Riktigt tänkvärt

Starhawk är pseodonymen för en kvinnlig nyhednisk feministisk författare och debattör. Det där med nyhednisk kan ju verka flummigt för en del, men att hon i hög grad har båda fötterna på jorden visar kanske detta stycke, från hennes klassiker The Spiral Dance. Den kom ut första gången 1979. Det är faktiskt ett av mina favoritcitat. Jag citerar här från den tredje upplagan, 1999, sidan 139.

"It is fashionable in some occult circles to proclaim piously that 'thouhts are things, and therefore we should think only positive thoughts, because the negative things we think will come to pass.' It is hard to imagine a philosophy that could more swiftly produce extreme paranoia. Were it true, the death rate would rise phenomenally. Overpopulation would be the least of our worries - and no elected politician would survive long enough to be inaugurated. If thoughts and emotions alone could cause things to happen, thousands of my contemporaries would have married the Beatles in 1964. And I would not be writing on the desk - I would be sunning myself in Tahiti..."