" Energy and magic are in creating community, with humans, the natural world and the elementals and with the spirits. Aware of the great suffering that is afflicting the planet, on-going wars, climate collapse, the possible rise of fascism and rampant chaos everywhere, we are grateful that we can be together peaceably, honor the old, old ways and listen deeply to what Story, dreams, spirits, heart say to guide us. "

* Deena Metzger *

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“To belong is to rest into the collective, to be woven into the all. It’s the feeling that the group has found meaning and usefulness
in your presence.”
* Prentis Hemphill * 

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

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“In this [story-telling] tradition a story is ‘holy,’ and it is used as medicine. The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing

and to bring it back to consciousness again” 

  * Clarissa Pinkola Estes *  

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