“All the time I was getting closer to animals and nature, and as a result, closer to myself and more and more in tune with the spiritual power.” — Jane Goodall. The logic, throughout this thread, is not to usurp anyone’s beliefs with a graeco-roman Earth deity nor does it…

“The recollection of infantile memories and the reproduction of archetypal modes of psychic functioning create a wider horizon and a greater extension of consciousness, provided that one succeeds in assimilating and integrating the lost and regained contents. …

“…the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him.” — Marie-Louise von Franz. Idiosyncrasies attributed to shamanism all orbit altered states of consciousness of indigenous folk; spells of out-of-body experiences, rituals, chants, supernal access…

“And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned…

“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and…

As I draft this article, a soothing flashback sets in: Comfortably perched. My peripheral furnished with books shelved meticulously complimenting that distinct cozy Golders Green cottage decor. I am the latest recruit here, immersed in a parkour of dialogue with a former colleague and his SOAS cohort; about seven or…

“Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.” — Marilyn Ferguson. A sotto voce piques from Ferguson’s quote alluding to an anima that whistles across a potential nucleating in all networks. A potential gradient sweeping from dissolution to thriving configurations. Her words trigger that overactive word association trait…

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” — Werner Heisenberg. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that there exists some limit to the information gain from a system (the system can denote a particle). …

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”