On this page the following entries were made in the “March, 2009” time-frame.
Archive for “March, 2009”
A Roman Fort on the Wye
For some time I have been intrigued by the indication on the OS map covering the Upper Wye Valley, where I often go walking, of a Roman fort in the middle of the Forestry Commission plantation. This area has recently been opened up so decided to visit the site. It didn’t look possible to get very near it in the car, so I planned a circular walk from the Forestry Commission parking place which also included a climb out of the upper part of the forest to an open mountain area.
I began at the point where the two upper branches… Read more »
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The Son of the Sea
Harp Rock
When we think of spirits of particular places we think of them, perhaps, as essential to what that place is. To disturb the place by cutting down trees or diverting a river is to offend them, or even affect their fundamental nature in some way. But if we look at a sufficiently long timescale, and take ourselves out of the human view that ‘a long time ago’ means the Romans or the Bronze Age, we get a different perspective. In terms of geological time the Stone Age was only yesterday, or even earlier today, and over these longer time… Read more »
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Indigenous Traditions and Modern Paganism
I always like it when I run across the rare honest critic of paganism from within. This article is one such example.
in some of its critique of appropriation by eclectic neopaganism, the author makes some comments which suggest at a lot of what we talk about on the PostPaganism tribe. Such as the fallowing.
“Nature religions – a group of religions of which many indigenous traditions are a part – are religions based on Nature and the Sacred Land. Almost all these indigenous traditions that we supposedly seek to emulate were/are Nature religions – they saw the Divine embodied in Nature,…
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Bioregional Animist Entrainment
Find a wild place…
Stand there… relax… open up… heighten your alertness and awareness… feel… sensitize… breath… pay Attention…
BE receptive and responsive most importantly…
Feel the air move around your hands… your hands and face… the skin is so sensitive… you can feel even the Slightest movements of air around your face and hands… allow those currents of air to move you… follow them… There is a moving stream of consciousness… of spirit that is the intelligence of space, the spirit of place the mind Of place… this is who you are. its a part of all that is… but its… Read more »
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