Armin Geetz

Prophecy might be based, not on haphazard fantasy, but on attunement to subtler levels of reality – on forms of awareness that the modern West forfeited, temporarily, in order to develop empirical and rationalist thought.  As Armin Geertz, an anthropologist of the Hopi culture, writes:  “Prophecy is not prediction, even though it purports to be.  Prophecy is a thread in the total fabric of meaning, in the total worldview.  In this way it can be seen as a way of life and being.”