The Mad Trad-Traditions of One Modern American Druid
Something in My Druid Nature has Me gravitate toward the subject of “transmission of Knowledge.”
Tradition , Habit ,Instinct!
How does Mother Nature teach her children? How does Life learn?
What is being perceived? communicated?,What triggers an unconscious Alarm or Delight ?
Acquiring Food coupled with avoiding being eaten seems to be the basic standardized test of Life.
Blending in, or not being noticed is the norm behaviorally,A default setting to run away and hide when threatened.
The exceptions to this introverted response, are the extroverted projections of Self , to claim Territory, Breeding display , Defend the Home ,Feed the Baby, Suddenly There is the need to stand out and be noticed, to attract attention. An Energetic reaction.
There is a precognitive sense of “being observed, or watched” that exists beneath any sense of self awareness or conscious instruction.
We are responding to more than the sum of our vision . hearing , smell , taste and feeling. We are not talking about the thoughtful reflection of memory, or the simplified editing of meaning and interpretation.Drawing from past experience,in a rational logical way.
There is a instantaneous “ sizing up” of the other. a snap judgment-threat assessment that is coupled with appearance and intent.
Before there is a sense of ones person, there is a sense of ones protection and projection.
A power we are all a part of and responsive to.
A basic question, of where did it, or that, come from?
When applied to our person we put a lot of emphasis on Parents.
The Idea of simple direct descent is very linear and comforting and somehow might be related to the primary polarities of positive and negative , charge, response, reaction.
judgment and power we People are wired for it.
What is Fair? What is Just?
The emphasis is not on quantity of life , but the qualities of Life.
It is the act of Life support that is acknowledged as the vital sacred act of Human kind.
It is not about reproductive and productive offspring in some mechanistic socially reinforced industrial economic world view..
It is honoring the sharing and growing with the passage of Time together.
Family trees and inherited karma are a key component of the twisted branch of knowledge, the Comedy – Tragedy, Life Story , Free will – Destiny, that is the origin of significance , the texture of meaning, the substance of legend, material for memory.
Our connectedness is often irregular and complex ,special uniquely adapting bridges of awareness.
Our sense of where we came from affects our sense of where we are at.
Where we have been influences what we may want to do,
The Heavenly Missile and the Hand that hurls it.
Meteorology Mythology Magic
The very distant and seemingly unconnected are spanned instantaneously.
A great reach ,
Time and Space are jumped. telepathy , teleportation to the Eyes of those who had no clocks or vocabulary to describe the split second a lightning strike was the combination of very sudden and super special.
The Dramatic Energy that comes down from the immaterial Sky to the solid Land is very different than the Fertile consistent regular.rays of the Sun shining each Day.
This was not the generous broadcasting of blessing evenly for all, or the radiating warmth and light with vertical orientation, and upward ascension of the Sacred Fire.
A unpredictable occurrence, a directed and concentrated Energy projectile aimed and thrown Down with an erratic flight to Strike,
There is an emphasis on specificity and Will in this Power, that is seen as the extension of the fertility and potency of a Storm God in Battle,as well as an ability and skill to touch from a distance, perhaps something in the polarity and current between general compassion and critically discriminating , the process of tuning in. A trans dimensional Cruise Missile with an Implied Intelligence directing and guiding it from a Higher vantage point.
A weapon
The Atmospheric discharge is connected with the energetic vitality of the exchange between above and below, a monument to the moment and the movement ,at the speed of light.
Time flies.
Could it be that the Earths electro magnetic field extends below the atmospheric realm into the subtle energies of the subterranean charging the basic flow of ion exchange that is the fertility of place? powering the proto- moment time loop of the Micro- Macro- Multiverse Matrix?
Could it be that carbon emissions and climate change are related to Energy Production?
Could it be that agricultural fertilizer is an explosive indiscriminate energetic fuel to the Biosphere, It’s run off feeding toxic blooms of Micro organisms in surface water?
Could it be coal dug from below the Earth , burnt at a power plant who’s smoke goes into the Clouds of the Sky, comes down as dirty acidified rain , tainting the Land and Sea? changing the the ability of life to grow, while providing electricity so we can live?
There is an ancient relationship between the Urban and Rural environments.
The production and storage of cereal grains and armed protection , security ,defense.
Granaries are a place for the safe and secure accumulation of Wealth,
Fossil Fuels are Food , Food distribution is Energy distribution.
