“Story is the very fabric of our lives. Every life begins and ends with a story and, taken as a whole, is a story. Every relationship is a story. Every dream. Every experience. …The world itself is a story; indeed, it might be more accurate to say that the world is made up of stories than to say it is made up of atoms, earth, trees, and other things. The […]
Tag Archives | Modern soulcraft
Richard Tarnas | Two suitors — A parable
Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe. But for the purposes of this thought experiment, let us imagine that you are not the disenchanted mechanistic universe of conventional modern cosmology, but rather a deep-souled, subtly mysterious cosmos of great spiritual beauty and creative intelligence. And imagine that you are being approached by two different epistemologies—two suitors, as it were–who seek to know you. To whom would you open […]
Mac Macartney | The journey, our journey
Day 1 – Friday 2nd January 2009 The car door slammed shut; it seemed very final. Britain was held in a frigid embrace of ice and snow; minus four degrees and going down. Above us reared the ancient folded earthworks of the British Camp, an Iron-Age fortification located towards the southern end of the Malverns, a single spine of hills bordering two counties in the West Midlands. I jerked my […]
Ed Ahern | Take it all off
Curious that I can’t laugh at myself without also crying a little. The foible that generates the laugh was once a venerated bias, social illusion I had clung to, action I knew was significant, reciprocal acceptance of flaw, a fairy tale taught early to me, mind hair that smarted when tweezed out. And how naked I felt just after, clutching for another fig leaf to better hide my uncertainty, to […]
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