understandings

"When someone goes to the other world he's looking for recipes to bring back into this world in order to make it more pleasurable there." (Malidona Patrice Some)

"The only way that people from the western type of upbringing can appreciate the idea of spirits or gods is to experience them by feeling or seeing them. It is the only way. No explanation will do." (Miguel A Kavlin)

(ref: Shamanic Wisdomkeepers)

focus

travel

And so today I build my own roadways from there to there and back, where I enjoy the advantage of living in two worlds at once - the mundane world and the world 'out-there' where the sun never sets and adventure lurks in every breath, where destiny and free-will meet, and like past and future are irrevocably wedded.

(ref: Eileen Garrett)

now

sometimes we are wise enough to know.
it is the inherent knowledge passed to us.
we step confidently and know that we will not fall.
the past guides us as we look to the present.

and then at other times, we are challenged.

not sure how or when to step forward.

in competition with our ego.

the fight can rage for some time until there is a winner.

but the real winner is the one who has the courage and strength -

that which she knows she already posseses.

elsewhere

And then they suddenly came to the wood. It was not far from their cottage, at the back. It looked quite an ordinary wood, except the trees were a darker green than usual.

"It's a magic wood!" said Fanny suddenly.

They stood beneath the trees and peered about. Small freckles of of sunshine lay here and there on the ground, but not many, for the trees were thick.

"It really is magic!" said Fanny. "I can feel magic about somewhere, can't you, Bessie? Can't you, Jo?"

"Yes," said the others...

(ref: Blyton, The Enchanted Wood)

fly

when you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen:

there will be something solid to stand on
or, you will be taught to fly
 (ref: Patrick Overton)

Fear not

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