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Do Cities have Nymphs?
It also reminded me of how powerful and startling the lake was when I moved to this new place. It still is. The etheric force of the lake is enormous and I remember when I would be distraught at having moved here the lake would pop into my mind.
Then that night when I sat down to meditate about these 'daydreams' of riding the subway, in surprise I 'saw' the outline of a flowy person in front of me, like a heat wave. I couldn't see anything other than the humanoid-shaped wiggling and that they maybe had long flowy hair. I offered them a hug and got one, then they disappeared as far as I know.
So my question is: natural things like lakes have spirits, but do cities also? I'm wondering if the city where I left my heart has a spirit of some kind that said hello. Thank you.
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(Anonymous) 2023-06-26 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)I now live in the Providence area and would love to hear your thoughts on the spirit of this place. My sense is definitely not rats—but something metaphysical and out of step with the mainstream (yet also pragmatic, and not in-your-face like Portland/SF). I can’t seem to get more precise than that.
Re: Do Cities have Nymphs?
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After many decades of reflection, I wonder whether this may be due to RI's unique geography and history among the colonies along the Atlantic seaboard: it has the most fertile land in all of New England; it never hunted witches, heretics, or Indians*; and its inhabitants were free from the beginning to profess any faith or none -- and even to study and practice occult and esoteric disciplines.
* There were even a few early European-ancestry Rhode Islanders who preferred the company and society of the Indians to that of their fellow immigrants. One of them not only took a native wife, but also fought with the Narragansetts against his fellow Englishmen during the Great Swamp Massacre of 1676. His name was Joshua Tefft. He was captured by these English troops a few weeks after the Massacre, was convicted on a charge of treason, and was executed by hanging and quartering. It is to be noted that the English troops in question were drawn only from the Puritan colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut, and that they were hunting Indians without leave on the territory of non-Puritan Rhode Island.