03.11.10
Fire, Awen, and Purity
I’ve been sitting with the concept of Quintessence as a health strategy for a while now. The basic idea is, make sure that your relationships with each of the elements is as full of Awen/vitality/quintessence/chi (yes I use these words more or less interchangeably) as possible.
For instance, I’ve been drinking spring water nearly exclusively for a year now. This water comes from deep in the earth, and is unprocessed. We gather it weekly, and it contains vitality like no other water I’ve ever experienced.
As the winter nears its end, I’m getting outside more, and am starting to get a jonesing to have a fire in our firepit. If experiencing Fire can also have chi — and there is no doubt that Fire has Awen of its own — then paying attention to where the fire comes from should also affect the Awen of the fire.
Next step, of course, is obvious:
So if starting a fire without using fossil fuels affects the Awen of the fire, then how does it affect food cooked over the fire? I’m thinking some experimentation in this regard is in order.
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