June 4, 2010 Chautauqua

From the Editor's Computer

The ancient Celtic people had a world view that was quite different from other cultures in the world.

For instance, the Celts were the only society without some form of a creation myth. For them, the world always was, always is, and always will be.

They illustrated this “no beginning and no end” belief in many ways, the most tangible and familiar to us is the intricate Celtic knots that have no sign of a beginning or ending point.

This Celtic belief greatly impacted the way they viewed the world around them and their relationships with others.

Where we tend to see the world and our relationships in terms of polarity or duality (opposites), the Celts used trinities (such as past/present/future, mind/body/spirit, hot/lukewarm/cold, and more).

When you move away from a dual mindset and embrace a trinitarian view, you discover that the world is no longer divided along the lines of either/or, us/them, me/you, rather it is a relationship of and/and/and. Everything exists at once, in a type of harmony that we normally cannot envision or experience.

By viewing our worlds in trinitarian terms we discover unique ways of being that would never have occurred to us otherwise.

Beth

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