Mystic

MYSTIC

-- a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.

I am in the "or" category by this definition - I regretfully cannot surrender myself.

This morning I felt myself to be the only mystic in the woods -  the other myriad life-forms being unencumbered by "intellectect", having many other dimensions of being, blessed things. .(The word "silly" originally meant "Blessed", so silly things !)

So here we are, the unblessed who just might save the farm.

Poetry : August 2021 - Nine Stitches

Nine Stitches

Commentary - I - Witness

August 8^th.2021

Today another birthplace of civilization, Greece, one to which we white westerners are particularly attached, is in flames. Turkey is burning, along with many places all over the southern Mediterranean. In Northern Europe it is raining, the floods are near-Bibical. China, India, the great North American West - all predicted, all predictable. The heat and the water cycle intensify, by universal standards our window of survival conditions is very small. We are very vulnerable, we damp little monkeys with fire in our brains. So, for that matter, is the infinitely more complex web of life of which we are such a deadly part.

Poetry : There ain't no money in poetry

Poetry : On a path in Scotland