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Facing the unknown – By Carina & Kate

 
What does ‘facing the unknown’ mean? Based on our quite different sets of experiences Kate and I dissected that question, dove into an exploration of unknown situations, and provide some clear examples of how we deal with the unknown.
 
Kate is sharing about her pull towards new experiences and the changes that happened for her because she follows these calls. To follow her dreams she has to step out of her comfort zone regularly. As situations keep working out she has developed a trust in life – not a blind trust, or a trust that everything will always go smoothly and easily – often it doesn’t – but a trust that the impulses she feels are taking her towards a direction which is aligned with Nature’s ways because the impulses are Nature flowing through her. It is a trust which can only be attained from experience and by making oneself vulnerable over and over.
   

I share why and how I came to the conclusion that there actually is no unknown because the moment we turn our attention towards something we receive information about it – whatever that is, internally and externally, not in some psychic way but simply because in Nature everything is connected and nourished by the same source. We are parts of the same stream of light, bathing in it, and when we turn our attention towards something an influx of signals happens by itself just like we can visually see the castle in the distance as soon as we turn our eyes towards it. All that is needed is the quiet space to perceive and recognise these signals consciously. We hope you enjoy this video and perhaps find it useful. Don’t miss the poetry below 🙂

Nature is constantly communicating to us what is coming...

Poems for you…

Returning home – by Carina

A being of powerful light
Impinged upon by foreign veins of fright –
What a confusing sight.
The blocks of lifestream – a terrible sight,
Techno-fixes – a futile fight.
 
The way we move – synthetic.
The way we eat – synthetic.
The way we work – synthetic.
The way we are safe – synthetic.
The way we exchange – synthetic.
The way we find pleasure – synthetic.
The way we love – synthetic.
 
Who we are – unknown.
Where we came from remains to be shown.
The skills of aliveness bestowed –
Forgotten over alien code.
The seed of wonder long sown
Only sprouts in fertile water and fiery stone.
 
Steps into the blinding brightness
Break all shackles,
Remove distorted kindness.
 
A superhuman emerges
That had been sleeping through surges
Of domination by ancient, formless soldiers
Now removed from our earthness.
 
What used to matter
Dissolves into nothing
As our sun burns away
Stuckness and fear.
 
Like a butterfly
That re-found his wings
We take off into a world
Of colour and magic, where silence sings.
Dark forests – by Kate
 

In the dark high forests
Owls call out
Leaves crunching
As your footsteps
In the eerie silence
Of no answers
Meander in different ways
Which way to go?

Blackness in all directions
Your feet stop
As though surrendering
To the fate of the unknown
Your eyes scan
Sensing what is enshrouded
In this darkness

Pillars of trees
As science upholds law
Art an abstract truth
Coiling its way through
The deepest recesses
Of the mysterious fabric 
That is black matter
Where form
Folds into the formless

In that space
Infinity sees
It hears, it feels, it senses
Filling the parts
That have not yet been reached
As you
In the gaps
Of knowing and not knowing
Rebirths
In each moment

An etheric force
Whispering to you
Where silence can only hear
A movement that propels you
Breaking you back
Through the surface
Of earthly terrain
Like a child taking its first breath

The canopy of trees above you
Chatter in excitement
In the winds of direction
That carry you
This way they say

The sun rises
Rays of incandescent colour
Illuminating form
Your feet find the way
Out of the now known confines
Of the wooded territory 
To meet distant horizons
Where another dark forest
Awaits your discovery

9 thoughts on “Facing the unknown – By Carina & Kate”

  2. Leanda

    Beautiful, Kate and Carina… Carina and Kate… your unique experiences of the unknown, the stunning nature locations from which you filmed, your presence and the seamless fluidity of videography. Warmest hugs for you both and Thank You!! xx

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  4. Nicole

    What an inviting Video, so many details in it, just to name two, the wonderful shadows dancing on the Tipi wall, the sun rays showering Kate. Such smooth changes from Kate to Carina, Carina to Kate, pronouncing, underlining the spoken words. Truly beautiful, I enjoyed every moment of the unknown ;o), thank you!

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  5. An

    Your recording is full of music (your voices -nature and other sounds who I can’t describe by words) . So nice to watch and hear ☀️. The sun is always present also in darker parts of live. Thank you so much for sharing your own experiences.

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    1. Kate

      Hi An, sorry just seen this. Thank you so much for your lovely comment! I agree the sun is always present 🙂 Lots of love ❤️ xxx

      Reply

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Carina Ramm

Carina was the original founder of SunBeings who approached Kate to do the design for the platform. In the 3.5 years of working together, a friendship blossomed, and creative ideas arose between the two of them that has helped build what SunBeings has the potential to grow into.

