Quite possibly, one aspect of this paradigm shift the world (and our society) is experiencing is returning to a relationship with the ancestors—the spirits of place, nature, the elements, and those beings who came before us. Modern day psychology would claim such relationships to be “animistic” or “infantile” or perhaps even “primitive”: but, we must admit, such relationships could be necessary to helping restore balance between humanity and the soul of the planet.
Mary Watkins writes in Waking Dreams:
We do not ask the plants and animals we eat for their permission to do so, nor do we thank coyotes for helpful wisdom given to us at nightfall…we live out the imagination in everything and yet we are against the very notion of it.
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