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Originally Posted by Bb
Indeed I can quite understand your attempts here to explain your experience, but what I find interesting is this idea that once there was harmony, but now is disarray. What was it in your experience that caused you to perceive this state? Is it not possible that things always were in this state of disharmony and our desire for something Other suggests to us the possibility of rapproachment?
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My feeling is that all things arose out of a state of primal unity, & it also seems that according to all the traditional accounts Faery it is a world/realm that is closer to its natural state than our own. Hence, it seems to me that Faery represents some archetypal state
which still exists & can be passed into & out of. To this extent it is very close to what we find in SoWM, but there is still an element missing from Tolkien's Faery, & that is the 'chaotic' dimension, the absence of 'rules' (I don't mean of
rule breaking - which we find in his Orcs, Balrogs, Dragons, etc, but the absence of any rules to
be broken).
(By the way, for anyone who's interested, the whole of Robert Kirk's Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies can be found
here)