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We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We ...more
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Tyson Yunkaporta
“We name victims and perpetrators by a color code that masks the actual forces and patterns that are vexing us. We see ethnic groups with our left eye and individuals with our right eye, and we are blind to anything else. We can’t see the flows of power and control in the world, the systemic suck of resources from south to north. An illusion of time and space, a false global map of places and peoples has slid over our frontal lobes.”
Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Rupert Sheldrake
“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic, and intolerant. So is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, science fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.”
Rupert Sheldrake

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Too often our ‘line in the sand’ falls prey to the wind in our desert.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Tyson Yunkaporta
“Every viewpoint is useful, and it takes a wide diversity of views for any group to navigate this universe, let alone to act as custodians for it.”
Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Lynne Ewing
In ancient times, the Gorgon Medusa lived on the far side of Oceanus in the land of Night. She was an awesome dragonlike creature with bronze claws, great golden wings, and fierce eyes that turned her beholder to stone. At one time she had been a beautiful young woman who filled the world with joy, not death, but in a moment of foolish pride she had compared herself to Athena. Such arrogance enraged the noble goddess, and in revenge she turned Medusa's lush hair into a tangle of vile, hissing snakes. From that moment on, Medusa's stare brought the stillness of death to anyone who dared look into her eyes.
Meanwhile Polydectes, King of Seriphos, wanted to destroy Perseus, so he sent him off to bring back Medusa's head, knowing that her gaze would kill the young hero. But Athena heard the king's command. Still angry with Medusa, she gave Perseus her bronze shield to defend himself when he attacked the Gorgon. Holding the shield as a mirror, Perseus saw only Medusa's reflection, and her deadly stare did not harm him. He cut off her head and put it into a cloth bag, then flew away with the aid of a pair of winged sandals given to him by Hermes.
As Perseus soared over the African desert, blood seeped through the bag and fell to the hot sands below. As each drop hit the scorching ground, it turned to steam, and the rising vapors transformed into three dangerously beautiful nymphs.

Lynne Ewing, The Choice

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