GAIAN FUTURISM
A future memory whispers in me… I am driven by a vision of a sane, safe and sacred world where the human presence on planet earth tends and elevates the harmony between all beings.
In this abundant future we know who and what we are as souls. We transcend centuries of systemic trauma, racism, slavery, genocide and colonization. All people: all races, all creeds, all genders and all ages, come home together in a diverse planetary unity. We remember our collective purpose as bio-spiritual co-creators with the Earth.
This emergent next stage of planetary civilization plays the Infinite Game, tending the human relationship with nature, and organizing the powers of technology, economy and governance in service to the well-being and abundance of humanity and all natural living systems.
SURFING
COMPLEXITY
The world we were born into no longer exists. The one that will be is emerging as we live, love, narrate and create it. We are co-architects of a whole scale transition in the very nature of self and civilization - a transition from separation, dominion and extraction to wholeness, collaboration and regeneration. This transition invites us to re-examine what it means to be fully human, and to recontextualize ourselves within the Circle of Life to better steward the relationship between nature, technology and human wellbeing.
Because civilization is complex, we cannot change one thing and expect everything else to change. Surfing complexity means working with broader contexts as we evolve infrastructure (the underlying physical systems that make the world work), social structure (social systems like education, medicine and government), and superstructures (ideological systems of myth, religion and law).
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
WHY?
There’s a kind of vitality, dignity and meaning you can experience when you rediscover the everyday miracle of Life and choose to live --boldly and beautifully--in alignment with your own body and soul and Life itself. This is EnLifenment. A remembering. A homecoming. A restoration of integrity - inside and out.
I am driven by an intense trust in the genius of the human soul. I guide individuals and organizations in the fierce and tender work of composting separation, healing trauma, remembering kinship, and moving into sacred reciprocity and regenerative co-creation. Together, we reweave attuned relationships - within the self, and between people, nature, technology, culture, and spirit.
Ultimately, our work is a devotion - a moral, imaginal, and bio-physical re-weaving of love, energy, time, attention and agency into the continuity and emergence of Life's Song.
THE CIVILIZING IMPULSE
OF TRUE HUMANS IS TO
HARMONIZE THE FORCES OF NATURE
PSYCHEDELICS
Psychedelics are a unique class of plant, fungus and synthetic compounds that induce liminal states enabling expansion of consciousness, softening of identity fixations, and restored connection with self, other, nature and God. Psychedelics help us meet and integrate even the most intense trauma and wounds to restore wholeness and integrity at center of Self. Since Michael Pollan published How to Change Your Mind in 2018, mainstream America has become radically curious about these medicines for the body and soul.
Psychedelics are not, however, something new. They have been used for thousands of years in cultures around the globe as allies for expanded spiritual wisdom and healing. The word “psychedelic” literally means “mind-manifesting.” We also like the word “entheogen,” which means “awakening the god within,” and “holotropic,” which embraces a broad spectrum of practices, such as breathwork and dance, that attune us directly to the reality of wholeness.
EMBODIMENT
Life is an embodied process. Our bodies are feats of biological majesty. Far more than machines, they are vehicles for our souls to cognize the world and participate in life. To inhabit your body, experiencing the simple (yet infinitely complex) miracle of life is fundamental to being fully human. In an increasingly digital world, we firmly believe in the primacy of real-world, immersive experiences that connect us with nature, beauty and community.
Embodied practices - such as dance, yoga, hiking, singing, planting seedlings, sitting in council and making art, invite the wildness of your inner animal, the refinement of your senses, the delight of play, the dignity of authentic emotion, the integrity of right effort, and the luminosity of your whole-being presence to come alive as a full-spectrum expression of wholeness, happiness, creativity and joy.
ABOUT
Samantha Sweetwater was conceived on a riverbank. In her mother's words, "she raised herself"—spending days immersed in nature, art, and science, learning the language of Life.
She is a master facilitator, executive coach, and founder of One Life Circle—a ministry of remembering. She works at the fertile nexus where unraveling systems make way for emerging forms of kinship, leadership, and value. For over three decades, she has guided individuals and organizations across five continents through journeys of personal, cultural, ecological, and spiritual regeneration.
As a soul mentor to visionary leaders and culture shapers, she supports her clients to reclaim wholeness, redefine purpose, and develop edge-pushing leadership in service to human and more-than-human flourishing. She sees the metacrisis as a spiritual opportunity calling us to cultivate the soul clarity, relational intelligence, and moral imagination necessary for navigating profound change wisely and brilliantly.
