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[arethinn]

I recently finished reading Orion Foxwood's The Faery Teachings. A lot of it is quite good, and in places it resonates more with me than the RJ Stewart "Underworld" material to which it bears a lot of similarity (which surprised me a bit). But I find myself somewhat irritated by the emphasis on the natural world. Don't get me wrong; this is my own area of resonance. I agree wholeheartedly that most people nowadays do not have the connection to the Green World that they should, and that this is a wound that needs healing. But it seems to me that the sense of exclusion of cities as being important or magical is also a mistake... unless we strive to find magic in the cities, the rift between "nature" and "city" will only get deeper. They need to be knit back together with shining threads...

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[rialian.livejournal.com]

===The emphasis is more to bring the green world up into this one.

===I have had the pleasure of doing some work with Bob in NYC....and believe me, the stuff works beautifully.

===They are not excluding them...but more saying that you want to emphasize the bringing of living flows for the cities to manifest.

[arethinn]

The emphasis is more to bring the green world up into this one.

That's what I mean.. doing it in cities. I didn't see a lot of that in the book, or in Bob Stewart's for that matter. Point being that people might not realize that doing it in cities is quite important, and cleave to the natural world alone, enhancing that division or "veil"...

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

*nod* I've been trying to figure out how I feel about the whole idea of excluding cities. I don't tend to like them myself, but as you say, they are still very much a part of things.

I think most people wind up imposing an unnecessary duality by forcing the wild and the constructed apart. It seems like there has to be a balance, but the two can achieve that balance by either working together or by opposing each other.

Don't understand why most people seem to want them to oppose each other.

[blackthornglade.livejournal.com]

This goes sort of hand in hand with *my* particular peeve...it's not natural if humans created it. Which, I think, is some of where the "you can't work in the city" comes from. I wonder if anyone's actually stopped to *look* at a city before they say that.