02-23-2008, 12:00 AM
"Perhaps there is an advantage in the personal psychology of the supplicant. I would not want to try to live directly from nature, even episodically, with only an abstract being as my ally."
I might have tried it when I was younger.
I do not think that the abstractness of the being would cease to be an issue after a period of time alone in the wilderness.
My idea of a deer over-spirit comes from a certain theory I heard from my teacher. That animals, when they die, are not as humans. They do not have "spirit" as do humans and their soul as an individual is absorbed like a drop in the sea. so whatever individuality they had ceases to be at death.
I just took it a step further with my example.
Bob
I might have tried it when I was younger.
I do not think that the abstractness of the being would cease to be an issue after a period of time alone in the wilderness.
My idea of a deer over-spirit comes from a certain theory I heard from my teacher. That animals, when they die, are not as humans. They do not have "spirit" as do humans and their soul as an individual is absorbed like a drop in the sea. so whatever individuality they had ceases to be at death.
I just took it a step further with my example.
Bob