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The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.
Starhawk
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
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St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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