Portals To The Beyond
The anorexic men I’m working with are really worse off than the women because they are such disembodied spirits, just barely on the ground. They are magnificent people, but they don’t want to be incarnated. I just keep trying to bring them into the body and into the feminine side where they can accept life.
Tarrytown: How can we grow toward maturity?
Woodman: I see the world as going through an initiation into puberty. People are no longer willing to live by thou-shalt-nots. We are coming into something completely new: a new femininity balanced by a new masculinity. The Goddess is coming to light. She is coming through the Earth and through our physical bodies, but we have to relate to her with our own individual consciousness. Otherwise we could be sucked back into unconscious matriarchy.
~ Marion Woodman
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Our bodies remember on a cellular level, how it is to be in divine union with something greater than ourselves… and when they do, they open, and align. We become portals to the great beyond.
~ from Julian Vayne about ‘My Magical Thing’, with Robin Villaverde
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If a person cannot imagine a creative self or deep soul within there can be no consistent source of inner peace or being centered in life. When we become aware of this deeper sense of self and soul, any event in life, inner or outer, can be opened to reveal meanings that otherwise would remain hidden. When the world has gone wrong, it is the deeper forms of knowledge and the wiser ways of being that are the inheritance of our souls that are most needed.
~ Michael Meade
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In our society people need to be helped to come back to earth. Men especially need to be reintroduced to the earth, to nature and to the intelligence in their own bodies. Lacking that we destroy the earth as well as our own physical vitality, which is what’s actually happening around us all the time.
We’ve just gotten so used to it we don’t notice that it’s picking up speed and increasing in scale by the day. Our creativity is poured into becoming more powerful and efficient in using the ‘resources’ of the earth as if these weren’t living beings we’re dealing with. We like to think everything’s dead except us because that way we can sidestep any guilt we might feel for treating it as if it is.
Somewhere we know the truth, though. Our bodies remember at some level that everything is alive and ensouled, but in our way of living it’s inconvenient to remember it. We were born into a culture of utility and our status and measure of our intelligence is based on how adept we are in not only practicing that system but adding to it. Our idea of intelligence is technical, having nothing to do with sensitivity, empathy or aesthetics.
In our patriarchal mindset men are supposed to understand how the world works and be good at operating within it. For that they need to be not only strategically smart, they need to know how to use things and people to advance their own interests. They can’t be too concerned with collateral damage or the suffering of strangers. It’s not hard to see the damage waiting for young boys in this system.
Not wanting to be incarnated seems strange until you think of how we are fenced off from nature in our culture. I grew up in the country with a lot of animals so I was shocked to meet intellectually brilliant people who had grown up in big cities who had an automatic uneasiness about the countryside and its processes. They imagined dangers that seemed very unlikely to me.
What is it about nature that is frightening to us? Is it the silence?
Living in a civilization that has become urbanized it has become common to lose touch with nature, but when we do it’s very hard to keep an intimacy with your own body. It becomes another machine and we treat it as such. We keep it fit on a schedule with machines and we force it to respond to challenges so that it will stay fit.
What’s missing here? I think it’s the spirit of enthusiastic play that children have. They’re not trying to stay fit, they’re simply en-joying the living, creative moment. Our physical being needs creative joy. Even as adults we need that.
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Volume five of my series Meditations on Living is now published on Amazon. If you read it, please leave a review.
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David Price has become one of my favorite writers once I discovered his work on the Medium site a few years ago. I’m amazed at how he continually is able to spark my consciousness with thoughts, ideas and observations of our world and the range of possibilities in the human experience. The best way to sum it up might be to say that through his words and images, Mr Price has a knack for providing rich sustenance for the human soul.
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Insightful and eloquent musings on the human condition
A regular contributor on Medium, David Price’s articles caught my attention a couple of years ago. Combined with stunning artwork — some of which is his own — and often wonderful quotes from celebrated sources, his daily submissions became a fixture with my morning coffee. He combines an almost poetic prose with razor-sharp insights into the state of humanity and the world we’ve created. Time and again I’ve been thoroughly impressed by his views of the state of things, both the good and the bad, views that will often follow me around all day. This book is a collection of a number of his articles, and I highly recommend it.
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This book encourages in the true sense of that word as no other I have known the creative process in oneself as spiritual necessity. David Price’s writing is beautifully alive, articulate, kind. The form is prose; the feel is poetic, flowing, metaphoric. There is not a dry line in it. I heartily recommend it to anyone who longs to crack the shell around their own creativity, to become more sensitive, creative, and alive themselves.
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There is something about your writing, an ineffable quality I can’t quite place. It’s brilliant.
— Shain Thomas
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