Found your Substack through Kelly Moody's Substack yesterday. This is timely medicine for me today, thank you Gregory. <3 (And I love the art pieces so much, too!)
Lovely. Thank you for stoping in and saying hello, Elka! I loved Kelly's raw recent piece on community, or rather, the yearning for it. She has such a powerful and sensitive heART. Gods willing, she and I will be collaborating together on something soon. Stay tuned:)
Thank you, Gregory, for your thoughtful words and the generous shoutout. The world so desperately needs a return to reciprocal, community-based practices and a deeper alignment with the rhythms of the moon. There's wisdom in grounding ourselves in collective care and honoring the natural cycles that guide us. 🌙🤲
Thank you for this. Beautiful interconnectedness, Relatable feelings of being untethered. She 🌝 has indeed been there all along, patient until we look up again.
I find the older I get, the more I am aware of the Moon's cycles and how they affect me. It's not an exaggeration to say that I live my life by the Moon. Have you read Martin Prechtel's books, Gregory? I find your writing reminiscent of his experience of joining an intact human community, something that is so very hard to find in the modern world. It sounds like you are part of just such a community now. What a blessing!
My wife and I have been studying with Martin Prechtel (Bolads Kitchen) for the last ten years! It is a great honor to me that you can feel his words in my narrative. He is my greatest mentor to be sure. Absolutely much of how we live was inspired by what he has shared with us. And yes! All of his books are remarkable!! He is currently offering a bi-weekly audio series of lectures that I highly recommend.
You write that “As Her light grows stronger she echoes back to us all here on earth the forgotten instructions for how to live well.”
Could you share more about those instructions for how to live well? I am a researcher in this field and I am curious to see if it aligns with my insights, and if not if they are better.
My other question is about the sexual relations of the place you live in. What is the norm there? Is it similar to the ones in most of the Western countries or somewhat different?
Hello Lazaros. Thank you for reading and for your good questions. These questions are not easy to offer a simple reply to however. And from what I have learned from people living slowly into these answers, well it all is much the same, it all has to be LIVED into. The greatest harm of modern education, for both students and educators, is how we tend to analyze things from afar, without becoming. What is spoken of here cannot be "researched", it must be lived. There is no bite-sized, convenient answer. The whole of existence is the reply. And as for sexuality in Northern Thailand, I do not have permission to share but I would recommend you read "Fieldwork" by Mischa Berlinski. Hope this helps.
Thank you for your reply, Gregory. I agree that personal experience and living is often, if not always, necessary to fully grasp something; I stress the importance of it too in regards to the results of my work; else the reader will never grasp what I want to convey and the value of it. But I’d say things can still be communicated, despite what is communicated being inevitably reductive. Of course, if you feel that you are not able to do that, is perfectly understandable; it is often not particularly easy to do it after all. Maybe you could try to reflect upon it and write a separate article upon it? As far as I am concerned, I would be interested and curious to read it.
Thank you for the reference. I might give it a read.
Found your Substack through Kelly Moody's Substack yesterday. This is timely medicine for me today, thank you Gregory. <3 (And I love the art pieces so much, too!)
Lovely. Thank you for stoping in and saying hello, Elka! I loved Kelly's raw recent piece on community, or rather, the yearning for it. She has such a powerful and sensitive heART. Gods willing, she and I will be collaborating together on something soon. Stay tuned:)
Reading this made me smile, thank you :)
Aw! You make me smile, too! Cheers!
Thank you, Gregory, for your thoughtful words and the generous shoutout. The world so desperately needs a return to reciprocal, community-based practices and a deeper alignment with the rhythms of the moon. There's wisdom in grounding ourselves in collective care and honoring the natural cycles that guide us. 🌙🤲
Thank you for offering beauty to the world.
Thank you for this. Beautiful interconnectedness, Relatable feelings of being untethered. She 🌝 has indeed been there all along, patient until we look up again.
It was a beautiful New Moon / Solar Eclipse week.
We Inter-Are:) All blessings.........
I find the older I get, the more I am aware of the Moon's cycles and how they affect me. It's not an exaggeration to say that I live my life by the Moon. Have you read Martin Prechtel's books, Gregory? I find your writing reminiscent of his experience of joining an intact human community, something that is so very hard to find in the modern world. It sounds like you are part of just such a community now. What a blessing!
My wife and I have been studying with Martin Prechtel (Bolads Kitchen) for the last ten years! It is a great honor to me that you can feel his words in my narrative. He is my greatest mentor to be sure. Absolutely much of how we live was inspired by what he has shared with us. And yes! All of his books are remarkable!! He is currently offering a bi-weekly audio series of lectures that I highly recommend.
Hi Gregory, thanks for your piece.
I have two questions.
You write that “As Her light grows stronger she echoes back to us all here on earth the forgotten instructions for how to live well.”
Could you share more about those instructions for how to live well? I am a researcher in this field and I am curious to see if it aligns with my insights, and if not if they are better.
My other question is about the sexual relations of the place you live in. What is the norm there? Is it similar to the ones in most of the Western countries or somewhat different?
Wish you a good day :)
Hello Lazaros. Thank you for reading and for your good questions. These questions are not easy to offer a simple reply to however. And from what I have learned from people living slowly into these answers, well it all is much the same, it all has to be LIVED into. The greatest harm of modern education, for both students and educators, is how we tend to analyze things from afar, without becoming. What is spoken of here cannot be "researched", it must be lived. There is no bite-sized, convenient answer. The whole of existence is the reply. And as for sexuality in Northern Thailand, I do not have permission to share but I would recommend you read "Fieldwork" by Mischa Berlinski. Hope this helps.
Thank you for your reply, Gregory. I agree that personal experience and living is often, if not always, necessary to fully grasp something; I stress the importance of it too in regards to the results of my work; else the reader will never grasp what I want to convey and the value of it. But I’d say things can still be communicated, despite what is communicated being inevitably reductive. Of course, if you feel that you are not able to do that, is perfectly understandable; it is often not particularly easy to do it after all. Maybe you could try to reflect upon it and write a separate article upon it? As far as I am concerned, I would be interested and curious to read it.
Thank you for the reference. I might give it a read.