more to this world than just this world

 It is nice to think of Earth centered Religion as something vast and solid-

ancient and complete-

but it isn't.

more to this life than this life

more to individual experience than awareness

part of something bigger

part of interacting relationships with other subjects objects and conditions as perceived or felt.

a temporary physical presence manifesting in a field of time and space with you as occupant.

more to personal struggle than person

more to individual suffering than the individual

more to work than just work.

more to loss than just loss

more to change than just change.

more to repetition

more to vibration

more to magic

more to the journey than the destination

Book centered Religion is the root medium =spawning reproduced carriers of symbolic information

                                                like this blog

more to this blog than just this blog

more to my sketchbook than my sketchbook

At a zoom session clergy retreat workshop chat the book was put on my radar.

Only now have I the technology to purchase a published title used at best price and have it delivered with digital cash.

I Love Books as inspirational empathic pathways stimulating, transforming records of literate effort.

Thing made by people,

 with a spirit of their own.

quality of characters and composition,

 elements of unique style, some kind of binding paperback or hardcover

a crafted object to hold care and caring of its contents.

beyond fixed destiny or simple fate, a less literal interpretative guide-

It may be written in the stars.

or word of mouth

Executive Function

crown

Relationship with responsibility and accountability for the willful direction of action and activities within the boundary of the body or realm.

corona

sacred sovereignty symbolized as radial extensions of authoritative territory.

Lord and master

personal judgement individual autonomy self-control

coupled with the wellbeing/ prosperity of that in your charge.

a crafted object to hold care and caring of its contents.

Intelligent decider the top of our core

Witness to experience world within our world within

Structural order in anatomical hierarchy

skull

Place where the senses come together.

Suspended in an acoustic resonator.

more to head identity than identifying with heads.

shapes and representations finding meaning.

the star on the tree or goodies on my lap.

associations created; connections being made actively.

the hub of the wheel turns on the upright spindle attached but not fixed in position.

cosmic axis canopy sphenoid syncretic symbiotic salience 

you can't catch me - I'm the gingerbread man.

more to reading and writing than just reading and writing.

still me dreaming me still

Sacrifices made and witnessed

I painted the picture above before the studio tour was to take place back about ninety-six.

As an exhibitor in an Artist studio tour at One Eleven this is how I self-Identified with community.

Self-portrait as side show oddity

Although I am in a much different place now and am much older there is something that is me still.

clever-stupid juggling discovery surprise experience expression creation compulsion curiosity

The Fool or sacred Clown is a big influence with my teaching communicating understanding flow.

It is a feeling

a funny feeling

part of me that is beyond my personal control yet emerges from my controlled personal work

               still 

                     ALIVE!

Part of me or my process before priesthood was part of my pagan picture 

 I had built up big city experience big time contributing as an individual in group efforts

particularly prominent the portfolio produced for promoting ADF publishing presence publicly.

The Druids' Progress was rebranded Oak Leaves

I was no longer the chief artificer the rebranded study program had elected guild chiefs from within a qualified membership of those that have completed the dedicant program to proceed with study in ADF.

My father was alive then, 

I never dreamed I would have the opportunity to be a father myself 

then,

 when the twin towers were still standing, and I was on the other side of the Hudson River living.

A weird time stamp association loop of the yule ritual on my own

 after hosting and accommodating so many others with my effort and work in roles 

I dreamed of interacting with kindred spirits with beneficial and benevolent intention

The Waters holding Blessing in ways that I didn't expect acting in ways we cannot imagine

I am thankful for ADF priest hood as the focus and reference for this my blog.

A symbol of my involvement over the years

 I express myself more directly and intimately here than on any E-list or review form submitted

It is a good thing to share continuing education

Last Year I was gifted with a review from the clergy council, the Arch Druid wrote me back.

                                         Rev. Jean "Drum" Pagano

Personally thankful to that particular person for keeping myself and my wife, grove organizer

 of " Our Whole Grove " Proto grove of ADF part of the scene.

It is a good thing to document inspirational pathways

Last Year I was excited by the work of author Stephen Harrod Buhner, who has recently passed.

Personally grateful for that particular persons' publications pursuits as linkage to my hungry mind.

It is a good thing to exercise intuition and imagination

This Year ending, I have enjoyed and learned much from living Teacher's computer classes

Siv Watkins PH. D "MICROANIMISM"

John Beaulieu ND, PHD " BIOSONICS"

web site connections part of my branching tree and inner core it seems

Life is a workout- metaphysical fitness training involves discipline and effort of some degree

Primary principal of truth to self involves recognizing the personal stretch in playing the role of priest or painter

teacher or student

telepath or blogger

the regular applied practice is preventative medicine and spiritual sampling technique

collecting arranging displaying recording reviewing reimagining reengaging recreating

keeping up an inner balance and flow from finding something special in shit around you.

when you appreciate that it is special with feelings of its own about what is special

the turds point of view is not empathetic anthropomorphic conjecture on our part

although it may feel that way to us

 because we project a value of benefit of substance or form in service of need or pursuit of profit as resource.

