Shamans are people of the percept. When they want to change the world, they engage in perceptual shifts that change their relationship to life. They envision the possible, and the outer world changes. This is why a group of Inka elders will sit in meditation envisioning the kind of world they want their grandchildren to inherit.
Alberto Villoldo, Ph. D.
Let’s all envision the kind of world we want our grandchildren to inherit!








BOOK LIGHTS: from “Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age”, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the chapter, ‘Mutual Aid Revisited’ by Anya Kamenetz
May 3, 2012 — RosemaryMutual aid societies prefigure most functions of the modern state. They’re at least as old as armies, but their mission is life, not death. For millennia, people have banded together to provide one another with health care, pensions, unemployment aid, investment capital, buying power, aid to the poor, disaster relief, old age care, child care, culture, entertainment, political efficacy, education, food, shelter, and livelihoods. They have also leveraged their numbers to elicit some of these same benefits from those other two institutions, business and the government. Mutual aid extends the bonds of kinship and makes individuals into citizens.
Anya Kamenetz
The way of The Divine Feminine is to engage in ‘mutual aid’ without giving up our individualism. Each of us joining with the others creates a powerful force in the world of the 21st Century!