Since you mention it, while I was reading back over some of your older posts I saw the references to the anger jars in the crocodile post and thought I'm so using that.
I've been an advocate of immediate spirituality since I read The Spell of the Sensuous (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679776397?ie=UTF8&tag=kalimayablack-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679776397). Before then I'd had a sort of intuitive sense for ages that any spirituality that doesn't permeate life is off the mark, but never quite enough to articulate an argument. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688082742?ie=UTF8&tag=kalimayablack-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0688082742) also has some great thoughts about immediacy, though only tangentially in a spiritual context.
I find that when I'm having a bad patch, I get really disconnected from my spirituality. First it gets sort of isolated from the rest of my behaviour, then it gets shipped to the list of stuff I'll do later. Obviously that only makes things worse, because I am shipping one of my most powerful healing tools to the do-it-later list.
Sadly I think Wicca does lend itself easily to immediacy, and yet so rarely do Wiccans actually bridge that separation between religion and life.
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I've been an advocate of immediate spirituality since I read The Spell of the Sensuous (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679776397?ie=UTF8&tag=kalimayablack-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679776397). Before then I'd had a sort of intuitive sense for ages that any spirituality that doesn't permeate life is off the mark, but never quite enough to articulate an argument. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688082742?ie=UTF8&tag=kalimayablack-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0688082742) also has some great thoughts about immediacy, though only tangentially in a spiritual context.
I find that when I'm having a bad patch, I get really disconnected from my spirituality. First it gets sort of isolated from the rest of my behaviour, then it gets shipped to the list of stuff I'll do later. Obviously that only makes things worse, because I am shipping one of my most powerful healing tools to the do-it-later list.
Sadly I think Wicca does lend itself easily to immediacy, and yet so rarely do Wiccans actually bridge that separation between religion and life.