Wilderness
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| Wilderness is any place that is confusing and "bewildering". This page, for example, might be a little difficult to read... so somewhat confusing? bewildering? Wilderness is one of a trio of spaces in human unconscious: we understand wilderness only in contrast to these other places. ===> A wilderness threshold passage takes life, concentrates it into a brief/eternal span of literal/allegorical time, composes a story with a real/symbolic meaning whose mortal/immortal protagonist undergoes an ordeal/epiphany in a bounded/limitless environment where ordinary/nonordinary realities exist simultaneously. ===> If there is wilderness that you go through, then there must also be a begining place; |
| as it happens, the beginning place is also the place you come out in on the other side of wilderness. ===> A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous |
| forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow |
| boons on his fellow man. ===> We shall not cease from wandering and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. ===> The third place is the place of |
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redemption, peace, plenty, salvation, beyond the beyond, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns, heaven, nirvana. The place of redemption is sometimes visited by the person who travels in the wilderness ===> It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles and see the great Achilles whom we knew. |
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