Excerpts:

Excerpts from a book that I am reading: The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk.

All began in love; all seeks to return to love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

“The Sioux idea of living creatures is that trees, buffalo, and men are temporary energy swirls, turbulence patterns...that’s an early intuitive recognition of energy as a quality of matter. But that’s an old insight, you know, extremely old–probably a Paleolithic shaman’s insight. You find that perception registered so many ways in archaic and primitive lore. I would say that it is probably the most basic insight into the nature of things, and that our more common, recent Occidental view of the universe as consisting of fixed things is out of the main stream, a deviation from basic human perception.” ~ Gary Snyder

This view of the universe as an interplay of moving forces–which incidentally, corresponds to an amazing degree with the views of modern physics–is a product of a very special mode of perception.

It is a cool book. ~ Maggie ~ November 13, 2007