Finger-Tip Dancing
What stays with me are those first fingertips, so gentle and healing, that connect us.
Your Personal Landscape is unique in all the world. Think of it as a persistent state of being that occurs in every moment of your life. It is all your conscious and unconscious experiences filtered and understood through your five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. These senses allow you to think, feel, do, be, and relate in varying amounts, combinations, and intensities.
With our senses engaged we perceive the ever-changing world around us, then create outward- and inward-looking Personal Landscapes. In those landscapes lie all the stories we hear or do not hear, all those we tell or do not tell, and all those that drive us, unknowingly, from our subconscious.
The five doors of Mindfulness, Dreamtime, Creative Flow, Transformation, and Storybuilding help chart pathways through your Personal Landscapes. Stepping through these portals and into timelessness, we uncover long-forgotten memories, stumble upon nightmares and daydreams, and confront deeply buried longings for a well-lived life. In these intangible spaces of past, present, and future, we bend time to our larger concerns of purpose and meaning. Here, we pursue a wealth of natural creativity and build new stories that bring coherence, competence, and contentment to our daily routines. Strangely enough, time then widens, lengthens, and slows so we can make time to become who we came here to be.
Marjorie Wilson Peltier is a lifelong writer searching for her Wise Old Woman. In her blog, Messages from the Psyche, she straddles the line between conscious thought and preconscious promptings, thus bringing us face-to-face with Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious and its archetypes. Peltier frames encounters with the Collective as Personal Landscapes and the Five Doors Through Time and offers lyrical essays and vignettes that may interest those who seek deeper connections with Self and Others.