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Within the Cave Something Pulses
Within the Cave Something Pulses is a collection of chthonic poetry charting a seasonal spelunking of the darkness, a wandering in the labyrinth, and a tender tending the dreamfires that emerge in the fruitful darkness.
What if we allied ourselves to the energies of the season?
What if we dove into the silent dark and welcomed the wholeness of who we are?
What labyrinth wisdoms await?
What dreams are a fire in the dark?
What if our shadow was an offering, and monsters were actually the secret password?
What emerges in your fruitful darkness?
The season is turning, both outside and within, and both personally and collectively. Autumn’s march toward the deep dark womb of winter invites an Underworld transformation. A cave comes beckoning. We embrace the dark to find renewal and our own sacred. We go to the cave for the descent into ourselves, to rest, to greet the wounds and monsters, but also uncover the shimmering treasures to bring back as gifts to the world as medicine.
What if we allied ourselves to the energies of the season?
What if we dove into the silent dark and welcomed the wholeness of who we are?
What labyrinth wisdoms await?
What dreams are a fire in the dark?
What if our shadow was an offering, and monsters were actually the secret password?
What emerges in your fruitful darkness?
The season is turning, both outside and within, and both personally and collectively. Autumn’s march toward the deep dark womb of winter invites an Underworld transformation. A cave comes beckoning. We embrace the dark to find renewal and our own sacred. We go to the cave for the descent into ourselves, to rest, to greet the wounds and monsters, but also uncover the shimmering treasures to bring back as gifts to the world as medicine.
119 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2025
About the author
Ryan Van Lenning
13 books13 followersRyan Van Lenning, M.A., is author of One Bright and Real Caress, Trust the Ceremony, F*ck the Ceremony, Trust the Ceremony, From Inside These Wild Ones, An Ambitious Silence, Re-Membering: Poems of Earth and Soul, and a collection of forest haiku, High-Cooing Through the Seasons. His new collections Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Riverever will be released througout 2025-2026.
Ryan is the recipient of Toyon Literary Magazine's 2019 Jodi Stutz Poetry Award. His poetry appears in various poetry journals and in A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul by University Professors Press and Behind the Mask: 40 Quarantine Poems from Humboldt County. His articles appear in Earth Island Journal, Truthout, and Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects.
As Founder of Wild Nature Heart, Ryan supports people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging during this collective initiation. He is a teacher, ecotherapist, and wilderness rite-of-passage guide and lives among the forests and rivers of Northern California. He facilitates 6-week workshops such as Deep Belonging in the Great Turning, Write Your Wild River, and Earth Intimacies a couple times a year.
He has been an instructor of Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Environmental Ethics, a communications consultant, and an organizer for peace and justice organizations. In 2014, he hiked 500 miles through the Sierra Mountains.
"Bless Ryan Van Lenning for listening to the wild voices and bringing back the news for those who have lost their way. Bless him for reminding us of our original love affair with the earth and of what we know deep in our souls. His poems give wise counsel: let go of the debris, remember who you are, do not abandon your luminous thread." - Lorraine Anderson, Editor of Sisters of the Earth, and Eros & Earth.
Ryan is the recipient of Toyon Literary Magazine's 2019 Jodi Stutz Poetry Award. His poetry appears in various poetry journals and in A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul by University Professors Press and Behind the Mask: 40 Quarantine Poems from Humboldt County. His articles appear in Earth Island Journal, Truthout, and Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects.
As Founder of Wild Nature Heart, Ryan supports people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging during this collective initiation. He is a teacher, ecotherapist, and wilderness rite-of-passage guide and lives among the forests and rivers of Northern California. He facilitates 6-week workshops such as Deep Belonging in the Great Turning, Write Your Wild River, and Earth Intimacies a couple times a year.
He has been an instructor of Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Environmental Ethics, a communications consultant, and an organizer for peace and justice organizations. In 2014, he hiked 500 miles through the Sierra Mountains.
"Bless Ryan Van Lenning for listening to the wild voices and bringing back the news for those who have lost their way. Bless him for reminding us of our original love affair with the earth and of what we know deep in our souls. His poems give wise counsel: let go of the debris, remember who you are, do not abandon your luminous thread." - Lorraine Anderson, Editor of Sisters of the Earth, and Eros & Earth.
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