@AnarContrarian @sellieyoung @TornadoNate @bgcts @tradistae @guyjames23 @RizomaSchool @MichaelTG09 @csmaje @alancornett So, yes, a homing instinct matters deeply and furthermore, I believe, one requiring a deepening and intensification of our life on earth at that “one good place” (Thomas Merton) where, Anita Lange observes, “we may become present with ourselves within the wholeness of the world.”
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It has taken me half a lifetime of searching to realize that the likeliest path to the ultimate ground leads through my local ground. I mean the land itself, with its creeks and rivers, its weather, seasons, stone outcroppings, and all the plants and animals that share it. I cannot have a spiritual center without having a geographical one; I cannot live a grounded life without being grounded in a place. "In belonging to a landscape, one feels a rightness, at-homeness, a knitting of self and world. This condition of clarity and focus, this being fully present, is akin to what the Buddhists call mindfulness, what Christian contemplatives refer to as recollection, what Quakers call centering down. I am suspicious of any philosophy that would separate this-worldly from other-worldly commitment. There is only one world, and we participate in it here and now, in our flesh and our place." Scott Russell Saunders
@poetinbabylon ...the genius of a particularized habitat, the intricate harmony of an integrative coming to wholeness embracing 1, and just 1, locale. The prophetic eco-village is, in other words, singularly defined by a shared face and a parochial limit. So much for the individual of a savior.
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