"Consider instead the following assessment: even as human progress is taking away the difficulties of staying alive, we are thereby gaining more freedom to pursue the even greater challenges of a different landscape in a different realm of our existence - one that has always been there. Our lives as animals are presenting fewer and fewer obstacles to overcome. A new kind of evolution is surfacing: the life of the individual stepping into the frontier of his own soul and exploring the confines of his interior psychological and spiritual vehicles."- Lyam Thomas Christopher,
Kabbalah, Magic, & the Great Work of Self-transformation
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Becoming More Than Human
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Indeed, it is difficult to study and pray when starving, so there might be some accuracy in this quote. But wanted to point out that some of the figures in Japanese folklore are anthromorphized animals, with a suggestion that the natural/animal is an entryway to the spiritual. It is interesting to look at the tradition of Japanese kilns and pottery, and the adaptation of the most basic hand made pottery into the tea ceremony, a spiritual celebration of clay, earth, an echo of the name of Adam, the first spiritual man.
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