I read “Druidry” by Emma Restall Orr. Not only does Druidry involve the environment, but according to Orr:
All within Druidry do work for the environment. For some the focus is local, for some it is global. Some are happy on a protest march, others are dancing a rite within their sacred circle. However the Druid is involved, the key tenets of his faith will always guide him: we are all spirit, equal and connected.
Beyond that the entire environment should be actively held sacred, to Druids, all space is sacred. This brings a whole new meaning to everything we’ve discussed in class. If every place is sacred, and a person had the ability to consciously realize this all the time, a person could live entirely separate of the profane world and live only in the sacred. Of course, this is what monks of every tradition shoot for. It would change Lane’s axiom from “sacred place is not chosen, it chooses,” to something like “sacred place is not chosen, but is everywhere. People choose which portions of sacred place to acknowledge.”
Friday, December 4, 2009
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