@millinerd For Paradise Gardeners, the strength of the hills matters no less than the strength of the drink, the World no less than the Myth. The Dionysian Christ, then, a co-evolutionary epiphany; deep incarnation to the degree we enflesh the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection.
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I began with the name of Dionysus; let me be permitted to end with the name of Christ: for the power I seek is also Christian. Nietzsche indeed said the whole question was Dionysus versus Christ; but only the fool will take these as mutually exclusive opposites. There is a Dionysian Christianity, an apocalyptic Christianity, a Christianity of miracles and revelations. And there have always been some Christians for whom the age of miracle and revelation is not over; Christians who claim the spirit; enthusiasts. The power I look for is the power of enthusiasm: as… Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind; Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis, Norman Brown, University of California Press, 1991
@kaufmanjwriter @johnmilbank3 1/ It perhaps bears noting that whatever cultural tradition I move among in the 'paradise gardening' or 'new world creation movement', folk are typically non-prescriptive about home-grown, home-processed botanicals, whether for food, medicine or recreation. Grapes are everywhere.
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“But how self-exiled we nowadays are from all great gates, great openings into other worlds, great openings into this world. Nierikas, the Hoichol indians call them. The sacred, great and dangerous earth regained might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained.” - John Moriarty Image of text excerpted from beginning at: “At one level the Paradise gardening movement is aimed directly at questions such as these because it dares to mount a challenge to…” and ends, “in the natural sequence of a concrete journey into Beauty’s deepest ground, Paradise-regained and, as N.O. Brown portrays it, ‘the return of the gods.’” 9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.