tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post6893201606671689678..comments2023-09-28T10:08:44.827+02:00Comments on Gwynt: The Chalice - Part 2 of 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-33343890905625378162014-02-23T22:43:05.223+01:002014-02-23T22:43:05.223+01:00Peter; How can I best respond to your comment? Bo...Peter; How can I best respond to your comment? Both the intent, as well as your response to your dream, were positive, and that counts for a very great deal. Of this I am certain. <br /><br />I share your sense of excitement that the concept of the Divine Spark can be seen as being fundamental to ways of thinking which are other than those to which we are accustomed. <br /><br />Thank you for this commentm and also to the reference made to Gwynt on Slow Reads.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-87421071864495480682014-02-23T14:46:47.259+01:002014-02-23T14:46:47.259+01:00I woke up this morning from a dream in which I had...I woke up this morning from a dream in which I had hurt my friend's feelings profoundly by assuming he was kidding when, in fact, he wasn't. I was insensitive to the possibility of his growth, and I was bent on being funny. (I immediately found an application for my dream: I just deleted a Tweet I had posted yesterday that I now realize could have offended some, maybe many. The apprenticeship of love.)<br /><br />And this post articulates, puts some theory on, my morning's experience. A striking post that sticks to my ribs like a good sermon, though personal and wholly without the sermonizing. So many good lines, too.<br /><br />The divine spark you speak of seems to be the core of my emerging political theory that I've been digging at for several years now. So neat, even exciting, to hear it expressed here in another context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-24553624432596461722014-02-23T10:20:22.074+01:002014-02-23T10:20:22.074+01:00To Everyone: Having mulled over your comments at ...To Everyone: Having mulled over your comments at some length, I have decided to continue with my practice of publishing my pathworking imagery, where it is appropriate. To do otherwise would be to defeat one of the objects of Gwynt, namely to present the data on which I base my writing.<br /><br />It is to be regretted that the imagery is not always understood, but I have to say that there are times when I do not understand the imagery. Yet if I were to ignore it, choose to keep it locked away, it would remove something essential, the life, from what I write.<br /><br />Of late I have referred to the two sides of experience, the Real and the Imaginary, the material and the spiritual, and so on. Something similar appears to operate in my posts. Only by allowing the non-imagery to go hand-in-glove with the pathworking imagery am I able to feel free enough to write as I do. I don't know the psycho-mechanics of how this works, I just know that it does.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-32815817671873750192014-02-22T22:36:13.636+01:002014-02-22T22:36:13.636+01:00Thank you PC. :)Thank you PC. :)Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-34787822162371799432014-02-22T19:23:16.021+01:002014-02-22T19:23:16.021+01:00how easy it is to forget that "love thy neigh...how easy it is to forget that "love thy neighbour" does not refer to the warm fuzzy feeling, but to the practice. thank you for reminding me.the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-84956335783957851702014-02-22T15:58:53.487+01:002014-02-22T15:58:53.487+01:00Halle; Thank you for that affirmation; I feel hum...Halle; Thank you for that affirmation; I feel humbled, and borne by an odd sort of peace.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-68125517570140285362014-02-22T15:13:07.123+01:002014-02-22T15:13:07.123+01:00Oh how clumsy and slow this form of communication ...Oh how clumsy and slow this form of communication is, yet without it how could we have ever met? <br />First, Natalie has saved my poor finger so much swiping! Your analysis of love sums up so much.<br /><br />As to the pathworking, you have reminded me of earliest memories, perhaps felt rather than thought. There was a glow and certainty that there was purpose in my existence and that going into this adventure had meaning. <br />Because there were no experiences of the world, no swords or eagles or chalices, the images, nightmarish in their way were the sounds and colours, pressure and such confusion. The only solace; the promise of love that had somehow conveyed that there would be meaning and purpose eventually.<br />There have been occasions through my life when these primal feelings have returned, and it might just be that thanks to your blog and your choice to tell your stories, a connection has finally happened. <br />This has been way too long already for a comment. Let me just add that for me, Gwynt has become a safe place. There is love here Tom.Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03847654451426257182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-83017748824438695252014-02-22T10:09:39.711+01:002014-02-22T10:09:39.711+01:00Susan; Your supportive comment has now thrown me ...Susan; Your supportive comment has now thrown me into a state of indecision, and has also reminded me of my original purpose in 'flying' Gwynt. I must confess to feeling very uncomfortable at present, and maybe that is no bad thing!