The Library

White Mountain Retreat: Pt.6

We took reading materials to our sojourn in the White Mountains. Several things on that reading list needed to be read.  We had a couple of Naturist Society magazines from the 80’s. A workbook that we study together to improve life as “Spiritual Warriors” and as a couple. “Gong Hee Fot Choy” is fortune telling for fun, good for a couple of evenings in the warm tent. A couple of Archeology mags were a good short read.

I took “Naked in the Woods” by Storm Moon, quite appropriate for what we were doing. It has a framework to it and is filled with good meditative and experiential exercises to do whilst naked in nature. We tried most of them.

A couple of quotes out of the book:

“To be naked in nature is to be totally unconstrained by symbolic clothing and to be at one with Heaven and Earth.”

“To be at one with nature is to be our true selves and vanish without a trace.”

One page in “Naked in the Woods” describes to a tee, the experience that I had the other day in a canyon, naked on a rock, by a stream, but that’s probably the next post.

Another book that seemed correct to the time is “Alters Under The Sky” by Dorothy Wells Pease. This little thing has been sitting around for a while. It’s copyright is 1942, a collection of poetry, verse, quotes, etc.

“God, who touchest earth with beauty,

Make me lovely too,

With thy spirit recreate me,

Make my heart anew.

Like thy spring and running waters,

Make me crystal pure,

Like thy rocks of towering grandeur,

Make me strong and sure.

Like thy dancing waves in sunlight,

Make me glad and free,

Like the straightness of the pine trees,

Let me upright be.

Like the arching of the heavens,

 Lift my thoughts above,

Turn my dreams to noble action,

Ministries of love.

God, who touches earth with beauty,

Make me lovely too,

Keep me ever, by thy spirit,

Pure and strong and true. Amen.

Mary S. Edgar

I find so much when naked in nature, even the incomprehensible and infinite. Somedays, I feel renewed trust, hope and faith.  I get grounded, reset and more. Although I’m not particularly Biblical, or one to read poetry, these reads are something that I can identify with. It is reassuring that I’m not alone, and the truths I’ve found are universal and innate.

This week we have been gone out of cell phone range and computers and into a wilderness. Later this week, it will most likely be similar, as we visit with our hot springs group. We have a tale of a nude adventure amongst the ruins of what once passed for progress and experience with the current drama along our Mexico borderlands.

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