david catherine
@earthnous.bsky.social
rewilding • spiritual ecology • contemplative epistemology • mysticism • theurgy • archaeoastronomy • mythology • folklore • symbolism
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david catherine
@earthnous.bsky.social
· Nov 18
“Nature, then, is a teaching, a primordial Scripture. To ‘read’ this Scripture, to take it to heart, is ‘to see God everywhere,’ to be aware of the transcendent dimension which is present in every cosmic situation, to see ‘the translucence of the Eternal through and in the temporal’.” (K. Oldmeadow)
"Language is a constant throughout the tumult of human history: our tool to persuade, deceive, and unite into more than the sum of our parts [...] [L]anguage can transport us into chaos just as often as it can into sublimity and harmony." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
May 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Language is a constant throughout the tumult of human history: our tool to persuade, deceive, and unite into more than the sum of our parts [...] [L]anguage can transport us into chaos just as often as it can into sublimity and harmony." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
“For Iamblichus the cosmos was a living temple, a vast theophany. ... An essential element in every theurgic ritual ... was the correspondence between the objects used in the rite and their analogues in the soul: the outer objects, imbued with divine power, awakened correspondences within the soul.”
Neoplatonic Theurgy and Dionysius the Areopagite
Until recently, Neoplatonic theurgy has been defined by scholars as an attempt to manipulate the gods through ritual, and its influence in late antique Platonic circles has been interpreted as evidenc...
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May 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“For Iamblichus the cosmos was a living temple, a vast theophany. ... An essential element in every theurgic ritual ... was the correspondence between the objects used in the rite and their analogues in the soul: the outer objects, imbued with divine power, awakened correspondences within the soul.”
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In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more sustainable world.
Out now. Learn more and order your copy of this vital and inspiring book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now. Learn more and order your copy of this vital and inspiring book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
May 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more sustainable world.
Out now. Learn more and order your copy of this vital and inspiring book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now. Learn more and order your copy of this vital and inspiring book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Some of my favourite pieces of music are played on traditional Indian instruments. Here is "Stolen Moments", by Anoushka Shankar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kcd...
Anoushka Shankar - Stolen Moments (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Anoushka Shankar
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April 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Some of my favourite pieces of music are played on traditional Indian instruments. Here is "Stolen Moments", by Anoushka Shankar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kcd...
“It is precisely through an activation of the senses, rather than an ascetic wish to leave them behind or discount them as maya, delusion and deceitfulness, that theurgy and the purpose of cosmic unfolding can be made complete and whole.” youtu.be/lO5HsoFRiLw
Synaesthesia and Theurgy: using your five senses
YouTube video by Abbas the Alchemist
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March 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“It is precisely through an activation of the senses, rather than an ascetic wish to leave them behind or discount them as maya, delusion and deceitfulness, that theurgy and the purpose of cosmic unfolding can be made complete and whole.” youtu.be/lO5HsoFRiLw
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If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
— Rilke, Book of Hours
#MyBookShelf #BookSky
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
— Rilke, Book of Hours
#MyBookShelf #BookSky
February 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
— Rilke, Book of Hours
#MyBookShelf #BookSky
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.
— Rilke, Book of Hours
#MyBookShelf #BookSky
Fragmentary, mystical and obscure, the Chaldaean Oracles have proved to be a source of fascination for numerous readers across the best part of two millennia, ranging from ancient Platonist philosophers to Renaissance Christians to modern occultists.
antigonejournal.com/2025/02/chal...
antigonejournal.com/2025/02/chal...
Poetry from the Gods: The Mysterious Chaldaean Oracles
ROBIN DOUGLAS Platonism like you've never seen it.
antigonejournal.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Fragmentary, mystical and obscure, the Chaldaean Oracles have proved to be a source of fascination for numerous readers across the best part of two millennia, ranging from ancient Platonist philosophers to Renaissance Christians to modern occultists.
antigonejournal.com/2025/02/chal...
antigonejournal.com/2025/02/chal...
