The One and the Many

I came across this in London.

You can find out more here.

The stone of course reminded me of the Stones - and on that subject, Kairos was very interesting.

“Pilgrimage is good! [He is forceful and enthusiastic.] And it is not about where you end up: it is about the disposition of pilgrimage. It is about remaking the sacred.

“For a tree, light is sacred, but the earth is.... there is something beyond sacred.”

I ask what is beyond sacred?

“The closest I can come is home.

“And see here how you tend to muddle things up: you are right to want to revitalise and reanimate and value this consciousness which is of the light, But in so doing you must always know that the deeper level, beyond the sacred, is this home, this earth, these bodies and stones.

“The idea that the stones gesture at the stars etc., like the finger pointing to the moon is wrong. What is the case is that the moon is shining on the finger. The sun and the stars are the way of paying homage to the stones, to the body of the earth made manifest.”

I can't recall if I mentioned that Guy had told us to ask for a message from our "guardian angel" on Sunday. I said that Kairos was my guardian angel and I tried to tune in to Kairos. I did. And what I received was, "Come home."

And from The Matter With Things:

[A]lthough we are inextricably part of it, derive our whole existence from it, and are ourselves incomprehensible when sundered from it, we have abandoned Nature. Nature – not some abstract, eviscerated, bureaucratic entity known as ‘the environment’, which exists to be managed and exploited; not some technical set of mechanisms called an ecosystem; but Nature, whose meaning is that-which-is-about-to-be-born, and is feminine – and what’s more a goddess; Nature, that, like Kali, is wild, and gives life and destroys – or rather does not destroy, but transforms one being into another; Nature, that is our mother and our healer and our home, as well as our ultimate fate; Nature, that we are reviling and doing our best to devastate – is the great whole to which we belong. All the elements of the left hemisphere insurrection can, individually and together, be seen as an attack on Nature – and, with it, on the body; and hence on life itself. ‘Let us allow Nature to play her part’, wrote Montaigne, sceptic that he was: ‘she understands her business better than we do.’

Consider this in the light of what the Kali-like Goddess Oak and Kairos said in the last post.