The Dance
Apologies for this long silence. Here, at last, is the final section of the New Pagans’ Handbook (apart from a short list of recommended reading). To accompany it, here is one of Ron White’s drawings (a particular favourite of mine).
This is not the end. We have more to bring you: more unpublished mss, and a few more images. We hope to be able to return to a fairly regular schedule of posting.
Appendix: On the Dance and Other Matters
In its early stages the outline of the foetus in the womb resembles the path of a simple labyrinth curling and curving in on itself. The labyrinth and the spiral are, as we have seen, among the earliest intuitions of man about his life and death cycle. They contain the first apprehensions of the possibility of some sort of eternity and some idea of the processes of creation. The labyrinth is the archetypal puzzle. It, by implication, deals with the observed progression of time and the seasons as set against another and different scale. The Dream Time, as the Australian Aborigines called it, a place where all being and becoming are in waiting. Dreaming has no set scale to our sense of time, all things being latent in the dreamer. Events are displayed, to his no surprise, wildly out of sequence, where indeed one can dream separate events simultaneously.
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