You’re not here to escape being human.
You’re here to live it — awake.

-Jim van der Tas

A large tree standing alone in a grassy field during sunrise with fog and a clear sky.

BIO / Jim van der Tas

You’re not here to escape being human. You’re here to celebrate it.

Much of spiritual work, often without meaning to, treats emotions, struggle, and desire as things to rise above.

That can bring relief — but it can also leave us subtly disconnected from life. What I work with points somewhere else: transformation doesn’t come from stepping away from experience, it comes from meeting it. Non-attachment can prevent contraction; inclusion is what allows real change.

My own inquiry began through non-duality and unfolded into a practical understanding of being human — how emotion, pressure, imagination, and relationship shape us. I draw from long-standing wisdom and alchemical traditions, not as beliefs to adopt, but as simple ways of staying present until life shows us what it’s been carrying. I don’t give answers to follow. I point, I listen, and I walk with you as remembering happens — so you can live fully, awake, and human, right here on this Earth.

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