Crow Moon Quotes

“Magic, for me, is a short word for a tricky concept. One that is easy to experience but hard to put into words. Magic takes up where modern science and philosophy leave off. It floods into every entangled space of being and reveals itself slowly. It requires that we enter into experience embodied and unafraid of the dark and the strange. Magic has at its heart a livingness, a responsiveness, a reciprocal consciousness that science does not recognise. It allows space for the soul. For transformation beyond logic. For the impossible, the improbable, the longed for. It both allows us – and the universe – more agency. And the possibility of creative collaboration. It has at its heart a web of interbeing that only ecologists and quantum physicists in mainstream culture can really grasp. It embraces the unseen. Without needing to try and see it. It accepts the darkness of mind and logical knowing and embraces the reality of divergent non-repeatable lived experience and revelation. It is a state of being where we understand the psyche as a vital layer of reality alive in the world. One where we see the realm of symbol as active within and without, and the world as woven from energies which can be mediated, played with, transformed. To allow for magic is to give space to a greater reality than our current culture can explain or conceptualise. A reality where consciousness affects the material world. One that acknowledges the truth that not only humans are conscious, and where things like time may be far more complex or entirely different than we currently understand. Magic lives in the margins, on the edges of days, on the perimeters of places, where one threshold crosses or touches another, in the realm of Crow and Moon. Whenever you enter the wild with openness to the encounter there is the potential to experience magic. This I know as truth. We re-enter an ever-present living presence, a complex non-human living system, a matrix of symbols. If we allow ourselves to become part of it, we experience a falling away of time – of this time in history and the daily roles we play – and remember a timeless sense of being.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Crow Moon: Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Dark Woods