06/12/2026
For thousands of years, horses carried us through conquest and empire-building. What if they now hold the wisdom to lead us beyond it?
Join Linda Kohanov on July 17 in Sebastopol, CA for Chasing the Black Horse. This afternoon seminar marks the debut of key insights that will change your perspective on the history of civilization, organized violence, and authoritarian impulses. The presentation will include experiential activities and tools that not only offer hope for the future, but also introduce practical ways to change the tide.
Previous experience with, or even interest in, horses is not necessary to benefit from this life-enhancing perspective.
📍 Subud California, 234 Hutchins Ave, Sebastopol, CA
🗓 July 17, 2026 | Noon–5 PM
💲 $120 (includes drinks & light snacks)
You will learn:
▪️Why the same destructive patterns repeat themselves and always lead to the collapse of complex societies, leaving the toxic by-products of trauma in their wake.
▪️Why the primal fear men experienced at the dawn of animal domestication gave rise to the most destructive aspects of patriarchy.
▪️How this fear emerged when humans learned to control the breeding of large herbivores.
▪️How this long-hidden fear continues to inspire the rampant projection, lies, and abuse of both men and women in male dominated cultures and religions.
▪️How the vast majority of men are disempowered and exploited in conquest-oriented civilizations.
▪️How early humans employed counter-dominance strategies to rein in aggressive individuals and groups.
▪️Why egalitarianism was a choice that our distant ancestors actively and repeatedly made.
▪️Why the counter-dominance techniques used by early cultures eventually contributed to the rise of aggressive leaders, and why many of these same strategies in use today are ineffective.
▪️What new, in many cases counter-intuitive, techniques must be employed to ensure that men and women experience safety, fulfillment, mutual respect, and cooperation in life.
▪️How these “new” transformational strategies are based on the “lost keys of paradise” that horses model and inspire in us.
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