As founder of Dancing Freedom and Peacebody Japan, she sparked a global movement of embodied awakening and trained hundreds of facilitators. She has also been a seed farmer—a practice that taught her the rigors of tending the real. She holds an MA in Wisdom Studies, a BA in Social Theory and the Dance with a minor in Legal Philosophy, and has been initiated into indigenous lineages of Africa, Latin America, and Turtle Island. She lives in fog-kissed, unceded Coastal Miwok territory.
PROJECTS & BOARDS
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ONE LIFE CIRCLE
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ONE NATION LIFE - BOARD MEMBER
APPEARANCES
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SHIFT NETWORK PSYCHEDELIC HEALING SUMMIT
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SAND: SCIENCE & NONDUALITY CONFERENCE
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LIGHTINING IN A BOTTLE
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BIONEERS CONFERENCE
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DOCUMENTARY: EVERYBODY IS DOING DRUGS
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ESALEN
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IONS INSTITUTE
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BELOVED FESTIVAL
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BOLD.LY NOW
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LUCIDITY FESTIVAL
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REBEL WISDOM PODCAST
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THE PSYCHEDELIC ENTREPRENEUR PODCAST
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CATALYZING RADICAL SYSTEMIC CHANGE PODCAST
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GRAY TRANSFORMS PODCAST
LIFE IS CALLING YOU HOME
We incarnated to dignify humanness simply by being fully alive. It is possible to co-create meaning, beauty and abundance that harmonizes with Life. What is needed is authentic intimacy - arriving fully HERE. We have the power and capacity to create a world where we experience freedom, belonging and homecoming. I invite you to take the first step. Drop the veils of separation. Remember who and what you are.
“SAMANTHA HAS THE PROFOUND GIFT OF INITIATING SPIRITUAL ACTIVATION WITHIN HER CLIENTS”
“Samantha has the profound gift of initiating spiritual activation within her clients. She guides those who are called through the journey the soul-centric Self, allowing each one to find their authentic place and purpose in the fabric of life. Facilitating this process of awakening requires a deep sense of care, humility and commitment that Samantha embodies with grace and presence.”
—WES CARTER
PRESIDENT, ATLANTIC PACKAGING
FOUNDER, A NEW EARTH PROJECT
LIFE IS CALLING YOU HOME
“We incarnated in order to dignify humanness by being fully alive and by co-creating beauty and abundance for all beings. We hold the keys to co-create a shared world where everyone is free, everyone belongs and everyone comes home. Take the next step. Drop the veils of separation. Remember who and what you are.”
“SAMANTHA HAS THE PROFOUND GIFT OF INITIATING SPIRITUAL ACTIVATION WITHIN HER CLIENTS
She guides those who are called through the journey the soul-centric Self, allowing each one to find their authentic place and purpose in the fabric of life. Facilitating this process of awakening requires a deep sense of care, humility and commitment that Samantha embodies with grace and presence.”
—WES CARTER
PRESIDENT, ATLANTIC PACKAGING
FOUNDER, A NEW EARTH PROJECT
SARED PLANT MEDICINE
Psychedelics are a unique class of plant, fungus and synthetic compounds that induce liminal states enabling expansion of consciousness, softening of identity fixations, and restored connection with self, other, nature and God. Psychedelics help us meet and integrate even the most intense trauma and wounds to restore wholeness and integrity at center of Self. Since Michael Pollan published How to Change Your Mind in 2018, mainstream America has become radically curious about these medicines for the body and soul.
Psychedelics are ancient medicine. They have been used for thousands of years in cultures around the globe as allies for expanded spiritual wisdom, healing and communal ritual. At this time in our collective evolution, they offer themselves to us as allies both for radical healing and for optimal creativity, helping us to meet and discover innovative, bio-spiritually attuned responses to our deepest systemic challenges.
BODY, MIND & SOUL
My work is an invitation to be fully in-the-body and soul-fully alive. Life is an embodied process. Our bodies are feats of biological majesty. Far more than machines, they are vehicles for our souls to cognize the world and participate in life. To inhabit your body, experiencing the simple (yet infinitely complex) miracle of planetary existence is fundamental to being fully human. In an increasingly digital world, I firmly believe in the primacy of in-real-life, immersive experiences that connect us with nature, eros and community.
Practices such as dance, yoga, hiking, singing, conscious touch, gardening, sitting in council, breathwork, and making art are innately erotic. They invite the wildness of your inner animal, the refinement of your senses, the delight of play, the dignity of authentic emotional engagement, the integrity of right effort, and the luminosity of your whole-being presence to come alive. Embodiment empowers full-spectrum expression of wholeness, happiness, creativity and joy.