Comments on: The Existence of Spirits http://therioshamanism.com/2007/12/05/the-existence-of-spirits/ In the silence of the wild, we find the home we lost in the city. --John Muir Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: therioshamanism http://therioshamanism.com/2007/12/05/the-existence-of-spirits/#comment-142 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:33:07 +0000 http://therioshamanism.com/2007/12/05/the-existence-of-spirits/#comment-142 I haven’t yet read that book, though I do now have a copy on hand. I did, however, get some good derivative information from George Leonard’s “The Silent Pulse”. I figure somewhere in all this mess of conflicting opinions there’s got to be some way to make it all fit together in a multi-layered manner.

]]> By: Awarewolf http://therioshamanism.com/2007/12/05/the-existence-of-spirits/#comment-140 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:51:09 +0000 http://therioshamanism.com/2007/12/05/the-existence-of-spirits/#comment-140 It’s interesting to see someone else caught in that web of social/internal dogma that’s been built up around us Westerners. It’s all “science” and “cold hard facts” – there are days when I fall into these deep existential crises that focus on a thought pattern of, “regardless of what I’m doing or feeling, it can all be boiled down to chemical interactions within my biology or the atomic structure of the universe,” thus rendering a simple great mood into an over-complicated and unpleasing mess.

On the other hand, The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, brings some positive perspective into this dilemma that faces many of us caught in our pop-culture purgatory. Perhaps those things that we want to perceive as “objective” (and the rest of society tells us is “internal”) become objective through our own internal belief. Is it possible for something (matter, spirit, emotion) to become objective only after rising from an internal process?

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