(16 - 31 March, 2008)
16 Mar 2008: The shamanic experience
The shamanic experience is important for us, members of modern urban societies,
not just because it could be exciting or fun to become a shaman. The shamanic
experience is deadly important because our lack of appropriate means to
reconnect ourselves with the Spirit is causing a continual process of
self-destruction, for us as individuals and as a species.
Victor Sanchez "The Toltec Path of Recapitulation. Healing Your
Past to free Your Soul"
18 Mar 2008: "Every day love the earth."
I want to belong to a tribe that says,"Every day love the earth.
Every day stroke it and admire it and tell it how beautiful it is. Go
to nature for inspiration or peace or answers, but most important, go
to love it. Don't just love it theoretically or intellectually. Love it
personally. Love this rock and this miniature fir tree and this ice floe.
Love it with aching and tears".
Ruth Baetz "Wild Communion"
19 Mar 2008: Spiritual practice and wisdom traditions
Spiritual practice and wisdom traditions teach us that the function of
the life's journey is to shed the masks and demands of ego and social
pressure so the soul can emerge and live an authentic life. This is called
transformation.
Illness, loss, ordeal are classic means through which this process is
entered or achieved. Illness breaks us down to do the inner work we are
not willing or able to do otherwise. then the rigour and difficulty of
the healing journey cracks our armour further; one way or another, disease,
mental anguish, loss are inextricably woven into the scenario.
Deena Metzger "Tree: Essays and Pieces"
20 Mar 2008: Tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm
Just as the tumultuous chaos of a thunderstorm brings a nurturing rain
that allows life to flourish, so too in human affairs times of advancement
are preceded by times of disorder.
Success comes to those who can weather the storm.
I CHING no. 3
25 Mar 2008: In cultures where there is no feminine deity...
In cultures where there is no feminine deity, there is no mention of the
idea that the mother who carries a child is herself carried by the Great
Mother. In such cultures the human mother gets burdened with the expectation
that she should "do it all", and she gets blamed when it "all
goes wrong."
Michael Mead "Men and the Water of Life"
26 March 2008: "You ought not to attempt to cure the body without
the soul."
"You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul. ...
For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body,
that physicians separate the soul from the body."
Plato
27 Mar 2008: Fate
Fate plays a crucial role in most dark nights, and it pays to have respect
for the role of fate in our lives. We are not entirely in charge. Sometimes
it may be our task to cooperate with signs of our destiny, even when we
would rather move in a different direction.
Thomas Moore "Dark Nights of the Soul"
28 Mar 2008: The birth of the human heart
Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the
human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience
of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen
you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart.
John O'Donohue "Anan Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
31 Mar 2008: Quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement defies all our notions of common sense. When you
entangle a pair of particles by letting them interact, all the information
about those two particles-their size, their momentum, their electrical
charge or whatever-no longer resides on one or the other, it lives in
both of them, which means they can continue to affect each other no matter
how far apart they are. Even if you send one of an entangled pair of particles
to the other side of the universe, you can still tweak that particle's
properties instantaneously by tweaking the particle you hold in your hand.
It is almost like having a remote control for the universe.
Michael Brooks "Quantum Entanglement"
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