the Solstice creeping closer by the hour. this is a strange one, knowing that I will be back Arctic-bound in only two months. and struggling to make some kind of schedule for the coming academic year. so many schools, so many countries, and it all has to be organized by yesterday. I recently ran into the article Overcoming Tourism, by Hakim Bey which covers much of the ground of my practice:
In order to appreciate the multiple waymarks of the Wide Earth precisely as the unfolding of generosity, the sufi cultivates what might be called the theophanic gaze: the opening of the Eye of the Heart to the experience of certain people, place, objects, events, as locations of the shining-through of divine Light. — Hakim Bey
the object of Gravity is the Body. the object of Light is the Spirit.