shared reality=shared space

 Within the envelope of individuated being is the experiencing participant.

Immersed in a dimensional field specifically interpreted and uniquely engaged with.

Many different games and many diverse piece parts all on the same multi-puzzle Game Board.

Many different languages and many diverse forms of relationship with this One World.

A small fraction of what can be perceived by anything at any given time as a limited local phenomenon.

A combination of attention and caring are qualities sometimes available and regulated by independent free will.

Within each seed and egg the kernel the preconception of perception of the challenges to face outside later anticipated from a preexisting life before.

Territorial behavior, the response of a group to utilizing space for growth is a rule that seems a situational constant.

It is a Time piece it is a Compass it is a Calander it is a Cradle it is a Grave.

Competition is a reality that exists beneath the awareness of identity and observation.

A scenario imposed on all the generations of all the things that have found home on our Earth.

A special awareness develops between things sharing the same space.

Relationships with others.

The individual interior curator of multiple memories bonds and responds to others sharing the situational experience of common time and space.

The socially reinforced interpretation of what is recognized as important for group survival and entertainment dominates individual space reality.

taking comfort in company-engaged in interacting with others

Group activity-work-play-feeding-resting is the way of life for the continuum of the relationship to the Space.

collectively comparing overcoming difficulty is what we are all made for.

Humans seem unique in conceiving of winners and losers as part of the game conditions.

We tend to see life in terms of control and distribution of valuable properties with measurable boundaries. a practice of exclusion and intolerance that does not recognize the whole of what is really going on over time.

A thin slice of the reality of peoples is applied to all there is in the name of convenience and efficiency.

Labor saving technology development is not rooted in shared opportunity for all humans or to make the world a better place.

The promise made is that you won't have to work as hard, you'll have free time for independent reality of choice.

Seems to work on non-humans as well, when given the opportunity take the easy way,

manipulating expectations which soon become habitual reality.

The life processes an involuntary occurrence entangled immediate immersion intimacies in a naturally promiscuous biome.

The people process an involuntary involvement in an increasingly postindustrial post-colonial world

tampering with temporal trends to maximize private reality and private space 

always a part of our changing world

 If the breath is considered the immediate primary access and egress for genus loci of the body-

 soul travel, essence exchange, spirit possession are continuous unconscious activities of the place.

With respiration we find inspiration and aspiration.

These are not personal thoughts and preferences but a feeling in the center breast of things.

The Hearts of this world are not rational or logical by design but rhythm and flow moderators informing passions and repulsions in a fluid circulatory loop central to perceived individuated existence.

The organ is a functional regulator constantly adjusting for balance independent of the instruction awareness or consciousness of its user.

 More than a super strong physical pump with a mind of its own it produces and responds to electrical fields as part of what it does when it is alive.

A special sensitivity to surroundings and other living energies.

Timing interrelationship expressions stimulating intuitive reactions yearning desire thirst hope as a compelling propelling principal of the binary properties of valves-high pressure and low / electric polarity positive and negative.

It is this capacity for empathy and compassion that is the origin of feeling of shared space.

The complete circuit

part of the whole

not alone - never alone

in the company of others

always

regularly ritually repeating reaffirmations of respected relationship reaching out and responding.

A Druids Egress

 There should always be a way out.

The sense of being entrapped-limited-restrained-confined prompts a natural response in the things of the natural world.

The enclosure-individuated boundary definition imposed, or self-expressed is not independent of its environment.

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Liberate from constraint.

Nothing a self-contained independent dynamic equilibrium of its own but a Body of access and egress.

Breathing the breath of unseen beings of long ago and far away without thought or fear - habitually trusting to take a chance.

There should always be a way in.

Respiration is a shared process repeated and replicated individually in all the diverse life of this planet.

The most immediate and vital exchange with the outside of the body, nutritional and informational.

Accessibility and opportunity are linked with the winds and directions currents and flow-

 place and placement.

It is not chance.

It is not random.

It has a source.

It came from somewhere.

souls as disembodied traveling gaseous specters.

flesh as inhabited spirit spaces!

 

A False Dichotomy? or Described Observations?

parts of a restless whole

Everything timing particles and spacing circulating with specific individuated relationships ending and beginning as part of death life coupling continuum generating diversity complexity potential possibility.

spiritual center Earth

The whole of what is and was part of us and everything allready.

We feel environmental pressures and stress as a way to adapt and adjust to changes and opportunity.

Each individual life and death experience takes place in shared space on this surface sphere.

Home of waters and air.... our planet Earth.

Host to all.

Natural boundary of a natural body.

Everything part of the same observable and measurable world.

A common container of coevolution cooking up complex chemistry between multiple living and nonliving communities without special allegiance required or given as part of its reason for being.

Wild and FREE                living in you and me         everything responding with a common process.

Language originates in peoples attempts to describe natural phenomenon developing into a cultural expression.

When a language becomes unfixed from its relationship to place it becomes less local and more tribal.

