It's eliciting all sorts of thoughts and responses in me. Apologies in advance for what is likely to be a long comment!
Firstly, on your theme of threes, we were reminded on my permaculture course that all things in nature take on the role of either producer (plants etc) consumer (animals etc) and decomposers (fungi etc).
Reflecting on multiple concurrent seasonal cycles in our lives and paradox, it reminds me how we take on these three roles in different aspects of our life and practice. We are probably all three simultaneously if we look at the whole of our life.
Secondly, staying with threes, I'm pondering your stool analogy. For me I think that (connection to) body, (connection to) place/land, and mythology make up the three. Of course, all three imply interrelate, and also necessitate community rather than individualism. The community of beings within my body, the humans and more than human creatures populating place, and the places, gods, archetypes etc of myth.
Personally I think that psychology, albeit a useful thing to learn, is limited. And overall has been far too coopted by and tainted by the systems it exists within.
As for poetry and religion, here's Richard Rohr:
"I’m convinced that the root of our divisions can only be overcome by a unitive consciousness at every level: personal, relational, social, political, cultural, and spiritual. This is the unique and central job of healthy religion (re-ligio = to re-ligament or bind together)"
I'm not sure poetry can achieve this, especially reading it as a solo venture, though I'd argue it is certainly one of the better portals into such unitive consciousness when we allow it to really get to work on us.
Thanks also for the reminder about lectio divina - a good lens on reading poetry that I'll aim to reincorporate in my life.
This “pierced” soul. Seen and heard. Will Johnson you have a gift of getting to soul. Few can say as much. You leave me with a whole new level of inspiration. Thank you. I too am awed by Lilburn. To even read one paragraph of his takes me an hour and takes me places that change me. Blessings and thank you for introducing me to a whole new world of the mythopoetic. 🙏❤️
Thank you, Jim! Grateful to the many teachers ‘showing me the way’ as we often say. Lilburn continues to surprise and dumbfound me! One small paragraph is enough to chew on for a week. Maybe that’s the point. “Small chunks and savour” :)
Ah, Will, you've really packed this one!
It's eliciting all sorts of thoughts and responses in me. Apologies in advance for what is likely to be a long comment!
Firstly, on your theme of threes, we were reminded on my permaculture course that all things in nature take on the role of either producer (plants etc) consumer (animals etc) and decomposers (fungi etc).
Reflecting on multiple concurrent seasonal cycles in our lives and paradox, it reminds me how we take on these three roles in different aspects of our life and practice. We are probably all three simultaneously if we look at the whole of our life.
Secondly, staying with threes, I'm pondering your stool analogy. For me I think that (connection to) body, (connection to) place/land, and mythology make up the three. Of course, all three imply interrelate, and also necessitate community rather than individualism. The community of beings within my body, the humans and more than human creatures populating place, and the places, gods, archetypes etc of myth.
Personally I think that psychology, albeit a useful thing to learn, is limited. And overall has been far too coopted by and tainted by the systems it exists within.
As for poetry and religion, here's Richard Rohr:
"I’m convinced that the root of our divisions can only be overcome by a unitive consciousness at every level: personal, relational, social, political, cultural, and spiritual. This is the unique and central job of healthy religion (re-ligio = to re-ligament or bind together)"
I'm not sure poetry can achieve this, especially reading it as a solo venture, though I'd argue it is certainly one of the better portals into such unitive consciousness when we allow it to really get to work on us.
Thanks also for the reminder about lectio divina - a good lens on reading poetry that I'll aim to reincorporate in my life.
A deep sigh of contentment, can you hear it from over there, Will? Diolch yn fawr iawn 🌿
Ah I do Sue! I hear it and feel it. Its strengthening.
I thought you might like Tim Lilburn’s suggestion of reading the Psalms as a Lectio practice 🙏
Thank you for taking the time to take this all in.
This “pierced” soul. Seen and heard. Will Johnson you have a gift of getting to soul. Few can say as much. You leave me with a whole new level of inspiration. Thank you. I too am awed by Lilburn. To even read one paragraph of his takes me an hour and takes me places that change me. Blessings and thank you for introducing me to a whole new world of the mythopoetic. 🙏❤️
Thank you, Jim! Grateful to the many teachers ‘showing me the way’ as we often say. Lilburn continues to surprise and dumbfound me! One small paragraph is enough to chew on for a week. Maybe that’s the point. “Small chunks and savour” :)
I’m chewing slow! Thanks so much Will. Keep it coming. ❤️