Passage from "Belonging" by Toko-pa Turner

Wise words from Toko-pa Turner on the unseen worlds and how we lost touch with methods of accessing the wisdom the the ancients.

“There is a world behind this world. The old cultures used to be in constant conversation with it through the sacred practices of storytelling, dreaming, ceremony, and song. They invited the Otherworld to visit them, to transmit its wisdom to them, so that they might be guided by an ancient momentum. But as we succumbed to the spell of rationalism, the living bridge between the worlds fell into disrepair. As fewer made the journey back and forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch, we forgot how to find the Otherworld. At any given moment, we are either turning away from or coming into congruence with our kinship with mystery.”

—Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner

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