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Redeeming Our Mountain
To the Editor:
Centered high above the rolling hills of Putnam stands the mountain named for Ninham, a chief of our early people who saw all as sacred. Serving now as a mountain for spiritual seekers to experience again the reuniting of each with all bathed in a reopening of our inner light, a light outshining even the sun at summer solstice. Thus again we redeem our mountain, once reduced to seeking only straying fires from its tower. Now again we ask our mountain to help reveal the sacredness that hides within our earth, our air, our fire, our water, re-creating our vision in a rebirthing of all and a fostering of our humanity. Now again we see all as alive within our living cosmic oneness, fostering ever more fully our reverence for the sacredness of all.
But bulging on our horizon stand the towers of our city of empire, threatening us with a vision of all as mechanistic matter ruled by Mammon, our ancient ever subversive idol of money, smothering us under promises on papered scraps of security while leaving only tiny bits and pieces of ourselves.
Yet some still return to form a circle and seek each other till seeing again all within our living being-in-becoming and thus again converting our towertipped mountain into a beacon saving all by revealing all within our sacred light open to all, thus sharing with all our reverence and service again to our living oneness.
Martin Brech
Mahopac
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