The Wildness Within

More Winter Wildness

The Positive and The Negative Version                                                                      JimJ10

The Wishing Tree                                                                                                                 JimJ10

Snow Trees                                                                                                                            JimJ10

WILDNESS and SOUL

The quest for the divine, or oneness with the universe, always springs from within.
For me I have discovered that by going to our Mother – Mother Earth – and who better describes It than Episcopal priest Mattew Fox.

“By digging deep into a wellspring of WILDNESS one finds the energy for new life, connections, images and moral imagination by which change happens in a deep, not superficial, way.”

As Paul said in his latest email-

It doesn’t matter where you find your spiritual path. We are all fundamentally spiritual beings and the essence of that lies in knowing one’s true self and finding a peace that comes from within rather than the outside world. It is in remembering this that we awaken to our personal path. The spiritual path springs forth from a daily routine that reaffirms our personal connection and purpose.

Recently I read that there are:

7 SOUL WOUNDS that are widespread in American Culture.

They are:

1. Separation from Nature

2. Separation from personal creativity and perception

3. Separation from dreaming and the visionary capacity

4. Separation from the ancestors/spiritual worlds

5. Separation from the body, deep masculine and deep feminine

6. Separation from the Essential Self /Purpose

7. Separation from the Cosmos

The journey of integration of all the parts of the Soul into a whole is called INDIVIDUATION

My Son JOE JOHNSON – who gives me great Joy, Pride and Love -

As perhaps – DaVinci’s modern “Man the Designer” on his path to INDIVIDUATION – - October 2008

Haying On Casper’s Ranch

August, 2008 – Haying On Casper’s Ranch -

It is Haying Season on the Ranch.
Hot and dry winds of August
cure the sweet smelling grasses
for all the grazing animals
Living the saying
” Make hay while the sun shines ”
Working until sunset and into the night
to beat the rain.
All the forces of Nature full of bounty.
The fullness of the growing things.
WILDNESS all around.
Living a Natural cycle
preparing for Winter.

JimJ

This photo reminds me of and old master landscape painting.

Prints available at – jamesjohnson@nvc.net

Wind Spirit Dance

The imagination comes alive when we look at clouds

heres an image from my series of photos called Wind Spirits

Wind Spirit Dance

Spirit Totem # 13

This is an image from a series called Spirit Totems

Prints available at – jamesjohnson@nvc.net

Grandson Spencer on the Ranch

My grandson Spencer was visiting the ranch last week, a full time was had by all.

Spencer taking me for a ride.

On our way to the rodeo.