Patterns of Renewal
About this book
The pattern of renewal as I have experienced it, in what I call the “first man of Africa,” is, I think, the earliest known human pattern still alive and accessible to us today. I present it as an experience, with perhaps more confidence than I should, because I think that what we need in the world today is not knowledge of these things so much as experience of these things; because it seems to me one of the tragedies of modern man is that he is cut off from experiencing this immense dynamic pattern of renewal deep in himself. So begins the retelling of the Bushman creation stories: how the world began, what Man was like, how life is renewed. The Bushman’s stories are all told in images, which are a kind of hieroglyphic of the spirit. Join with the Laurens in discovering the beginnings.