The Nature People

While reading The Mist-Filled Path by Frank MacEowen, I came upon an interesting quote that I wanted everyone else to be able to read. The quote comes from The Healing Wisdom of Africa by the Dagara (West African) shaman, Malidoma Some, in which he states:

Different cultures represent the profound influence of certain elements.
Take Western culture, for instance. Western culture is a Fire
culture. Its emphasis has been on fire-power. It is a culture that
has harnessed fire in ways never seen before, and sometimes in very destructive
ways. But a problem arises when a culture becomes imbalanced and does not
have equal parts water, mineral and nature to balance out the fire.
Witches, for instance, are Nature people in Dagara cosmology. The nature
people preserve the knowledge of nature and teach the knowledge of nature.
They are often the holders of the knowledge involving the healing power of
plants. The time of the witch burnings in Europe and America represents
the beginning of the imbalance in Western culture. It was the time when
fire was used to overpower nature and it has been the same every since.

Shaman Some made a very powerful statement in very few sentences.