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Helen Louise's avatar

You write beautifully Jeff and in such a way that I am transported to the contexts you describe. I join you in not being able to resist reading into the presence of particular birds. For me, in Cumbria it is the robin.

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Susanna Namuli's avatar

It's fascinating that you write about birding and choose to set some of the context within divinity and divination.

I'm always intrigued when I read stuff like this on substack.

Spirituality is commonplace where I live. But I think of 'the west' as form and matter; buildings, commerce, politics and intellect.

This morning I read a note by Natalie McGill an author on substack where she was responding to something written by Stewart K Lundy.

They are talking about seeds, nature and her cycles, and reincarnation.

You write about birds and their connection, in long gone societies, to divinity and divination.

Someone else that I encountered on Substack this morning publishes weekly ‘nature-based spiritual writings’.

I wonder; is it a thing currently? Is 'the west' curious about spirituality?

*Sorry to use ‘the west’. I simply can’t think how else to describe the places I’m referring to.

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