The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap. - Novalis, translated by Charles E Passage
So opens News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness. This anthology, chosen and introduced by Robert Bly and published by Sierra Club Books in 1980, was re-issued in 1995.
Bly concludes the preface to the re-issue:
If we do love spiritual intellect and the soul of the world, we need to resist the forces that want to dishonor Nature. The consciousness of Nature now is more generous than ours.
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Stone, Petroglyphics, Northern Great Basin
Photo Douglas Beauchamp
