Post by Craig on Sept 8, 2008 19:21:52 GMT -1
Hi RR,
I'm still catching up, so let's be at it...
Did someone leave while I was away?
Firstly, what practical applications have you applied to your everyday spirituality that has come directly from Brythonic study?
I have never formally studied Brythonic lore. As a welshman it has always been in the background of my childhood education and adult experiences. Unlike LR and Megli and Heron et al., I am unable to bandy quotes and references so I may need to come at this question from another angle.
My 'everyday spirituality' is almost indistinguisable from my everyday life. It developed over the length of my life and was accelerated by my close relationship with the Mawddach Estuary in Mid-Wales.
As a result every decision I make is informed by the little wisdom I have garnered from this relationship and the ethical and moral philosophies I have developed as a result. In essence I am a Brython and do wonder where everyone else gets their wisdom from...?
Would I be wrong to assume that Brythony could ever fill a spiritual need, or have I misunderstood the direction that the original members set up this project wanted it to go?
Brython, in my intention anyway, was set up to do far more than just explore our spiritual life. It is to help reform our society along ethical and moral lines that can sustain the peoples of these islands, and the other beings that share them, into the future.
When we first discussed this both Hawkwind and I were very concerned with the concept of forming a new tribe, with all the social interaction and personal interdependence this implies.
Is this project merely a response to the spiritual and historical void left in these islands by successive invasions from the near continent, almost like a collective amnesia that is starting to be recognized by individuals?
No.
Well if you will ask closed questions
We are though a product of our time. We can be nothing less, which is why we regularly state that all we do must be relevant to life in the 21st century C.E, not 43 B.C.
Do we need a set of principles (non enforceable but a set of commonly held beliefs) that could define what it means to be Brythonic, or would this be interpreted as dogma?
Part of the project would be to develop these, but more for their social worth than spiritual.
There, that should keep you confused for a while
Bendithion,
Craig <o>.
I'm still catching up, so let's be at it...
Firstly.....With the recent withdrawal of established members...
Did someone leave while I was away?
Firstly, what practical applications have you applied to your everyday spirituality that has come directly from Brythonic study?
I have never formally studied Brythonic lore. As a welshman it has always been in the background of my childhood education and adult experiences. Unlike LR and Megli and Heron et al., I am unable to bandy quotes and references so I may need to come at this question from another angle.
My 'everyday spirituality' is almost indistinguisable from my everyday life. It developed over the length of my life and was accelerated by my close relationship with the Mawddach Estuary in Mid-Wales.
As a result every decision I make is informed by the little wisdom I have garnered from this relationship and the ethical and moral philosophies I have developed as a result. In essence I am a Brython and do wonder where everyone else gets their wisdom from...?
Would I be wrong to assume that Brythony could ever fill a spiritual need, or have I misunderstood the direction that the original members set up this project wanted it to go?
Brython, in my intention anyway, was set up to do far more than just explore our spiritual life. It is to help reform our society along ethical and moral lines that can sustain the peoples of these islands, and the other beings that share them, into the future.
When we first discussed this both Hawkwind and I were very concerned with the concept of forming a new tribe, with all the social interaction and personal interdependence this implies.
Is this project merely a response to the spiritual and historical void left in these islands by successive invasions from the near continent, almost like a collective amnesia that is starting to be recognized by individuals?
No.
Well if you will ask closed questions
We are though a product of our time. We can be nothing less, which is why we regularly state that all we do must be relevant to life in the 21st century C.E, not 43 B.C.
Do we need a set of principles (non enforceable but a set of commonly held beliefs) that could define what it means to be Brythonic, or would this be interpreted as dogma?
Part of the project would be to develop these, but more for their social worth than spiritual.
There, that should keep you confused for a while
Bendithion,
Craig <o>.