Daily Archives: January 21, 2008

Cinema and Television, Faith and Spirituality

Shinto and the Tao

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7  75%  19%  0mph WNW  bar 30.38  falls windchill7  Winter

                     Full Winter Moon

Just purchased an online course of Taoism.  This is a subject I want to explore in greater depth and this will add to my knowledge. 

Spent a few hours today writing Transcendent Thinking, a presentation for Groveland UU.  Instead of recapitulating Emerson I decided to write as the free, transcendent mind I am.  This lead me quickly to Miyazaki, the anime master whose features rely on Shinto as their underlying ethos.  I  hopped to Shinto itself, then Taoism (which lead me to the course work).  This is more the direction I’d hoped to go with the Ge-ology, now I’ve got a beginning.

I’ve also written a ritual, a sacrament for the way of nature which I’ll post here at some point.

Woollies tonight.  The retreat.

Weather +Climate

The Undergods

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4  70%  19%  omph W bar30.55  windchill4  Winter

                 Full Winter Moon

The Giants are the undergods–oops, I meant to write underdogs, but I like undergods, too–against the Übergods, the New England Patriots.  Long years ago, when I began to love anthropology, a favorite professor, David Scruton, said Americans are infracaninophiles, that is, lovers of the underdog.   Maybe we’re also infratheophiles, lovers of the undergods.  Anyhow, I wouldn’t count the Giants out.  Their defense seems pretty sticky and Eli Manning and Plaxico Burress have a groove going.  If they can get Bradshaw and Jacobs going early, they’ll have a chance.  We’ll see.

A light snow.  The slightly warmer temps produce more interesting weather.  The cold builds character and the days are usually bright and clear, but warmer weather often brings back the snow.  We need some snow since the older snow got thinned out during the January thaw and we look a bit straggly here.

On to the Transcendentalists and life in the thought lane.

As Bill Schimdt noticed on yesterday’s post, the NFL pinged back.  Bill said he was sure only the computer read my post.  I’m sure he’s right.