“Folk Process”,Legends of Culture Heroes and Giants of Industry Tra- La- La!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Continuity-Variation-Selection

                       An interesting triad, by Cecil Sharp.

I recently heard a story at a Memorial Tribute.

I think it was  Arlo ,

speaking of Pete’s Father ,the Musicologist, gaining acceptance of the term,” Folk Process,” in the academic world,

, to describe what had been simply referred to as stealing in the past.

The fact that I am uncertain of the details and using my own words to convey the story , for my own purpose only seem to reemphasize the point in retelling, remembering ,Referencing,.and not to forget, the Recording and reproduction Arts

And in our Culture , Possession and ownership.

Language and Authority, Influence, Mastery, Top down Management

The old Druid as advisor to a King, always this close relationship with ,or service for Power, Energy and Control,

It was a Time Before Mine, The Place were my language had come from was bombed  but not Ruined by a great War with  Master Races and cultural supremacy,Nations, Industry,Banks.

The Powers of resonant sympathies of Place Identity,Respect for Resource

Pride of Accent ,as a call to Arms ,Heritage and Duty and Service.

Fight for Your country, Protect The Homeland, People loyal to Place

It was a Cold War with a lot of Capitalist Cash in Communications and Control.

Keeping a Lid on Class War, Entertainment as Export

Propaganda was the message of the State,The Western World would prove the Superiority of its Culture by the Economic  impact and superiority of its Medias .

Generating Hope of Social Mobility,Opportunity or at least pretending as a way of pacifying the crowd.

Recognition as incentive ,Reward

 

The Media presentation of what is going on in the street, or what appears to be a grass roots movement changes the Folk or Market Nature of the Thingy

The Sample has no Control as a valid comparative Test

It is Broadcast changing and contaminating the records of what is Real .and what was real.

The Base line Beat of Popular Culture is Media influenced if not Driven.

The Corporate Media conglomerates have gone satellite global Transnational on Us.

This was going on during the Lull in the Manned Space Program as the Shuttle was put into service. Cable TV and Star Wars, computer Commie Busting secret weapon.

Glamour

Privatization and exclusive access to future Network. Telecommunications Industries are Capitalist Economic Weapons deployed to appeal to ones sense of self advantage and independence over a shared or Societal ownership or responsibility.

What began with Language and Land,Records and Radio,Television and Tours. Is an interrelated collaborative grouping of Artists that are Owned by a Master, protected and legitimatized by a label or Lord.

Are We only as good as the company we keep? or the ones that keep us?

Did We Buy into that Idea?

Or were we Born into it?

Is it a Traditional Tune? or aint it?

Advances in informational technologies have created and destroyed a few Industries,

The Melody and Theme are repeated, the Words change with the gadget.or app.

It has nothing to do with political process, or Spiritual insights, or Technical dominance.

The affairs of State are a by product of Continuity of Legal ownership, policy is for sale,regulation can be negotiated .

History is also available for sale,      has been for some time.

Consider the investment opportunities!

“Your Future profit from the past , whispered in the ear of a Licensed Character of your Copyright King. “

“Maybe you heard it before,     Goes something like this…”

Another Dreaming Soul Wandering

 

I wonder about a lot of things.

The meandering nature of genius .

Roaming and rambling elusive Muses.

The Odd way we try to cling and claim for Self.

The way things rub off on one another.

What is it that is being transferred  between People, Pets, and Places,

That causes a similar Character ,appearance, attitude or Spirit?

Are we groomed by time, each other , and unseen third parties?

Resemblance

Familiarity

We are More , than what we think we see of our selves,

We are More , than what other people say we are.

We are responding to our environment our apparent situation and circumstance.

In a non- cognitive yet nervous way.

We are sensitive to Our Surroundings.

On some level We acknowledge a feeling or mood that we associate with place ,

Our associations, our own composition,and assembly that we have been taught to think of as our unique, independent, individual Self is actually More.

Places shape us…….    and  our  wonder of the passing now.

We are ,

where we have been,  what we have done, but,  We are More

 

 

Anamnesis in Amplexus Folk ,Family, Friends ,Fans and Followers

A coupling, linkage between

Embracing what feels Real from distant memory.

the space allowed between ourselves and others,

Our movements and relationships to the past.

An awareness of being part of a collective and collaborative unconscious form, that is beyond Our immediate focus of attention or ability to perceive individually..

An Instinct to cluster and gather

To keep up with one another

There is caring, and there is competition with every crowd.

There is the urge to Move together ,to follow and chase.

We simply avoid bumping and crashing while we go with the flow .

Hanging on to what we love,

and the possibilities in making a change in future direction.

A new turn in an old chain

A habit that is inherited and passed on

Older than Imagination  

It is a reflex of recognition, not an Ideology, or behavioral discipline.

It is not learned , but remembered and shared.

