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The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish wilderness

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Gene: It’s pure arrogance and the Lecture says that “Arrogance is a weed that ever grows on a dunghill… There is no arrogance so great as the proclaiming of other men's errors and faults.” David: The story I had heard before was that they were building a Tower to reach into Heaven, but this story says that they were building a Tower to survive the next flood… when God had already promised that there wouldn’t be one if they’d obey the laws. From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada: Gene: Yes, after the Patriarch Noah. The Noachites are actually a sect of Judaism that hold that Noah laid down the first laws of God, which they live by.

Set a small routine of prayer and meditation for your daily life, start and keep to it. Do not read about it, or talk too much about it, just do it! And the Absolute will be waiting for you. Gene: It may be the archetypal “Star Chamber”. They also held initiation rituals and used secret language and signs.The lives and hopes of all human beings are very similar as the Dalai Lama would reiterate. Thus, I have found a deep communion and friendship with others who seek the Absolute in India and Chile. Particularly in India I have met over the years Buddhist monks, Hindu Sadhus and Sikh scholars with whom we have shared not intellectual thoughts but our very souls, eating together, chanting, and laughing about the joys of being together. I must confess that I have found that many people who live a religious commitment tend to be sad, I do not understand that. On returning to see others at the Golden Temple or in the bathing areas of Varanasi I have always found a warm hand and a ready smile. God has given us a journey and it is great to do it with others even when in silence. Ken Smith comes across as a thoughtful, resourceful and above all humane man, one who has faced down his unpromising prospects and boldly lived life. For anyone who feels they are merely going through the motions, this book will make an inspiring read' BBC Countryfile

In a world awash with chatter and superficial talk-fests, the choice of solitude and silence is spiritually challenging. Memory lives in silence. God is found there. With a deep and movingly autobiographical thread, The Way of the Hermit creatively probes the contribution of the eremitic life to Christian interfaith encounter. Gene: Up to a point, yes… but “there’s a line in the sand there dude and across that line, you do not cross! If you hanker for peace in all of its forms, do read this inspiring book with gorgeous wilderness descriptions and compelling anecdotes. Will Millard] writes with a genuine sense of humility (…) humour and reflection’ Kevin Parr, Countryfile

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Remembering his childhood spent fishing in the Cambridgeshire Fens with his Grandad, Will sets off on a journey across Britain in an attempt to recapture those halcyon days. Armed with his late grandad’s fishing encyclopedia his avowed aim is to catch some of the great forgotten fish species of our island, and expunge the bitter memory of a record-breaker that once slipped through his fingers, but ‘The Old Man and the Sand Eel’ is much more than a boy’s own adventure. Alone on the banks, Will finds himself exploring what it really means to be a man and a father, as well as a fisherman. David: Right. The first written laws which form a covenant that God puts his stamp on with the rainbow. David: Yeah, I hear you Walter. But it just makes me think that you don’t know where that line is until you step over it and get smited. David: That’s an interesting turn of phrase there, “extra-legal but efficient criminal tribunal”. That’s a “Star Chamber” then. David: And another quote says - “Very generally, the censure bestowed upon men's acts, by those who have appointed and commissioned themselves Keepers of the Public Morals, is undeserved.”

Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone, with no electricity or running water. His home is a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as 'the lonely loch', where he lives off the land: he fishes for his supper, chops his own wood, and even brews his own tipple. He is, in the truest sense of the word, a hermit. Gene: It’s the Pillars of Mercy and Severity again, with you as the Middle Pillar trying to maintain equilibrium. What about you, what’s your takeaway? David: That’s very interesting. You said that the incorporation of the Vehmgericht was due to a reworking of this ritual by Pike. What was the earlier ritual like? Some people might find it surprising that you are a professor of religion and a political activist, as well as a hermit. How do you balance these two different sides of your life? David: As I said before, that posture is actually the shape of the Egyptian hieroglyph for “child” but it’s also obviously a gesture of hushing your own mouth, too.David: That’s weird that you would remember that. Anyway, the phrase which appears on the Jewel, basically means “justice at all cost”. That’s the idea that ties together the legends of the Vehmgericht and the Noachites. The 7th Law of the Noachites commanded the establishment of a system of justice. Did you want to say anything else about the Jewel? Will Millard] writes with a genuine sense of humility (…) humour and reflection” Countryfile Magazine David: And it also says that the people who pass judgment on others most easily are the least self-reflective - “it is from where there is no judgment, that the heaviest judgment comes; for self-examination would make all judgments charitable.” David: At Pentecost, the disciples “spoke in tongues” and could understand all the languages, so basically a reversal of how God smote people at the Tower.

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