Haven’t read any of the recommended, but you already hit me hard.
I wouldn't be surprised if older generations had a much higher readiness to begin with. That shamans led yes, storytellers voiced, rituals reminded, but people knew and just needed that little nudge.
My book, a novel of half a million words (I kid you not) tries (and largely fails) to express the forgotten place of celebration in community. Festivals, as the place to visit and be visited by what you call the Otherworld. And how gatherings have slowly been suffocated to death. The first premise was an idea of working toward the last festival. And then Covid happened and all the gatherings of the world were cancelled for real.
Yes my head keeps interfering with what my being knows it has to write.
Thank you…..i fear reading that red booklet, but I will try anyway….
Oh, you should absolutely read the Corbin! From what you’ve shared, I think you need it.
And yes to older generations having more readiness. I’ve been reading Ronald Hutton’s various accounts of the seventeenth century in England, when the Puritan movement shut down so much ritual, and grieving how much we’ve lost.
I’ve heard Barbara Ehrenreich’s Dancing in the Streets is good, on the topics you mentioned.
Haven’t read any of the recommended, but you already hit me hard.
I wouldn't be surprised if older generations had a much higher readiness to begin with. That shamans led yes, storytellers voiced, rituals reminded, but people knew and just needed that little nudge.
My book, a novel of half a million words (I kid you not) tries (and largely fails) to express the forgotten place of celebration in community. Festivals, as the place to visit and be visited by what you call the Otherworld. And how gatherings have slowly been suffocated to death. The first premise was an idea of working toward the last festival. And then Covid happened and all the gatherings of the world were cancelled for real.
Yes my head keeps interfering with what my being knows it has to write.
Thank you…..i fear reading that red booklet, but I will try anyway….
Oh, you should absolutely read the Corbin! From what you’ve shared, I think you need it.
And yes to older generations having more readiness. I’ve been reading Ronald Hutton’s various accounts of the seventeenth century in England, when the Puritan movement shut down so much ritual, and grieving how much we’ve lost.
I’ve heard Barbara Ehrenreich’s Dancing in the Streets is good, on the topics you mentioned.