Recommended Practices
These are companion practices that beautifully support your soul's progression through Mystery School. Require additional fees.
Movement
Practices like yoga, dance, walking in nature, or any somatic movement done with presence, help metabolize the Mystery School journey. Megan will be suggesting class types at Perennial as we move through the Gates and 12 months. In addition to yoga at Perennial, every other Thursday evening at Perennial-Fitchburg, Carrie (ZaZa) Branovan leads a Movement Medicine class. This is a potent way to stir the soul and stay attuned to the spiral path.
Grief Work
Making grief work a companion on your Threshold journey will invite honest descent, soften defenses, deepen presence, and clear the way for soul to speak. Shandra Bauer offers monthly grief and loss circles at both Perennial locations. She is a certified Mindful Grieving Facilitator and has trained with one of the voices of Threshold Mystery School - Francis Weller.
Astrology Reading
Your soul map is written in the stars. Vedic astrologer, Souvik Dutta, can offer you a natal or transit reading that illuminates your path. We’re happy to connect you with Souvik for a reading.
Plant Medicine
Sacred plant medicines can serve as profound allies on the inward path. For those called to explore this dimension, we can connect you with a trusted plant medicine guide rooted in reverence and integrity. This work is always optional, always personal, and never taken lightly.
Recommended Reading
These are the recommended book titles of the seven voices of Threshold Mystery School.
They are available for sale at Perennial - Fitchburg.
Francis Weller – The Wild Edge of Sorrow
A sacred companion to Gate One: The Space Between Stories and Gate Three: The Shadow and the Exile, Weller reframes grief not as something to overcome, but as a deep initiation into soul. Drawing from ritual, ancestral wisdom, and deep ecology, he invites us to see sorrow as a communal, archetypal threshold, one we must walk with reverence, not resistance. This book makes clear that grief is not personal pathology, but sacred labor.
Key Gates: Gate 1, Gate 3
Ken Wilber – A Theory of Everything
This highly accessible book introduces Wilber’s Integral framework, uniting psychology, spirituality, evolution, and culture in a map of human development. It supports Gate Two: Unmasking the Identity by helping us see identity as something that evolves across stages and structures, and deepens Gate Five: Integration and the Remembering by offering tools for holding paradox, shadow, and growth in a coherent whole. Those seeking a more in-depth psychological application can turn to Integral Psychology, which supports deeper excavation during Gate Two and advanced integration during Gate Five.
Key Gates: Gate 2, Gate 5
Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run With the Wolves
This mythic classic spans the entire spiral but resonates most deeply with Gate Three: The Shadow and the Exile and Gate Four: Longing and the Sacred Ache. Through story, archetype, and deep feminine wisdom, Estés guides us into the terrain of buried instincts, exiled truths, and the wild self. Each tale is a portal to soul retrieval, especially for those whose stories were shaped by cultural suppression or inner division.
Key Gates: Gate 3, Gate 4, Gate 6
Matt Licata – A Healing Space: Befriending Ourselves in Difficult Times
Gentle and poetic, this book is a balm for the liminal terrain of Gate One and Gate Three, helping readers stay present with pain, confusion, and longing. Licata blends depth psychology with spiritual presence, showing us how to meet suffering not as an obstacle, but as sacred ground. His work also gently supports Gate Five, offering a language of integration rooted in compassion.
Key Gates: Gate 1, Gate 3, Gate 5
Toko-pa Turner – Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
Turner speaks directly to the ache at the center of Gate Four: Longing and the Sacred Ache, while also illuminating the identity unraveling of Gate Two and gesturing toward the visioning of Gate Six: Living The Soul's Expression. She writes of exile not as misfortune but as the sacred birthplace of soul. This book is a reclamation of instinct, intuition, dreamwork, and feminine wholeness.
Key Gates: Gate 2, Gate 4, Gate 6
Cynthia Bourgeault – The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart
If Threshold Mystery School has a spiritual blueprint, this is it. Bourgeault lays out the contemplative Wisdom path with clarity and grace, touching nearly every gate of the Mystery School. From the loosening of structures in Gate One, to the surrendering of ego in Gate Two, to the heart-centered integration of Gate Five, and the living birth of Gate Six, her work is practical, mystical, embodied, and fierce.
Key Gates: Gate 1, Gate 2, Gate 4, Gate 5, Gate 6
Ram Dass – Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
This devotional work of soul remembrance mirrors the entire Threshold spiral. It speaks to the unraveling of old identity (Gate One and Two), the ache for divine union (Gate Four), the integration of presence and paradox (Gate Five), and the emergence of a love-centered way of being (Gate Six). More than a teaching, this book is a transmission.
Key Gates: All Six Gates, especially 1, 4, 5, 6