![]() And in The Secret History of the World, Booth’s take on history is relentless, charging through time and space and thought in interdisciplinary fashion embracing cognitive science, religion, psychology, historiography, and philosophy, a new timeline is drawn, and a huge swath of our cultural heritage that has for long been hidden is restored. History is more than a list of things that have happened it’s a measure of consciousness and experience. ![]() Starting from a dangerous premise-that everything we’ve been taught about our world’s past is corrupted, and that the stories put forward by the various cults and mystery schools throughout history are true-Booth produces nothing short of an alternate history of the past 3,000 years. In this groundbreaking new work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world’s secret histories. But what if history-or what we come to know as history-has all along been written by the wrong people? What if everything we’ve been told is only part of the story? What if it’s the wrong part? They say that history is written by the victors. Even when the outside world is demanding and difficult, our inner life is what sustains us and can bring us wisdom, compassion, connectedness and inner peace.Genre: sci_history,sci_popular, The Secret History of the World Mark Booth We can stay well-rested and strong with sleep and exercise and good nutrition.Įvery moment we can make a choice that can define our lives and the world around us. We can refrain from blame or projection or judgement. We can fill our time with joyful activities. ![]() The minute we notice our mind is out of balance and the negative is creeping in, we can stop, and begin again. We can start being aware and responsible for every single thought we have. We can learn with mindfulness to feed the light wolf. We can learn to cultivate and nurture a beautiful mind. We can choose to be kind to ourselves and others. With a mindfulness practice, we can wake up and choose something different for our lives. And when we feed the dark wolf, we are out of balance, and our inner life is chaos and despair. All of these thoughts and emotions are feeding the dark wolf. Or maybe we believe we are insignificant or feel like we or others don’t matter. Or maybe we are judging ourselves or others or heaping guilt upon ourselves or others. Or maybe we are angry or abusive to ourselves and others. The question becomes what wolf are we feeding? Are we filling ourselves with negativity? Maybe we are overtired or overworked. Both of them try to dominate my Spirit.” The boy looked with amazement into this wise man’s eyes and asked, “Which one wins, Grandfather?” The grandfather smiled and said, “The one that wins-is the one I feed.” Sometimes it is hard to live with these two wolves inside me. He cannot think because his resentment, anger and hate are so great. The littlest thing will set him into a fit of temper. ![]() Shards of faith dark and light taming a wolf full#The other wolf is always vengeful, vicious and full of anger. His heart is open and available to the Great Spirit. He lives in harmony with all around and does not take offense or plot revenge. One is kind and understanding and does no harm it works to benefit the entire pack. It is as if there are two wolves inside me. It is like taking poison into your own body and wishing your enemy would suffer and die. But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. ![]() Someone recently sent me an interesting story from the Cherokee Indian Tradition and it goes like this:Īn old grandfather said to his grandson, who came to him with raging anger at a friend, “I too have felt great hate for those that have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do. ![]()
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