{"id":890,"date":"2008-08-07T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2008-08-07T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T17:28:49","slug":"a-romantic-hymn-to-the-universal-and-the-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"A Romantic Hymn to the Universal and the Particular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>72\u00a0 bar rises 30.07 1mph N\u00a0 dew-point 57\u00a0 sunrise 6:05 sunset 8:31\u00a0 Lughnasa<\/p>\n<p>First Quarter of the Corn Moon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.&#8221; &#8211; Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n<p>In this case you have to remember that Virginia put rocks in her pockets and drowned herself in the closest flowing water.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some notes.\u00a0 A new direction for liberal religion.\u00a0 Cosmology:\u00a0 a nature centered (including humans) faith that has local manifestations, i.e. this galaxy, this solar system, this planet, this nation, this province, this place, this particular location. (Our Town)\u00a0 Anthropology:\u00a0 we are universes,\u00a0\u00a0 one self, many selves.\u00a0 Whitman.\u00a0 We grow toward a Self that can contain and nourish all of our many selves, yet paradoxically extinguish them all.\u00a0 Existentialism.\u00a0 Nexus.\u00a0 Ethics:\u00a0 the Iroquois medicine man at Theology in the Americas.\u00a0 Soteriology-see ethics and anthropology.\u00a0 A decadent salvation, from stardust to stardust.<\/p>\n<p>We must answer the thin faith of the empiricist, the sad faith of the secular humanist, the mad faith of the fundamentalists and the mind-only faith of those outside the faith traditions of their youth.\u00a0 Our response, our new direction folds together the empiricist and the humanist with a pagan lovesong, a romantic hymn to the universal and the particular.\u00a0 Its flower symphony trumpets forth from home altars all across the globe, a fragrant and colorful melody that weaves us all together, a magic fabric with each individual, yet each part.<\/p>\n<p>This has legs in my heart, it wants to run and jump and play with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72\u00a0 bar rises 30.07 1mph N\u00a0 dew-point 57\u00a0 sunrise 6:05 sunset 8:31\u00a0 Lughnasa First Quarter of the Corn Moon &#8220;The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.&#8221; &#8211; Virginia Woolf In this case you have to remember that Virginia put rocks in her pockets and drowned herself in the closest flowing water. Here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Romantic Hymn to the Universal and the Particular<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,197],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-writing","tag-pagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}