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1 " There’s an old Cherokee tale in which a man tells his grandson, “There are two wolves fighting within me. One of them is angry and hateful, the other is generous and compassionate.” When the boy asks, “Which one will win, Grandpa?” the old man answers, “The one I feed. "
― Alberto Villoldo , Soul Journeying: Shamanic Tools for Finding Your Destiny and Recovering Your Spirit
2 " This isn’t true for us Westerners, though: Judeo-Christian tradition and Greek and Roman mythology see the Lower World as a place where we bury our dead. We associate the deep earth with hell and fire and brimstone—we believe it to be a place of torment and suffering. We don’t see the earth as the origin of our life; instead, we look to images of our ancestors or photographs of our biological relatives as the place from which we come. In the West, we aren’t children of the earth—we’re children of humans. "
