Dispatches from the Ancient Future, A Compass for the Pathless Path, New Language for A New Reality

All Five Volumes of Richard Power's Primal Reality Series are Available
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The five volumes of Richard Power's Primal Reality series constitute a significant contribution to the emerging global wisdom tradition of the 21st Century.

Several overarching themes frame this work:

• The evolution of yoga and the yoga of evolution. 
• A Tantric vision of birth, death and transformation, in which human incarnation is experienced as divine revelation. 
• The ascendancy of the feminine in psyche (human and divine).
•  The poetics of our intimate, creative relationship with the vast planetary intelligence within which we live, move and have our being.
• A contemplation of the human condition in the early 21st century. 
• A celebration of some simple truths that could help redeem us and heal our world, e.g. altruism and sustainability as spiritual (and existential) imperatives 
• A call to the great shift required of us if our species is to evolve, i.e., the great shift to a green global civilization.

Interspersed between each movement of this sweeping exploration, Power has inserted batches of his "epiphanies." Existential. Somatic. Reality-based. Experiential. New language for perennial truths. Dispatches from the Ancient Future. An inventory of open secrets. A compass for the pathless path.

The Primal Reality series includes (in reverse chronological order

• Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Ancient Future (2015)
• Planetary Emergency/Personal Emergence: Path of An Evolutionary (2014) 
• User's Guide to Human Incarnation: Yoga of Primal Reality (2013)
• Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality In An Age of Global Peril (2012)
• Between Shadow and Night: The Singularity In Anticipation of Itself (2010)

These five volumes can be read stand-alone or in any chosen sequence. They can also be read by simply opening to random pages or in designated order from start to finish. By design. The choice is yours. All five volumes are available in both softcover and Kindle versions via Amazon.com.
   
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Simone Weil: "The Needs of a Human Being are Sacred. Their Satisfaction Cannot be Subordinated Either to Reasons of State, or to Any Consideration of Money ..."

Simone Weil in 1921.

Notebooks of Simone Weil. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956

Simone Weil (February 3,1909 - August 24,1943). French philosopher, anarchist, feminist, christian mystic. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Weil joined a French-speaking unit of an anarchist militia and fought the fascists. In 1942, she helped her family to safety in the U.S.A, and then returned to Europe and joined the French Resistance to fight against the Nazis. Physically frail and otherworldly, Weil contracted tuberculosis and tragically died at the age of thirty-four. Albert Camus called her "the only great spirit of our time." Writing in the New York Review of Books (February 1,1963), the brilliant Susan Sontag rightfully placed Weil in the company of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Genet; "their unhealthiness," she sagely observed, "is their soundness." Sontag cited "the originality of her psychological insight, the passion and subtlety of her theological imagination, the fecundity of her exegetical talents ...", and referred to her as a "person who is rightly regarded as one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit."

Here are some of Simone Weil's haunting insights:

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. -- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1948)

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or colour, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever. -- Simone Weil, Statement of Human Obligations (1943)

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. -- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1948)

In order to be exercised, the intelligence requires to be free to express itself without control by any authority. There must therefore be a domain of pure intellectual research, separate but accessible to all, where no authority intervenes. -- Simone Weil, Statement Of Obligations (1943)

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. -- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being. The good is the only source of the sacred. There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it. -- Simone Weil, Human Personality (1943)

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. -- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1948)'

Related Words of Power Herstory Posts:
Simone de Beauvoir: "... And Truth Rewarded Me."

Ursula Le Guin: "To Light A Candle is to Cast A Shadow.
Susan Sontag: "In Place of A Hermeneutics, We Need An Erotics of Art."

Doris Lessing: "It is the Storyteller, the Dream-Maker, the Myth-Maker, that is our Phoenix ..."
Joan Didion: “I Know What 'Nothing' Means, and Keep On Playing.

Anais Nin: "Ordinary Life Does Not Interest Me."

Simone Weil

Richard Power is the author of eleven books, including most recently, "Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Ancient Future," along with the other four volumes of his "Primal Reality" series, all of which are available in both softcover and Kindle versions via Amazon.com.

For information, visit his Amazon author's page.