That is the introduction to a wonderful, timely little perfect essay for our times.In Siberian myth, when you want to hurt someone, you crawl into their tent and close the smoke hole.
That way God can’t see them.
Close the smoke hole and you break connection to the divine world. Mountains, rivers, trees.
Close the smoke hole and we become mad.
Close the smoke hole and we are possessed by ourselves and only ourselves.
Close the smoke hole and you have only your neurosis for company.
Keeping The Smoke Hole Open — by Martin Shaw
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/kee ... hole-open/