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Faith In Our Own Mysteries
Where there are no forms and ceremonies, rites in which they can express their souls, people become moody and caught in conflicts.
– Carl Gustav Jung,
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….Insight derives from images more than it does from reasoning…
Light breaks on secret lots.
When logics die,
Truth jumps through the eye.
— Huston Smith
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As we so often find in ancient folklore, the Cailleach offers us a cyclical metaphor for life, one in which the energies of spring arrive again and again, nurtured by the deep retreat of winter. We are no longer accustomed to thinking in this way. Instead we are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while slowly losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth….
~ Katherine May
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…Persephone’s journey to Hades can therefore be seen as the beginning of a complex and profound movement by the female psyche into and towards life… This process is triggered not only and simply by the experience of the sexual act itself with Hades, for the reason of being “caught”, but becomes beyond evocative of an…
