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9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 31 Aug 2020

12/ Some call it 'Good News.' Here's the Californian, Gary Snyder: "This is a revolution not of guns but of consciousness, won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, ecstasies and eschatologies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side."

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Quoted by@SophiaCycles Vocatus atqua non vocatus deus aderit. A working conversation, then. "If one works faithfully and patiently at this task of balancing heaven and earth, eventually one may realize something more remarkable: that the two worlds are in fact one. - Robert JohnsonQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Harpers @SalmanRushdie @PENamerica Salman Rushdie, August 2022: "We are engaged in a war of narratives...false narratives rooted in antiquated religiosity and bigoted ideas from centuries ago...narratives that privilege the majority and oppress minorities...And these narratives, let it be said, are popular.”Quoted by@Harpers @SalmanRushdie @PENamerica Salman Rushdie, August 2022: "We are engaged in a war of narratives...false narratives rooted in antiquated religiosity and bigoted ideas from centuries ago...narratives that privilege the majority and oppress minorities...And these narratives, let it be said, are popular.”Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles “But how self-exiled we nowadays are from all great gates, great openings into other worlds, great openings into this world. Nierikas, the Hoichol indians call them. The sacred, great and dangerous earth regained might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained.” - John MoriartyQuoted by@SophiaCycles “But how self-exiled we nowadays are from all great gates, great openings into other worlds, great openings into this world. Nierikas, the Hoichol indians call them. The sacred, great and dangerous earth regained might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained.” - John MoriartyQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @moshik_temkin “History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed. Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel @UniteThePoor @RevDrBarber @BRepairersQuoted by@moshik_temkin “History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed. Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel @UniteThePoor @RevDrBarber @BRepairers