Sublime

Like astronomers who can peer into the history of the universe with powerful telescopes, when we listen to the ancient myths we are encountering the human consciousness just beginning to awaken, and as it awakens it asks: Why are we here? Where did this world come from? Who or what is responsible for the bison so carefully and lovingly portrayed on

Europe, it was only with the arrival of the Roman empire and Christianity that the magic of stones, lakes, and winds was silenced and the art of following your inner authority was forgotten, all replaced by a distant god in the sky and a handful of cloaked men who claimed to be his only true spokesmen.

l’analyse de Spinoza me semble très juste. En quelques mots, ce que nous apprennent les connaissances historiques et archéologiques actuelles, c’est que la religion première et universelle de l’humanité est une sorte d’animisme : Homo sapiens considérait que la nature entière était habitée par des forces et des esprits. Un personnage, que l’on

In Laviaja, “god” was the sum total of the natural history of a place, known and unknown, integrated over time.

WE HAVE SEEN how the Druids emerge out of the mists of prehistory as possibly the proto-Druidic builders of stone circles, until they enter written history as the Druids of the classical authors, flourishing for as long perhaps as a thousand years, until in the sixth century they seem to disappear as Christianity becomes the sole religion.

If all books on Druidry and all its current practitioners were to be destroyed, it would still survive to appear again in some form at some time and in some place. Such things are hard for materialist historians to understand.

MOYERS: In all of these journeys of mythology, there’s a place everyone wishes to find. The Buddhists talk of Nirvana, and Jesus talks of peace, of the mansion with many rooms. Is that typical of the hero’s journey—that there’s a place to find? CAMPBELL: The place to find is within yourself. I learned a little about this in athletics. The athlete