Our Frenzied Fidelity to Speed -- May We Approach Geologic Speed
DESCRIPTION
Modern life trains us to move faster. You must produce more, respond quicker and stay endlessly available. I give your soul permission to refuse this pace.
In Episode Six of the Winter Soul Care Series, Alexander Blue Feather invites you into a therapeutic, imaginal space to explore geological speed. This is the pace at which the soul actually heals, remembers, and transforms. Drawing from Francis Weller’s In the Absence of the Ordinary, this episode reframes slowness not as a metaphor, but as medicine.
You’ll explore the cost of our addiction to speed, the loss of intimacy with place and body, and why constant urgency leaves us spiritually exhausted. Through story, reflection, and grounded teaching, Alexander introduces three essential practices for restoring soul rhythm: patience, restraint, and reciprocity.
Geological speed moves in seasons, layers, and cycles. It values stillness, spaciousness, and reciprocal relationship with the living world. This episode offers a powerful counterbalance to modern frenzy, and a practical invitation to slow down, listen, and return to what matters most.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or spiritually tired, this episode offers a different way forward. One rooted in time, earth, and soul.
SUMMARY
In this sixth installment of the Winter Soul Care Series, Alexander Blue Feather explores geological speed—the natural pace of the soul—as a response to modern life’s relentless urgency. Framed as a therapeutic encounter, the episode invites listeners to consider how speed shapes our inner lives, disconnects us from the natural world, and diminishes our capacity for intimacy, grief, and meaning.
Drawing from Francis Weller’s teachings, Alexander names our cultural addiction to speed as a form of “frenzied fidelity,” where worth is measured by exhaustion and productivity. In contrast, geological speed unfolds slowly—through patience, seasonal rhythms, and deep reciprocal relationships with people, place, and the living world.
Through reflection, storytelling, and practical guidance, this episode offers geological speed not as an abstract idea, but as soul medicine—a way to restore depth, presence, and belonging in an accelerated world.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The soul does not operate on modern time.
It moves slowly, cyclically, and seasonally—like stone, soil, and weather.Speed creates spiritual disconnection.
Constant urgency thins our relationships with body, place, and other beings.Modern life equates busyness with worth.
Geological speed challenges this belief by valuing presence over productivity.Technology often replaces intimacy with efficiency.
Without sensory friction and embodied contact, meaning erodes.Slowness restores reciprocal rhythm.
True connection requires time, attention, and mutual exchange.Geological speed is an ancient memory in the body.
The rhythm of eons lives in our bones and instincts.Patience allows dignity to emerge.
It teaches us to listen, witness, and honor the interior life of others.Restraint is a soulful pause.
It interrupts compulsive motion and restores choice.Reciprocity reminds us we live in a gifting cosmos.
Life is sustained through exchange, gratitude, and mutual care.Not-doing is a radical practice.
Spaciousness is essential for soul repair and reorientation.Slowing down is not withdrawal—it’s reconnection.
Geological speed returns us to land, body, and belonging.
TAKE ACTION
Try This Soul Practice This Week:
Choose one afternoon this week to do nothing on purpose.
Sit on a porch, in a park, near water, or by a window.
Leave your phone behind or turn it off.
Notice what arises—restlessness, boredom, grief, relief, longing.
Pay attention to sounds, light, breath, and bodily sensation.
Later, write about what it felt like to slow down.
Gently observe the pace you inhabit most days.
Ask yourself: What changes when I move at the speed of stone?
Let this be an experiment, not a performance.
