09-20-2018, 11:29 AM
Do you think interacting with nature by communicating with and listening to it through ritual offerings and attentive eyes and ears is a missing link in most of our seeking? Is a return, however complex or limited, to our indigenous pagan understandings essential? People are paying more attention to the lives of animals, but what about the trees, the soil, the rain, moon, and stars? Can we continue in a healthy manner by viewing the natural world as empty, using what we will without acknowledgment or respect?
I can't think of something more immediately present that is taken for granted and basically all but forgotten such as the consciousness in nature that feeds and gives us life. Our bodies are a walking earth after all. The simplest act of sending a blessing to food at mealtime is a start. Certainly there has been a gradual consciousness developing over the last few decades towards a "back to the earth" movement of returning to the garden. Though a noble beginning, do we need more of a ritualistic approach and communing magically with the spirit in nature and our skies?
I'm not against technology, nor am I an alarmist, but it is interesting that a large solar flare could cripple our infrastructure in an instant. One could speculate that that property of the sun is almost like a checks and balances in terms of technological advancement, whereby a more holistic understanding might be necessary to continue moving within our rhythmic and cyclical world.
A deeper connection to nature is something that has been building in me over the last decade (although has always been there since childhood), and I'm beginning to feel how reckless it must be to take from the earth constantly without gifts or praise in return, acknowledging its awareness.
We know a permeating consciousness is built into the Ra material. They speak of harmonic interaction with the earth as a conscious entity, and talk about the consciousness of the sun, solar system, galaxies etc. Also, the pyramids were built by talking to rocks =) "3.8 In this way, that which is required is accomplished due to the cooperation of the infinite understanding of the Creator indwelling in the living rock." I see however that most spiritual discussion pretty much anywhere tends to revolve around ourselves in relation to others. Have we forgotten too much?
Anyway..just some thoughts!
I can't think of something more immediately present that is taken for granted and basically all but forgotten such as the consciousness in nature that feeds and gives us life. Our bodies are a walking earth after all. The simplest act of sending a blessing to food at mealtime is a start. Certainly there has been a gradual consciousness developing over the last few decades towards a "back to the earth" movement of returning to the garden. Though a noble beginning, do we need more of a ritualistic approach and communing magically with the spirit in nature and our skies?
I'm not against technology, nor am I an alarmist, but it is interesting that a large solar flare could cripple our infrastructure in an instant. One could speculate that that property of the sun is almost like a checks and balances in terms of technological advancement, whereby a more holistic understanding might be necessary to continue moving within our rhythmic and cyclical world.
A deeper connection to nature is something that has been building in me over the last decade (although has always been there since childhood), and I'm beginning to feel how reckless it must be to take from the earth constantly without gifts or praise in return, acknowledging its awareness.
We know a permeating consciousness is built into the Ra material. They speak of harmonic interaction with the earth as a conscious entity, and talk about the consciousness of the sun, solar system, galaxies etc. Also, the pyramids were built by talking to rocks =) "3.8 In this way, that which is required is accomplished due to the cooperation of the infinite understanding of the Creator indwelling in the living rock." I see however that most spiritual discussion pretty much anywhere tends to revolve around ourselves in relation to others. Have we forgotten too much?
Anyway..just some thoughts!
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