Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Cowboy Civility In An Uncivil World

In The Good Souls on June 20, 2010 at 10:52 AM


COWBOY CIVILITY IN AN UNCIVIL WORLD

By Dr. C.P. Estés

…suddenly some look-at-me guy at the bar cat-calls, “F- man, don’t you know more than one note, you loser?”

In ancient mythos, the rainmaker symbolizes a part of the psyche which detaches and leaves the mad world, going into the forest and down under the roots of the trees, seeing the world from there…

through a unique, set-apart zeitgeist, a spirit of our times that is not dedicated to apoplexy over cultural contretemps, but just calm observations, a remembering of honor… and unusual ways of dealing with the dishonorable.

Here are two odd rainmakers… Read the rest of this entry »

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