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Your Own Life
You do what you love, or you get arrested.
- Lou Reed
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We live in initiatory times when each soul can feel more isolated amidst the dying breath of one world and the uncertainty that attends the forming of life’s next design. It is not the lack of time that we as modern people suffer from, but a lack of connection to things timeless, mythic, and eternal. Most real moments in life are timeless and mythic and open to the sacred. Seen with a mythic eye, each moment is potentially momentous, each instant capable of opening before us as the dream-world does each time we fall into the timeless realms of sleep. As the veil lifts on the wounded cycles of both nature and culture, the symbolic sense of re-viewing and revaluing life can lead to both new ideas and the return of genuine knowledge and earthly wisdom.”
- Michael Meade, “Why the World Doesn’t End”
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…The essence of each civilization needs to be carried consciously from the past into the present for the sake of the future. The legacy of the West, its true legacy, is a tradition now calling out to be redeemed. The spiritual impulse that originally gave rise to our Western culture is still present in its genes, its DNA; and if we ignore this impulse I think we are doomed…There is a sacred purpose behind this culture and if we forget it we can…