“ You know ?,….I don’t know ?! “

I think He knew, I didn’t Know, and I wanted Him to know that I knew that.
This Guy could smell a lie, and I was on the spot for some kind of extemporaneous utterance.
My spontaneous vocal response in answer to the Iconic Author of the Popular  Folk Hit  based in ancient  Ubi sunt poetic tradition, “Where have all the flowers gone?”
It was a couple Summers ago, His Wife Died this Summer,  He Died this week..
He and His Wife were partners ,in a way that  inspires.  Coupling   Union
I believe the Super human spirit that touched millions through this Mans mind and voice, came from a Mega Heart that is active engaged and committed  to relationship dialog.
My build up to Imbolc was accented by this passing of a person that I have associations with work and song, “ If I had a Hammer”
What am I to say?
There is Power in the People
  Having seen a living breathing singing Hero up close was to know that  people are Magicians  working the Power of Song.                  Activating Audience!

After the Hero’s last breath, the story goes on.
Legendary and practically sainted in his  life
He is now even more
outspoken Dead
An Activist among the continuance
An Agent of compassion and solidarity in the Spirit Realm with concerns about the world and what change people working together can bring about, 
Should bring about         Here and Now



Keening is a spontaneous outpouring of grief and sorrow most often in the form of a  prolonged shrill cry  with a droning gasp on the inhale.
Some where between a hyperventilating crying fit, and a more controlled yet emotional expression of loss and lament
Keening is the impact of Knowing
The state of shock,                     and wishing you didn’t know,
or that somehow what you know is not true.
It was the Cry of  the Mother
Bride of Bress ,who saw her son ,  pierced , Mortally wounded by the Magic Weapon of  her own people.
What is it about spying on the Art of Making, and Trying to destroy a creator with their own creation that bring an end  to Ruadan?


This is the time of Weather divination,  but.
You Know,                            I don’t Know

Perennial ,Pressure , Passion , and Purity

 

 

Response is Key.

The Heart of Communication,Communion,Community.Clouds

The responsiveness of pressure differences between bodies

The coming and going in waves

Climactic and Climatic  tension and release

Responsive Environment. Social World, Dynamic dimension

Variations on Atmospheric pressure.and swelling and rising

Winds and weather  patterns  preexist  Life on this Planet.

Most of the surface of the Earth is covered by that which was deposited ,

or transformed by its’ interaction with                 Animate    WATER.

     Temperament                     and                      Temperature

It is the Sun,  that excites Water,  and stirs the deep sea currents and the jet stream

 

It is the Water’s Passionate relationship to temperature and light that display its differing qualities of form.

The mutability that provides the motion for the models of spirits’ movement.

It is the Sexy Shape shifter story that started it all.

From Sea to Sky and back, with its’ Lofty heights and incredible depths

returning ,circulating

Streams flowing, currents converging.

An exchange of bodily fluids of unimaginable proportion and dimension

Seasonal Sanitation and hygiene may have been pagan purification practices related to cleaning, sweeping, washing, polishing, shining and Sacrifice.The separation and removal, the work involved in giving something up.

Also the notion of Protected or Sheltered  Space and the effort or cost of upkeep and maintenance to avoid loss to the mix.   Exposure to the Elements    

Particularly domestic and sustenance concerns, the Home Order,

the Safety of the Live stock and Hearth.

The Things that need our attention and care.

Milk is Mammal Magic Manna

It is Fluid energy, a Life Food

It is the big thing that makes us different than the cold blooded egg laying things of the world.

We represent a survival investment strategy in having  to produce fewer offspring but being able to nurture and express warmth to another

Milk has a special value and meaning as a potentially  precious gift that is a naturally externalized conveyance .

Fawn and Calf and Foal Know of the Nipple, People and Pigs as well.

Our Natural Nuzzling urge, We are responders, transmitters of energy, warm and caring.

A product of instinct and weaning .

We are learning, Hungry  Receivers before  developing any Self awareness or understanding.

Beings that are Nursed are trained or conditioned with food.

Humans have taken advantage of this knowledge in ways that other Mammals haven’t .

Domestication and appetite are part of animal husbandry,

Control by care,

It’s Not easy.

A lot of work Creating and  Maintaining, Protecting and Providing

But the mind that can churn cream into butter,craft cheese or yogurt can transform the fluid resource distribution of one species to our own.

We do have a fiery  and passionate heart in our breast.

A great  Regulator, circulator at our center and a suckling reflex of our  unremembered infancy.

 

Supportive Relics

One of the many discoveries I’ve made in Neo Paganisms’, New ways of looking at Old ways has been a new appreciation of our Multiple ,and often, Transitional Spirit Helpers.

Causing Me to wonder….

Does our personal crisis act as a call to Protective Beneficial Spirits?

Are the Security  Blankets and favorite Toys of our childhood

Our companion Spirit relationship?  Shrines,  a contract of caring.

