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Walking on Ashdown Forest late Saturday afternoon I saw two rabbits fightingg.

(One walks 'on' rather than 'in' this forest because there are hardly any trees, its foresty qualities being confined to its name.)

I heard a squeal and peered into the grey-brown gloom to see a thrashing of fluffy white tail. At first i thought that perhaps a rabbit was being attacked by a bird of prey, then they separated and sped off in opposite directions.

I told a friend. She said Why were they fighting?

I said I was too polite to ask. (Afterwards I realized I was echoing a Gore Vidal witticism. He said the same thing when a prying journalist asked him if his first sexual experience had been with a man or a woman.)

Perhaps they were fighting over a carrot? she said.

A carrot would certainly be a rare and valuable thing on Ashdown Forest. But i wondered if there might be a more likely sexual explanation? Psychoanalysts say that sexual love that is all fluffy empathy and kindness will peter out. There needs to be an impulse to degrade your partner.Perhaps ihad chanced on a rabbity attempt at degradation?

In my shed later I came across a copy of Hidden Journey, Andrew Harvey's book about his relationship with Mother Meera. They loved each other.

I have a habit of underlining the 'good bits', and i found this, which makes me wonder how Lorna and Mother Meera would get on'.

I began again. 'You said, Ma, that there were several divine powers on earth apart from you.'

'There are several. This is a time of crisis. The divine looks after all its worlds. We have all come to help.'

'Each avatar has a different work?'

'Yes.'

'But each avatar being the Divine is One with the Divine and all other avatars.'

'Yes'.

The same oriental emphasis onthe spiritual continuum that we noted a few days ago.

At the back I'd written 'There is a cause and effect continuum which is apart from the one you know, but which you can step inside and become a part of by acting graciously.'

I think the vast difference between those who act graciously and those who do not is going to show itself in publishing now it is entering its own time of crisis.

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I recently borrowed 3 books from Tunbridge Wells library, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Bible in English, and another about Greek mythology. Currently I'm reading the first, and I must say what a facinating book. As I start to read I'm begining to think I should maybe read the old testement a few times over before so I could know what parts of it are 'never before seen'. Whomever borrowed it before me must of been very well educated in the subject as there are many notes and underlined sections. One sentence reads ...
"Early Christianity, we learn, was not a hybrid of Judaism and Hellenism- it was rooted in the native soil of Palestine."
Next to which someone has added...
"But Hellenism was rooted there too - especially after 323BC."
I'm not pointing any fingers but it wouldn't be the that unlikely would it?
Most interesting of all I have read so far has to be The Book of The Giants.
I'm unaware of what other texts on Enoch reveal but this section although fragmented is breathtaking. I know more literally now what you mean when you say "So the gods created Enkidu."
Somehow when u spoke of the Watchers I didn't imagine them taking wild animals for wives, only beautiful women. I'm not sure why but maybe I haven't been thinking as inside out as I should!

[Edward Wyatt]

Sorry I forgot to add my name.

[Edward Wyatt]

Sorry I forgot to put my name.

[Jeremy Morgan]

A "forest" is by original definition "a hunting ground", usually reserved for the king & chosen nobles.There don't have to be any trees in it for it to be so designated.However, in the British Isles any land left unmaintained for any length of time will automatically & gradually revert to woodland as these islands were originally covered with densely packed trees of all types & the soil is still riddled with the seeds of this memory;wh: is why we now think of trees when using the word. As all the wildlife in the "forest" was owned by the king, including birds wh: fly overhead, & was considered to be part thereof, one would still more correctly termed as "walking IN the forest" & not "ON" it.I hope that clarifies the use of the English language in this instance & in these Islands? {we used to have to do this sort of thing @ school in the 50's & 60's before we did our GCE exams -- so please don't think of me as a pedant!}