Crap is not an individuated body with crown or consciousness but what remains of digested organic matter that came out of the other end of something that did

a sampling of living and nonliving animal vegetable mineral potential in existence without our blessing permission or request

it was left behind              by something alive   a legacy of past struggle, attention, sacrifice, effort

it does not require our explanation or reason for being

it does not contain a singular will or essence in a concrete active way any longer

it does contain hope and food for small things that have learned to count on that shit for a living.

what do they get excited about- what do they long to behold

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Behold!   the Waters of Life!!!

 still

           ALIVE! 

see the finished version of the painting below, inspired by Earrach of Pittsburgh's post

OSTARA-OSTSHMARRA! in his Blog -The Book of Sassafras- might be on the cover of 

Issue 100 of OAK LEAVES spring 2023  

 

physical record

 Knowing what gets the juices flowing is passed on generationally internally.

Interpreting our own experience, simultaneously speculating the perceived experience of others.

What sticks with you or anybody else at any given juncture of time and space?

Developing as experiencers,

 concurrently concluding conscious coincidence collaborates perceptive fields

What sinks in with you or anybody else at any taken journey in life?

Maturing as analysts,

 reflexively referencing reverence refining rightness comfort satisfaction 

Our judgments, intuitive feelings about the nutritional value of an experience are influenced by personal informational diets of individual past reactions and tastes for interaction.

Living bodies are the containers of transformational knowledge and metabolic wisdom.

Our individuation is not a function of our internal make up-

 it is made up of relationships with external experience digested somehow internalized.

much of what is person-personal-person hood-personality is not physical identification characteristics

it is behaviors uniquely expressed reactions and responses habituated situationally to circumstance.

Self in a sense is not the recording itself as the way it plays as live performance adapting and improvising qualities accessible and available at the time and place one finds themselves in.

fates, destines, stars and soil

I'm a Neo Pagan Druid with room for science and magic in the worlds of my head heart and gut.

Making a point of honoring this place called EARTH as a starting point and reference of common life and death experience past present and future

belonging is the beginning

part of the physical record

As a practicing priest I am cautious about creating sacred space sensitivity structure and formula that feels stiff or formal as to exaggerate error anxiety or demand a level of participation of others.

My down to earth approach to ritual performance comes to me naturally.

Serving suggestions-portion control-menu development-special recipe

 not as spiritually sound as

 not shoving anything down the throat of another.

forcing anything a very different matter indeed.

Subtlety nuanced combinations of aroma and taste coupled with feelings of texture on teeth and tung.

Archaic Anthropomorphic Animistic Awareness Advancement  

Articulating Amphibious Ambiguity Appearance Alignment Appetite

recorded here to reach the eyes of myself and others

Bardic Inspiration

 I am wondering about glycocalyx and extra sensory perception-field awareness-extended personal space-sticky conductive informative extra cellular beyond the membrane experience.

thinking vibrating vesicles viscosity variables, the mechanics of mist and waft study.

Then the Arch Druid of ADF posts that Bardic Inspiration is presented as optional in COoR on the clergy council list.

Asking for discussion,

 I give a long and heartful response -hit send and it all disappears!

I repost this,

"thanks for bringing this to my attention, I whole heartedly endorse the reestablishment of Bardic inspiration to COoR"

I was inspired to speak of it with members of the grove before ritual and brought attention to the subject at the appropriate time in sacred space this Samhain with everybody assembled and reassembled.

I want to record here why I believe inspiration is a essential aspect in ADF ritual approach and appeal.

As the definitive and retentive best practice, we honor our sources as best we can as tribute to the work.

 complete order of ritual is a special song, sometimes a chorus tapping into an evolutionary response. 

it should not be about controlling, compelling, competing communication concept club creation 

Inspiration is an independent value judgement determined by the experiencer.

Catagoricly presented as a growth medium for individuals until expiration

People expressing a special reverence and veneration for other relationship expressions do so from a human artistic tradition coupled by an internal feeling that is exciting stimulating and uplifting.

Making an appeal ritually is- word actions intentions-

the connection

the lineage

Ritual is art form

We Are Not Know it All Originators of between the worlds behavior

We are not offering unquestioned obedience to a master for protection or forgiveness

We are acknowledging that the effort to guide, teach, learn the good stuff is a cultured benevolent spirit.

We seek to aim and focus from a common direction

not everchanging fashionable popular entertainment attention

not servile conformity to process authority structures

We ask that poetic language describe and examine the crafting and symbol of blessings appreciations 

We seek understanding from our efforts to share hopeful exchange

Instructive agency we feel you out there

Attractive creative curious compelling communication

mystical mythical moving mouth magic minds mingling memories melodies moments meals mixing

this is where the idea comes from

it takes place early to set the tone of ritual activity

guiding guarding group grip giving gratitude games generation generally generous good gift

it is not about fear

it is not about fear of the unknown

it is not about control or possessions, ownership, negotiating deals, mandatory behavior.

