Hermits around the web – Hermitary
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One of the earliest Japanese novels was imported from China during the Tang dynasty.The novel, titled, You Xian Ku, is often translated as “A visit to the hermit’s grove,” its setting a secretive cave disovered by a passerby. The traditional translation cites the cave-dweller of the story as a hermit but in the sense of recluse, being a fairy. The genre of the novel is fantasy.
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.”