Hermits around the web – Hermitary
news, sites, and pages of interest about hermits and solitude
An article in the Independent titled “Holidays: the Appeal of Silence” summarizes the growing interest in retreat settings: Monasteries and convents are reporting a surge in enquiries for their “tester” long weekends, where spiritually-hungry visitors can sample a life of silence. Secular retreat centres are also booming. And on the internet, would-be hermits can now …
Another article on Fr. Dario, the Colombian-born hermit in Lebanon, this one from a local angle, a little more personable. URL: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=98736
John Zerzan maintains an “anti-civilization” view often identified as primitivism, derived in part from anarchist thought (Zerzan edits the journal “Green Anarchy”). His essay “Silence” calls on classic authors from Heidegger to Picard to describe the place of silence, noise, and technology in the modern world. The opening lines: Silence used to be, to varying …
The theme of the Spring 2008 issue of the magazine <i>Parabola</i> is silence. Articles describe silence in varous spiritual traditions, from Judaism, Sufism, Taoism, Quakerism, Buddhism, etc. Includes a feature article accessible online. Thanks to a friend of Hermitary for bringing it to our attention. URL: http://parabola.org/content/view/103/
Lew Welch was one more tragic figure of the Beat Generation poets. His poems were honed and persuasive little images, as in his “Hermit Poems” series, of which “The image, as in a Hexagram” is an example. The image, as in a Hexagram The hermit locks his door against the blizzard. He keeps the cabin …