It is the bridge between silly and sacred constructed of metaphors of others connected by story

a response to environmental stimulation with an occasional expression of aesthetic beauty and charm.

It keeps us together

It crosses cultures

It turns us on

without it we are screwed

locus-focus ~ hocus-pocus

Special effort is involved in entering and exiting sacred space.

Simultaneously interior and exterior perception is adjusted, awareness is altered.

An exceptional dimension of possibility and opportunity exist in the uncommon non- standard time .

A Place that we are not actively engaged in regular activity,

 a  temporary truce on conflicts ongoing and individual affairs.



what we carry with us into ritual space,
what we hope to clean away  before we enter,
what we offer in word - action - substance  - thought or feeling

A special time and place where wishes can come true
hopes can be found
prayers can be answered
A conductive current between worlds
An exchange that is taking place
That has taken place
That will take place
That is certain

wondering wisps of wafts within wafts

 to extend a kindness to another by word actions thought and other ways 

many and various are the agents of blessing over time and places witnessed

too many to get all the names or the pronunciation correct

 often too fleeting to notice at the time

the point is not the source of blessings recognition,

 but acknowledging blessing as life/death process entanglement

 gestures of greeting and farewell aid in developing understandings of shared existence

a repeated ritual

a sampling of attitude and demeaner 

a friend detector and friend developing technique

in the company of others

favorite companions, kindred spirits, comfortable relationships

a sense of something special shared coupled with circumstance-environmental pressures of the time.

Allies and alignments are aspects of attraction 

part of a polarity symmetry pattern we are suspended in

the distance between front and back - top and bottom

a recognition of others essential character's identifiable qualities are not found in their form and appearance

but in the way they behave, their movements and actions speak to their positive or negative reactions to interacting with an energetically charged environment

fluctuating currents transitional material occupying space in the company of others 

a sampling of attitude and trajectory, heading and bearing, time and temperature 

a repeated ritual of questioning and observing that charts the float and drift of feeling

in a world that is full of beings that perceive the world differently

insensitive to value scale proportion perspective composition of others likes and dislikes.

indifferent to company or surroundings and the effects of their actions upon others.

unkind and cruel behavior, hurtful action and mean spirit are part of the play book for some.

repulsion is a spirit guide, a reactive quality somewhere within part of natural threat awareness.

Enemies and vilification are not dominated by the intuitive dichotomy of good-bad and the imaginative capacity of the individual

social magnification and amplification structurally assert expertise in cult of fear and its management

and maintenance

targeting hostility, blaming,punishing,cursing are popularly driven but expertly directed learned behaviors as well as group stress trigger responses.

the distance between coming together to honor shared blessing and running away from persecution is

not measurable

but the movement is reflective of some kind of binary coupling that makes up a whole adrift in space.

something found in the translation

 

                                                                        Timing

My memory was in error in my last blog post when I suggested that Ernmas mother of Eriu and the Morrhigan was a widow of the Fir Bolg King.

she is Tuatha De all the way, I think - I Think? I was thinking of Tlaitu, Lugh's foster mother.

                                                       I Think

I did not check my story details as it was part of a sacred magical tradition memory game ~~~

while the Star Trek episode was specifically referenced in detail online from a few different web sites.

The Imaginative process is an exercise in mind powers, psychic abilities, out of body experience, dream travel, as well as empathetic understanding and spiritual intercourse.

Observation and recognition are often portrayed as the most human- sacred-smart process fixed on subjects and objects, measurements references and records

 yet reaction to changes in surroundings is the basic survival function of all life, even those without observable anatomical senses or nervous systems.

Somehow there is an environmental awareness of the surroundings that affects the behavior choices or options of all individuals compounded and accelerated in groups and groupings influencing attention.

                                                           We Feel

                                                  maybe everything feels 

Viewing habits are part of a stimulation of appetite for entertainment, safety, socialization, sacred stuff.

The comfort and action narrative and the internal identification/ perception shift that takes place among those witnessing or engaging and participating as relevant to Life Experience, wisdom or mind snack.

cultural currents crossover with cult developments contemporary and ancient.

 what is notable, popular, the structures forms relating the inside with the outside. 

From fixed stories corresponding to constellations of the changing night sky of the Proto Pagan Past

to Broadcast Network Executives comparing ratings of competing programing in a weekly time slot.

 characters and conflict combined with meaning repeated when they return to view.

                                               STAR SHINE

                                                projected imagery

most distant and untouchable yet accessible available and very real to all who witness it

                      the vigor remains                 Idolatry as a process of adoration,

                   not the object itself but the ideas and practices of the worshippers

  the depiction transferring information                transforming the viewers

fans, followers, groupies, devotees, zealots- shrines, temples, festivals, conventions, pilgrimages, 

                                          THE PERPETUAL NOTION MACHINE