The Remembrance Codes is a sacred podcast for awakening souls, lightworkers, and cycle-breakers ready to reclaim their power and live in alignment with truth.
Hosted by Susan Sutherland, each episode weaves intuitive transmissions, energetic teachings, and poetic remembrance to guide you back to your soul’s knowing.
Whether you're navigating a spiritual awakening, reclaiming your voice, healing ancestral patterns, or dismantling false light - this space is for you. Here, we honor grief as a portal, softness as power, and sovereignty as your birthright.
Susan shares her walk - through the joy, through the mess, and how each step brings her home to herself.
Expect reflections on energetic sovereignty, the Christ frequency, multidimensional healing, and how to walk yourself home - breath by breath, choice by choice.
This is not content to consume. These are codes to remember.
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After a few months away from the microphone, I’m back—but not quite where I left off.
This episode is less of a summer recap and more of a reintroduction. Life has shifted, new ideas have found me, old ideas are being stretched, and I’m discovering that sometimes the most meaningful seasons of becoming happen when we stop trying so hard to produce something from them.
I’m sharing a little of where I find myself now and opening the door to what we’ll be exploring in the episodes ahead: process thought and a God who may be much more participatory than we imagine, motherhood and changing seasons, my return to school, the movement of The Living Gospel of Magdalene toward publication, and the questions about remembrance, possibility, and becoming that are reshaping the way I see almost everything.
I don’t know exactly where these conversations will take us—or even whether they’ll arrive neatly every week. That feels strangely appropriate.
Because this season isn’t about presenting what I’ve figured out. It’s about sharing what I’m encountering.
Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the Remembrance Codes. I'm Susan and it's been a minute. It's been months, actually. And when I decided to take a break, I have to admit something. I planned on still recording over the summer and maybe working with a podcast producer and having a backlog of beautifully produced podcast episodes for you when I returned. That didn't happen. Like, not even a little bit. And now I'm back. I'm not even using a microphone. This is just my computer recording. And that's okay.
Because what I did instead was I spent the summer being with my family and traveling and sitting outside and reading and thinking and not thinking and letting days happen without constantly asking myself what I needed to produce from them. I stopped having a list of things I was supposed to accomplish during my time off. And for maybe the second time ever, I rested and put down that need to produce without feeling guilt, which it turns out may have been one of the most productive things I could have done. Because I look at my life now, three months later, and so much has changed.
I mean, I even look different. My hair is past my chin, y'all. Now that is not three months' work, that is a year's worth of work. But I know in reflection that my desire to grow my hair out is because people kept saying, you haven't changed. And y'all, I have. And this three months is no different. Since I left you, I have taken a child to college for the first time and discovered this entirely new geography of a mother's heart. And I watched another child turn 16 and get her driver's license. And days, just days later, my baby became a teenager and now sometimes chooses to get in the car with his sister instead of me, in spite of me spending a decade listening to all of his words, which feels like a very specific form of betrayal that I was not adequately prepared for. I am experiencing my own change through their growth, through the change of these relationships. I traveled to South Africa and to Mauritius, and there are things I can't wait to share with you, but not today, because I think some of the experiences deserve their own space. I went to Colorado and to California to visit my friend Katriona. And somehow, y'all, at 48 years old, I became a college student again. That's a whole story, a big one. But right now, I am currently taking biology and American democracy. And soon I will be in public speaking and introduction to personal communications. And I got to send my family a first day of class picture, now accessorized
have continued to study process thought and the work of Alfred North Whitehead in a certificate course that I started in the spring, offered by Center for Process Studies. If you don't know who Whitehead is, you're not alone. I did not either. And I'm not going to turn this podcast into a philosophy course. I promise. But I think you will probably hear his name here because encountering his work has changed something in me and how I understand my own walk and my interpretation of it. There's a lot I could say as a summary for Whitehead's philosophy, and there will be time for that. But the simplest thing, the simplest way I can describe what has been moving in me is this. Whitehead understood reality as becoming. Everything is happening, everything is relating, everything inherits what has been and participates in what comes next. And I have found that incredibly freeing. But strangely, some of what I love most about Whitehead isn't his philosophy, which is complicated and hard to understand, to be quite honest. But I love him and how he lived as a thinker. He changed his mind, his thoughts developed, he contradicted himself, he kept stretching ideas, and he didn't always go back to tidy everything up so that the earlier white head perfectly agreed with the later white head. You can see his becoming. That we can encounter something new and be changed by it. And we can also encounter something again and meet it from an entirely new perspective because we have changed. That changing our minds doesn't necessarily mean we were fraudulent before, it means we're participating. He also had this incredible humility about his own ideas that I find deeply compelling. He wanted his thinking challenged. He expected it to be stretched. His philosophy was not meant to become another closed system that no one was allowed to touch. And maybe that's part of what this summer has done to me as well. I feel less interested in being finished or right, or even to know what is true beyond the experience of truth in this moment from my current capacity and ability to receive