Is this an out growth of  our sense of Familiarity,Favoritism,and projected desire?

Or do things reach out and touch us? specifically?, help us? in special times in our life?

Does Need itself, summon ,and cause to assemble, a certain type of creative, formative, building and bridging and blessing, Healing?

Spirits  with a function and identity of mending,and joining, that some how allow us to keep on?

The seemingly impassable becomes a thing of the past, 

Deductive reason and mechanistic logic, they are in fact inventions.of ours.

Our methods of sizing up the situation and spanning the gap.

Reducing things to there most simple symbolic form for our convenience and understanding is not only inaccurate it is rude and selfish.

Things aren’t Individual because they will themselves to be.

There is a Bonding and assistance from the outside and the inside.

Take notice that the Sky is propped up, All Life is Nannied .

Things are full of unseen contributors, and invisible sponsors,

A Great and Vast Inspirisy ! of collective conjecture and collaborative Creations.

Spirits every where , the inorganic Beings around us are in on it too……

Uniform Monism is not integral or apparent as a singular organizational principal of production or creativity.

Instead we have an eccentric diversity of forms of life, and no explanation as to why we grow and behave the way we do.

Necessity and invention do not seem to be coupled in explanation for the differences in everything.

There is a predisposition for variety and novelty, Yet things do not atomize into random static.

The ways of things are not chance,  there is wisdom in the garbled,and truth in the nonsensical,There is a place in the cosmos for the irrational and oblique.

Accept that the unknowable exists, and appears to like being that way.

 

All Things are helped along,

Paths cross, orbits are altered. Things are copied, stolen or eaten,

Transformed into more and more elaborate exotic stuff,

An enhanced variable psychic stickiness with a taste for the dramatic and colorful……..Seasonal…….Local….Expandable and expendable

Fertile foundations for growth. Material for Art

Influence

Our sources of comfort are nothing to feel bad about,

They are not something we outgrow.

They should be recognized and respected, honored in memory and act,now and then.

Along with the Helping Spirits and the spirit of helping. The feeling of  a caring presence If only in memory, is the Belief in the magic of nurturing and the difference it makes in the World.

It is in the closeness that we feel whole

The People, Pets, and Places,

The Pillows, the Paths, the Play.

The Helpers along the Way

Ambient Isotropy , Telluric Tautology, Sidereal Syncretism

     

What is the Big Deal?

 

Why does everything have to be such a Big deal?

Part of a complex fabric, twisted and woven, intertwined and intermingled?

Lots of little deals!    each knot a binding,   an exchange agreement,    or understanding.

Each fiber placed and  pulled and given new form and meaning ,purpose and plan.

Individual  strands of thread are given,

     Identity!

and  Destiny!

There are no heroic tales of the struggles with  free will of the errant string .

We have a much more visceral Pagan association of insides and outsides,

with the guts of the world woven into a tapestry that we are inseparably  part of.

Our sense of Self is related to how we perceive that which is not self, or other.

Our Sense of comfort is all about the feeling of fit with our immediate surroundings or space.

  Our Body, Our Envelope of control and awareness,         yes,

but our butt as well,  Out of sight, out of mind  ,  our unthinking seat

We are mostly made up of a lot of unawareness,and we don’t have control of much.

Nothing to be ashamed of.

Part of our Authentic Self.

You don’t need to be thoughtful, willful and compassionate about anything and everything.

You should recognize that you do embody that possibility

You have that magic power,

To use or not,

in between breaths

without thinking

Just for being here

A part of it all

Sitting

Now,

One of the things I feel I can say with some degree of certainty is that things don’t often turn out  exactly as they are imagined or planned for, This holds true for Prayer and wishes too.

It is not all about Intent,

It is not about the judgment of success or fear of failure,

It is not a matter of targeting your goal and making that change.

It isn’t about your magic control or mastery of forces ..

It’s not about knowing what you are doing

It is realizing that we are doing

certain of the uncertain effects our actions have

  Not Knot Theory

There is a larger frequency and probability of undiscovered indirect effects of actions and Spirits on one another.

A certainty in the patterning and ordering nature of Things

The Cloth or the web,

Our references

The links and turns of connectivity that  are seemingly not random or accidental.

The singularity is not in the definition of boundaries and borders of one body from another.

Existence is not a spatial dominance contest about influence and proportions

It is  the quest within the question, to search out the Directing agents,

The Crafting Hands in the Making

The Spinners, the Weavers.

Not  to Beg and grovel for a better lot in life, Not to seek favor or advantage .

Wanting to be witness  of wonder and perhaps copy the creative Act

For those of us who find purpose in puzzle, and wonder in Art.a greater reward than acquisition and accumulation there is this….

The reaffirmation , of our ability to reach out and connect a new

We all share the same life line.

attachments, our relationships,

Our alignments

To seek Comfort, Knowledge, and Blessing