@kaufmanjwriter @johnmilbank3 end/ Not that sobriety isn't a common mode among contemplative regenerative-designers - there are certainly plenty of them. Rather, that the strength of the hills matters far more to our tribe than the strength of the drink. Put another way, how intimately Sourced is your Being?
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5/ The strength of the hills is not ours. "I saw them eating and I knew who they were." - Kahlil Gibran Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must must have been quite different in the days when a family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood—they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air and later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardized international diet (you may have had Canadian flour, English meat, Scotch oatmeal, African oranges, and Australian wine today) are really artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours. - C.S. Lewis, June 22, 1930
@CACRadicalGrace @knorriseyt 2/ As such, ‘co-evolutionary sacramentality’ restores the concordance between religious life and the seasonal cycle of ritual, between the largely synthetic lives and civilization we strain to inhabit, and a more natural way of being we are all being urgently called toward.
