Crystallizing Spirit into the World

• Story & myth transform fleeting experience into forms that endure.
• Sacred space anchors those stories: temples, shrines, libraries, landscapes become memory embodied in a location.
• Repetition and pattern provide templates for expression and physical touch points in the form of psalms, icons, mandalas.

Creation externalizes Spirit: what begins as rhythm in one life becomes inheritance for the next. Without creation, Spirit fades with each death; with it, Spirit compounds.

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Create more than you consume

You are creating your future self. Be someone past you would be proud of, and future you will not regret. Letting this idea take root will appropriately orient your behavior in the present.

Mythos as a story, which gives shape and focus to Spirit, and makes everything make sense. Manifesting spirit through mythos in experiential terms, blending ritual and primal stories.  Tales with motion are boring, so they become embodied as ritual to act out.  The blending is called liturgy (literally the people’s work).  Liturgy is the sum of what the people do and say as an expression of their deepest being. As such, it may be highly conscious, artful, and carefully crafted to express the best of the human spirit. Or then again, it may be purely happenstantial, dull, drab, and degrading. Good or bad, liturgy is what the people do.