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Editor's Note |
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Every issue of Alaska Wellness is a little different. Sometimes, I have a plan in mind and am delighted to find all the articles and columns coming together in a timely fashion, subjects dovetailing and juxtaposing in curious and enlightening ways. Other times, I have no idea what will come in. Rather, it is as if the magazine herself has a plan. Subjects may still dovetail and juxtapose, though in ways I never would have imagined. In cases such as this, it is interesting to observe the range of topics that come forth. I sometimes think of it as a literary Rorschach, a pattern that tells us something about the group consciousness of what we need to know. It is this mode in which the current issue has unfolded. Many of the articles you will find in this issue of Alaska Wellness have to do with explaining the basics. This is a good thing. We live in a world that can all too easily overwhelm us. There is a plethora of data on almost any subject you can think of, not to mention the rapidly growing abundance of schools, practices, groups and books that explode like mutant spores as soon as any subject becomes “hot.” It is easy to get scooped up in the hurry-scurry, read-more, do-more mentality of it all. And yet, as teachers and guides have been repeating all along, our real life is so much more often discovered in being…not doing. My numerology friends tell me that 2003 is a year of balance and change, of coming to deeper terms with who we are and what we have to offer to the world. As we more effortlessly let go of who we are not, we more gracefully find (and, perhaps, are surprised to find) who we are. As the world shifts around us, it is interesting to note our patterns, be they inwardly or outwardly projected. What topics are suddenly “in our face” and how do we respond? What pulls on our emotions and what challenges our comfort zone? Is there a way to lighten up? To return to basics? Our searches take us in ever-widening circles. We are so often out there, seeking, looking, exploring, carried away by the adventure, only to find that the journey brings us back to basics: to ourselves. It is as T. S. Eliot wrote so beautifully: “The end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time.” This, too, is who we are. Dawn Brunke is the author of Animal Voices ~ Telepathic Communication in the Web of Life, to be published in July 2002 by Inner Traditions International. See www.animalvoices.net for a preview. |
