The Art of Healing

CONSCIOUSNESS v CATASTROPHE

“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”

~ Harold C. Goddard ~

Cultures of all times have one way or another reflected on the mystery of their existence. These reflections have crystallised in the stories that are handed down from generation-to-generation about the birth and evolution of the universe and our role in its destiny. Our cosmologies, our stories about who we are and our relationship to each other, mould our consciousness. Dr Gillian Ross explains.

Sacred stories once inspired the art and rituals of culture. They were the lamps that illuminated our existence. What we are now experiencing in Western culture is the end product of a gradual dismantling of any story which gives meaning

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