“I am speaking of those who cannot tolerate the loss of myth & who can neither find a way to a merely exterior world, to the world as seen by science, nor rest satisfied with an intellectual juggling with words, which has nothing whatsoever to do with wisdom.” ~ Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very tall cognitive ladder with graded hierarchical steps ... stages in which we solve increasingly challenging mental riddles ...” ~ Richard Tarnas.

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“The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night – visions & yearnings & hopes ...” ~ Leonard Bernstein.

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller. Image: Fly's Eye Dome by Buckminster Fuller / Wmpearl / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

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“There are ... some signs in Western culture—albeit a minority subculture—of a slowly emerging trend, a paradigm shift beyond scientific materialism to greater self-awareness & mental receptivity; to interest in meditation and the intersection of psychology and spirituality ...” ~ Radmila Moacanin.

“[Owen] Barfield believed that as we look back into the history of language, we see that it becomes more figurative, more metaphorical, more, in a sense, alive and poetic; our own age is, as the literary philosopher Erich Heller said, much more one of prose.” ~ Gary Lachman.

“The ancients rightly called this internal longing for wholeness “fate” or “destiny,” the “inner voice” or the “call of the gods.” It has an inevitability, authority, and finality to it, and was at the heart of almost all mythology. Almost all heroes heard an inner voice ...” ~ Richard Rohr.

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“The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984.

“These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too ... but he knows it ...” ~ Colin Wilson, The Outsider.

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“What is required is a synthesis of both intuition & imagination with reason: the imagined place – though 1 that is nonetheless with discipline achievable – where each is at its best, standing in equitable relation to each of the others .. informed, where relevant, by science.” ~ Iain McGilchrist.

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Freedom ~~~~~~ “I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now & can see through our fear-stricken society & its obsessive technologies to other ways of being ...” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Speech at 2014 National Book Awards.

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“The passions of the fundamentalist psyche for order, truth, certainty, and conformity, when they are expressed with the unyielding fanaticism of the extremist, are inexplicable without [psychological insight] ...” ~ Tom Cheetham, Imaginal Love.

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The Cataclysm of Our Time ~ “People often asked Dr. Jung, ‘Will we make it?’ referring to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, ‘If enough people will do their inner work’. This soul work is the one thing that will pull us through any emergency.” ~ Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow.

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“Spirituality and fundamentalism are at opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. Spirituality seeks a sensitive, contemplative relationship with the sacred and is able to sustain levels of uncertainty in its quest because respect for mystery is paramount ...” ~ David Tacey.

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“Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.” ~ Marion Woodman, Bone: Dying Into Life. Image: The soul of a person / RPBG / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0.

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“[H]ere, beyond Mount Qâf ... what we experience and perceive as the ‘outer world’ is seen to exist entirely within our own inner world. We are not in the cosmos; it is within us, something the ancient Hermeticists understood.” ~ Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination.

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“There are two modes of knowledge, through argument and experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts in order that the mind may remain at rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.” ~ Roger Bacon.

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“It is very dangerous when a wound is so common in a culture that hardly anyone knows that there is a problem. There is general discontent with our way of life but almost no one knows specifically where to look for its origin.” ~ Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden.

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Being of Service to Others ~~~~~~~ “You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.” ~ Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition. www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

... Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” ~ T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems.

“What once pervaded the world as the anima mundi is now seen as the exclusive property of human consciousness. The modern human self has absorbed all meaning and purpose into its own interior being, emptying the primal cosmos of what once constituted its essential nature.” ~ Richard Tarnas.

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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind ...” ~ David W. Orr, Hope Is an Imperative.

“What is the value of preserving & strengthening this sense of awe & wonder, this recognition of something beyond the boundaries of human existence? Is the exploration of the natural world just a pleasant way to pass the golden hours of childhood?” ~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have eyes to see them.” ~ John Ruskin, Source unknown. Image: 'Grow wild' Flower seeds / gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Flickr) / CC BY 2.0.

“... All Self-Remembering has to do with the fact that you came down to this earth, and life here does not correspond with what you came down from, and something in you knows it – that is, has not forgotten it, and that means remembers it.” ~ Maurice Nicoll.

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“I believed then, and still believe, that the immortal in us has memory of all its wisdom, or, as Keats puts it in one of his letters, there is an ancestral wisdom in man and we can if we wish drink that old wine of heaven ...” ~ AE, The Candle of Vision.

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“As we see it, the whole outlook brought about by the scientific revolution should have been—must be—a phase, only, of the evolution of consciousness. An absolutely indispensable phase, but a passing one ...” ~ Owen Barfield, Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960's.

“Before the scientific revolution, [man] did not feel himself isolated by his skin from the world outside to quite the same extent that we do. He was integrated, or mortised into it, each different part of him being united to a different part of it by some invisible thread ...” ~ Owen Barfield.