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Quality of Inspiration Pervasive
Pervasive Pervasive, Symbolic, Enlarged A theology of immanence means treating each thing, animate and inanimate…natural and mand-made, as if it were alive, requiring what each living thing requires above all else: careful attention to its’ properties, their specific...
Quality of Inspiration Energetic
Energetic Cunning Unleashed, Penetrating Hunters prefer to believe in their destructive illusions and ego-invented creeds and are blind to the mammalian need to love the world. But the Queen of the forest long ago recognized their selfish gospels created...
Quality of Inspiration Responsiveness
Responsive Self-Mastery, Strength, Engaged This force is frightening for many because we have all been preyed upon, and we are uncomfortable with assertions of strength, reflectively disowning our potency or letting it flash abusively. There is enormous power in...
Quality of Inspiration Inventiveness
Inventiveness Creative, Magical, Captivating Fox is known to be inventive and resourceful, solutions coming quickly to her, miraculously pulling her from danger at the last moment. Though she is a deliberate, confident creature of the day, she is also sure of...
Quality of Inspiration Sacred
Sacred Insightful, Spacious, Sensual Fox is grounded in Tiger energy. Though clearly there is immense potency within her, she moves as if floating on a river current, leaving an undisturbed trail, barely bending the grasses. For this moment she has settled in...
Quality of Inspiration Nourishing
Nourishing Child-like, Healing, Safe They teased out the seed that the cold kept asleep— All the coils, loops, and whorls, they trellised the sun; they plotted for more than themselves. Theordore Roethke, Frau Bauman, Frau, Schmidt, and...
Inquisitive Quality of Inspiration
Inquisitive Wild, Curious, Open The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell. Reflections on the Art of Living Inquisitiveness—starts the Enlarging. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes...
Jewels: An Epilogue excerpt 48th Out of Restraints
Spring Jewels Jewels and I go for a walk on our dirt road every morning. Back and forth, in startles and leaps. She’s unable to move in a straight line, While keeping her eye on dangerous tall grass in the wind. She stares at me with that long question, until she does...
XI Healing and Growing excerpt 47th Out of Restraints
XI Healing and Growing “Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.” Carl Jung, CW, para 53 Now that I have achieved some loosening of the restraints, no longer at least helpless in the seclusion room up to my neck in a body suit with ribs of unbreakable plastics,...
Pain into Ritual 46th excerpt Out of Restraints
Pain into Ritual—A Turning Point Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; More anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. Yeats, The Second Coming The Bear and child are engaged in a...