Sublime

You may be an exile of some sort, but you have sheltered your soul. There is an odd phenomenon that occurs when one keeps trying to fit and fails. Even though the outcast is driven away, she is at the same time driven right into the arms of her psychic and true kin, whether these be a course of study, an art form, or a group of people. It is worse

Margaret Wheatley’s work about biomimicry and mycelium magic.

Restorying Your Life

Some have said that my work constitutes “a newly emerging field.” I must say, with all due respect, that the essence of the work I’ve been given to do is from very old tradition. This kind of work does not fit restfully under the category of “emerging” anything. Thousands of people in every generation worldwide, mostly old ones who are often

The Jungian writer Polly Young-Eisendrath

I do not remember a time when I was a child when I felt as if I were in my element, when I felt at home in my skin. I lost it too soon. It was not stolen: I hid it away, so deeply and so cleverly that it took me decades to remember that I’d ever possessed it.

In fairy tales, the role of the stranger or the outcast is usually played by the one who is most deeply connected to the knowing nature.