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A Secret Romance of Unknowns
People who thought they knew better threw these very clear warnings out of the window long ago. In fact we not only discard them: we think we’re smart if we make a mockery of them… This means scientists and philosophers thousands of years ago already appreciated what most of their modern counterparts no longer have a clue about, which is that facts are part of a far vaster process. The real purpose of searching after facts is not so that we can manipulate the world to our advantage, but so that our own awareness can be transformed….
You could say this is crazy: what’s Peter Kingsley talking about? …I’m talking about the migration of birds. I’m talking about the same sort of intelligence that will have birds migrating amazing distances, for tens of thousands of miles. This is natural intelligence. This is the intelligence of life on earth. And this is also the intelligence of life on earth that will bring a civilization like our own into existence.
Originally the poet’s song was quite simply a journey into another world: a world where the past and future are as accessible and real as the present. And his journey was his song. Those were the times when the poet was a magician, a shaman.
— Peter Kingsley
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In the Andes and valleys of the Quechua tradition, the health and well-being of a person…
