More Mentoring from the Heart

 The most common misstep of the program, an assumption of eventual Mastery.
         I am still into all of this Druid stuff,        years later I don't believe I've become a better Druid ,                       I don't equate learning with advancement.

Your Work should reflect a personal "realness" that you are comfortable with now and years from now.
It is possible the Organization and Program may not be a part of the spiritual future , Yet Your Work can continue to be a testament of association of living spiritual bonds.
Your Family bonds and connections are just as relevant as Ancient Pantheons.  You don't have to drop names , just provide a string of words.
The Bard / Skald / Poetic approach of crafting the story , descriptive language, character and setting , you can encode each essay with words of objects and subjects with significant magical associations and properties.
This Work can be an opportunity to impress a Spirit Audience you may not be aware of.

I don't believe that My Religion is so simple and direct as a thumbs up or down to the answer of a question,

 For official purposes you should be framing your material for ADF ,  for Mystical Magical reasons you should try to appeal to Your Kindred Spirit s,  and for Personal Artistic reasons ,  you should try to Make the essays your Own Work instead of the answers to someone else s questions.
I believe  Our work is Our sacrifice , Our Life , our Time precious ,...  waste , ...         a great spiritual suck.

Please don't let my blunt appraisal of the Organizations Program reflect upon You and Your sense of spiritual growth and wonder.

I am offering My perspective, advice, on how I think the more complete and fulfilling spiritual enrichment process can take place , and pointing out that racing through the Program has had a Ungrateful affect Spiritually, on individuals and the organization.
It is important to Value the exchanges taking place, Worth and worthy are the same root word as Worship.

Dedicant Mentoring, disclaimer

Service to who?/ or service to how? or what and why?

There is a point where group reference gets in the way of the Primary connection.
Our connections as Spiritual Beings is the focus of Worship .
It is easy to lose sight of this when an organization puts too much emphasis on Group recognition, Administrative roles , and pecking orders.
How much does group consensus and policy decision debate distract from the essential Subject and reason for being.                How much of our Self important Hub - Bub spooks Spirits away ?
At what point do our Names and Orders and arrogant assumptions of place and behavior take away from our ability to have a genuine exchange with the routinely uncommon , The surprises at our feet .
We seek the favor and approval  of Kindred Spirits of Many Changing Forms.
They decide how and when to make themselves known.
This is not decided upon in committee , or bottled and Branded as proprietary process , it is not something a trained professional can change or a qualified adviser dictate  , It is not subject to popular opinion or convenience.
The organization's official group standards of what it is to study and share, to work in Our Religion shift from a game of "show and tell", communication with cosmic other-worlds that transect ours ,
-  to  " follow the leader"  where we are socialized into  sacrificing and submitting writing for review, to establish the reality as wished for, or imagined of the Organization .
The Program may shape the style of worship and reverence of some of it's participants individually but it changes the organisations ability to sense and judge the non participant aspects as any thing other than less
important.
The Dedicant  may believe that the path is one of self awareness and growth as recognized by an authority of seasoned experts , or make the mistake in thinking it is all about how (you) feel , a religion of value judgments and criteria A Magical world of qualifications and training credentials and certificates leading to Community Status or appreciation.                  The expectation for a outcome  hinging on a group construct reality,  This is social manipulation , not The Natural Magics of the Ancient Earth.

The process of communing or communication is not the same as controlling or commanding .
Lucky for Me that Mentoring is not the same as reviewing submitted material in a timely  pass / fail / excellent manner.
I am hoping to help
 assist in the making of these things ..... references to genuine , connection to the Spirit world , not  an application for acceptance for an organizations program.

Reverence for the Unorthodox , Unconventional thought , Weird Beliefs, Adaptive behavior , Nature and Novelty , Alternative religion

A  Raven sits in on a impromptu gathering of three Buzzards on the Trees across the road on My Neighbor's land.

I Have a  Significant Seasonal Spiritual Schedule conflict with My True sense of Priestly Druid Duty and The National Members Meeting - guild festival at that place , We may not be returning to ,  thing I was ordained at Many Years ago.

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 I find My Self  interacting with Bus loads of Third and Fourth Graders their Teachers , Parents , Assistants .
As an instructor - guide I try to  assist the tuning of sensitivity awareness and strengthen the bonds of relationships with others  by promoting respect appreciation .

