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The Music We Don’t Hear
“The fact is clear: Western wars are backed by the Christian God, and we cannot dodge his draft because we are all Christians, regardless of the faith you profess, the church you attend, or whether you declare yourself utterly atheistic….
…We are Christian through and through….thousands of Protestant missionaries from every sect you can name join together to give us the innate assurance that we are superior to all others and can help them see the light.”
— James Hillman
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…Free means being, for one thing. It means being able to outgrow that knee-jerk reflection of what your human society around you wants you to think …
~ Gary Snyder
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“Henry Corbin’s [inner] teacher, his sheikh, was Suhrawardi: A Persian Sufi from the twelfth century who’d been put to death while still in his thirties for the things he said and did….towards the end of what would be a short life he ran into trouble with orthodox Muslims because he insisted on tracing his lineage a long way back — far beyond even the prophet Muhammed — to the Greeks, and specifically Empedocles.”
― Peter Kingsley, A Book of Life
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, when the individual remains undivided and is not aware of his inner contradictions, the world…
