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Seeing Clearly

David Price
3 min readMay 17, 2021

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From Bill Gracia

This patriarchal nonsense of projecting of the inward reality of the Soul onto scripture, chosen land or people, religious institutions, leads to hysteria gripping the mind of those who are stuck on the level of survival instincts of love only for their own ‘chosen kind’, only see with their physical eyes the outside appearances of differences and prostrating before their masculine mind, the patriarchy and its predator-prey values of domination and aggression, their imagined superiority, to hold on to power and their hierarchy, suppress, resist the call of the returned Divine Feminine who says, ‘…the people you are killing are just another branch of the Single Tree of Life that is Me, which is you.’

As in the words of Daniel Schmidt, ‘the true crisis in our world is not social, political, or economic, our crisis is the crisis of consciousness: an inability to directly experience our true nature, an inability to recognize this nature in everyone and in all things.’

Jan Darwin Hutchins

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“Painful and humiliating as it was, the journey came to be astonishingly liberating. The ‘stink of enlightenment’ (as Mariana Caplan calls it) doesn’t stand a chance in the furnace of honest relationship. Clichés like “there is no me”, “there is only awareness”, and “everything is perfect” just don’t cut it when your intimate friend is standing in front of

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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