More from _Motel Nirvana_:
"Some New Age types even imagine that vision quests, sweat lodges, drumming and dancing ceremonies are rituals specifically designed to be psychotherapeutic. I never once saw, heard, or read any indication [in her months travelling the Southwest] that New Agers have grasped the possibility that Native American spirituality, or any other set of ritual behaviors, including their own, furnishes a community in a particular environment with metaphors for shared communal meanings...The narratives of our prosperous, materialist society are no longer spiritual; they do not describe mythological archetypes but psychological truths, elements not of a greater transcendent reality, but of the human condition, the here and now."
Time for work already. More news and commentary at 11.
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- Only practice every moment. Interdependence the lifeblood; conducting in flow; listening to the pulse. Seeking to see. Labels, categories, distinctions all accede to the good work. Politics if it's of the people. Spirituality/Religion if it's about interconnection. Culture if it's transformative. Welcoming the Light in all.
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