Sublime

Reciprocity begins with our willingness to enter the dark thicket of our own dreaming to find a true sense of direction and purpose.

If we listen to dream voices, to images, to stories—especially those from our own lives, and to our art, to those who have gone before, and to each other, something will be handed out to us, even several somethings that are ritual, personal psychological rites, these serving to steady this stage of the process.9

What makes you the individual you are is not your autonomy but your interdependent and communal relationship with everything else in nature. But having a specific and unique way of belonging to the world in no way implies that you necessarily know what that place is. Although you were born with the potential to occupy that place, you were not born

These are ancient paths of Dreaming etched into the landscape in song and story and mapped into our minds and bodies and relationships with everything around us: knowledge stored in every waterway and every rock.

As in the tale, if we establish a regular practice of intentional solitude, we invite a conversation between ourselves and the wild soul that comes near to our shore.

My beginning premise is that a more mature human society requires more mature human individuals. For twenty-five years, I have been asking how we might raise children, support teenagers, and ripen ourselves so we might engender a sustainable human culture. My second premise is that nature (including our own deeper nature, soul) has always provided

Descending into his own depths he finds images that, in a sense, have preceded him. It is a descent into human ancestry.