02/03/2026
"There comes a time when the most important thing in life is for us to allow something older and wiser to catch up to us, as if the only way forward involves a step back - away from the competing disasters of the world and into the dusky realms of imagination, where things take new shape before entering the barrenness and glare of the daily world. Those living at a particular time are never simply the denizens of history or the pawns of time, they are also the only possible recipients of the messages of eternity trying to slip into the world and sustain the discourse of the eternal drama of life, death and rebirth. Before a meaningful future can be found, something ancient and enduring about the world must be rediscovered. The balance of the future depends on the presence of ancient things. By turning within and growing down, we find the original mind and old soul within us. The old mind is the poetic core that is naturally abundant with ideas and images, that which remains eternally threaded to the animistic, altruistic, ever-abundant source of life." - Michael Meade, Why the World Doesn't End
