H. Byron Ballard writes about how we are living in "tower time". "In brief", she says, "I have come to know through unverifiable personal gnosis - dreams, visions, pondering, discussions with colleagues - that we are living in the times when the top-down and toxic systems that some of us call patriarchy are in the process of collapse. Because I am a lifelong Tarot reader, the image that returns to my mind again and again is the tower. . . We are living in times when these massive, ancient, and toxic systems that have both created civilization as we know it and doomed it are crashing under their own weight of history and grief." But it's also personal. She could also have said, We are living in times when these massive, ancient, and toxic systems that have both created our lives as we know them and doomed those lives, are crashing under their own weight of history and grief. She continues: "As the tower falls, it is incumbent on all of us who can act to create what I have been calling 'circles on the ground' - active and well thought-out alternatives to what we've come to know. . ."
Isn't it also the case that my tower is your tower, is our tower, is The tower?
To be continued. . .(Article changed on January 29, 2019 at 20:59)
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