User blog:VikingFyre/Degregation of the Celstial Mind

Sounds like the name of a prog black metal album doesn't it? heh...

Anyway...

I sometimes ponder whether or not I have lost my "sense" of spiritual awareness, that feeling that defies the typical five senses that cannot be described but only experienced. Ever since I fled down here to this barren wasteland state I have felt severed from this feeling, among many other things. Back north in WA where I was surrounded by trees, animals, shifting seasons and fragrences of life, I felt a power through and around me that made me feel alive and aware.

But down here in AZ, a desolation of dunes, clotted dry soil and harsh struggling flora and fauna, I feel nothing of the sort. Down in this place the winds do not carry songs through rising pines, no pale fog rolling in on the morning tides, no glistening permafrost on the grasses in autumn... I do not feel connection to this land...