it. And that has changed my relationship with something I've touched on a little bit here: the living gospel of Magdalene, which is a comprehensive transmission that I received after the one that I shared here on the podcast. Before I shared it, but I received it after that one came through. And for a long time, what I received through that experience felt incredibly precious to me. It still does. But if I'm being truthful, it also became heavy. What do I do with this? How do I steward it? How do I explain it? What does it mean to publish something like this? What am I claiming? What if someone misunderstands the work? What if someone misunderstands me? There was a weight that came from feeling responsible for it. Process thought has been helping me to hold that differently. I'm beginning to understand the living gospel less as something I have to carry correctly and more as something I get to participate with. And that work, that work changed me, y'all. Deeply. And now I am genuinely excited to let it move beyond me and see what happens when other people encounter it. And that gets to live its own relationship, its own becoming with them. So that book is now in the works with Atmosphere Press. And I will be sharing much more about that process here, what it has meant to receive it, what it means to wrestle with it, and what it means now to let something that was deeply transformative for me become available to other people. I don't need to control what it becomes for them, but I do get to participate in bringing it forward. And that feels very different and significantly lighter. And that's probably where I find myself right now, on this beautiful bridge between remembrance and becoming. Maybe I can have roots without having a blueprint. Maybe I can belong deeply to something and still encounter genuine possibility. Maybe becoming isn't a failure to remember correctly. Maybe becoming is what remembrance makes possible. So I suspect we are going to spend a little bit of time
there. So this episode is not an attempt to catch you up over what happened in the summer. It's a reintroduction. Because the person sitting here today isn't exactly the person who stepped away a few months ago. And I don't mean that dramatically or even figuratively. I mean it literally. Things have happened. I've encountered new ideas. My children have changed. My family has changed. I've changed. And so have you. That's what three months of being alive does. So, friends, it's nice to meet you again. I'm Susan. I'm a mother whose children suddenly seem determined to prove that they can live perfectly well without her constant companionship or car. I'm a 48-year-old college student currently learning biology and scientific methods and facts with dual-enrolled high school students, secretly yearning to be in the class about the topics presented as pseudoscience, like astrology and crystals and fortune telling. I am a woman studying a dead British mathematician and philosopher who has somehow made God feel bigger to me rather than smaller. I'm someone preparing to put a book into the world that I once wasn't sure I would ever share. I'm still asking questions about the divine and consciousness and experience and relationships and revelation and nature and choice and what it means to be human. I still don't have most of those answers. Actually, I may have less interest in having the answers than I did before. And I'm still here remembering, but I'm also becoming. So over the next however many episodes, I'm deliberately not saying weeks because school has taught me not to make promises to my calendar right now.
I want to bring you into some of what I've been sitting with, some of what I've been contemplating. We'll talk about Whitehead and process thought, but in human language, I want to explore what it might mean to imagine God as persuasive rather than coercive, what genuine choice might look like, and whether divine will has to mean that there is one predetermined path that we're supposed to discover. I want to talk about the living gospel and Mary Magdalene and what it has meant to move from receiving something to actually releasing it. I want to talk more about South Africa and encounters with the people and the animals abroad. I want to talk about nature and participation and intrinsic value and some of the questions even biology is stirring in me. I want to talk about motherhood as our children become increasingly themselves and the beauty and the grief of being needed differently. And I am sure we will wander into places I can't predict yet. Because apparently that's what we're doing now.
I don't know that episodes will come every single week. I'm giving myself permission not to turn this thing I love into some sort of obligation. So if you want to know when a new episode appears, make sure you have subscribed on your podcast channel or on YouTube to get a notification that a new episode is available.
And I think we will continue the invitation I had that I left you with. Not here is what I have figured out, but here is how I am encountering life. Here is how reality looks to me from within reality. Here is what I remember. Here is what I wonder. Here is what I'm becoming. And perhaps you can bring what you're remembering and becoming too. My biggest gap in this summer has been the correspondence from you who listen and say, Hey, I'm going through that too. Or wow, that made so much sense to me. Or yes, I have felt that way too. I've missed that sharing and I've missed that dialogue because believe it or not, I feel like this is a relationship. So I'm really glad to be back and I thank you for listening. See you soon.
