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"The initiatory traditions might ask, why would we even consider granting access to world altering technologies to those who haven't even apprenticed with the the oldest technology of all - fire? Fire, the first technology. Fire, the heat and the light. What does fire know?
In many traditions, initiatory apprenticeship requires a lot of time with fire. Fire, the technology that brings with it the illumination and promise of culture - and the danger of watching it all go up in flames.
At this point in my life, I can say that I've done "a little" time by the fire. I've kept fire for ceremonies, and for rituals, for many years now. I'm sure many of you have too. What does one learn, tending fire?
In tending fire, you learn to strike a beautiful balance between openness and containment. You learn what it means to feed something patiently and gently and carefully, and to coax it when it needs to be coaxed.
In tending fire, you learn: To hang back when you need to hang back. To be assertive when you need to be assertive, To wait when you need to wait. To be patient. To build a good foundation first, To build a good housing structure for the tiny coal that will live there.
This is the slow, steady, patient work with the dangerous and the precarious. This is the embodied trial by fire." - Josh Schrei, "So You Want To Be A Sorcerer In The Age Of Mythic Powers: The AI Episode," timestamp ~1hr13m
this excerpt was the inspiration for - my costume, here fire, the oldest technology. gotta integrate the bay area and the forest somehow. best way I know is, by living it. https://t.co/TofuqrpYG9
