Hermits around the web – Hermitary
news, sites, and pages of interest about hermits and solitude
Psychology Today offers a piece titled “How to Embrace, Not Fear, Being Alone.”
From the article: “While no study pinpoints social media as a cause of depression and feelings of isolation—in fact, social media can be a tool for combatting loneliness—it, along with texting, television, and video gaming, can distract us from embracing solitude.”
URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/automatic-you/202209/how-embrace-not-fear-being-alone
New Hampshire hermit River Dave Lidstone, who was ordered by a judge to leave his squatter cabin, has done so, moving to Maine, where he has a new camp as his new home, speaking avidly about his new situation. Though the millionaire-owner of the New Hampshire property where Dave had squated has since passed away, Lidstone is not looking back re his court case and is embracing his new quarters and friends.
URLs: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/river-dave-banned-from-new-hampshire-site-moves-to-maine-1.6030661; https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/08/17/new-hampshire-hermit-river-dave-moves-to-maine/
A Global Herald‘s “World” report picks up an ABC News (Australia) item. From ABC: “The Man of the Hole’ dies in Brazil after decades of solitude away from civilization. The last known member of an indigenous tribe living in the western Brazilian Amazon has died. The man spent decades living alone after the rest of his people were killed in what some have described as a genocide. Professor Felipe Milanez from the Federal University of Bahia tells The World he died in a much more dignified way than other tribe members. Includes video.
Catholic media site Aleteia reports in an item headline: ” An Indian bishop resigns his position to become… a hermit.” Monsignor Jacob Muricken, auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Pala, of the Syro-Malabar church, in the state of Kerala (southern India), left his position to enter a cave hermitage. The monsignor has a long-standing repute for asceticism, being a vegetarian eating two meals daily. He donated a kidney to a Hindu colleage . Fr. Jacob indicated that he looked forward to a life of “God and nature.”
BBC News report headline (3-minute item): “Hermit in Israel faces eviction from beachside cave home ”
Text: “In Herzliya in Israel, people have begun a petition to try to save a modern-day hermit from being thrown out of his unusual dwelling, built in a cave on the coast. Nisim spent months living by the sea without a home, but then defied the humidity, salt and waves to build a Gaudi-like structure, which has been a local attraction for nearly 50 years. But now the authorities want him to leave, saying he built without permission and is harming the environment. Nisim insists he will not leave his life’s work until he dies.