What We Don’t Know

Octavio Ocampo

We are living in a time of ecological devastation, in which our materialistic culture has had a catastrophic effect on the ecosystem…

For centuries it was understood that the world was a living being with a soul, and that we are a part of this being….

…Do we really feel the suffering of the earth, sense its need? Do we feel this connection with creation, how we are a part of this beautiful and suffering being? Then our prayers are alive, a living stream that flows from our heart…

— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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…At what point does the (forgivable and easily forgiven) personal peccadillo transmogrify into a concentration camp, genocide, a nuclear winter, a Kali Yuga, the end of a “year of Brahma”?

— Paul de Fatta

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In their visions, ayahuasca shamans say they see the essences that animate living beings, the first property of which is to emit melodies….ayahuasqueros learn their melodies by singing along…

— José Luis G. Soler via Jeremy Narby

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“The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.”

-Tom Robbins