Welcome to Be Human.Love

What does it mean to be human in a world that’s forgotten how?Join Katherine Bird and Eddy Fasula as they unveil a five-year ceremonial journey that bridges ancient wisdom with modern awakening. This isn’t another spiritual podcast – it’s an invitation to reckon with who we are as Western people, where we’ve come from, and how we might finally come home to ourselves.In this powerful introduction, you’ll discover: • Why Western people are the orphans of the world – and what that means for our relationship with indigenous cultures, ceremony, and the land itself • The dark truth about spiritual bypassing – how “love and light” can become another form of extraction when we refuse to face our ancestral wounds • Sacred infiltration through unlikely paths – from blacksmithing and ancient metallurgy to soil restoration and shamanic practice • Unity isn’t just consciousness – it’s uncomfortable, collaborative, embodied work in the dirt with other messy humans • The ancestral reckoning we can’t afford to skip – tracing Western civilization back before empire, before patriarchy, to the original instructions our lineages once held sacredEddy and Kat aren’t here to give you another practice to add to your spiritual shopping cart. They’re here to help you stop shopping altogether – to find the living threads of your own lineage, hear your ancestors speaking through the elements, and show up in right relationship with a world that desperately needs Western people to get our act together.If you’ve ever felt that hunger for something real, something rooted, something that honors both the darkness we’ve been through and the emergence that’s possible now – this is for you.This is the work of becoming fully human. CHAPTERS00:00 - Welcome & Our Paths to This Work Eddy’s journey from engineering to blacksmithing to Anatolian ancestry. Kat’s radical awakening and work training healers.05:08 - Western Orphans: The Crisis of Disconnection Lost orphans from lineages of destruction, lacking wise elders, land connection, and ancestral practices.12:07 - From Individual to Collective Awakening Why spiritual transformation must move into community and collective confrontation with our participation in destructive systems.16:27 - The Bronze Age Mirror: History as Teacher Ancestral threads from Anatolia through Bronze Age collapse. Finding the original instructions before kingdoms and empire.28:28 - The Problem with Spiritual Shopping Consumer consciousness in ceremony, fetishization, and the “not-enoughness” that keeps us from simply being.37:30 - Embodied Practice: From Elements to Unity Trauma healing, elemental teachers, and finding your unique medicine rather than copying Indigenous precision.45:53 - The Dark Goddess & Real Community Dark nights, initiation, and moving from “unity consciousness” meditation to actual collaborative work with messy humans.49:35 - What’s Next & How to Engage Restoration of the Western Soul program, Substack writings, and invitation to build community together.connect with us: behuman.love Restoration of the Western Soul is a 12 week course. Find it and more on our site. Get full access to BeHuman.Love at behumanlove.substack.com/subscribe