I’ve been writing a lot about shamanism lately, for a reason. I’ve been reading a lot about shamanism lately, and animism, too. And the more I read, yes, the more I realize, we need this desperately now. This is what we are wired for. This is how our brains actually function. Not having this is […]
I have spent way too much of my life feeling like a fish in a rainforest. There’s plenty of water around, but you can’t swim in it, and Don’t Even Ask about breathing. You, too? So many people. Eventually it all starts to make a kind of sense, but … not all that much, to
I recently mentioned that the Veil between realities is something we live with every day. We can choose the Materialist world or the Imaginal world, and the way we treat the world around us is the key to which one we end up in. No, really. I’m totally serious, here. This is my serious face.
Give thanks for your wounds, they’re where you had to grow. Leonard Cohen says the cracks are where the light gets in. Same sort of idea, really. The Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold and lacquer is a celebration of this idea as well. Celebrate your broken places, and your healing, too, of course.
I write a lot about how science and “psience” are strange bedfellows. It’s not that we don’t like science over here – we do! Very much! However … science tends to see a lot of things as black-and-white issues, one way or another, right or wrong, sci-way or high-way. And it gets a little old
Air hasn’t always just been just the stuff that surrounds us that we have to breathe. In ancient Greece, Air was called the Anima, before that word got dumbed down to mean the interiority of our being-ness, totally separate and individual and un-connected to anything else around us. Even the Bible acknowledges, multiple times actually,
The Language of God A particularly dear friend had an insight for me in a recent deep and wide-ranging conversation. I’m used to it – every time we get together we tend to serve as sparks for each others’ thought processes. I wouldn’t trade that kind of kinship and understanding for all the anything in
I’ve been reading and thinking about the Pyramids. You know the ones, pointy, crumbling, surrounded by desert, associated with dead kings and such, Yeah, those pyramids. Valley of the Kings type pyramids. Scientists, archaeologists, engineers, architects, mystics, Egyptologists, and crackpots have been trying to figure out for literally centuries, how they did that. How the
My dad used to have a badass ability that kind of drove me nuts, even as I envied it. Dude could melt into the scenery like nobody was there. I swear I spent days of my life just looking for him in the woods, and I would walk right by him over and over and
How arrogant are we? Well, I’ll tell ya. We are so arrogant that we think we have to “create sacred space” before we do any magical working, when we are actually living on the body of a Living Goddess. Western Magical Tradition is bound up so tightly with the Christian idea of the separation of
