Yes, it's true: I first met Old Hornie in the woods when I was 16.
And no, I'm not going to tell you about it.
I suspect that many (if not most) of us have experienced something like this: the Encounter that changes everything that comes after.
You might think that more of us would talk about these Meetings. In a community like the pagan community, which lacks (for the most part) central accreditation, such narratives would serve to establish credibility.
But in my experience, people mostly don't want to talk about these things. A holy silence surrounds them. For me, that unwillingness to talk is precisely one of the hallmarks of authentic encounter.
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Just so.
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In the book "The Wind in the Willows" there is a chapter called piper at the gates of dawn. I believe that the author had his own