There's nothing wrong with both using technology and worshiping the Druid gods. Obviously I couldn't write this without technology.
There's an important difference between technology use and technology addiction or dependency. Even in that case, though, it's not that a tech addict shouldn't be a Druid-- in fact, it's actually the case that Druidry probably has more to offer than any other spiritual path to a tech addict.
Putting it in other terms might help illustrate the point.
Imagine a very unpleasant person who becomes a Christian. In some cases, they will either stay an unpleasant person or become even worse, because they can assure themselves that no matter how awful they are, Jesus loves them, and anyway they can hardly be an awful person-- they're saved! In this case, the person has projected their own shadow onto their religion in a way that's unconscious, and so destructive.
In other cases, though-- and if you listen to Christian podcasts or talk to converts you'll encounter them-- people become Christians not in order to compensate for their sinfulness, but in order to heal their sinfulness. These people seek Christ because they recognize that Christ has something that they need.
In the same way, some people look to Druidry or similar nature-oriented traditions in order to allow themselves to stay disconnected from Nature. Like the Christian who says, "I can't be an awful person-- I'm saved!" they say "I can't be a technology addict-- I worship tree spirits!" Others recognize tehir excessive dependency on modern technology and turn to Druidry in order to help free themselves from that dependency. Nor are these two types mutually exclusive-- rather, the second way is always available to people of the first type, and the fear of slipping into the first way is always there as a goad to people of the second type.
I'd include myself in the second type, by the way. I'm at my happiest away from cities, under trees. In fact the single happiest time in my life was the time I spent a straight month in the wilderness in Arizona. But for some reason it's easy for me to forget that, and get caught up in the internet, or news, or even just household chores. Druidry as a path helps me by requiring me to unplug and get in touch with Nature and with my own creativity.
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Date: 2021-03-16 06:43 pm (UTC)There's an important difference between technology use and technology addiction or dependency. Even in that case, though, it's not that a tech addict shouldn't be a Druid-- in fact, it's actually the case that Druidry probably has more to offer than any other spiritual path to a tech addict.
Putting it in other terms might help illustrate the point.
Imagine a very unpleasant person who becomes a Christian. In some cases, they will either stay an unpleasant person or become even worse, because they can assure themselves that no matter how awful they are, Jesus loves them, and anyway they can hardly be an awful person-- they're saved! In this case, the person has projected their own shadow onto their religion in a way that's unconscious, and so destructive.
In other cases, though-- and if you listen to Christian podcasts or talk to converts you'll encounter them-- people become Christians not in order to compensate for their sinfulness, but in order to heal their sinfulness. These people seek Christ because they recognize that Christ has something that they need.
In the same way, some people look to Druidry or similar nature-oriented traditions in order to allow themselves to stay disconnected from Nature. Like the Christian who says, "I can't be an awful person-- I'm saved!" they say "I can't be a technology addict-- I worship tree spirits!" Others recognize tehir excessive dependency on modern technology and turn to Druidry in order to help free themselves from that dependency. Nor are these two types mutually exclusive-- rather, the second way is always available to people of the first type, and the fear of slipping into the first way is always there as a goad to people of the second type.
I'd include myself in the second type, by the way. I'm at my happiest away from cities, under trees. In fact the single happiest time in my life was the time I spent a straight month in the wilderness in Arizona. But for some reason it's easy for me to forget that, and get caught up in the internet, or news, or even just household chores. Druidry as a path helps me by requiring me to unplug and get in touch with Nature and with my own creativity.