Solar Eclipse
Each morning
I wake invisible.
I make a needle
from a porcupine quill,
sew feet to legs,
lift spine onto my thighs.
I put on my rib and collarbone.
I pin an ear to my head,
hear the waxwing's yellow cry.
I open my mouth for purple berries,
stick on periwinkle eyes.
I almost know what it is to be seen.
My throat enlarges from anger.
I make a hand to hold my pain.
My heart a hole the size of the sun's eclipse.
I push through the dark circle's
tattered edge of light.
All day I struggle with one hair after another
until the moon moves from the face of the sun
and there is a strange light
as though from a kerosene lamp in a cabin.
I pun on a dress,
a shawl over my shoulders.
My threads knotted and scissors gleaming.
Now I know I am seen.
I have a shadow.
I extend my arms,
dance and chant in the sun's new light.
I put a hat and coat on my shadow,
another larger dress.
I put on more shawls and blouses and underskirts
until even the shadow has substance
Tags: resilience dismemberment eclipse scorched-edges shamanism ymir
This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.
Joan HalifaxTags: healing dharma shamanism
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
Terence McKennaTags: life ego slavery shamanism psychedelics
The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: nature shamanism totemism
If a wound was all that was required to be a shaman, we'd all be one. If wounds were required, no one would be.
S. Kelley HarrellI don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: spirituality science-vs-religion shamanism
Being a medium who can communicate with souls isn't the same as one who can interact with them. It's the difference between listening in on a conversation and changing the subject.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: shamanism shaman psychic mediumship teen-spirituality
Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.
S. Kelley HarrellDivination is the ketchup of shamanism.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: shamanism
You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.
S. Kelley HarrellTags: shamanism
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