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Keeping The Smoke Hole Open — by Martin Shaw

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:41 pm
by Welles
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.
That is the introduction to a wonderful, timely little perfect essay for our times.

Keeping The Smoke Hole Open — by Martin Shaw

https://emergencemagazine.org/story/kee ... hole-open/

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Re: Keeping The Smoke Hole Open — by Martin Shaw

Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 12:33 am
by Sandy
Thank you Welles...
I wrote this down...
Before we burn the whole world down in the wider rage of Climate Emergency, of which this current moment is just a hint, could we collectively seek vigil in this moment?

Cry for a vision?

It’s what we’ve always done.

We need to do it now.
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Sandy