Tuesday, March 22, 2011

More of the nature not contained by skyways


I am always chewing on a philosophical proposition or two. It's in my blood. I am half Welsh, and a strong believer in the Bardic tradition. According to Celtic lore, the sacred is encountered in nature, not in man-made environments like cities.

But I am not satisfied with that. I think about the ensoulment of place. If shrines and cathedrals can be consecrated by the faith of many, and stones and waterways become sacred to clans through the encounter with the spirit in specific places, why couldn't constructs like the skyways acquire spiritual presence? Perhaps they already have them because of the intensity of personal experience leaving its wraith in the polished metal and glass passage ways.

Could skyways be haunted? Could skyways become a kind of unravelled cathedral, laid out among the city blocks, an accidental blessing to the unmindful and devout alike?

Would skyways be more spiritual if there was a movement among many to consecrate them though ceremony, music, exalted speech, special artwork dedicated to the embodiment of faith and reflecting the beauty of pure spiritual perception?

Maybe skyways already are spiritual places -- to those who have the faith to see ensoulment in any place where the human spirit has risen above the fear and tarnish of mortal limits...

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