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

Diane Glancy

Mots clés resilience dismemberment eclipse scorched-edges shamanism ymir

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This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

Joan Halifax

Mots clés healing dharma shamanism

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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 McKenna

Mots clés life ego slavery shamanism psychedelics

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The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.

S. Kelley Harrell

Mots clés nature shamanism totemism

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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 Harrell

Mots clés wounds shamanism

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I 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 Harrell

Mots clés spirituality science-vs-religion shamanism

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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 Harrell

Mots clés shamanism shaman psychic mediumship teen-spirituality

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Learning shamanism solely from a book is like running with a razor sharp Ouija board.

S. Kelley Harrell

Mots clés ouija shamanism

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Divination is the ketchup of shamanism.

S. Kelley Harrell

Mots clés shamanism

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You can discard no one feeling and the full truth of an experience be revealed.

S. Kelley Harrell

Mots clés shamanism

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