Wednesday 1 May 2013

The Wyrd



Dear Terence McKenna; still making me laugh out loud 14 years after his death.

Oh, and he is so right. The Shaman is the interface between the Culture and the Other, in human societies.

Paraphrasing the Bard:

"OK, you...you can go and be weird. We'll give you a hut on the outskirts of the village and -yes - when we need you we'll call you."

I think that there are more Shamans walking the Earth today than at any point in the past. We are experiencing that concrescence which is a hallmark of a great shift in levels of awakening.

Why, I had an hour-long conversation with a Shaman just yesterday, at work. I very much doubt he calls himself that, but that is the effect. You, you go over there and be weird. We'll call you and use you when - not if - we have need.

And so it is perhaps not such a shock to find groups of Pagans and other minority clusters at seeming war with each other: they are each and all behaving like the Shaman of the village, and being weird. It takes a certain level of weirdness to handle magic at after all.

And we so need our Weird ones at this critical juncture in our species' history.



8 comments:

  1. http://www.penton.co.za/why-some-pagans-are-defending-the-right-to-religious-freedom-for-non-pagans/

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  2. I had not thought of it quite in that light; but yes, it could be we have more need of people comfortable with "weird" than ever. I always just said that to let in what was out there, the person had to be ever so slightly (or not slightly!) "cracked" to make room.

    I'm feeling a bit more cracked than usual of late.

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  3. "..and that's how the light gets in"

    Love
    Terri in Joburg

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  4. ...so, lol, would that explain the 'flashes'?

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  5. Why save something you're not allowed to participate in?

    No.

    This time it will burn.

    Should've been nicer to the weirdos.

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  6. Yow! Eina Pstonie.
    I feel like that sometimes, I must admit.

    Love,
    T in J

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  7. I don't think I'm being negative. More objective.

    Seems to me that many people have become so incapable because there's always someone else to pull their asses out of the fire for them.

    Modern culture has made weakness and ignorance out to be worthy of worship.

    Let's see how that works out for them.

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