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Swimming in Consciousness
‘The main teaching in cultures where spirits visit frequently and the world is itself a bridge — such as those of Haiti, West Africa, Melanesia, and the circumpolar people’s we group together as Eskimos — focuses upon knowing the distinct nature and name of the different visitors, their rank, their powers, their spheres of action.
But that permeability existed long ago in another kingdom of consciousness.
Hillman, The Soul’s Code
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The animal heart sees clearly what the intellect cannot because it follows the innate knowing of the earth itself.
The animal heart lives behind logic, below reason, underneath the armour of objectivity. She has lived longer than any of us can remember because it was from her belly that we were born. Half-sighted as we are, we forget and deny her, building our platforms on what we think is her grave. But she is far from dead.
— Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home”
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When seen as it actually is, the universe is a projection of the frequencies of the eternal memory inherent in Consciousness. Consciousness is Consciousness because it is ever in the process of knowing and remembering itself….The reverberations of the flow of Consciousness are the frequencies of pure Memory. They…
