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Dance Like an Artist
With the shamanic journey practice you go into the realm where the soul’s stories are made….Call it inspiration, but you are a participant is a realm of muses, gods, ancestors, daimons, nature spirits. Jung, in his own initiatory descents said he learned from Philemon and Salome that he was not the source of the figures he encountered in the Underworld. He had a shaman’s level of devotion to working and integrating the numinous images and events He encountered. “I took care to try to understand every single image…& above all, to realize them in actual life.”
— C. Mikkal Smith
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It is much easier to admire a great personality and become a pupil or follower of a guru or a religious prophet, or an admirer of a big, official personality. That is much easier than following your own star.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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“Don’t analyze! It’s a waste of time. Or, if you do, get in, get out, don’t spend too much time in there. You’ll turn into Freud. What a disaster!”
— Joni Mitchell
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I sometimes forget
that I was created for Joy.
My mind is too busy.
My heart is too heavy
for me to remember
that I have been
called to dance
the sacred dance of life.
