Page 14 - Dark Matter Women Witnessing

Cynthia Travis

Listen with Your Feet

Prior to colonization, African elephant consciousness mirrored the unfenced expanse of

the continent. Elephant civilization was a dense, intricate, multi-dimensional network of
millions upon millions who were comparably bound to all other creatures and Nature’s

rhythms. Experience occurred in tandem, embedded in the space-time matrix of infinite

relationships... Each elephant was a self-similar fractal who embodied all elephant

consciousness...

The way forward is the way back - by returning to a way of life modeled on elephant

ethics and values. Restore our consciousness to that of elephants of old. Renewal will
come. www.gabradshaw.com

- Elephants, Us and Other Kin, G. A. Bradshaw,

The way we treat land, and the ghosts of our land, is the way we will treat everything,

including ourselves.
- Leaving Before the Rains Come, Alexandra Fuller

We have subjected ourselves to a holocaust of the personal, the subjective, and the

intuitive, becoming objects, even to ourselves. And that has made us lonely. No wonder

we stay up late and keep the lights on all night long. A little more darkness and we might

awaken to the question suppressed by virtually every aspect of our light-drunk lives:
What on Earth have I done?

- Waking Up In the Dark, Clark Strand

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