emerge when individuals come together. When they relate. And the type of society they form depends

A Video Interview " Building Conscious Tribes" with Mark Josephs Nadjeschda Taranczewski and Mark Josephs talk about the building of Conscious Tribes. Conscious Tribes, as described by Mark, are intentional communities we co-create without the need to move home – 'families of choice' – that weave people together emotionally, practically, and creatively in pursuit of shared meaning and resilience. Such communities offer a sense of belonging, adaptability, and hope that tradit

Balancing Your Love and Your Politics There Is No Intellectual Answer Jim and Carol Taiclot and their two children celebrate Christmas. They love Christmas. They are Christians. They love their neighbours. They do unto others as they would have them do unto themselves. Jim is the CEO of the prominent arms manufacturers, Blockhead Martian. Jim is particularly proud of their new seventeen million dollar hypersonics lab at Hauntsville, Alabama. “Did you know, Carol, that hyperso

Winter approaches. A time for reflection... Where am I in my life? How was 2025 - externally, internally - for me? Where do I want to go from here - externally, internally - in 2026? * I would like to offer you the option of becoming more involved in The Conscious Tribes Movement. I believe The Conscious Tribes Movement is a unique, profound, personal and social contribution to our collective evolution - and that for almost anyone, getting involved would be mind-opening,

DOWNLOAD & LISTEN HERE OR READ HERE... THE USUAL DEFINITION Madness is usually defined as a state of disassociation from reality. Such a state is usually portrayed in the cinema, and described in literature, as being accompanied by a person´s inability to manage their so-called “not-reality” – resulting in behaviour that is unstable, inappropriately reactive, overwhelmed, insecure, compensatory, absurd even. But that need not be the case. Someone might be completely mad (d

“Do you want to be surrounded by people who are letting go of the infantile and neurotic state of conformity and obedience - and learning to listen to their bodies and instincts and wisdom - and feel respect?” LISTEN HERE: OR READ HERE: Every modern culture is becoming a digital concentration camp! Whether it calls itself Western Liberal Democracy, Islamic Theocracy, or Eastern Centralised Communism, every culture is monitoring and regulating human behaviour in increasing d

The Conscious Tribes Movement just acquired land in N. Spain! We just purchased this beautiful "finca" - called Fuenvaleria: one hectare with magnificent, open views yet surrounded and protected by Oak trees - land with water rights, wide terraces, and abundant with Fig, Pear, Quince, Olive and Cherry trees, Blackberry bushes, and Grape vines... And last week we inaugurated Fuenvaleria with a four day Conscious Relating retreat: The plan for Fuenvaleria (which is situated ne

“ Be a lamp unto yourself. Be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge.” ...

OF COURSE Urban, Consumerist, Industrial Society is Detrimental to the Earth. But that Doesn´t Justify Ecological Tyranny And so it was...

Here is an exciting, intense, heart-opening opportunity! Mark* offers full-on, low-cost, 12-week, online courses on Conscious Relating twice a year (in the Spring and in the Autumn/Fall) Listen to the invitation HERE Download the invitation here (relevant for all courses, not just Sept. 25) The central focus of every course is the "shared meditative practice" called Conscious Relating. You´ll get the general idea from the audio-invitation, plus it´s described in great det

Introducing ´The Three Stances´ Listen here: Or read here: Walking the Path of Radical Honesty I have written extensively on ´Radical...

Conscious Tribes are places where we learn to move As One - while simultaneously honouring our unique individualities. IMO (In My...

Here´s the audio of "Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Explained (in 5 minutes)" And here´s a transcript of the audio: "Hi, my name´s Mark, I´m in my seventies now - and it was me who initiated The Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Movement a few years ago – after many years of exploration and experimentation. So what´s a Tribe of Awakening Through Relating? It´s a group of 10 to 30 people (though probably less at the beginning) who have made (what I feel is) a deep an

even if we become fully emotionally-educated individuals moving about freely within an excellently-structured, fully-decentralized civilization – because of our lack of long-term commitment to each other, and to each other´s children, and each other´s parents, and the place we have known together, and cared for together – we will be like strangers on a train!