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Date: September 15, 2023 at 08:02:59
From: Nevada, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Edge Walking |
URL: Horsetail Falls and Ropi Lake Falls- Lake Tahoe waterfalls! Desolation Wilderness California- hiking |
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Dad took me up Horsetail Falls when I was ten and I
never left. "Walking the edge" became the norm in my
life, both as it applied to my adventures in Desolation
and my pursuit of spiritual balance...
Edge Walking
Cofounder of the Wild Church Network, Victoria Loorz
introduces “edge walkers” who connect across faith
traditions:
My personal spirituality is rooted in the Christ
tradition—a term I prefer over Christian, which is a
label I find difficult to swallow these days. Rather, I
see myself as an “edge walker,” wandering along the
hemlines of the Christ tradition. I stand at the inside
edge of a tradition that has brought many people,
including me, deep pain and has also brought many
people, including me, deep joy and meaning…. I’ve
adopted this term, edge walker, from nature writer
Terry Tempest Williams. [1] The Encyclopedia of
Religion and Nature describes her edge walking as
traveling “the narrow space between the religious
tradition she credits for having ‘forged her soul,’ and
her direct and very personal experiences in nature that
have revealed a truth of their own.” [2]
Perhaps you are an edge walker too. Edge walkers occupy
a thin space and are by definition a bit lonely. Most
people inhabit the vast spaces on both sides of edges.
But those of us called to the thresholds—the edges
between—live in this thin space and recognize one
another when we meet. The edges between biosystems are
called ecotones. These thresholds usually contain the
most biodiversity and therefore are the most
resilient….
The time is coming soon when the edges we inhabit will
start to redefine the center. And we will need to lean
on and learn from one another as we, together, engage
in the work of that redefining. Each of us is
characterized by our own unique gifts, communities of
influence, and a particular bio-region. But we cannot
behave as silos. The more diverse our relationships
are, the more resiliently we can hold our own
individual edges.
Loorz reminds us that mystics stand at the edges:
Every religion has an edge where the mystics live. I
once attended a conference organized by Ed Bastian, a
Buddhist mystic whose calling is defined by his deep
respect for and encouragement of interfaith
spirituality. He gathered spiritual leaders from
diverse traditions to consider what we had most in
common: living on the same planet….
We talked about how our faith traditions could connect
us with the actual soil and water and creatures of
Earth. And how that connection could be a spiritual
foundation for the environmental movement. What I
remember most was a golden thread of mystical
connection with divine presence that all of us
expressed in our relationships with the natural world.
Even in our diversity, we all felt that we had more in
common with one another—edge walkers from other
traditions—than we did with people more firmly planted
in the center of our own faiths....
There have always been edge walkers: those who didn’t
follow along with the status quo, who didn’t swallow
the version of religion offered by those on top of the
hierarchy as The Only Way. And at that edge,
spirituality and nature are in unbroken relationship.
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Date: September 25, 2023 at 18:02:43
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Edge Walking |
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Most of my life I’ve been on the edge of something. When it came to
sitting on a fence for very long, logic would win the war of fence sitting.
The answer would become more clear.being indecisive causes too much
stress in my book.
Standing w/my feet on the ground heading in a direction I’m more sure
it’s correct. Faith leads me a lot.
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Date: September 25, 2023 at 01:11:48
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Edge Walking |
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Most of my life I’ve been on the edge of something. When it came to
sitting on a fence for very long, logic would win the war of fence sitting.
The answer would become more clear.being indecisive causes too much
stress in my book.
Standing w/my feet on the ground heading in a direction I’m more sure
it’s correct. Faith leads me a lot.
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Date: September 16, 2023 at 10:14:15
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Edge Walking |
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Been one ever since ever.
Couldn't be otherwise.
Probably born that way.
Tried 'normal', couldn't take it.
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Date: September 16, 2023 at 02:04:04
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Edge Walking |
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