To Grow A Soul

David Price
3 min readNov 30, 2020
Painting by Andrea Kowch

We are the inhabitants of a civilization that has lost its way, that has forgotten that the Earth is a living sacred being. And so we stand at a door never before opened, at a crossroads never before reached, when the fate of humanity and the whole web of life hang in the balance. What does it mean to be present at this time of a great dying when the wells run dry and the rivers are toxic? And where are those who hold the balance of the worlds — the rainmaker sitting in his hut holding an inner equilibrium, the monk whose prayer beads and mantras keep the worlds in tune? ….And in our hearts there is a seed of a future that returns to the beginning, to when the Source ran free and the names of creation sang in the wind.”
-Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
From: The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna

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“Besides [personality №1’s] world there existed another realm, like a temple in which anyone who entered was transformed and suddenly overpowered by a vision of the whole cosmos, so that he could only marvel and admire, forgetful of himself. . . . Here nothing separated man from God; indeed, it was as though the human mind looked down upon Creation simultaneously with God.”
- Carl Jung

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“The creative and the healing elements are very close.”
“A special problem in the profession of

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David Price

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