“When relationship is used to delineate roles or describe stasis, as in , the relationship becomes a thing possessed instead of an interaction; it becomes inert, an object instead of an activity. Dualism insists on distance, on egoic territorialism and fixed categorizations. It interprets relationship as something you personally have or don’t have, or as a measure of difference, not as a universal dance in which you play a part. Relationship in the shamanic sense is dynamic, coming as it does from a nondual spiritual concept of the cosmos as a unified movement. Thus, healing is not a battle between disease and health (evil versus good), but is a restoration of an intrinsically harmonious perspective. Within this orientation, relationship encompasses rather than distances, and right relationship is participation in a cosmic integrity expressive of dynamic well-being” Loren Cruden, Medicine Grove: A Shamanic Herbal, Destiny Books, Rochester (Vermont), 1997, p. 5. See: astore.amazon.co.uk/astroshamanis-21/detail/0892816473
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