Orion Pahl: What Life's Always Been Doing

Empowered Human Academy

Today’s guest is someone who’s very dear to us—a frequent collaborator who’s filmed the anniversary videos that we make every year. We’ve shared some beautiful moments in some beautiful places over the years, and today’s episode feels like an extension of one of our many heart-expanding conversations—Joshua Tree, the Rocky Mountains, the California redwoods, and now here, with you. Orion Pahl identifies as an artist, space-holder, and healer. As a documentary filmmaker, Orion is currently exploring themes like cultural ideals, feelings, and rituals surrounding death. His most recent film, Bury Me At Taylor Hollow, won Best Tennessee Short at the Nashville Film Festival.

Throughout this conversation we discuss the origin of identity, staying both grounded and adaptable in the midst of growth, and reframing grief as healing energy. In many ways, this hour with Orion is an exploration of consciousness waking up to itself. Consciousness in suspension, curiosity, and participatory evolution. Going off the grid to see what we might find—like exploring the back roads on your way home. Time with Orion is an expansive place to land, and we hope it might be an invitation to lean into your own becoming and growth.

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Keep the conversation going...

Table Question: What's a recently discovered piece of self-knowledge that felt like a returning, a coming home?

Journal Prompt: How do I learn to be who I am?

Action Step: Write the mantra “My heart is good” in a place you can see it this week.

View the printable worksheet on Google Docs

Further exploration:

Follow Orion on Instagram: @orionpahl

Learn more about Orion’s work: orionpahl.com

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

This is a production of Lightward, Inc.