Leilani Kritzinger
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Leilani Kritzinger
Sometimes, she arrives in our lives, riding the back of trauma and trouble and heartbreak, like a kind of visitation or apparition, as though the Dark Woman has come to take you on a prolonged shamanic journey into your depths.
If we don’t understand her when she comes, if we aren’t aware of her power, if we don’t acknowledge her gifts, then when we
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Truth and knowledge lives in your body
Writing Feminist Life Together • Part 2 — Defense Mechanisms, Difficult Knowledge, & Heterosexual Relationships
How to generate heat within your body, from your belly, in times of excruciating and unending cold? Or how to douse for water in the depths of an ongoing drought? [These] very practical, bodied practices, not just bodied, but they're always about the body and its relation to the larger body of the world, or of the Earth.
Sophie Strand • Magic as Radical Embedding in Our Web of Relations
into the body and in the world and of it
Blind boy
God gave man the freedom of choice to go against God, and man must suffer the karmic consequences in order for the system to be truly perfect. It is only God going against God, then awakening and returning once again to God. As such, it’s merely a web of illusion. Only at the moment when suffering is the greatest are we totally lost in the experien
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In moments of extreme pain, physical or psychological, we become stitched to the present moment. It becomes impossible not to be radically present. We can no longer count on a future.
Sophie Strand • Chronic Pain Is Psychedelic
You see, this thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it’s running the shop. It’s a secondary organ; it’s a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body.
BillMoyers.com • Ep. 1: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘The Hero’s Adventure’
Of late, however, scientists have resurrected the name of an ancient goddess, Gaia, to express the idea of Earth as a living body on which we depend for life.
BillMoyers.com • Ep. 5: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘Love and the Goddess’
You ask yourself whether you lose touch with a feeling through the process. See, if you dissociate you lose touch with a feeling. You’re not feeling the pain of it anymore. When you add the other level, the pain is still there. It didn’t go away, you just added another plane to it. It’s a little different.