Really thought provoking, thanks for sharing! You mention meditation which sounds like a great way to (re)connect. I wondered if you have other thoughts on how to find our place in the cosmic in modern Western life? One thing that strikes me that in those examples of other cultures they are/were doing it together, it is/was a shared social & cultural experience.
Hi Joe, thank you for commenting. You ask a very good question. For me, it's core to where we are and what we are looking for. I've written about it, the two following posts would be good to start with.
Thanks very much Vince, I’ve read these and another of your related pieces now. I’m intrigued to see where you go with this. I’m wondering — given the time & places we live in now — how can we get to “the gold” and the true culture you’re describing (or at least a good deal more of them :)
This river always teaches: last summer, how to tell time by butterflies... late spring, dark black with iridescent blue, later bright yellow with black, then small and white. By the end of the summer golden brown and orange, as if letting me know that the colors of trees will be changing. Each one in their own time and place.
Then I wonder about what I cannot imagine... How Native Americans lived on the land, maybe better, how the land lived inside of them. Able to know what a new scent on a breeze means, footprints that speak of a conversation the night before, every night the moon telling a new story...
An intimacy beyond words, that I may never know. Beyond my imagination as long as I live in a world of objects and not relationships.
Michael, I feel you have replied on a post before. Always exquisite text. I would dearly love to be this connected to the 'process' that unfolds around me in nature. I work away in my veg garden and over time it slowly wraps itself around me and I don't feel as much separate to it anymore. Thank you as always for commenting. 🙏
Thank you for this.
@Kora Sevier, thank you for reading it and commenting. 🙏
Really thought provoking, thanks for sharing! You mention meditation which sounds like a great way to (re)connect. I wondered if you have other thoughts on how to find our place in the cosmic in modern Western life? One thing that strikes me that in those examples of other cultures they are/were doing it together, it is/was a shared social & cultural experience.
Hi Joe, thank you for commenting. You ask a very good question. For me, it's core to where we are and what we are looking for. I've written about it, the two following posts would be good to start with.
https://vincentmcmahon.substack.com/p/a-culture-that-holds-you-the-feeling
https://vincentmcmahon.substack.com/p/beyond-pseudoculture-creating-a-web
Ah, thanks for the links — I’ll check those out!
Have a look, I’d be really interested in what you think. It’s all exploratory but I do feel there’s something there.
Thanks very much Vince, I’ve read these and another of your related pieces now. I’m intrigued to see where you go with this. I’m wondering — given the time & places we live in now — how can we get to “the gold” and the true culture you’re describing (or at least a good deal more of them :)
This river always teaches: last summer, how to tell time by butterflies... late spring, dark black with iridescent blue, later bright yellow with black, then small and white. By the end of the summer golden brown and orange, as if letting me know that the colors of trees will be changing. Each one in their own time and place.
Then I wonder about what I cannot imagine... How Native Americans lived on the land, maybe better, how the land lived inside of them. Able to know what a new scent on a breeze means, footprints that speak of a conversation the night before, every night the moon telling a new story...
An intimacy beyond words, that I may never know. Beyond my imagination as long as I live in a world of objects and not relationships.
Michael Tscheu
In memory of Barry Lopez
Michael, I feel you have replied on a post before. Always exquisite text. I would dearly love to be this connected to the 'process' that unfolds around me in nature. I work away in my veg garden and over time it slowly wraps itself around me and I don't feel as much separate to it anymore. Thank you as always for commenting. 🙏
I may post again. Your post is amazing.
Connects in many ways for me. Not complicated yet deeply insightful, the way wisdom arrives.