Magical Baptism

Philippe Charpentier

“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”

— Bishop Gregory of Nyssa,(330–395 C.E.)

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The mystics, the poets, the witches and the intuitive introverts, some depth psychologists and true artists, all the marginalised by our overly masculine and materialistic society, the ones staring into our forgotten Depths and bringing back to our unbalanced world the needed wisdom, are the healers and bringers of the new world.

….The simple truth is that every single civilization, including this western world, was brought into being from a sacred place to serve a sacred purpose. And when that purpose is forgotten, when its original alignment gets lost, when the fundamental balance and harmony of its existence become disrupted beyond a certain point, then nature has her way.’

~ Peter Kingsley, A story waiting to pierce You.

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“To be fully human is to be wild.

— Victoria Erickson

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.. we happen to live in a time which is the end of an era. The end of the five thousand years of what James Joyce has termed, ‘the nightmare.’ And the end of the twentieth century, a century of wars, tortures and massacres. As Thomas Berry…