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Caitlin Johnstone has her own voice, her own genius. What draws me to her work is her gift for going into shadow and coming out with poetry. She channels the collective unconscious. She is a seer and what she sees in this age is both light and shadow, horror and beauty. She also places herself at psychic risk, difficult, almost toxic risk; she gets into the right kind of trouble. She carries the projection of truth-sayers. She is a modern day shaman. All shamans in their development go through some terrible ordeal which uniquely prepares them to serve their people, and enables them to venture between worlds, to travel between disparate realms. Not easy as many of us can attest to. We easily get unsettled, disoriented, confronted by insecurities when we open fully to the suffering and cruelty of the world. We titrate our pain and the pathos of existence, whereas some among us, like her, mainline it, and it maims her, but she relentlessly transmutes it into grace, she comes out of it with gifts for her community, often dark gifts, art and poetry and crushing, poignant, unflinching narrative reporting.  She walks the edge of sanity which for her means awake but for most people, living unconsciously from fear, means convention, conformity and being comfortably numb. I would guess that part of what keeps her going is seeing her gifts land, noticing eyes beginning to open. And they are, they are. Gratefulness...

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Tim Melin's avatar

Wow - mind blowing , thought provoking, truth that cuts to the core- Thank you 🙏

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