Episode 82 - Under the Hill

A DoorYielding to Land1 is a rigorous art. To make yourself soft to a hard place is to open something akin to opening a faery-door - not some pretty fabrication glued to a tree by a well-meaning parent - but a gaping cave mouth in reality. There is darkness in there and the possibility of madness beside the real prize, wisdom. There is also a price to pay: everything you had constructed on top of the ground of yourself, before.Wisdom flows downhill, like water. Unless you lower yourself, and present something empty, you cannot gather it…This podcast was first published here on Substack on December 2nd 2024, with full transcript, footnotes, links and images. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe