About Us

Here at Origins, we see the potential in everyone. We want to be a catalyst for positive change and healing, and since our beginning, we’ve been driven by the same ideas we initially founded our Forest Temple upon: support, empowerment, progress, and spiritual development.

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Origins goes back to the roots of human spirituality. It was conceived over many years while trying to find peace, healing, and enlightenment.

" In nature is where we connect to the divine, find peace, and heal" - Chad Tibbitts

At the core of Origins are some of the 8,000+ year old beliefs of the Indigenous Sámi people of Scandinavia. The Sámi people (also spelled Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders.

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Traditional Sami religion was a type of polytheism. (See Sami deities.) There was some diversity due to the wide area that is Sápmi, allowing for the evolution of variations in beliefs and practices between tribes. The old beliefs are closely connected to the land, animism, and the supernatural. Sami spirituality is often characterized by pantheism, a strong emphasis on the importance of personal spirituality and its interconnection with one's own daily life, and a deep connection between the natural and spiritual "worlds". Among other roles, the Sami Shaman, or noaidi, enabled healing and ritual communication with the supernatural through the use of tools such as drums, chants, sacred objects and fly agaric. Some practices within the Old Sami religion included natural sacred sites such as mountains, springs, land formations, as well as man-made ones such as petroglyphs and labyrinths.  - Wikipedia

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"Embrace nature, embrace joy, embrace every moment you're alive! When you do, everything around you changes and the impossible is now possible". - Chad Tibbitts

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Learn more about our mission, our vision, and how we go about making the changes we want to see.