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“Dickson’s genius is to tell the story of who we are and who we must become from inside the psyche’s creation myths.”

Susan Rowland, PhD

Author of Psyche and the Arts: Jungian Approaches to Music, Architecture, Literature, Painting and Film

“While we see the wasteland around us in the systems of the earth, desecrated by our own hands, we mostly fail to see the wasteland within us. Woundedness, within and without, points to the fact that the earth and humanity must be healed together.”
“We all retain a memory of being part of something greater than ourselves, and once embraced, our individual destiny becomes part of an emerging mosaic of the whole. As our destiny becomes clear, we realize everything in our lives is a circumambulation of the soul’s evolutionary spiral.”
“Only in deep surrender to Wisdom’s choreography does our destiny take shape.”
“Friendships rooted in the heart of Wisdom allow the emerging field to come into consciousness in a way that is supported and enhanced by what is coming through each person. In turn, this shared energy becomes the foundation of community, an alchemical vessel capable of bringing forth a new creation.”
“Shared vulnerability is the foundation stone of enduring relationships.”
“To experience life as the pulse of Love requires the integration of masculine and feminine energies in each of us.”
“The feminine rooted in the fierce crucible of Love must hold the center, while the masculine energy expresses that Love in the world.”
“The pulse of creation lives in the dynamic between attraction and articulation, between the fire of eros and the self-organizing patterns of logos. Before we can handle the fire of eros in the collective, we must learn to handle it in our human relationships.”
“The more we open to the Kairos moments in our life, the moments when the timeless intersects time, the more we can receive Wisdom as the Intelligence and Beauty informing a new story that wants to be told.”
“The life and death struggle we are in is monumental, but if we can trust the pattern emerging within the chaos, the solution is quite simple. While we cannot give in, we must surrender to the deeper reality of who we are. We must grow to trust in the process.”
“The universe conspires to support the soul – often at the dismay of our ego.”
“When power is exercised as strength and directed toward the accumulation and manipulation of matter for the good of the few, our de facto creed, as Goethe understood so well, is written by the devil’s hand and puts our souls to sleep.”
“Unaware of the deep currents moving and shaping our history, we endlessly create logical and reasonable solutions to our problems only to witness them devolve into nightmare scenarios.”
“Imagination, rightly understood, is a faculty of the soul and the driving force behind the ongoing transformation we call evolution.”
“To move into a new blueprint for humanity requires taking a leap across the abyss that is nothing short of consciously embracing a worldview rooted in the timeless pulse of creation.”
“Physics, chemistry, biology, complexity theory, art, literature, music, theatre are all rooted in the archetypal dynamics of the psyche. Psyche is the world manifesting through the sensual body.”
“To evolve to a higher level of consciousness will require a deeper understanding of who we are as humans beyond our present stereotypes based on gender. The biological, psychological, and spiritual levels of our humanity need to be integrated within us.”
“While Wisdom resides at the core of our being we dare not identify with Her. She is not a product of our limited ego, but if we surrender to Her, we find She is the light in every cell, the inspiration behind every thought.”
“Once we lived in an unconscious participation mystique with the world around us, now we must live in a conscious participatory world.”
“The more we move away from a deep body connection, the more static our language becomes; it dies on the sword of ideologies and platitudes.”

— Elinor Dickson —

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Work in Progress

In Pursuit of Wisdom:

Seeing History Through the Eyes of the Soul

From the co-author of Dancing in the Flames—now in its 8th printing—comes a mythopoetic adventure through history, inviting us to an unparalleled leap in consciousness.

In this book, Elinor Dickson describes how, today, we live suspended between a dying world and a world pressing to be born. Our crisis is one of relationship—within us, with each other, and with the earth—and to survive, we need to embody a new, emerging reality.

Journeying through cross-disciplinary narratives, from ecology to cosmology, this book paints the picture of a new worldview that is emerging and how, as a species, we are only halfway through our evolutionary journey.

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A wise voice of our time.

Elinor Dickson is a mythopoetic author exploring what is emerging and needed in the evolution of human consciousness—from shifting masculine and feminine energies, to the intersection of time and timelessness, to the unification of ecology and cosmology, body and soul.

Elinor Dickson’s Story

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Sha Sha Island and the Butterfly Tree

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A brilliant blue sky shimmered in the clear, crystal waters of the Bay. I sat cross-legged on an old wooden dock waiting for Dan, the Indigenous marina owner, to taxi me to the Island, to Sha Sha, which as legend says, was once a gift to a Kanien'kehà:ka (Mohawk) princess.

“Dickson’s genius is to tell the story of who we are and who we must become from inside the psyche’s creation myths.”

“While we see the wasteland around us in the systems of the earth, desecrated by our own hands, we mostly fail to see the wasteland within us. Woundedness, within and without, points to the fact that the earth and humanity must be healed together.”

“We all retain a memory of being part of something greater than ourselves, and once embraced, our individual destiny becomes part of an emerging mosaic of the whole. As our destiny becomes clear, we realize everything in our lives is a circumambulation of the soul’s evolutionary spiral.”

“Only in deep surrender to Wisdom’s choreography does our destiny take shape.”

“Shared vulnerability is the foundation stone of enduring relationships.”

“To experience life as the pulse of Love requires the integration of masculine and feminine energies in each of us.”

“The feminine rooted in the fierce crucible of Love must hold the center, while the masculine energy expresses that Love in the world.”

“The pulse of creation lives in the dynamic between attraction and articulation, between the fire of eros and the self-organizing patterns of logos. Before we can handle the fire of eros in the collective, we must learn to handle it in our human relationships.”

“The more we open to the Kairos moments in our life, the moments when the timeless intersects time, the more we can receive Wisdom as the Intelligence and Beauty informing a new story that wants to be told.”

“The life and death struggle we are in is monumental, but if we can trust the pattern emerging within the chaos, the solution is quite simple. While we cannot give in, we must surrender to the deeper reality of who we are. We must grow to trust in the process.”

“The universe conspires to support the soul – often at the dismay of our ego.”

“When power is exercised as strength and directed toward the accumulation and manipulation of matter for the good of the few, our de facto creed, as Goethe understood so well, is written by the devil’s hand and puts our souls to sleep.”

“Unaware of the deep currents moving and shaping our history, we endlessly create logical and reasonable solutions to our problems only to witness them devolve into nightmare scenarios.”

“Imagination, rightly understood, is a faculty of the soul and the driving force behind the ongoing transformation we call evolution.”

“To move into a new blueprint for humanity requires taking a leap across the abyss that is nothing short of consciously embracing a worldview rooted in the timeless pulse of creation.”

“Physics, chemistry, biology, complexity theory, art, literature, music, theatre are all rooted in the archetypal dynamics of the psyche. Psyche is the world manifesting through the sensual body.”

“To evolve to a higher level of consciousness will require a deeper understanding of who we are as humans beyond our present stereotypes based on gender. The biological, psychological, and spiritual levels of our humanity need to be integrated within us.”

“While Wisdom resides at the core of our being we dare not identify with Her. She is not a product of our limited ego, but if we surrender to Her, we find She is the light in every cell, the inspiration behind every thought.”

“Once we lived in an unconscious participation mystique with the world around us, now we must live in a conscious participatory world.”

“The more we move away from a deep body connection, the more static our language becomes; it dies on the sword of ideologies and platitudes.”