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In Margaret Murray's 1955 Presidential Address to the Folklore Society she stresses the importance of folklore:
"we are too near to events which will become history to realise what folklore underlies them. But folklore is a living thing, it is always with us, and therefore may have effect on even the greatest events of history. "[Murray, 1955: 266]
IF YOU have read my book Affirmations, you will recall that I described journeys I have taken up the tunnel of light into the spirit world.
Stuart Wilde • The Quickening
I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
Maggie Nelson • The Red Parts
“Ancestry” in our culture implies chromosomal connection; ancestors are those humans from whom I have inherited my body tissues. Biogenetics replaces the spirit world. In other societies an ancestor could be a tree, a bear, a salmon, a member of the dead, a spirit in a dream, a special spooky place. These may be addressed as “Ancestor” and an altar
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress. An Old Mortality, say rather an Immortality, with unwearied patience and faith making plain the image engraven in men’s bodies, the God of whom they are but defaced and leaning monuments.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
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