(word-help below)
The Sowel seats in the Marrow-bed, most strongly in the rich ground of the Brain-marrow.
The Sowel is the Ur-mind, and so it is feelsome and fleshly, the fat rootstock of the Self.
In its heavy, warm, dark depth is our Derlic Self and our nearness to all Life, all growthly things, now and ere-now.
All things are melded in the Sowel, but not lost so, for there is a guiding knowing embedded in its heart that keeps them all fast, and it handles them together as is done, for it is one with the Edhli-verden. And so the need of all living things together is heard by this heartsome beingness.
It is the Lodestone here of which I tell, whose guiding hand upon the Sowel is felt by us betimes, and if we listen in stillness, we too will feel, we will know, how to be, how to go. And so the Life-drang will urge us forward and the Nennen charge us, and we can do good and right for the Sake of Edhli and all Life-kinds from our earthy Sowel.
Sowel= soul.
Ur-mind= original psyche.
Derlic= animal.
Edhli-verden= the Realm of Nature.
Life-drang= life-force.
Nennen= energy.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Lodhinn Alfhedhinn and Geordhe Grene: The Twayne
You have read of the Twayne in the story of the finding of the Lodestone in the midst of the Deep and the giving of it to the Drygand, and of how they then became Halleths, Alf-kynechts in dienst to the Drygand. Here is more...
Lodhinn Alfhedhinn's name means "Shaggy Alf-coat"-- he is rather hairy. Geordhe Grene's name means "Green Earth". The two men are different to each other but also complementary, and so they stick together, which keeps them from becoming too different.
Lodhinn is lithe and quick, clever and intense, like a ferret, and a sort of cunning-man. His hair is reddish but dark. He is often away on mysterious business. He makes people nervous. Some call him Wild Man, and his special day is said to be Yule.
Geordhe is tree-ish: thickly made, with thick, wavy blond locks, a squarish calm face, and a measured bearing. People come to him expecting wise counsel, and he often officiates at rites, with a wreath upon his head, like a trewita. He is called Green Man. His special day is Litha.
Lodhinn Alfhedhinn's name means "Shaggy Alf-coat"-- he is rather hairy. Geordhe Grene's name means "Green Earth". The two men are different to each other but also complementary, and so they stick together, which keeps them from becoming too different.
Lodhinn is lithe and quick, clever and intense, like a ferret, and a sort of cunning-man. His hair is reddish but dark. He is often away on mysterious business. He makes people nervous. Some call him Wild Man, and his special day is said to be Yule.
Geordhe is tree-ish: thickly made, with thick, wavy blond locks, a squarish calm face, and a measured bearing. People come to him expecting wise counsel, and he often officiates at rites, with a wreath upon his head, like a trewita. He is called Green Man. His special day is Litha.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Deep Ecologists and Eco-druids
One role of the ancient Druids was to be upholders of the Sacred (Halidom). If you accept Ecology (Edhlifrith) as the foundation (godhead) of any viable future culture-civilization (Edhli-menning), then an Eco-druid would be an upholder of the ecological sacred. The Edhlifridhas (Eco-warriors) would be enforcers of it, but the Trewitas (Eco-druids) would be the spiritual guardians, by their spiritual and juridical authority maintaining the Wih-band (boundary-framing) between the Sacred and the not-sacred in the culture. And the term Deep Ecologist applies to both of these roles, I think.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Ecological Romanticism
****the following is something like a manifesto. try it on.****
A biological godhead is the answer to the devouring vacuum of light and energy-- a white hole-- that science gives us, in which everything dissolves into an incandescent blaze of 'too much information'-- the existential state that has come to dominate since World War II. It is in this state that ecocatastrophe expands boundlessly.
Ecology is the necessary god-idea of our time and henceforth-- necessary because of the failure of the human species to commit itself to saving the Biosphere from humanity. Ecology is the touchstone, the foundational idea of any legitimate civilization.
Ecology-as-godhead is radically polymorphous and global-- as with the Vacuum, but with the difference that it represents the Life-organism that has evolved for billions of years on Earth, while the Vacuum has broken with it, forming a murderous machinery that can only destroy the Life-organism.
Ecological Romanticism connects the inner mythic realm of the spiritual imagination with the outer, scientific reality of all living organisms forming a whole. It is a coordination of Romanticism and Biology. It is the rich romance of Life fighting for survival against a lethal evolutionary development that threatens the whole, by using the full vitality and constitution of the human psyche toward the rescue of Life.
Nature is sacred. Ecological security is a sacred directive. Ecological Romanticism is a means to fight the threat.
****This is very different from what I usually write. It's a sort of foray in a tangential direction. It isn't a completely rational statement and I'm groping for coherence but not quite reaching it. But it's substantial, and has a useful effect, I think. It's a step toward something, which I hope I can discover.****
A biological godhead is the answer to the devouring vacuum of light and energy-- a white hole-- that science gives us, in which everything dissolves into an incandescent blaze of 'too much information'-- the existential state that has come to dominate since World War II. It is in this state that ecocatastrophe expands boundlessly.
Ecology is the necessary god-idea of our time and henceforth-- necessary because of the failure of the human species to commit itself to saving the Biosphere from humanity. Ecology is the touchstone, the foundational idea of any legitimate civilization.
Ecology-as-godhead is radically polymorphous and global-- as with the Vacuum, but with the difference that it represents the Life-organism that has evolved for billions of years on Earth, while the Vacuum has broken with it, forming a murderous machinery that can only destroy the Life-organism.
