Summer Solstice 2024 Retreat Journal:
On June 19th, I started a solo retreat in the mountains of Nevada in Oregon. I'd been planning this for years - my mentor told me to do it years ago, as a kind of final task. It was time for me to Walk Alone.
This is my journal.
Spirits and ghost are not real substances. However, they can be real as relations. The relation of a person to a place can be so strong that there spirit can be felt. But the ghost is not a thing that is there.
Substance ontology is the problem! We are not separate things but the culmination of infinite relations. How we relate is more important than what we have.
the metacrisis (ecological crisis, meaning crisis, health crisis, energy crisis... ) all share the same root. they emerge from a particular way of being — of believing ourselves to be separate