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The Wisdom and Teaching of the Ancient Ones . . . . 

“No living thing, not even human, understands upon

what journey it has embarked.”

—Loren Eiseley

"Where does the power come from to see the race to

the end? It comes from within."

—Chariots of Fire

"All that lies before us and all that lies behind us are

tiny matters compared to that which lies within us . . . ."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joseph Campbell on… The Living of a Free Improv Life . . . .

"[A]nd when Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted

the blood, he hears the song of nature, he has trans-

cended his humanity, you know, and reassociated himself 

with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our 

life, and from which our mind removes us. 

"You see this thing up here (points to his head), this

consciousness thinks its running the shop, but it's a

secondary organ. It's a secondary organ of a total human

being – and IT MUST NOT PUT ITSELF 'IN CONTROL'. It

must submit and serve the humanity of the body. When it

DOES PUT ITSELF IN CONTROL…. you get is this [system]

that has gone over to the intellectual side…. 

"You see the thing is that in our living, in terms of its 

humanity, is living in terms of a system. And this is a 

threat to our lives… we all face it… we all operate in our

society in relationship to a system. Now, is the system

going to eat you up, and relieve you of your humanity, or,

are you going to be able 'to use the system' to human

purposes…. 

"If the person doesn't listen to the demands of his own

spiritual and heart life, and insists on a certain [intellectual] 

program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crack up. 

The person has put himself off center. He has aligned 

himself with a programmatic life, and its not the one the

body's interested in AT ALL. 

"And the world is full of people who have stopped

listening to themselves. In my own life, I've had many

opportunities to commit myself to a system… and to go

with it… and to obey its requirements. My life has been 

that of a maverick, I would not submit….

"[O]ur life evokes our character. You find out more

about yourself as you go on. And it's very nice to be able

to put yourself in situations that will invoke your higher 

rather than your lower….

"The real dragon is in you. It's your ego, holding you 

in… What I want… What I believe… What I can do… What I 

think I love…  and all that. What I regard as the aim of my 

life… and so forth. It might be too small. It might be that 

which pins you down. And if it simply that of what the 

[society and others are] telling you to do, then it certainly 

is pinning you down. 

"And so the [social] environment is you dragon, as it

reflects within yourself. [To slay this dragon that is

holding you down] my general formula is … follow your

bliss. I mean find where it is, and don't be afraid to follow

it. If [you ever] think 'I couldn't do that', that's your 

dragon. [And by slaying your dragon, by saving yourself] 

you save the world. The influence of a vital person,

vitalizes. There's no doubt about it . . . .  

"The world is a wasteland. People have the idea of

saving the world by shifting it around, and changing the 

rules, and so forth…. No! Any world is a living world if it is 

alive. And the thing is to bring it to life. And the way to 

bring it life is to find in your own case, where your life is,

and be alive yourself . . . ." 

—Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

The Hero's Adventure     

Henry David Thoreau…  Walden: The Loon . . . .

"As I was paddling along the north shore one very 

calm October afternoon ... having looked in vain over 

the pond for a loon, suddenly one, sailing out from the 

shore toward the middle a few rods in front of me, set 

up his wild laugh and betrayed himself. I pursued with 

a paddle and he dived, but when he came up I was 

nearer than before. He dived again, ... I miscalculated 

the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods 

apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had 

helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long 

and loud, and with more reason than before....

"Sometimes he would come up unexpectedly on the 

opposite side of me, having apparently passed directly 

under the boat.... I found that it was as well for me to 

rest on my oars and wait his reappearing as to 

endeavor to calculate where he would rise; for again 

and again, when I was straining my eyes over the 

surface one way, I would suddenly be startled by his 

unearthly laugh behind me.... At length having come 

up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged 

howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and 

immediately there came a wind from the east and 

rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty 

rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of 

the loon answered, and his god was angry with me...."

—Henry David Thoreau

Loren Eiseley… 'One' Technological World . . . .

"Humanity was suddenly entranced by light and fancied

reflected light. Progress was its watchword, and for a time 

the shadows seemed to recede. Only a few guessed that

the retreat of darkness presaged the emergence of an

entirely new and less tangible terror. Things ... were to

grow incalculable by being calculated. Man's powers were 

finite, the forces he had released in nature recognized no

such limitations. They were irrevocable monsters conjured

up by a completely amateur sorcerer….

"Men, unknowingly, and whether for good or ill, appear 

to be making their last decisions about human destiny. 

Increasingly, there is but one way into the future, the 

technological way. The frightening aspect of this situation 

lies in the construction of human choice. Western 

technology has released irrevocable forces, and the “one 

world” that has been talked about so glibly is frequently a 

distraught conformity produced by the centripetal forces of

Western society. So great is its power over men that any 

other solution, any other philosophy, is silenced. To pursue 

the biological analogy, it is as thought, instead of many 

adaptive organisms, a single gigantic animal embodied the 

only organic future of the world…."

—Loren Eiseley

"That which sustains life is always present.” 

 —Peter May, Baca Grande, Colorado

Fire Chief and Search and Rescue

"Extinction is forever."

—Steven Jay Gould

"We shouldn’t forget that we weren’t meant to be 

the last ones.” 

—Anne Cameron, Canadian Children's Book Author

"It is really very difficult in my experience to persuade 

people that something that may happen in 50 years time

is something that they should worry about today. This is 

extraordinarily short-sighted, and extraordinarily foolish, 

and it is a complete contradiction of the idea that it was 

human intelligence that made us successful. We do not 

use the very evolutionary attribute that brought us to 

where we are."

—Richard Leaky, Call of Life Documentary

Paleoanthropologist

Author, The Sixth Extinction

“. . . little plants rise from the earth each spring

birds sing in loveliness . . . . . . 

frogs trill into the night 

as stars come into view . . . 

moss grows on an old old log 

bright and fresh and green 

. . . . these things do not live for me . . . . . . . 

. . . . . but because they are . . . 

. . . . . . I am . . . . . . .” 

—Little Plants by Gwen Frostic

Unseen buds, intimate, hidden well,

Under the snow and ice, under darkness, 

In every square or cubic inch.

Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn.

Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping.

Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting.

(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars 

there in the heavens.)

Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,

And waiting for ever more, forever more behind.    

—Unseen Buds by Walt Whitman

"All that lies before us and all that lies behind us are

tiny matters compared to that which lies within us . . . ."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There will come a time I know, when people will 

take delight in one another, when each will be a star to  

the other, and when each will listen to his fellows as to 

music.... Then we shall live in ... freedom and in beauty, 

and those who will be accounted the best will the more 

widely embrace the world with their hearts, and those 

whose love of it will be the profoundest ... for in them is 

the greatest beauty. Then life will be great, and the people 

will be great who live that life." 

—Maxim Gorky

"One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community

 could actually redeem the world."

—Elbert Hubbard

“Now there are some things we all know, but we don’t 

take’m out and look at’m very often. We all know that 

something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, 

and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars. . . everybody

knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that

something has to do with human beings. All the greatest

people ever lived have been telling us that for five

thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are

always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep

that’s eternal about every human being.”

—Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the

fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler,

schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and 

the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, 

policeman, the webfoot cocklewoman and the tiddy 

wives. . . .  you can hear the dew falling, and the hushed 

town breathing. . . . Time passes. Listen. Time passes. 

Come closer now . . . . Only you can. . . .  hear and

see. . . . ”

—Dylan Thomas, Under Milkwood

“It is my soul that calls upon my name . . . ."

—William Shakespeare

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