Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
Rites__f__assage stories_were cherished in pre__iterate societies not only for their entertainment value, but also as mythic tools to prepare young men and women for life__ ordeals. A wealth of such stories can be found marking each major transition in the human life cycle: puberty, marriage, childbirth, menopause, death. Other rites__f__assage, less predictable but equally transformative, include times of sudden change and calamity such as illness and injury, the loss of one__ home, the death of a loved one, etc. These are the times when we wake, like Dante, to find ourselves in a deep, dark wood _ an image that in Jungian psychology represents an inward journey. Rites__f__assage tales point to the hidden roads that lead out of the dark again _ and remind us that at the end of the journey we__e not the same person as when we started. Ascending from the Netherworld (that grey landscape of illness, grief, depression, or despair), we are __wice__orn_ in our return to life, carrying seeds _ new wisdom, ideas, creativity and fecundity of spirit.
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Rites__f__assage stories_were cherished in pre__iterate societies not only for their entertainment value, but also as mythic tools to prepare young men and women for life__ ordeals. A wealth of such stories can be found marking each major transition in the human life cycle: puberty, marriage, childbirth, menopause, death. Other rites__f__assage, less predictable but equally transformative, include times of sudden change and calamity such as illness and injury, the loss of one__ home, the death of a loved one, etc. These are the times when we wake, like Dante, to find ourselves in a deep, dark wood _ an image that in Jungian psychology represents an inward journey. Rites__f__assage tales point to the hidden roads that lead out of the dark again _ and remind us that at the end of the journey we__e not the same person as when we started. Ascending from the Netherworld (that grey landscape of illness, grief, depression, or despair), we are __wice__orn_ in our return to life, carrying seeds _ new wisdom, ideas, creativity and fecundity of spirit.
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