*7222013* " "We must stand apart from the conventions of history, even while using the record of the past, for the idea of history is itself a western invention whose central theme is the rejection of habitat. it formulates experience outside of nature and tends to reduce place to only a stage upon which the human drama is enacted. History conceives the past mainly in terms of biography and nations. It seeks casualty in the conscious, spiritual, ambitious character of men and memorializes them in writing." ~ Paul Shepard If we can begin to conceive that history, namely a series of manmade stories, perpetuates a human drama on a more-than-human-world, we can begin to see where an ego-sickness carries on the drum-beat of our broken culture. If we can begin to sense our division from the living-and-breathing reality... THEN -- we can then begin to create stories of our own -- stories of meaning, of relevance, of sensitivity to the subtleties and nuances of our very existence in relationship with a world...that is more vast, more complex, more alive than we ever imagined."
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:27:37 +0000