In my tradition, our story of creation is one that takes four days to tell…at its centre is the most crucial concept: that you are the universe, that everything the creator went through, you’ve gone through, too…I am not Jasper Young Bear. I am the creator, and believing that I am the creator is the only way I can do this work.*
Jasper Young Bear
The soul is not only the breath of human life. It is the breath of all life, the anima mundi, the animating life force of the universe. It is the vital spark in all things, distinct by not separate from our physicalness.**
Philip Newell
A story we need to hear,
A character we need to be,
A making we need to bring,
A breathing–
It’s deeper lore,
Strange to our ears–
When we breathe
the world lives,
When we hold our breath,
Earth gasps.
*From, Suleika Jaouad’s The Book Of Alchemy;
**Philip Newell’s The Great Search.
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