Just found this posting link . So hi Folks ; some of you are lucky living near ( or even in the same country) as Alastair and Daniel.
I’m living in Australia travelling a bit for work as a child Developmental therapist ( just fab , I love it - lots of game playing really ). My first intro into meditation was through a local Quaker group in my teens & then religious retreats then being buddies with canticle hermits. ( wow they are a chatty lot ) A friend wrote ‘The Anchoress’ ( R.Cadwallader)which is an insight into that sort of meditation
I’m a fidgeter so need to calm my mind & so happy to have found the gorgeous Alastair, who has a life outside of Escaped . Hope to meet you lot when travelling over sometime xxxx
Canonical hermit ( sorry autocorrect-
My path is a bit boring really, just know amazing people. It may not interest others but I can email you if I can work out which one links in ( oh so techno’ dumb !)
My friend Greg then left the calling ( Fr Greg Reynolds / Wikipedia- shocking photo doesn’t look like him lol
Sorry can’t find the link so screen shot etc Love to send you a copy if you pm me ur postal address The hermit tradition I spoke of is a Catholic one. The individual had to have been given permission by the church to commence a sort of ‘calling ‘ , tested by the church etc . They then are under the cover of a local parish.
Thanks!
HI Gill, apologies for slow response. We were on retreat this weekend. But I love to hear about your path and also about the intriguing 'canticle hermits'. Are they people or a kind of creature? I've not heard of them.
Also I'd love to ready the poem, if there is a link to it?
Alistair