working on oneness

 With a bit of adaptation this would work for almost anyone. It’s still a beautiful piece.

Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth.
Every part of the earth is sacred.

The air is precious, for we share the same breath.
Every part of the earth is sacred.

This we know, the earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.
Every part of the earth is sacred.

This we know, all things are connected;
Like the blood that unites on family.
Every part of the earth is sacred.

Our God is the same God,
Whose compassion is equal for all.
Every part of the earth is sacred.

We do not weave the web of life;
We are merely a strand in it.
Every part of the earth is sacred.

Whatever we do to web, we do to ourselves.
Every part of the earth is sacred.


From the Rhythm of Life by David Adam

David Adam was vicar of the parish on the island of Lindesfarne for many years. Although he is now retired he still lives on the island. Also known as Holy Island, it’s all of two square miles in area. The island has had some kind of religious foundation since 635 AD. It’s a place where you can be immersed in the sounds of the sea, the birds, the wind and the old church bells.

ELEMENTALS

 This is a repost that fits in with what I'm reading now and I hope will act as a sort of foundation. 

 I wrote this back in 2013. Considering the push back on the environment, and just about everything decent that has been done in the last century or so reposting this seemed appropriate.

The veils between the physical and spiritual worlds seemed thinner in the past. There was a time when it was easier to believe that there were spirits in the rocks, the trees, the streams. A vision of the world that’s still often dismissed as “Nature Worship” by mainstream society.

I don’t believe that the old Celts worshipped Nature as I understand word.  Perhaps we should say they did their rites in Nature.  They were much more in touch with the world, seen and unseen, around them. This immersion in the spirit world seems to have persisted longest on the fringes of Europe. In Ireland, where Rome’s writ never ran. Or in the highlands and islands of Scotland beyond Hadrian’s Wall. Even the people of Wales held onto most of their independence until the thirteenth century and the invasions of England’s Edward I.

I’m not even sure that the Celtic concept of creation or creator is the same as the world view I grew up with. They certainly have enough different words to work with. And heck, maybe it doesn’t really matter unless you’re trying to learn how to speak one of these jaw breakers of a language.

The word often used in Irish for creator, Duileamh (always capitalized and pronounced dool-yev) doesn’t have the root word for create. It doesn’t have the root word for God, or the Almighty, or Supreme Being; all those words our world view equates with a supernatural Creator.

This difficult, for us, to pin down word can mean “being in the elements,” or “one who is in the elements” or “one who is the elements.” To make it even more interesting the root duil can also mean desire, hope, fondness or expectation. They’re all related, I guess, maybe…….oh heck I’ll take their word for it. Try asking Who is fond of What? Who desires What? Careful, the next thing you know you just might decide that Creator and Creation are caught in a web of desire, hope, and fondness that we aren’t used to facing in our world view of the sacred confined to a few hours on a certain day and tucked in the closet the rest of the time.

The highlanders of Scotland used to bless each other in a way that turns the way we treat each other and the world around us on its head.

“The love and affection of the moon be yours.

The love and affection of the sun be yours.

The love and affection of the stars be yours.”

And work their way through all the things of nature around them until they end with

“The love and affection of all living things be yours.”

Adapted from Yearning for the wind.

Perhaps it isn’t so strange to feel a kinship with the sun. The sun feeds the plants, the plants feed the cows and the cows feed us. I guess you could say we carry a bit of sunshine with us through the day; and the night.

If we really believed that the local river had love and affection for us we might treat it like the irreplaceable creation that it is instead of as a sewer. If we could stretch our minds around the idea that the mountains and valleys might love us perhaps we’d think twice about carving off the top of a mountain to get at the coal and dumping the tailings in the valley below. If we truly felt the living web instead of seeing board feet when we look at an old growth forest maybe we’d be more careful as we harvest the trees we need. As it stands we don’t believe we have the love and affection of our fellow human beings much less the rest of the world and the creatures in it.

The elements of creation. “The Love and Affection of the Elements. The Pure Love of the Elements. The Being of the Elements. The One Who is the Elements.” Tom Cowan notes that the participants were trying to discuss these concepts at a workshop for Celtic Shamanism. One woman in the group wished our language had words like these. Another broke in with “Wouldn’t it be great if our culture had ideas like this.” Taken from Yearning for the Wind.

Just wouldn’t it though?

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 Plese forgive the goofed up formatting this is the first time I've tried directly copying from my FB page instead of rewwriting it all. 

Female Poster: You can sue poor women that don’t even have bus fare all u want, you aren’t getting anything. She may have to stop working and request public assistance, poor women have higher incidence of illness. Child will be born into poverty.

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• Male Poster KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED. PROBLEM SOLVED

  

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  • Female Poster  like no woman was ever overpowered 

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  • Female Poster birth control dosent always work work evevery man should get a vasectomy then least hat can be reverreversed if someday you want a child

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  • Male Poster that's a bit extreme.

    

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    Leigh   female posterr how is that extream? Why are only women only women responsible for preventing

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  • Male poster it's called responsibility. More people need to try the concept.

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    Me keep it in your pants. Problem solved.

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• Male Posterwhy do you make it everyone else's problem? Do you not understand what the first choice is?

  

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  • FemaleMale Poster so women have to give birth but if they need help afterwards they can go fuck themselves?

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    Me What part of keep in your pants do men not understand?

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  • Male Poster the same part as keep your legs together. Just because you see it out of his pants doesn't mean you have jump on it.
  • This exchange is from my FB page. I can't seem to get the formatting where it needs to be or correct some of the absences. This whole attitude that it's up to thw woman to not get pregnant. Reminds me a some problems Portland had a generation or so ago. 

  
  
• The Sandy Blvd. neighborhood was "mixed use" at the time. In other words small businesses and the world's oldeset, so they say,profession. Trouble is when some guys came cruising, in the middle of the day, they weren't too choosy about their targets. If that person on their break or lunch = was female she was fair game at far as they were concerned. 

In fact the attitude seemed to be that the intended target shoud be flattered to be the CHOSEN. She could say no until she turned blue and/or ducked into the nearet building. It was no means maybe, maybe means yes and yes means get it on. It's been at least two decades and I forget how the problem was finally solved.