You Are A Conscious Creator Newsletter
On Weirdness, Knowing When To Quit, And How Trees Are Sanctuaries
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4 min readDec 18, 2022
Here are today’s four questions for higher consciousness.
- Is “weirdness” an expression of wisdom?
- Do quitters really never win?
- What are the only two things that can pierce our hearts?
- Can trees speak and provide us with comfort?
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On Weirdness and Finding An Elder
Michael Meade | (adapted for space)
In old traditions, those who acted as elders were considered to be more in touch with the otherworld, but not out of touch with the struggles in this world. Elders have one foot firmly in the ground of survival and another in the realm of great imagination.
They acted as a bridge between the visible world and the unseen realms of spirit and soul….
This double-minded stance serves to help the living community and even helps the species survive.
The old word for having a foot in each world is ‘weird.’
Those seeking for an elder should look for someone weird enough to be wise. For just as there can be no general wisdom, there are no ‘normal’…
