Your personal spiritual recipe for happiness...

[Pa'li Makto]

Originally Posted by txim_asawl

It's also still done by neo-pagans, especially followers of Gardnerian Wicca. Gerald Gardner spent a while in India, and my have adopted the practice from Digambara Jains, a religious sect, where monks are forbidden to wear clothing. Gardner introduced the term "skyclad" for the nude ritual practice. The term "digambara" means "sky-clothed", when translated literally.

Living in a very urban environment, true wilderness is somewhere far away - therefore I have to look for little islands of nature nearby, and that could be a park or a small forest. My backyard would not be the best place either, since I live in an apartment complex... that would mean even more unwanted attention than a park...



A very beautiful and serene way of looking at and feeling things and living beings... it nicely incorporates the unconditional love called "agape" in Greek philosophy. In her book "The Legacy of Luna", Julia Butterfly Hill wrote about her learning agape when living in the redwood tree named Luna for 738 days, in order to keep it and other trees from being cut down. She realized, that Nature, although mistreated by some people, still provides for all, not making a difference - and learning to accept all human beings in the same way means to know what unconditional love is.

And the belief of everything having a living spirit (animistic nature religion... native Americans and other indigenous people know that) is beautiful as well. Actually, I believe in nature spirits, too - when I hug a tree, I envision myself cuddling with the dryad living in it...



Perhaps that is why stories and movies like Avatar, Princess Mononoke or Earth Girl Arjuna call out to me this strongly - and to you, too, it seems.

Wiggling bare toes in greeting at a kindred spirit,

~*Txim Asawl*~

Indeed ma tsmukan, I can see quite a few similarities between our spirituality. I'm glad that you can imagine a dryad in a tree when you hug them it a very beautiful thought, there is a lot of unseen energy in living things that some people can tap into such as shamen and druids, although they have to exchange some of their energy in return. It's the whole basis for people conducting magic/spells in some faiths and it does work.

You've very lucky to access such areas ma tsmukan, hopefully they will exist in the time for the next few generations of humankind and animals.

Avatar and other movies really can speak to the soul.And our primal need to be one with nature.

*wiggling bare toes back in greeting*