Please read her full article linked in her Bio. Repost from @starhawk_spiral • 💨 Lessons from Fire and Smoke 💨 Fire is a great, if harsh teacher, and in this time of great challenges, we learn them… or perish. ✨Lesson Number One: Reality Is Real ✨ An actual, objective reality exists outside of our thoughts, feelings, hopes and desires, and we can’t just wish it away. You wouldn’t think this would be a lesson we’d need to learn on a mass scale, as it seems so obvious as to be barely worth stating. But alas, we live in an age in which this most basic understanding of life has been under assault. There is a certain wing of new age thought that has chipped away at this for decades, twisting deep spiritual teachings into the appealing but wrong-headed idea that ‘we create our own reality.’ As someone who has spoken out for our human need for spiritual connection and direction, who has talked about magic and championed intuition, I feel a responsibility to be clear about this. The definition I’ve always used for magic is Dion Fortune’s “the art of changing consciousness at will.” Magic is an ancient psychology, the exploration of the wide range of states of awareness and perception human beings are capable of, and their impacts. It is not simply wishful thinking. Reality is real, and you can’t just change it with a thought. Facts are actually facts, not ‘alternative facts’, not the ‘feel facts’ Saturday Night Live parodies that aren’t actually true but feel like they should be. We may dispute the facts, but in the end we have to face them. What we can change is our own emotional response to reality — and that itself takes practice and mental discipline. We can choose what stories we build from the facts we face. And those choices will affect our actions… ✨ I go deeper into my thoughts on what the fires and smoke have to teach us on my Medium article- link in my bio ✨ . . . . . #lessonsfromfire #realityisreal #wildfirelessonslearned #magicalactivism #changingconsciousness #magicisreal✨ #factsarefacts #starhawkquotes #starhawkarticles #listentofire #firewisdom https://www.instagram.com/p/CFMzwfVHRDt/?igshid=178ncewn0nx08