A piece of text I found on the web that I totally agree with. The missing ingredient in modern life is an atavistic vitality of sensory experience. An intimate connection with the web of life as a vital and perhaps uniquely receptive spirit in a web of spirit. Go back 80 years and talk to a Sioux elder, a Kalahari Bushman or Aboriginal wise man. Their crinkly eyes will smile with a knowing kindling, a gentle shake of the head. As if to say You really have no idea what youve lost do you? The Salish people of the Pacific north-west had a word that underpinned their world view, skalalitude. It meant to walk in awe, wonder and a sense of beauty at the immensity of such environmental richness. This was a daily path, a Garden of Eden. Look at the cave paintings of Chauvet, their ordinary craft artists were Picassos as they revered and honoured their spirit brother prey. The animals that were not only their livelihood and survival, but their spirit tutors, their cousins. Their shape shifting works of art anticipated Darwin by 50,000 years. They lived in a continuum of a family of life, of unfolding Creation. I see the comparison of those peoples and us today as between an electrical appliance plugged in with this vital life and one disconnected and spiritually inanimate.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 21:43:36 +0000
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