Can't you just see Spirits living in those
mountains and forests, maybe even under the water? I do. And I'm not talking about gods and godesses. Generally I don't
think about Spirit as gods and goddesses. I don't tend to anthropomorphize the divine creative energy of the universe, except
in one paticular way I'll talk of later. To me Spirit is a verb, always co-creating along with all the rest of the Spirits
(and Demons) and making the world be what it is, and what it isn't. We all share the joy and the responsibility. We
all have a lot more power to affect the world around us than we think.
I'm just one little person, but I know
for a fact that my meddling out in the world has changed literally hundreds, even thousands, of lives. I don't say this to
boast, nor to say it's better to go affect lotsa people as oppossd to other ways of working, just to say that if you wanna
have an effect you gotta decide what you wanna do and go for it. Put out the energy and it'll come back in often surprising
and wonderful ways. And if you do it in conscious partnership with your conception of spirit it'll have that much more power.
Of course I can anthropomorphize my gods
and in that realm I have interacted with the Faggot God on many occassions. Now this one is really close to being human-ish.
Easier than trees even, but again it depends on what you're after. When I want to discuss human-ish problems and human-ish
details I'll go to the Faggot God and sometimes it seems he's there talking back to me. Other times, not. He can travel you
see. So sometimes he's just not around. But that's ok. I don't really wanna get too hung up on gods here. I see them more
as immpressive spirit forms really. Even the Faggot God (and if you're interested in my take on Him go to the very last link
on the Links page and go to the end of the Radical Faeries page and click on the Ruby Slippers for a faggot creation myth
and some queer psycho-spiritual-political babble...) can feel like a part of myself as oppossd to a separate entity, so I
figure he's both... Why not?
I'm not so sure I believe in a creator,
tho I have written that I do in that creation myth. It could be true. I mean I see that Creation is happening all around
us all fhe time, just as Destruction is. So any number of entities could be responsible. In fact I think we're All of us,
from humans to bugs, from mountains to trees, are responsible for Creation, (as well as destruction) all the time co-creating
the world around us as I've said. I think we've done a really good job. It's a beautiful world we're privileged to live
in, and those of us in human bodies are extremely lucky to be human beings. We can really move around and do lots of cool
stuff. Dancing with spirits and demons is part of that...
I have more to say about Spirit
but it'll wait awhile till it comes around again, as Arlo likes to say...
