Dear Don,
I am not sure I would apply the term ‘Covenanter’ to Donaldson’s doubting Thomas, not with its political ramifications, but his ‘unbelief’ does mirror the apparent choice of our ‘advanced’ society to shunt magic, miracles and a recognition of the hidden life around us into the realm of ‘fairytales’.
Not that fairytales should be dismissed either… at least not the old ones, which, like the myths and legends, such as that of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, show just how much the ancients knew of psychology, millennia before the label for that study was coined.
“If I can label it, it is mine…” The hand that grasps, again. Even when the understanding has been around for thousands of years.
Part of that conversation the other day was about the relationship between quantum entanglement and consciousness… which sounded suspiciously like the theory behind magic to me. In which case, you have to wonder exactly what, was behind our little swimming shrew and the sheep playing ‘statues’ at Nine Stones Close.
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
There’s a lot of myth and mystery in gods, legends and fairy tales. You live Scotland a land with more fairy tale creatures and legends than most anywhere on the planet. I bet you feel those legends with every fibre of your being went out among the sheep and standing stones. Here’s the secret – they are all real so long as we believe.
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I am actally from Yorkshire and have been stranded in the south of England for a few decades… but the gods are everywhere and very much alive 😉
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I was lost in the fog on the dales one camping trip. that was fun!
I agree, the to many things happen serendipitously for things not to be pulling the strings.
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The sky comes down to play frequently up there 🙂
And yes, we don’t always have to understand to be able to recognise that there is ‘something’ out there with what we would have to call ntelligence…and, quite often, a sense of humour.
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Yeah it sure does, and boy does it come down thick!
I agree, best to accept and be happy with it over trying to fight an understand most of the time.
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It can be as thick as butter 🙂
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Nice description that. I knew I wasn’t getting back to camp when it caught me so I nestled under a gorse bush until it lifted a bit.
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Best thing to do… stay put and wait it out.
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Yup, saves wandering into trouble or vanishing entirely I find.
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The mist on the moors leads many into trouble.
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It sure does, I bet you have stories in the papers all the time about lost people out there.
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It happens a lot.
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