John Michael Greer is an interesting thinker, whose column The Archdruid Report appears Wednesdays at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ My friend Rich Spees sent me an email reminder that the weekly column had been posted, saying, “Oh, you’re going to like the latest druid.” I don’t always, but this time, he was so right. The spooky thing, as I told Rich, is that decades ago, writing in my journal, I made a conscious decision to always find a third choice, never to stay at two, because (something told me) any two would be incomplete and misleading. Where did that knowing come from?
Magical Thinking
I frequently cite John Michael Greer’s Archdruid weekly columns in my other blog, The Context, which centers more on political and social issues than on the potential of consciousness. But this week’s column spans the gap. The original is at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/magical-thinking.html
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/magical-thinking.html
Magical Thinking
As I write these words, the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico continues unchecked. It seems almost obscene to suggest that anything positive might come out of an oil spill that is already the largest in US history, and of course it’s true that whatever good might be salvaged from the situation will offer little consolation to the ravaged ecosystems and destroyed communities of the Gulf. Still, as teacher and Foxfire founder Eliot Wigginton noted, learning is only made possible by failure, and a failure this gargantuan and many-sided can at least offer us some pointed lessons for the future.