Three of us – David, Dave, and myself – are tentatively moving our inquiry from a focus on River to a focus on the places where we live, our Dwelling Places.
I am very taken with Curry's words "The appropriate attitude to it [is] “fearless receptivity.... [and the truth] which breaks the deadly spell of modernist banality or despair’. I might alter the wording slightly in the latter phrase to 'modernist banality and/or despair', and I have wondered who allows the fearless experience. It was not me if I remember.
There is deadly stuff though can be heard on the inner ear, even out there in the landscape. Some ritual gratefulness for protection... for our grove is good. We are not the individual centre we somehow imagine... thereby protection even unto death, even embraced by their sacrifices.
This is such a lovely description of connecting with the more than human world. Your comments about wording, words as a human gift and making it possible to voice the hymn
This tracks with my own similar experiences of encountering (another term for it) “sacred others.” Transparency and innocence describes it well. Courting moments of connection and grace relies on, as you write, “condensation of effort and feeling and intention.” Inviting the rational mind to rest in favor of the body and senses. Opening to whatever happens. 🙏
Thank you for sharing your practice and experience and putting into words what is so difficult to put into words, as you acknowledge. There is so much beauty in the mystery. Thanks also for the recommendation of Patrick Curry's work, will look into it.
I am very taken with Curry's words "The appropriate attitude to it [is] “fearless receptivity.... [and the truth] which breaks the deadly spell of modernist banality or despair’. I might alter the wording slightly in the latter phrase to 'modernist banality and/or despair', and I have wondered who allows the fearless experience. It was not me if I remember.
There is deadly stuff though can be heard on the inner ear, even out there in the landscape. Some ritual gratefulness for protection... for our grove is good. We are not the individual centre we somehow imagine... thereby protection even unto death, even embraced by their sacrifices.
This is such a lovely description of connecting with the more than human world. Your comments about wording, words as a human gift and making it possible to voice the hymn
This tracks with my own similar experiences of encountering (another term for it) “sacred others.” Transparency and innocence describes it well. Courting moments of connection and grace relies on, as you write, “condensation of effort and feeling and intention.” Inviting the rational mind to rest in favor of the body and senses. Opening to whatever happens. 🙏
Glad this resonates with you!
Thank you for sharing your practice and experience and putting into words what is so difficult to put into words, as you acknowledge. There is so much beauty in the mystery. Thanks also for the recommendation of Patrick Curry's work, will look into it.