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He is so high that no one can reach him,
so deep that no one can penetrate to his depth;
he rides the fluid light,
he whips space in the six directions…
he emerges beyond height,
he penetrates below depths…
he sails to the point of the indefinite…
he absorbs the nine efflorescences at the edge of the clouds…
he goes here and there in the shadowy darkness…
Ge Hong (283–343 CE, also known as Ge Zhichuan) describing the wu shaman…
(From ‘Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture’ by Lorie Eve Dechar (p.38), quoting from ‘Taoism’ by Isabelle Robinet)
Posted on October 3, 2010 with 17 notes
Writer, wilderness rites of passage guide, storyteller, lurcher-walker, forest-roamer, stargazer, bread-baker, poem-speaker and life-lover. Also grows potatoes.