Since December 2025, Carina has left to move onto engaging with the world in other ways, but we cannot forget the legacy she has left behind – SunBeings wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for her!

Her dedication, passion and knowledge was very admirable. She managed to research and write summaries for nearly 500 ethical businesses! She brought further to light how we can live with less dependency on money and banking systems, how we can use gift economies, a new donation model, what real ethics aligned with nature is, the true histories of this planet and more.

Carina has lived for many years without a bank account or phone, engaged very minimally with financial systems, travelled to many parts of the world, and lived in deep trust and communion with herself and nature to receive what it is she needs. She has contributed many posts onto the blog inspiring others with her experiences and findings.

You won’t be forgotten Carina! We hope to continue what you have started.

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Owen Hanner

Owen is Kate’s partner and a grounded presence behind SunBeings. Both highly creative and logical, with a gift for words, an eye for beauty, and an artistic soul. With his keen eye and a good overview of what’s in alignment, Owen gives feedback, helps with writing and streamlines the content.

He is a gifted musician who can play many instruments, often capturing those who happen to come across his live, dynamic improvisations, and the magic that happens when he gets together with other musicians. A treat for the ears and those who are willing to dream – which fulfils his sense of purpose as his music contains messages of his dream of the new world. Owen’s music has often been his key to opening doors in his life… including in bringing Kate to him. He has had his music included in some of the SunBeings videos.

As a video editor, he is excellent at creating dreamy worlds bursting with freedom, colour and natures dance through his videos he attaches with his music.

Highly creative at whatever he applies himself to, he leans towards creating complex layers to his creative projects with a high attention to detail, that reveals more subtleties when one looks deeper. It reflects his feeling and sensitivity for the intricacies in life.

Owen has a deep sense of love and beauty and lives in deep communion with it. With that, Kate and Owen share an adventurous life together that has provided a driving spark behind SunBeings. They have dived deep into exploring what following nature and a new earth looks like… this can be both a painful and joyful process, and one of deep growth, that helps to ignite this platform. Thank you to Owen for the flame and loving support!

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Kate Priestley

Kate is an original co-founder and the current coordinator of SunBeings providing much of the foundation and is the designer. Bouncing around with creative ideas, listening to others’ ideas, she has a way to ground them into the physical.

She is a passionate multi-disciplinary creative, and she treats this platform as a creative outlet, to make a space where people can commune and share themselves. Kate loves to nurture others’ gifts and help bring them out into the world. She likes to share the good and the innovative and has a natural passion for community.

An adventurous and playful spirit who likes to push the usual boundaries of the known. Through answering nature’s calls, she has found life to reward her in ways often very unexpected. Discomforts and challenges are often met, but they provide doorways into her own understanding of herself and life – they become something else in her eyes. As a storyteller, she is enthusiastic about sharing her experiences with others in case it may benefit another.

She also is a painter, illustrator and photographer. Her works are often highly expressive with an explosion of colour and play.

Kate has long been interested in projects that bring about change or have a positive impact on the world. Since a young age, she has liked to combine art and social engagement. Now all her interests come together in running SunBeings, and growing its community platform for all of us.

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Nixi “No fixed thing” Cole

Coordinator, Coach, Creative and Champion of whole hearted projects and creatives. Nixi offers her gifts as a writer, editor, group holder, artist and art curator. She also loves being in a garden and growing things.

Nixi has a passion and strength for recognising and nurturing gifts in people, places and projects. She is empathic, intuitive, enthusiastic and dynamic in nature, naturally uplifting and energising in many of her offerings. Making connections across the physical and non-physical and encouraging our full and true expression.

Wonderful at coaching, mentoring and holding a safe space, she is gifted in seeing and expanding possibilities with a great sense of joy, play and creativity that pushes on our usual boundaries of imagination.

She has been helping behind the scenes at SunBeings for a little while supporting Kate and Owen and the wider field of the platform and its potentials, coming up with fun ideas, gently questioning, feeling and finding possibilities.

She loves playing with words, pens and fabric and hopes some of this will find its way on to SunBeings offerings too.

Nixi has a free and bright spirit, with extremely sensitive sensors for all subtleties of life. She is connected to the vastness of the universe and yet deeply grounded and anchored in nature. She moves fluidly between energetic, emotional and practical levels, integrating it all with humility and humour.

Nixi is full of magic, joy and love, while also not scared to sense and feel what’s uncomfortable, painful, or unfamiliar. Her curious and listening nature have carried her to many places and experiences and she has been nomadic for over two years.

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