Do you know any stories/myths about Mt Wantastiquet? I’m looking for Native American stories and/or any other tales, stories, or myths from the past. Also, if you have some personal Mt. Wantastiquet experiences or ideas (spiritual, inspirational, humorous, etc) you think speak to its huge presence in our lives here, pls let me know.
I’m inspired to do this out of a 4-day workshop I attended at the Rowe Center with David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous. “The Spell” is just one of the most profound books you will ever find that examines our relationship with the life of this earth, which he likes to term “the more than human world.” His new book is called Being Animal – his first in the 15 some odd years after “The Spell” – and will be coming out this summer.
It explores the ways in which we can bring our senses and awareness to the land in which we live to a whole new level and encourages us to be asking what this place we inhabit asks of us. We humans evolved out of an animistic perspective and it may be that we need to revisit that particular perspective as a vital component of the medicine we need in our time.
So, to that, being a relative newcomer here and really wanting to fall more in love with this wonderful place we live in, I want to know about stories of the land that arrive out of a co-creation of human and other-than-human. Right now I’m focusing on Mt Wantastiquet, the most imposing feature I see every day and an aspect of the land that profoundly moved me upon my first visit here. I have Wantastiquet on my mind.
Thanks for your help.