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“If we have the courage to say, I remember you, I remember you, then a journey begins, a real practice of spiritual ecology.” —Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Listen to this week’s podcast, “The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology.” Photo by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer. https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
Listen to this week’s podcast, “The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology.” Photo by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer. https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
January 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“If we have the courage to say, I remember you, I remember you, then a journey begins, a real practice of spiritual ecology.” —Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Listen to this week’s podcast, “The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology.” Photo by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer. https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
Listen to this week’s podcast, “The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology.” Photo by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer. https://buff.ly/2Ur2kGq
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It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape
♀️ Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
January 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
♀️ Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
January 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts
“As much as Marija [Gimbutas] was a scientist and archaeo-mythologist, she also was an intuitive seer, a mediator between our ancestors and us, between the Great Goddess and the modern human psyche–not fully forgetting of the reverence and worship of the regeneratrix. www.advaya.life/articles/app...
January 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
“As much as Marija [Gimbutas] was a scientist and archaeo-mythologist, she also was an intuitive seer, a mediator between our ancestors and us, between the Great Goddess and the modern human psyche–not fully forgetting of the reverence and worship of the regeneratrix. www.advaya.life/articles/app...
1/2 “It was inevitable, really, that in time the mechanistic method should mutate into – or, perhaps, be revealed as – a metaphysics as well,
December 11, 2024 at 6:15 AM
1/2 “It was inevitable, really, that in time the mechanistic method should mutate into – or, perhaps, be revealed as – a metaphysics as well,
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
December 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
“In European folk memories, the bear is an ancestress, a divine birth-giving mother and protectress. At certain remote places in Greece, the mother bear is still worshipped in festivals. At the cave of Akrotiri, the festival of Panagia Arkoudiotissa, “Virgin Mary of the Bear,” is celebrated Feb 2...
December 2, 2024 at 4:47 PM
“In European folk memories, the bear is an ancestress, a divine birth-giving mother and protectress. At certain remote places in Greece, the mother bear is still worshipped in festivals. At the cave of Akrotiri, the festival of Panagia Arkoudiotissa, “Virgin Mary of the Bear,” is celebrated Feb 2...
The natural world is an integral expression of the living, cosmic ‘Book’ – which is to say, the manifest self-disclosure of God: “I was a Hidden Treasure; and I loved to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢]. So I created the creation in order to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢].” (Hadīth Qudsī)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
December 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM
The natural world is an integral expression of the living, cosmic ‘Book’ – which is to say, the manifest self-disclosure of God: “I was a Hidden Treasure; and I loved to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢]. So I created the creation in order to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢].” (Hadīth Qudsī)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
Pleasant walk this morning. Besides our most common birds and a seasonal mid-summer showing of African Pied Crows, I saw 2 Sacred Ibises flying above, followed by a Grey Heron and a circling Yellow-billed Kite. Five mins later a flyover of 6 white Western Cattle Egrets in a perfectly angled line.
December 1, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Pleasant walk this morning. Besides our most common birds and a seasonal mid-summer showing of African Pied Crows, I saw 2 Sacred Ibises flying above, followed by a Grey Heron and a circling Yellow-billed Kite. Five mins later a flyover of 6 white Western Cattle Egrets in a perfectly angled line.
Conversation on the alchemical symbolism in 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘎𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 – a journey in the 12th century with Arthurian mythology and Christian mysticism from an alchemical perspective: thegreenknight.org/alchemical-s...
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
November 30, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Conversation on the alchemical symbolism in 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘎𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 – a journey in the 12th century with Arthurian mythology and Christian mysticism from an alchemical perspective: thegreenknight.org/alchemical-s...
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
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Iain McGilchrist on what indigenous peoples have long known about our natural world.
November 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Iain McGilchrist on what indigenous peoples have long known about our natural world.
(1/4) In ‘Dogmas, Idols and the Edge of Chaos’, Tom Cheetham writes: “In particular, the science of human ecology is increasingly dominated by an abstract vision that only increases our alienation from ourselves and the natural world [...]
November 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM
(1/4) In ‘Dogmas, Idols and the Edge of Chaos’, Tom Cheetham writes: “In particular, the science of human ecology is increasingly dominated by an abstract vision that only increases our alienation from ourselves and the natural world [...]