a Ritually-Oriented Movement
The Soft Rebellion Commons—a growing archive of reflections, resources, and quiet disruptions. Here, we gather the wisdom of those practicing subtle resistance and rooted transformation. This is not rebellion for the spotlight, but for the soil—for the slow, persistent work of reimagining how we live, relate, and reclaim.
Soft Rebellion: The Mycelial Uprising is the first pulse in a nine-part series exploring the quiet, subversive strategies of soft rebellion. This opening piece lays the underground architecture for what follows—a rebellion that spreads not through spectacle, but through subtle, persistent entanglement. Rooted in the wisdom of mycelium and the resilience of ecosystems, it invites you to move beneath the surface, where change takes root in the dark. The rest of the journey unfurls below.
March 1, 2025
Explore writings, ideas, and strategies that honor the intelligence of the unseen and the power of the collective underground.
Disinformation thrives on urgency and spectacle, on the frantic impulse to react. Soft rebellion slows down. It moves at the pace of trust, at the pace of deep listening.
To rewild democracy through ritual is to summon the wild forces to compost power, subdue greed, and return equanimity to the land—because true power is not owned, it is shared.
To rewild democracy through ritual is to summon the wild forces to compost power, subdue greed, and return equanimity to the land—because true power is not owned, it is shared.
Authoritarian regimes expect rebellion to have a center, a name, a face. It craves an enemy it can indict, a movement it can infiltrate, a leader it can make into a martyr or a warning. It does not know what to do with the mycelial, the rhizomatic, the soft and spreading.
The machine lurches forward, a relentless tide of speed and consumption, grinding the world into fragments beneath its ceaseless gears. But I step out of its current. I pause. I let stillness root me like an ancient tree, a quiet act of defiance against the churn of capitalism. In these moments of deep listening, rebellion takes root—not in haste, but in the slow, steady pulse of a world refusing to be devoured.
In capturing the countless expressions of Disobedient Joy, I am delighted to share that there is an abundance of moments, both past and present, to offer you.
Let this be a balm.
But a sanctuary is more than a house for an altar, its table dressed in sacred objects. It is a threshold, a breathing membrane between worlds—a force of resistance, a mycelial uprising against the enclosures of empire.
Let us not give oxygen to the fray of last night’s broadsheet of lies and hypocrisies. Instead let’s do something entirely different.
Soft rebellion is not passive. It is insurgent, but in a way that cannot be easily named or neutralized. It moves in whispers, in laughter, in unnoticed refusals. It weaves a world beneath the one being forced upon us—a world that, one day, will break through the cracks and bloom.
To rewild democracy through ritual is to summon the wild forces to compost power, subdue greed, and return equanimity to the land—because true power is not owned, it is shared.
Shannon is a dedicated animist and ritualist, helping others achieve clarity, connection and rootedness through the exploration of liminal landscapes of the seen and unseen. Through heart-centered ritual aimed at re-establishing balance and personal sovereignty, her work is found at the intersection of dream midwifery, oracular mediumship, ritual and ancestral reverence.
She lives on the historic lands of the Creek/Muskogee Peoples in Athens, Ga. Her recent and older people of blood and bone hail from the England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, West Africa and Cherokee and Kaskaskia/Illini nations.
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