The task of the shaman is to set free the energy bound in our stories, in our wounds, and to transform this energy into power and compassion within us, so that we may reclaim our own souls.
– Dr. Alberto Villoldo
Reclamation of the soul.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
The Angel of Wildness.
May the Angel of Wildness disturb the places where your life is domesticated and safe, take you to territories of true otherness, where all that is awkward in you can fall into rhythm.
~ John O`Donahue
What does it mean to be indigenous?
The core of indigeneity is to be actually from a place, to be of a place, to belong to a place. It is for one’s identity to draw from deep relationships to community, ancestors, plants, animals, and the land. It is to be embedded and inseparable, not just as a concept, but as an ongoing experience lived through ceremonies, social relationships, and technologies of giving and receiving to the other beings of nature, both visible and unseen. It is to be at home again, not in a home-as-box, but at home in the world.
Stopping.
Many of us don’t allow ourselves to be relaxed. Why do we always try to run and run, even while having our breakfast, while having our lunch, while walking, while sitting? There’s something pushing and pulling us all the time. We make ourselves busy in the hopes of having happiness in the future. In the sutra “Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone,” the Buddha said clearly, “Don’t get caught in the past, because the past is gone. Don’t get upset about the future, because the future is not yet here. There is only one moment for you to be alive, and that is the present moment. Go back to the present moment and live this moment deeply, and you’ll be free.”
How do we liberate ourselves in order to really be in the here and the now? Buddhist meditation offers the practice of stopping. Stopping is very important, because we’ve been running all our lives, and also in our previous lives. Our ancestors, our grandfather, our grandmother were running, and now they continue to run in us. If we don’t practice, our children will carry us in them and continue to run in the future.
– Thich Nhat Hanh, in “The Moment is Perfect”.
New Moon– August 14, 2015
The shamans believe that long ago, in the invisible world,
the blueprint of creation was drawn. Chaos was returned to order,
into the cosmos, through the actions of Earthkeepers who were
able to dream new worlds into being.
the blueprint of creation was drawn. Chaos was returned to order,
into the cosmos, through the actions of Earthkeepers who were
able to dream new worlds into being.
—Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
Necessary darkness.
I’d like to be rid of this darkness. To unwrap the cocoon. Get busy… But I have the sense lurking inside that there’s a mystery unfolding in the darkness that can’t come any other way.
–Sue Monk Kidd
The necessary power of imagination.
For humans to have a responsible relationship to the world, they must imagine their places in it.
— Wendell Berry
Everything is connected.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
–John Muir
July 31, 2015 Blue Moon
Seeing the moon everywhere.
