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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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philosophy of nomadism
    #5110470 - 12/27/05 07:36 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Nomads are notoriously irreligious.  They show little interest in ceremonial or protestations of faith.  For the migration is of itself a ritual performance, a "religious" catharsis, revolutionary in the strictest sense in that each pitching and breaking of a camp represents a new beginning.

This will account for the violence of a nomad's reaction when his migration is blocked.  Furthermore, if we assume that religion is a response to anxiety, then nomadism must satisfy some basic human aspiration, which settlement does not.

It is paradoxical, but not surprising, that the great religions - Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian and Buddhist, were preached among settled peoples who had been nomads.

Their ceremonial is saturated with pastoral metaphor, their processions and pilgrimages perform the activites of a pastoral migration in mime.  The Hadj, or holy journey to Mecca, is but an artificial migration for settlers to detach them from their profane homes.

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- taken from "What Am I Doing Here?" by Bruce Chatwin (pgs 220-221)


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