The Body as the Last Bastion of Nature in an Urban Setting.
I got the new words I blogged earlier from reading The Archdruid’s blog. He’s awesome. While reading one of his posts outlining the differences between civilization and barbarism, I came across a reader’s comment. It was so good that I want to republish it here, as inspiration and reminder:
Quote by “Ed Boyle:”
I am enjoying my vacation in a more small town, rural setting on the German north sea. I take walks along fields filled with sheep and long windy beaches and nature reserves. This is quieting for the soul of a busy urbanite. I find time to develop new hobbies in listening to music or get closer to my family,otherwise hectically involved in urban life and entertainment, work schedules. We all live in our own little worlds (not like a family farm). In an urban industrialized environment relationships are atomized, our soul becomes alienated from each other and from itself. Since twenty years starting due to office stress I have developed routine of balancing myself through yoga, tai chi, esoteric sciences like astrological psychology, nutrition, etc. The human body is the last remaining natural environment in the urban setting where one can stop the positive feedback loop of the industrial ideology. The techniques for this were created in the ancient civilizations, by gurus, monks, hiding in forest ashrams and monasteries from the city. A city person does well to apply such techniques to remain part of his or her own nature and to understand other human beings in their essence, as only natural environmental component left. As well as music, literature, history, poetry I research internet blogs discussions to discover what other people in my age and situation have experienced emotionally and done about it. This is helpful like global village idea. Everyone has similar experiences. Alienation is reduced. I was researching heart chakra yesterday and talk about relationships and discovered high heart or thymus chakra between heart and throat chakras, which concentrating upon in the course of day and night I felt very strongly. This is supposed to regulate nexus between pure feeling in heart and communication in throat, giving a person a personal concept of meaning in life or intent. Every topic, including esoteric development gets boring after 20 years, but I never seem to stop learning about my internal nature. Regardless of the civilization this is the first principle we will always return to.
