Yesterday we had a near catastrophe with Bramble Berry, our pup, and Hijo, our guard llama. Hijo started it, managing to escape from the goat pen when the latch didn’t catch when I entered to feed him. He saw the opportunity and ran full speed out of the pen. When I walked back to my… Read more »
Category: animals
Spirit Images: Symbolic or Direct Perception?
Strong Presence of the Elements Spirit Images: Symbolic or Direct Perception? It was as if the air had been sucked out of the room. Our sense of reality was being questioned! We all sat there, both sides, brought up short by the question. Are the figures we meet in the sweat lodge symbolic, or are… Read more »
Afterthoughts: Conversation with David Abram, Part Two: Lessons from Bees and Goats.
Photo art by Alexandra Parks-Perry colored pencil over photograph A second afterthought on the Conversation with David Abram (C. G. Jung Institute, see below): The importance of the lessons that we learn from animals about our place in the world. That evening I told a story about walking with my herd of goats, who, I… Read more »
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