Most powerful concept for me, which has harmonic resonance with the human-faery-animal alliance material RJ Stewart teaches: a "human being" (in the sense of a person standing in front of you) is not just that alone, but a group or association of beings of various spiritual races with a mutual agreement to fulfill some soul purpose.
That rings very true for me too. I've been doing a lot of work around the triple soul stuff lately (partly to prep for this con) and the more I work it the more I find it weaves closer and closer to RJ Stewart's approach. The human being as a microcosm of the three worlds - underworld/Faery/Fetch, middle world/human/Talker, heaven world/divine/Godsoul. It doesn't actually surprise me at all that you would find this embedded in Foxwood either. Another Feri lady I was talking over the weekend mentioned to me that in one of Orion's workshops he did a blessing thing, which turns out to be a nearly mirror-exact version of a Feri water blessing we do in Vanthe line, except ours begins at the feet and ends at the crown of the head. Cora comes from the same southern-folkwitch kind of tradition as Orion.
Several years back when Victor was alive and he used to come "hold court" at PCon, someone asked him about the relationship between Feri trad and RJ's Faery teachings. He said, "It's the same thing." I was talking with RJ about this this weekend and quoted that to him, and he said, "It's true, it is basically the same thing."
Working the common threads and connections between Feri and Faery traditions is becoming a big focus of my practice and I think is going to characterize how I teach Feri.
Ramble ramble. I've just noticed how long this is getting so I'll stop. You can tell I'm fired up about this, eh?
It doesn't actually surprise me at all that you would find this embedded in Foxwood either.
I would probably be more surprised if it weren't. Like you, I find that Faery/Underworld, Faery Seership, and Feri all have a lot of threads in common, like they are tapestries woven with different weft on the same warp.
Ramble ramble. I've just noticed how long this is getting so I'll stop. You can tell I'm fired up about this, eh?
Hey, it's okay! The things we can talk the most about and pull out the most details the longer we go on are the things seated most deeply inside us. ("What do you worship with your thoughts?")
I was reminded of this conversation again yesterday; I was reading through some notes I had from one of Orion's presentations last year and ran across a tidbit that I had somehow forgotten about: He talked about the threefold nature of our souls, being made of parts that live in all three worlds, and he called them "Dream Walker, Surface Walker, and Star Walker". I'm now remembering how deeply that struck me at the time, and when I reread it I got the big chills again.
It's funny, I didn't make it to any of his presentations this year, but I'm really working through a lot of related stuff right now so this is all catching my attention a lot. I've been getting some stuff that gives me a new perspective on the notion of being othersouled or having a Faery soul in a human body.
That rings very true for me too. I've been doing a lot of work around the triple soul stuff lately (partly to prep for this con) and the more I work it the more I find it weaves closer and closer to RJ Stewart's approach. The human being as a microcosm of the three worlds - underworld/Faery/Fetch, middle world/human/Talker, heaven world/divine/Godsoul. It doesn't actually surprise me at all that you would find this embedded in Foxwood either. Another Feri lady I was talking over the weekend mentioned to me that in one of Orion's workshops he did a blessing thing, which turns out to be a nearly mirror-exact version of a Feri water blessing we do in Vanthe line, except ours begins at the feet and ends at the crown of the head. Cora comes from the same southern-folkwitch kind of tradition as Orion.
Several years back when Victor was alive and he used to come "hold court" at PCon, someone asked him about the relationship between Feri trad and RJ's Faery teachings. He said, "It's the same thing." I was talking with RJ about this this weekend and quoted that to him, and he said, "It's true, it is basically the same thing."
Working the common threads and connections between Feri and Faery traditions is becoming a big focus of my practice and I think is going to characterize how I teach Feri.
Ramble ramble. I've just noticed how long this is getting so I'll stop. You can tell I'm fired up about this, eh?
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I would probably be more surprised if it weren't. Like you, I find that Faery/Underworld, Faery Seership, and Feri all have a lot of threads in common, like they are tapestries woven with different weft on the same warp.
Ramble ramble. I've just noticed how long this is getting so I'll stop. You can tell I'm fired up about this, eh?
Hey, it's okay! The things we can talk the most about and pull out the most details the longer we go on are the things seated most deeply inside us. ("What do you worship with your thoughts?")
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It's funny, I didn't make it to any of his presentations this year, but I'm really working through a lot of related stuff right now so this is all catching my attention a lot. I've been getting some stuff that gives me a new perspective on the notion of being othersouled or having a Faery soul in a human body.
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