a new approach to spirituality

[mica_mirrors]

How funny.  I just wrote back to Jason's note on religion, then went to Bastien's mythology class, which I'm auditing, and he talked about the same things which appealed to me in what Jason wrote.  Maybe I am ready to start examining my spirituality again, but it's got to be in a very different way.

Bastien said that when human minds developed

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[liam_earthsong]

The woods were my first connection to magic and mystery. Thanks to the trees, I've never lost my sense of wonder, and it's because of them that I am me.

I was thinking that there was a time when my spirituality, though in-a-world, was not in-*this*-world, but a longing to escape into a world of fantasy. I still feel that sometimes when I'm not sufficiently inspired by the beauty (or lack of) around me. But... I know what it is that made me want to escape into that world, and I realise if I try really hard, I can find them here. And that desire to escape was a longing to be *creative* and share that creativity with ritual and storytelling and myth that's relevant to me! Somehow all along my worldview has valued myth more than literal interpretations. I don't lose anything with myth, I only gain.

If you ever want to, I have a book called Blackfoot Physics that you can borrow. I don't know... sometimes ideas like that just come to me, and I don't know why... but if you're ever curious, let me know.