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Finding The Way Back Home
“I found that the power of the landscape, the presence of the animals and the dynamic flow of living energy through the wild were working on me inwardly. They were calling back aspects of my own being that I had long neglected or forgotten and driving me to explore the inner realities in ways I had not dared to do before. And this was drawing me into the deep current that has run through many human cultures for tens of thousands of years — the natural connection between the animals, the rhythms and cycles of the Earth and the waking of the soul within each person.
The idea that finding inner relationship with the animals and the elemental life of nature can help us to open up the deeper levels of awareness that usually remain dormant in everyday life, has become foreign in the West.
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We often associate the word “mystical”with something vague and uncertain, with cloudy intimations that dissolve in the common light of the everyday. I can only say, in all honesty: that has not been my own experience. The reality of a greater dimension to life rose up, as immediate, immense and unmistakable as the rising of the whale and the pungent breath of its life from the deep…
I began to realize consciously that my life, like that of so many others, was founded on the sense of separation from the rest of life, that it was full of…
