Friday, February 15, 2013

"On Magic, Shamanism, and Listening"

"Cosmic Unconscious" by Gary Abrams
The Collective Unconscious of C.G. Jung
by Bonnie Bright

.... if we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.  It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly. - Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

"Our ancestors had far more contact with magic. They lived life closer to nature, a force larger than life. They saw themselves as an intrinsic part of a pattern that happened around them and to them and in them and through them, an ongoing dialogue with equals. Rather than placing themselves above the objects we see as inanimate, everything they saw and experienced in the physical world was endowed with the life force of something akin to a brother, sister, father, or grandmother." Read more.