Michelle Pellizzon
@mpl
Michelle Pellizzon
@mpl
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
Well, I heard they invented coffee so Sufi poets could stay awake all night having mystical experiences and writing poetry and now we just drink it to get through the day.
Why did humans evolve with religion, with the capacity to experience spiritual ecstasy, to deeply feel that there is this Whole? Because it was rewarded, it worked and continued. Why? Because of the Actuality. We need to grasp and grapple with our environment — its strange ways and our lack of ultimate control.
the best stories to tell are the ones that have been told over and over again, and the stories of competitive mimesis and of deification followed by scapegoating are the oldest and best of all