Update: Skypath

Essentially the only good thing about my stress level is it's motivating to knuckle down and Do Something, Anything, and so the website is looking delicious. In fact, you can probably assume if I'm posting I'm in a bit of a state.

Landcraft is a correspondence system drawn from/interrelated with the land (specifically, the British landscape, as that's what I see around me when I Walk). Instead of enneagraming concepts onto a symbol or diagram, we do it directly onto the natural world and weather - so those are not mere 'correspondences' but integral to it. In this way, the whole world is made symbol (and symbol, the whole world); by following this method, one can cultivate a constant and rather trippy engagement with everything, a seeing of divinity everywhere, a connecting up of image and ideas that taps you right in just by looking out of the window.

I do feel like, possibly, this requires a kind of warning - akin the warnings that serious meditative practices will give you - because you'll be constantly reflecting in a manner that changes the way you see, but it's working for me as a creation of awareness and presence that never stops. That's what I wanted - for my religious life to no longer be a weekend hobby, but immanent. But perhaps this is not an inherent impact of the work on people who do the occasional meditation, it's only a risk for me because I'm so soused in it.

So here's a visual journey: Journeys | Skypath. Think of it as an equivalent to that beginner close-your-eyes-and-imagine meditation you'll have done before so many times, but in pictures (not sounds or words) and expressing a series of concepts specific to what I'm doing. This one expresses the movement from the Solar to Stellar, through what I've been calling the Skyish path, as it has the elemental qualities that are similar to air (cold, wet, insubstantial)

Consider: using it to introduce yourself to the concepts on this path. And then, retreating to one of these 'places' at need. Or if you discover yourself in one, knowing the way and the map to walk towards a different one. Or doing magic which considers the route between two places as a key technical component.

There's also a word-based page for people using screen-readers. I'll record a podcast at some point. I quite like the idea of making a playlist.

I think they’ll remember how they felt

Extracts from Why The Future is Analog by David Sax

The pandemic was so stressful because it obliterated our sense of time. On the one hand, it seemed as though the world were spinning out of control. We turned on the news or checked our phones, and information just cascaded past us, faster and faster, more violently and with terrifying consequences. Keeping up with it was impossible. There was always another email to answer. Each refresh brought more grim news to digest and respond to. The Slack thread never ended.

But your body was still. You hadn’t gone outside in three days and had been wearing the same ragged outfit for so long, you actually forgot you owned other clothes. Had you showered this week? What week was this? How much of this was due to the unique circumstances of avoiding a contagious virus, and how much was simply the by-product of more time spent online?

More at the link.