"Treat  Others as You would like to be treated ,"  applied to everything , Every - Thing , see what happens!
Exploring Habitat is visiting a Home , being loud and aggressive and threatening,  frightens  and alarms its inhabitants.
It is not about owning , it is about belonging , we are not catching to keep or harm , see its eyes?.                It sees You !       It Breathes and Feels and moves with a Life of its own , just like You or I.
Observation and discovery are the pathway to knowledge and understanding.
The discarded exoskeleton of a Larvae is made of the same stuff as our finger nails.
We are part of the Natural World.
We  often have to disengage from our dominant  social activities to see and hear the other things we share this life with.
Names and labels don't tell us as much about  things as their behavior and actions, We don't know them by identifying them. We Know them by getting to Know them , It is Our appreciation for details that enable and ennoble us to distinguish the individual from the background.

Perhaps a Crow, and a trio of Vultures, all aware of the presence of  My Wife , who took the picture , and My Self through the glass of the Window.

Where the Brook meets the Nematon , The Northern Bank with the arrival of the May

turning East

Hydromancy

Aquatic Augury

moving messages

Head water due North

Depth of shallow

The Ivy was grown from a cutting from a Penthouse terrace in the Big City.
It has been growing a few years a couple hundred Miles North, about a thousand feet higher in elevation on a Mountain.

It is closer to the Earth than it has ever been, A transplant like Myself an entangled starting point, A curious and complicated Beginning.

surface tension , perceptual limberness , energetic field properties , conceptual flexibility

When we control and train our attention awareness we are playing with a Natural Magical ability to focus and tune in to  / tune out and edit our sensory process.
Or so we think
I’m wondering if it is not just a matter of Placement of energy centers  within , nodes , nerves , Chakras ,
The sense of what is Displaced by our presence , the effect we have on our immediate space energetically ,  

Consider the Auras of Ants, individually and as a colony.
Sentient  mortal meat sticks part of an elaborate drama of Scale and Dimension.
Does Multi cellular Life owe its existence to  a prehistoric practice of Proto -Pranayama among Protists?             The accumulative respiration habit benefits .
Controlled Breath the basis of collective cooperative organization and structural building  reflex.
Empowering complex relationships through an internalization and externalization followed by a sense of Body or Group.
                                    Mad – Trad  to Made – Trade

Home

Direct experience and Natural observation are Gifts from Life.

Life is an Energy that passes through the Living and Non Living Things of This World.

            Animal                                 Vegetable                       Mineral

All of these things have an innate reverence of reference,

A Natural Place in This World        A Natural Sensitivity to Surroundings

A space to occupy temporarilyLiving room

A limited ability to respond  to , or control the immediate  changing environment , adapt habits in a habitat

A primordial taste , a Like / dislike ,  a pre- sense  of safety / threat, a sensitivity / insensitivity control that directs the individual , a Spirit / Soul  that exists beneath awareness, between breaths, before the consciousness of individuals or groups.

Before there is a inner sense of self awareness and mastery there is a sense of  external spatial territory.   What is out there.

The need to consume and move , and rest

The carrying capacity, stress and load of one thing on an other

The transference of energy from one form of Being to another.

Both Living and Non Living Things benefit and respond to Special attention and care ,

  Kindness  and Respect .

There is a form of reactivity that exists between the things of this world .

A knowledge of giving , or taking.

We are all impermanent . Our Lives  for Our living . Our bodies , Our structures ,

Our forms,  a temporary place.                      Home                         for now.

                     

Power in a Union

Pure clean and simple
The Trust that Contributors put in the Enterprise is what is Sacred .
It needs to be protected and tended to.
The Holy bonding, contract of agreement, clear understanding, Acknowledging Sacrifice given and received …….This is the Mythic Pagan Priestly essence!

                                That’s the deal                Fair and Square

I don’t know of any tales of the Olympians crafting founding documents and developing Mission statements, but they weren’t fund raising as a not for profit Organization .
Somehow the Ancients had Holy Places, Temples and Priests without the Overt Essential Judgment that the appeal to support, sustain,and perpetuate the institutions was their reason for being.. or magic power / Sacred Duty.
When Holiday ritual is a platform for a Variety Show do the worshipers become the content providers of the service? the crafter and the customer of the production?
Whom does it Serve? is there any space for dissent or discussion? Hootenanny Hygiene? Is competition promoted as entertainment?
Is it really about believing in Team Spirit, or is it about Group control?
Less of an appreciation for the Players coupled with an inflated glory of the Management. Directors and Venues. Making a game of Sport, a folly of Art, in the pursuit of centralized governance.
I’m not interested in empowering the contemporary corporate model of group and growth .
I’m mixed up in the Old fertility of Unions between Peoples and Places.
The Marriage between above and below, the immaterial Spector and the solid and evident.
                               The common cause.
                                    motive
                      Intangible rewards and unseen Fruits