tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post3800909117391194602..comments2023-08-22T12:40:01.243-07:00Comments on Searching for Imbas: GeiltadechtErynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08297413089914906458noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-42029713312899923592011-10-25T16:33:09.577-07:002011-10-25T16:33:09.577-07:00Very interesting! But an expensive book! I see tha...Very interesting! But an expensive book! I see that it is a textbook. I used to be a professor of Religious Studies for a time.<br /><br />May pick it up when I can. I have no problem with Chat, I am the same with phone calls. Add me on Google talk seeing as I don't have any details of yours. My contact info is on my blog. <br /><br />I will grab an excerpt and post it on my blog with a link back. Appreciate the efforts in writing this it was very informative and exactly what I was looking for to give a good description as to why I choose to use the name.<br /><br />Would love to hear more about you and what you do!geilthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15432942964573172582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-45759674682153959262011-10-25T16:14:12.079-07:002011-10-25T16:14:12.079-07:00Hi Geilt
Thank you for your comments and welcome....Hi Geilt<br /><br />Thank you for your comments and welcome. As to reposting, I would much prefer if you posted a short excerpt (a paragraph or two) and a link here. I'll drop by your blog and see what you've got up. I've never heard of "The Lost Lessons of Merlin" before. Who wrote it?<br /><br />In the meantime, I have a paper about the geilt and spiritual practice in a book that's supposed to come out this week or next, which you can find here: http://us.macmillan.com/disabilityandreligiousdiversity/DarlaSchumm<br /><br />I tend to communicate best through email, sometimes in chat, or face to face. Phones are definitely not my thing. Feel free to email me if you want, and I see that you've found my LJ, so don't be afraid to say hi over there as well.Erynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08297413089914906458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-84208636971713606522011-10-25T12:07:27.015-07:002011-10-25T12:07:27.015-07:00Would you mind if I reposted this on my blog geilt...Would you mind if I reposted this on my blog geilt.com with credit to you as the original author?geilthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15432942964573172582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-12662119502983353072011-10-25T12:06:16.677-07:002011-10-25T12:06:16.677-07:00This was a wonderful post. We should definitely ta...This was a wonderful post. We should definitely talk, I have been using the Title/Name geilt for years now. Find me on Google. Search for "Geilt" ;) or visit geilt.com<br /><br />I am very happy to see this writeup and it expresses the exact meanings by which I choose the name, I found the name in a book "The Lost Lessons of Merlin", which described Merlin himself as being a Geilt. <br /><br />Interestingly enough, in Dutch Geilt means enamored, horney or lustful. In Hebrew, it means Money. I didn't find out about those till much later haha!<br /><br />I have gone through my own spiritual and physical transformations, although these transformations are ongoing, never ceasing. I also feel the most comfortable and capable alone, but still connect to different social circles without embedding myself fully within them.<br /><br />My contact info is on my blog and profiles, give me a ring, e-mail or google chat anytime.geilthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15432942964573172582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-50495012450214197032008-01-11T18:09:00.000-08:002008-01-11T18:09:00.000-08:00Hi Michael -- thanks for your comment. I went over...Hi Michael -- thanks for your comment. I went over and read/commented on your blog. I think you've got some interesting and useful things to say and hope we can dialogue more about this in various ways in the future!Erynn Lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00853395116924953101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-2792207793717598112008-01-11T08:45:00.000-08:002008-01-11T08:45:00.000-08:00Thanks for this great post. I'm struck by the men...Thanks for this great post. I'm struck by the mental health benefits of ancient spiritual beliefs and shamanism. It's a continual debate when to take spirit contacts and discussions with trees, for example, as literally meant versus when to see them as expressions of the mind. Regardless, the way to health is usually to work through them -- not just medicate them away or hide from them. Your poetry, and the examples of the people in the woods talking to animals, etc. all show how sitting with the experiences and working through them can transform the person back towards health. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-85345226468257268652007-12-21T14:47:00.000-08:002007-12-21T14:47:00.000-08:00Yes on Sweeny, though that's an anglicization and ...Yes on Sweeny, though that's an anglicization and not the actual pronunciation, which is more like "Swiv-nyuh". You're right, I should do the pronunciation guide thing. I hadn't thought of it before.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it's entirely possible for some people to be born geilt, as it were, but identifying and supporting those people is difficult in this culture where everything is medicalized and drugs and institutionalization are society's treatments of choice. If you can't cure it with a pill, lock it away or throw it out on the streets to die. There are some differences between a medical crisis and a spiritual crisis, though they can certainly be intertwined and can aggravate one another.<BR/><BR/>I think that support groups are part of an answer for that, but most of those either don't have a spiritual focus or if they do, it's often a Christian (or at least Christian-tinged New Age) focus. Likewise there are many psychologists who follow what turns out to be essentially Buddhist teaching about such things, and this doesn't really acknowledge the presence or influence of spirit and deity at all.<BR/><BR/>A lot of people that I would consider geilta are really busy trying to take care of themselves. There are many degrees of progress through all of this, and one of those degrees is, unfortunately, utter disintegration. Someone in that state isn't going to be able to help someone else who's there or approaching it. Those of us who have got through the worst of it, yes, I think we have a certain amount of responsibility within our communities to help those who want it, but I don't believe we should force it on anyone any more than Christians should be able to force their ideas of treatment and healing on the unwilling.<BR/><BR/>I try to do my part through my writing and through speaking and teaching. For those who are "disturbed" more than "geilt", it's entirely possible to interpret what I'm saying as "you have to be insane to be spiritual" -- and that's not at all where I'm going with this. I've seen it happen, though, and then be taken as a "spiritual" excuse to act out in really unacceptable ways. Discipline is important, as is conscious awareness of one's situation, at least as much as possible. Sacred madness isn't a convenient excuse to be an asshole, it's trying to embrace one's condition and work within one's limitations in an attempt to get at something real and true. This holds whether the "glitch" is biological or trauma-induced.Erynn Lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00853395116924953101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-10178468455876998152007-12-21T08:50:00.001-08:002007-12-21T08:50:00.001-08:00OK. I've finished reading your essay now. Got a qu...OK. I've finished reading your essay now. Got a question for you: do you think it is possible to be born geilt? Medically, it's turning out, a lot of mental illnesses are caused by biological glitches. Some people are born with those glitches, others get them through trauma. If you think that these people are born geilt, should it be the responsibility or duty of the geiltadecht to look for them, find as many as possible as young as possible and guide them to a place of balance? <BR/><BR/><BR/>RoseAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01407637033783702748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-7333256265899987212007-12-21T08:50:00.000-08:002007-12-21T08:50:00.000-08:00Suibhne = Sweeny, right?Suibhne = Sweeny, right?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01407637033783702748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245968337172165533.post-72179881374814175172007-12-21T08:49:00.000-08:002007-12-21T08:49:00.000-08:00Erynn: As a person who doesn't have a clue how to ...Erynn: As a person who doesn't have a clue how to speak the old languages, I'm asking if you could give us a pronunciation guide for the words you use in this blog. I mean, when you introduce a gaelic word in your writing just put the way to pronounce it in parenthesis. After that, it'll be up to us to hear it correctly when we see the word for the rest of the essay. <BR/><BR/>Who knows, we languageless hoards may learn something ;-) (I loved when I learned the break down of the possible meaning of Samhain where I learned that "mh" has a "w" sound. Blew me away.)<BR/><BR/>Thanks for considering :-)<BR/><BR/>RoseAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01407637033783702748noreply@blogger.com