A Branch from the Lightning Tree by Martin Shaw

Author:Martin Shaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Cloud Press
Published: 2011-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

CROSSROADS, TEMPLES, AND WILD INTELLIGENCE

The dark eagles, sleep and death,

Rustle all night around my head:

The golden statue of man

May be swallowed by the icy comber

of eternity

Georg Trakl1

By now we should be getting some sense of mythological thinking. We’ve just witnessed the movement of youth as they attempt to stride into the rapids of adolescence to swim to adulthood. We have witnessed the complexity of this attempt and the need for open, visibly moved adults to be waiting on the other bank. We have also looked at the hard space that opens when there is no welcome committee.

So this chapter is concerned with the business of what we can call eldership, and certain unusual perspectives on how it could emerge. Any use of the word “leadership” is as a contribution to this emergence within an individual. We will strike out on two roads of pursuit that lead to a seemingly contrary crossroads, where relationship to the Trickster is the glue that holds us in its tension. We will trace his paw prints between language and writing, and also in the vitality of metaphor.

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