Ecological Romanticism connects the inner mythic realm of the spiritual imagination with the outer, scientific reality of all living organisms forming a whole. It is a coordination of Romanticism and Biology. It is the rich romance of Life fighting for survival against a lethal evolutionary development that threatens the whole, by using the full vitality and constitution of the human psyche toward the rescue of Life.
Nature is sacred. Ecological security is a sacred directive. Ecological Romanticism is a means to fight the threat.
****This is very different from what I usually write. It's a sort of foray in a tangential direction. It isn't a completely rational statement and I'm groping for coherence but not quite reaching it. But it's substantial, and has a useful effect, I think. It's a step toward something, which I hope I can discover.****
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Earth Day, 40 A.E.
April twenty-second in the fortieth year of the Age of Ecology.
Ecology is the touchstone of everything, now, of everything we feel and think and do.
The Ecology Movement is the significant mass movement of our time.
Have a very deep Earth Day, Deepster.
Ecology is the touchstone of everything, now, of everything we feel and think and do.
The Ecology Movement is the significant mass movement of our time.
Have a very deep Earth Day, Deepster.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Same-haming the Drygand
(word-meanings to follow)
When the Twayne brought the Lodestone to the Drygand and then gave it to him, the Stone came into him and he became the mighty Halleth of the Edhli, to ward it and ernern it from the Dilgoth. The Twayne then were made the first of his kynechts, and in time, many of the Alfar became his Alf-kynechts, thanes in dienst to the Edhli, having sworn troth to the Sake of Edhli-frith and showed by their deeds this troth.
When an Alf swears his troth before the Drygand, he gets from him the Lodestone, in a drench of grene-fyre. And the Stone then comes to sit in his marrow, and the Edhli-wisdom of the Wolken and the Forn-wields of the Drygand flow from the Stone and come to fill him. And a token of this inner Cherrenge is seen in the Drygand-hame that shows as fur or feather or scale over him, at some times, foremostly while one is in the Twyrymet. And this is called "same-haming the Drygand", as the Drygand can look like any living thing or blend of them.
To have the Drygand-hame shows that one has taken to himself the Lodestone and sworn the Troth and become a true Alf and halleth. This does not mean that one has tamed the Drygand and taken to oneself thereby his wields, but instead that one has been taken by the Drygand as his own kynecht, but a free kynecht, a thane, not tamed by him either, but rather hamed by him.
hame= what covers the skin.
Drygand= the pan-chimaera.
halleth= holy warrior.
Edhli= the Biosphere.
ernern= rescue.
Dilgoth= the Extinction Event.
kynecht= knight.
dienst= service.
the Sake of Edhli-frith= the Ecology Movement.
Wolken= the Edhli-mind which hames the Earth.
Forn-wields= ancient powers.
Cherrenge= the conversion.
Twyrymet= where Edhli and Immynd (imagination) blend.
When the Twayne brought the Lodestone to the Drygand and then gave it to him, the Stone came into him and he became the mighty Halleth of the Edhli, to ward it and ernern it from the Dilgoth. The Twayne then were made the first of his kynechts, and in time, many of the Alfar became his Alf-kynechts, thanes in dienst to the Edhli, having sworn troth to the Sake of Edhli-frith and showed by their deeds this troth.
When an Alf swears his troth before the Drygand, he gets from him the Lodestone, in a drench of grene-fyre. And the Stone then comes to sit in his marrow, and the Edhli-wisdom of the Wolken and the Forn-wields of the Drygand flow from the Stone and come to fill him. And a token of this inner Cherrenge is seen in the Drygand-hame that shows as fur or feather or scale over him, at some times, foremostly while one is in the Twyrymet. And this is called "same-haming the Drygand", as the Drygand can look like any living thing or blend of them.
To have the Drygand-hame shows that one has taken to himself the Lodestone and sworn the Troth and become a true Alf and halleth. This does not mean that one has tamed the Drygand and taken to oneself thereby his wields, but instead that one has been taken by the Drygand as his own kynecht, but a free kynecht, a thane, not tamed by him either, but rather hamed by him.
hame= what covers the skin.
Drygand= the pan-chimaera.
halleth= holy warrior.
Edhli= the Biosphere.
ernern= rescue.
Dilgoth= the Extinction Event.
kynecht= knight.
dienst= service.
the Sake of Edhli-frith= the Ecology Movement.
Wolken= the Edhli-mind which hames the Earth.
Forn-wields= ancient powers.
Cherrenge= the conversion.
Twyrymet= where Edhli and Immynd (imagination) blend.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Wealddom of Edhli
...or, The Sovereignty of the Biosphere.
The Edhli is stably self-regulating, and does this the best it can be done. Humans usurp its sovereignty, however, and create ecocatastrophe, damaging the entire life-system of Earth and driving its natural cycles into extreme states of fluctuation and collapse.
The human species must recognize its usurpation and return sovereignty to the Edhli, of course. In a sane planetary civilization, government would be an agent acting on behalf of the whole Edhli. When government is not the champion of the Edhli, then its legitimacy would be forfeit.
The Edhli is stably self-regulating, and does this the best it can be done. Humans usurp its sovereignty, however, and create ecocatastrophe, damaging the entire life-system of Earth and driving its natural cycles into extreme states of fluctuation and collapse.
The human species must recognize its usurpation and return sovereignty to the Edhli, of course. In a sane planetary civilization, government would be an agent acting on behalf of the whole Edhli. When government is not the champion of the Edhli, then its legitimacy would be forfeit.
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