Here is where special arrangements territorial boundaries exclusive to the language users generate a cultural bias against natural truth and for a select idealized sampling of what is important TO SHARE.

Human story telling is the intergenerational adaptation response to the changing world.

Yet another peculiar mating call among things animal vegetable and other

Life struggle story shared codified traditional literate legitimate lessons of cultural continuity.

Oracular projected game strategy best guess shift of the previous generation unfolding casting their first shadows across the land.

Technology has influenced human communication with itself in ways that do not synchronize with natural time and shared periods of activity and rest.

Equilibrium is maintained by a sensitivity of the individual to perturbances in the pathways of habitual function activating a novelty response to the situation.

What I have thought of as authentically pagan nature -earth exchanges involve the response to a lead from Nature

the listening or receptive intuitive capacity of the individual to recognize other persons and personas in the landscape and surroundings without regard to social conditioning and cultural bias. 

A language of perceptual feeling shared and sub sensual 

hugging the terrain momentary psychedelic aphrodisiac repository 

this place where drifting star pollen has settled to take root to find itself born.

 unsolicited blessings offered from unfamiliar agencies and influences.

Resonate vibrations between surfaces bubbles drops dew buzz bounce reaction response patterning relative to actions of players on the temporary manifestation of physical form and dimension.

Here We Are.

Nature is real and true existing before people were around to describe it.

An amazing diversity of transient terrestrial triumphs for a time 

That are all still here.

They have no place else to go.

This is their home and resting place.

Our Nature no different.

How we relate to the world is mostly a learned cultural view of the world.

Obvious truths are disregarded by those that are taught that all answers are the realm of a separate distant perfect Judge.

Believing that mortal worldly existence is a moral test and trial of human souls by a heavenly creator is ignoring or minimizing the perceptions of others that do not share that belief.

Truth is inherently part of what keeps nature alive and dead, breathing and thirsty, moving exchanges between physical bodies.

It is right in front of us, and in us as well.

It is behind us for millions of years.

It was never paradise and peace.

It was never easy or without effort.

We are the worldly struggle animated flesh.

shaped by situational space environment.

Home Grown.

reflective receptacle reference roots

 

close up attention given to the inadvertent sampling carried by rooted willow twigs brought inside before the first freeze.

sitting in a tree pot near the window the glass vase lit up with the sun's rays passing spotlighting the detailed activity within.

clinging to the biofilm on roots transported submerged suspended emergent life beyond intention singularity of content and container.

subject and stillness drama of light and shadow suck and surge synchronistic strings behaviors of aqueous solutions anomalous serendipity.

enigmatic oscillations incongruous coalescence in multiple moving forms wriggling dance of midge and mosquito larvae recently hatched from clusters of eggs.

place as home space as battery capacity and awareness of the existence of natural life struggles taking place circulating field vibration.

nature does not ask for permission it does not offer consent it takes place in the only way it has ever had to with circumstance and luck.

taking a closer look at the ordinary a regular repeated observational devotional examination collection understanding oracle over time.

developing aspects and ratios of dimension between what is seen and what is unseen structures subtle membranes and tissues interconnected.

accepting the truth of what is does not involve the cultural anthropomorphic language storytelling of what people want to hear.

watching them grow up grazing on the outside root surfaces film on sediment and glass floating back to breath the air.

assumptions about the nature of reality and the reality of nature are paradoxical attractors polarized permeable porous personification.

maybe four generations of what I would guess are multiple species of midge and mosquito grew to almost adulthood over the course of this winter.

all of the eggs present on the roots of the willow when I brought it in from outside a projected potential

of pulses and programs.

 offerings involving the giving of attention recognition respect dignity convey a current circumpolar

mechanism embodied in effort.

Nature Awareness 3

 Seemingly symmetrical symbiosis souls and spaces

referencing reflections refraction religious reservoir remembered recently.

Surface appearance and the deeper interior dimension of being existing within the obvious.

I had my wife Susan take pictures with her phone of our local spot above.

all of the photos in this post, most all in the blog - my wife the artist, her personal phone the artificial tool with genius abilities and a sensitive touch screen.

I have come to rely on the images as a focus or trigger for words and writing that I regularly ritually express myself here, a place of sorts.

                                                                             spirits of place

sometimes the settings and functions of the aware magic tool do not show us what is seen as true to our natural vision.

The partnership inherent in tool use becomes intimate and familiar.

The relationship between perception and inspiration=expression feels similar.

Capturing the essence of the moment

 with the best of the magic tool's ability

 without later manipulating or editing

                                                            Peoples     and     Placenames

The core of Our Whole Grove consists of my wife and I who are not from here and a person who was a ADF member who grew up comparatively local.

Elizabeth

We have celebrated around a hundred ritual holidays together a few workshops, but to my memory no unscheduled field trips till the curators talk at the Woodstock Artists Association& Museum the end of this January passed.

