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Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.
“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about. Connecti
... See moreBeyond the Mythteller there is only the story—the story you are living, the story you are leaving, and the story you yearn to be.
Lara Vesta • Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal & Rebirth
Through psychospiritual adventure, the adolescent comes to know what she was born to do, what gift she possesses to bring to the world, what sacred quality lives in her heart, and how she might arrive at her own unique way of loving and belonging.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
The archetypal qualities of the Alchemist reveal her to be a mistress of transformation: she’s not afraid to burn things back to the bare bones to expose what lies beneath. She’s both a visionary and a catalyst for the irreversible changes she conjures into being; in effect, she reimagines, and so recreates, the world.
Sharon Blackie • Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
Taken symbolically, alchemy is about turning the lower, primitive aspects of the self into a purified state; to illuminate the darkness with a sense of value or meaning, making conscious what is unconscious. This becoming whole is the process Jung called individuation, which is what we’re doing with dreamwork and belonging.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
I longed for indigenous, earth-centred practices, which put dreaming back into the hands of the people.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Cultivate a sense of mystery. I think, as women grow older, that we miss mystery and we miss magic. But deep down, part of us knows that mystery still exists, and that it’s not out of reach. The part of us that can’t sleep properly when the moon is full, that stands on the seashore at sunrise, singing to seals. The part of us that yearns to set off... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • A manifesto for thriving at midlife
This is the work I am calling female shamanism, a gradual mastery of oneself, and a healing or recovery from the chronic dis-ease of our time. Once a woman has done the work of re-membering herself, she is much more able to change the world effectively.
Vicki Noble • Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World
Another useful way to speak of soul is as story. Psychologist Jean Houston, for example, speaks of the larger story each person is born to live. This larger story — much deeper than your prosaic personal history — expresses the ultimate meaning of your life, its true significance, in the same way a myth communicates truth or gnosis. To be living th
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