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A New Dawn?
“If we can stay in touch with ourselves, if we can find the connection to our deeper selves, we can find this deeper level of hope that truly should be called imagination. The idea depends upon the sense that in the depths of each person, there is a greater self and a core imagination that is truly the source of one’s life. We may have to suffer a time of surprising restriction. But the old idea was that freedom is actually the active, imaginative mind. And another old idea stated that the unimaginative mind is paralyzed by its own doubt. And if we refuse to feel the doubt and suffer the despair, and if we deny the feelings flooding through us and flooding through the world, we may not find that deeper place.
There comes a time when we must allow something timeless to touch us in order to truly change and move beyond our fixed attitudes and limited understanding of the mysteries of life. When it seems like all might end in disaster, it becomes a question of finding the deeper imagination of life, the enduring patterns and essential stories that reunite us to the pulse of nature and the heart of culture.”
- Michael Meade
The masks are slipping now. We start to see the character of those who hold the reins of government and finance. We suspected they didn’t care about the lives of others but it’s still a shock to see the proof so plainly. Money is God to these people. We…