We accepted the front row seats offered to us in the big back gallery next to the screen for the projected power point in front of the hung paintings of the exhibit the speaker Evan Pritchard was just starting.

                                                        

I had been in that place many times before over many years,

a member when first moving up from the city letting it lapse years back after copping an attitude from the crowded group show in the basement gallery, if I remember correctly, there is a lot going on with people and spaces there. a consistently good place a good organization, a good place to recognize.

I have seen and heard the person many times before over many years,

it used to be that my multiple sign-up sheets became multiple E - mails with attachments somehow different from one another. Seems like that got cleared up years ago, if I remember correctly. He was a regular performer at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival at Croton Point Park when I was there.

it has been years since I have had an opportunity to see him. It felt good to see him present and presenting live in special shared place. I felt good about being there.

I anticipated his ceremonial opening, flute playing, language knowledge expecting his insights on the names of places that were the subjects of local landscape based around the collection of the Association.

I wasn't expecting him to repeatedly reference The Olive Free Library in West Shokan and its museum as a resource which coincidentally is the place, I last exhibited the watercolor painting Metamorphosis in the fifth annual small works group show Pandemonium that had just closed earlier in the month.

He talked about the people and place associated with the local spot that my wife took the photo with at the top of this blog post an unnatural landscape the waterways altered the place and its features changed.

Strangely closer to home than I would have expected. Asho-Attien is Munsee " strong rapids" used by the village that was around Bishops Falls mentioned as a landmark in the Esopus Munsee treaty of 1665.

That becomes the origin of private property ownership and development in the place that I am blessed to find and buy to live and work on for the last twenty-three years.

a formally recognized relationship between person and place/space

clear boundaries with defined responsibilities and accountability for the actions that take place within.

I am not inclined to feel that land and structures are my materials to shape just because I can.

It is not only my playground after all.

It may be that magical sacrifice brought my wife and I together, we feel that our kindred spirits brought us to this place together and the place influenced and assisted our partnership of spiritual and artistic practice.

Elizabeth brought her copy of Oak Leaves The Quarterly Journal of ADF spring 2023~Issue No. 100

with my work on the cover to share with the others who gather for the formal scheduled Grove(protogrove)Holiday of Imbolg before the ritual starts at the close to the house circle off the deck.

The Editor-in-Chief Rev. G.R. Grove included my bio statement in their Column.

I don't know who sees what, but I feel good about contributing and connecting, having a presence within that space. 

pagan priest of place in print presently on paper a picture painted by me here at my house.

Rev. Bryan Perrin is a unnatural awareness for me, a cultivated sensitivity to responsibility and accountability as specialists in a field with the ability to truthfully observe and challenge the roles and practices of spiritual community and assumptions about authority and hierarchy as well as the use of manipulation and coercion in religious teaching, particularly notions of afterlife suffering.

for the most part my sacred duty is focused on sacred occasions,

 fire -the seasonal holiday ritual sacrifices and omens the sharing of the waters of life.

I do my best to keep things on track and move it along in a way that doesn't overtly direct awareness of active participants, invited guests, or onlookers.

Outdoor all weather group ritual observances are occasions to relate and open oneself to experiences outside of controlled environments. There is something shared that is genuine authentic and truthful in live group experience with what nature has to offer.

The partnership inherent in use becomes intimate and familiar.

The relationship between perception and inspiration=expression feels similar.

Capturing the essence of the moment

 with the best of the magic tool's ability

 without later manipulating or editing

                                                            Peoples     are     Placenames

Language is the process of describing natural phenomenon in word story.

Nature exists as a soul filled real place before we develop a shared vocabulary to try to understand it.

I titled this blog post with the name of the naturalist guild of ADF's proposed course that was being presented to the clergy council as a elective in the clergy training program. I have written before in this my sacred blog about the awkward feelings associated with creating and participating in suggested paths of action for others that I do not know, asked to imagine that there are people who will find good and benefit from their participation in the program, valuing my work and contribution.

Surface appearance and the deeper interior dimension of being existing within the obvious.

Rev Barbara Wright passed away while I've been writing this, I don't know how she felt about this specific element of ADF study, but I know she took it all on during some inconvenient times in her life.

I met Barbara in the old days before the dedicants program of ADF, she was from Wild Onion Grove out of Chicago we worked together a little on what was a precursor to the seers guild.

She was very direct and outspoken independent thinking voice generous with her knowledge.

She also had a bullshit intolerance that I can relate to and continue to relate to.

Divination and omen seeking are the repeated reference reassurance tool use for relationship.

Transe states and meditation practices simulate relationship between perception and intuition=reception feels similar.  questioning and listening for an answer

When someone's body is no longer the container of their soul it is obvious that death is natural process.

Our natural state of awareness has been conditioned to tune out most but our language.

which is the process of describing natural phenomenon in word story.

Nature exists as a soul filled real place before we develop a shared vocabulary to try to understand it.

Thank You ADF

sometimes the settings and functions of the aware magic tool show me what is