<br /><br />Somewhere on the dusty shelves of my mind there are memories I need to retrieve, dust off and reconsider. This may take a few days, I hope not weeks, but such matters will not be hurried. I hope that anyone who has gained anything from this site will bear with me. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-85975438865664578722014-02-21T23:25:52.584+01:002014-02-21T23:25:52.584+01:00This is quite the amazing spiritual journey you...This is quite the amazing spiritual journey you've described, Tom. I found the imagery was very clearly and beautifully portrayed. Your knowledge of esoterica is profound. Although all of the references were familiar to me I found it unimaginable that I'd remember all of the meanings in that state. <br /><br />When you mentioned the female arm holding the sword my first thought was of the Lady in the Lake; that yours was Sophia was a delightful surprise.<br /><br />I actually hope you will keep on describing details of your pathworking meditations as it's both new and very fascinating to me as a spiritual exercise.<br /><br />There are many ways to arrive at love as the answer.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-70447075892778102522014-02-21T22:15:16.576+01:002014-02-21T22:15:16.576+01:00Natalie; I must express my gratitude for your com...Natalie; I must express my gratitude for your comment, the same kind of gratitude I feel towards Bruce. It has been, up until now, my intent to try to describe the data from which my conclusions have been drawn, because I have become so tired of having wisdom delivered as from 'on high'.<br /><br />I must confess to feeling thoroughly beaten in this intent. I accept fully what you say, and I will listen to what has been offered as comment. I will no longer post my pathworkings, but perhaps it was worth the try. And maybe, after all, if such experiences may be said to be a conversations between the pathworker and the Divine, they should be kept private.<br /><br />Oh Natalie! But thank you.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-8130038655854371962014-02-21T21:10:43.507+01:002014-02-21T21:10:43.507+01:00"... My life has a purpose, and that purpose ..."... My life has a purpose, and that purpose is to love. On the surface that may sound obvious and simple, but at its root it is a complex state of being. It is not my purpose here to write a treatise on love, but what is clear to me in a way I have not seen before, is that the love to which I refer is not about thought, feeling, romance or ego-sentimentality. It is not even about the caring about, and the caring of, that appeals to the higher instincts. It is about the practice of love that does not carry any opt-out clause. It is about how I love my neighbour, even if I loathe him/her. Again I say it is about how I practise, not how I feel. "<br /><br />Tom, I had to copy this whole section because it is, in this post, what resonates completely and relevantly with me. I can underline every word. But the pathworking that you describe which led you there is in a language of symbols and myths that are not "my" language. I don't mean that it's not a valid language or path, but only that it's not mine. We all have particular 'languages' (I don't mean literal languages or literary styles) that we respond to and express ourselves inwardly with and inevitably they'll have some influences from our background, culture etc. So there are parts of this post which I read but don't really absorb whereas when reaching your conclusion, as quoted above, the light goes on and makes sparks for me.<br />lightNatalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-25506364326594908462014-02-21T09:56:01.963+01:002014-02-21T09:56:01.963+01:00Bruce; I do not feel that I am knowledgeable abou...Bruce; I do not feel that I am knowledgeable about poetry, but in this instance I feel I can look beyond the words to something else. Thus it is that my thanks for this ode are genuine.<br /><br />It has long been a concern of mine that the descriptions of inner imagery both fail to describe adequately that inner experience, and also fail to capture that something in my readers that can initiate a response. This is unsurprising. Indeed I experience similar difficulties when dealing, for example, with Lewis Carroll and some of C.G.Jung's imagery. It is to be noted that the contents of the latter's "Red Book" remained unpublished until after his death. And he really did have something to say.<br /><br />So what I was saying was that I will not react with malice, but rethink my approach to blogging. It may even be possible to tell the pathworking as a story. We shall see what we shall see.<br /><br />Once again, thank you Bruce.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2683318922990064067.post-24230775897702883082014-02-20T23:39:31.217+01:002014-02-20T23:39:31.217+01:00Oh, my.
If you're having trouble with the cha...Oh, my.<br /><br />If you're having trouble with the chalice,<br />Please don't react with malice.<br />There's a much better way . . .<br />Just go ask Alice.<br /><br />I'm sorry. When I saw that word "chalice" it threw me into rhyming mode.<br /><br />Please go on with what you were saying.Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.com