Yes, indeed! we need to talk about the reality of the divinities. I am currently writing about this on my Substack, and the problems that arise when a sense of fantasy enters into our relationship with them - when hubris and New Age assumption try to diminish them.
I just love your post so much, thank you for writing it. It made me think that, in a way, we can be living, breathing, speaking gods, just like the mountains and trees, if we develop certain organs of consciousness in ourselves. As I was reading your article, I thought, I wish he would write more about this kind of animism, and then at the end you say that you will. I'm so happy :-) Thank you again.
Another beautiful read from you a chara. I don't know how do you do it, but you always manage to bring up a topic just when my mind is preoccupied with similar thoughts! I feel what you've written here goes together nicely with that quote of yours I've used in my essay on Brigid. The Nature cares little for our brandings and definitions that include words like gods and goddess, with all their linguistic and cultural constraints and limitations... The Nature simply IS.
I am so grateful to be woven in this web of relation with you a chara. I do think there are understandings and truths that the living world and the ancestors are trying to speak into the world. And I love that it expresses simultaneously through different minds in different words in different places.
Yes, indeed! we need to talk about the reality of the divinities. I am currently writing about this on my Substack, and the problems that arise when a sense of fantasy enters into our relationship with them - when hubris and New Age assumption try to diminish them.
This feels SO synchronized. I've been looking for input on this topic. Your observations are valuable. Thank you.
I just love your post so much, thank you for writing it. It made me think that, in a way, we can be living, breathing, speaking gods, just like the mountains and trees, if we develop certain organs of consciousness in ourselves. As I was reading your article, I thought, I wish he would write more about this kind of animism, and then at the end you say that you will. I'm so happy :-) Thank you again.
My grandfather always took us out into the cathedral of the trees or the mountains etc
thank you for this. <3
Lovely post. You are so right that the language is lacking -- the constant need to reclaim and recast words as we weave our threads. Thank you.
A modern day John O'Donahue. As I read this I was listening to Damh the Bard and his Under the Trees song as well as Green and Grey.
Go raibh maith agat! I am deeply honored. And moved to share the soundtrack to this moment on this side of the ocean -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4w7F38O7Ek&list=PLADr_rxgAMYJ1zNqi9lVuCXYRE0eMOx5q&index=10
Ah thank you. I will enjoy it
Beautiful.
Another beautiful read from you a chara. I don't know how do you do it, but you always manage to bring up a topic just when my mind is preoccupied with similar thoughts! I feel what you've written here goes together nicely with that quote of yours I've used in my essay on Brigid. The Nature cares little for our brandings and definitions that include words like gods and goddess, with all their linguistic and cultural constraints and limitations... The Nature simply IS.
I am so grateful to be woven in this web of relation with you a chara. I do think there are understandings and truths that the living world and the ancestors are trying to speak into the world. And I love that it expresses simultaneously through different minds in different words in different places.