Friday, October 01, 2010

If the wild lives in your psyche, it cannot be lost; if your psyche lives in the wild, it cannot be broken.


50,000 year old Abo cave paintings in Mutawintji National Park (130 km N.W. of Broken Hill, on the road to Tibooburra)

These hands touch me. 50,000 years they have been open, 50,000 years they have been asking, 50,000 years they have been welcoming, 50,000 years they have been reaching out to feel for the throbbing life of the universe.

Ancient rock art in Tadrart Acacus in Libya (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

If the wild lives in your psyche, it cannot be lost; if your psyche lives in the wild, it cannot be broken.


Magura Cave (Bulgarian: Магурата)

There is a voice, a chorus of voices really, speaking to us from the walls of ancient caves throughout the world. The images that echo these voices bring us a profound clarity and sacredness absent from the dominant culture of this time we journey in ... Remember to return to them, and to listen to them with your eyes ...

-- Richard Power