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Bear Gate

Sarah Teofanov

mixed media on paper

"Bear has been a power animal for me for over 25 years when trancing. Here the gate of transformation is the bear directly. Surrender is the only option for consciousness."

No God can be bigger than the gate that lets people into the presence. If the only way to that God is through a narrow little gate with picky little gatekeepers, then that God is no bigger than that gate nor wiser than those keepers. If a woman wants to approach divinity, she should not go through a narrow gate built by men. Women should find their own way.

(Sophy's first law of the supernatural, in Sheri S. Tepper's Gibbon's Decline and Fall)

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