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The Masculine World And Its Discontents
“For there can be no doubt that if civilized humankind is to survive the dangers of this century of transition , when all the familiar landmarks are disappearing and the collective structures that used to protect us are crumbling. We must turn to the long despised value of the feminine, to the feeling heart and contemplative mind. Perhaps then our culture may see the rising of a new day.” — Helen Luke
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“…in Dagara life, the first few years of a child’s life is spent with the grandparents, not the parents. What the grandparents and grandchildren share together … that the parents do not … is their close proximity to the cosmos. Grandparents will soon return to where the grandchildren came from, so therefore the grandchild is the bearer of news the grandparents need. The grandparents must get this information before the child forgets.”
~ Malidoma Some, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
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“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” — J. R. Tolkien
Our culture is not very good at making whole human beings. It leaves out the feeling side. It equates sensitivity with…
