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“Stories are the most delightful vehicles for the brightening of consciousness. True, archaic technology.”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“We are being prepared for eternity every time we behold beauty.”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“If your story is a river, then myth is the ocean it should naturally lead to.”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“I don’t think we should be stewarding anything at all once we’ve fallen out of right relationship with the sacred.”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“A myth is robust enough to hold the tension of the soul of mud”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“...the trees are talking ravenese to each other. And the trees are no longer leaved but feathered, there is not bracken but fur underneath me. And everything is beating like Drake’s drum, bringing down the children of the Milky Way. The trees are bones now and thinking big thoughts like spasms through me. Some trees are covered in owl feathers some rook and sparrowhawk. Their roots are big, scaled claws. In the early morning I find I have something in me that wasn’t there before. Something is in me like a mineral, or splint of bison bone or a spirit light. It is these words:

"Inhabit the time and genesis of your original home.”
Martin Shaw, Bardskull
“Mythic awareness is always moving us from seeing to beholding life”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“The slum must be inside us,' as the poets say.”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us
“The gods in mythology often amplify the panorama of human ambition”
Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

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