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~ David Whyte (Author)
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  • Paperback: 88 pages
  • Publisher: Many Rivers Press (January 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0962152420
  • ISBN-13: 978-0962152429
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #213,726 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars New Prophecy From the Rosy Fire, April 23, 1999
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David Whyte's FIRE IN THE EARTH is rival knowledge for anyone whose belief system excludes the Mystery. And rival it must, taking the reader on a journey through several paths renegotiating the usual ontological arguments of our birth, being, becoming and eventual death as humans.

He begins by smashing the prophetic crystal ball of our culture and naming the existential fear of unknowing and alientation from a collective vision of moving forward together. He then substitutes a pattern of spiralling fire - super nova - as the original spark igniting a rival vision of the potential human.

Framing his argument in triple lines, Whyte's technique introduces a slippage that brings another vision into the centre challenging our identity and strategies for safety fending off our fear of the unknown. Having dismissed with fire imagery that warms, comforts and protects, he confronts and coaxes us to come into the fire of transformation by blocking our exit back he convinces us to give up the old habitual patterns of self-destruction, addiction and bargaining.

Here in this transformative fire, we are humbled by our own small vision, the one true path. Whyte invokes the idea of desire which is not owning or clinging to possessions, rather this desire is freeing. "Now the path of leaving is the path" he says, meaning, I think, that paradox is fuelling the fire of the "I" vision - the way foward becomes "faith in no path where there is no faith at all." The soul's light then explodes onto the page forging us a glimmer of the longings, desires and wants that arise from the original fire of our begetting.

And yet, in spite of all the fireworks, the path is not illumined and the journey falters once again. What is required on this journey is a "feral act of courage" to make a voluntary "fall" into the fire of desire. Here in that ex nihlio moment of becoming an enlightened human being from nothing a new prophecy is awakened from within the heart of the body, in the image of the fiery rose.

This book is a transcendent vision of a journey of rebirth into Eros, vision, the beloved, relationship with the sacred and the inner fire of the Mystery. It has gotten me through many a long, dark night of the soul.

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