This is inspired by @Solarchitects substack, in which he discusses the importance of building design and material for a person's health, well being, and much more.
I want to touch upon the spiritual implications of one's dwelling - A short thread 🧵
I want to touch upon the spiritual implications of one's dwelling - A short thread 🧵
I will just speak about my area of expertise, which is rammed earth construction.
I was trained by one of the leading rammed earth companies in the world, and while we no longer work together, it was a great experience.
This was the first wall I ever did
I was trained by one of the leading rammed earth companies in the world, and while we no longer work together, it was a great experience.
This was the first wall I ever did
Though i’ve never lived in rammed earth, The sheer mass of the walls separates you from nature, like a castle… with knights and kings and queens and suchlike. With a quality build, one no longer need co-inhabit the same living space as termites, rodents, ants, mould, and BEETLES
To distinguish oneself from nature is a spiritual principle.
If you know the works of Rudolf Steiner or the Kybalion then you may be familiar with the separation of spirit and matter.
If you know the works of Rudolf Steiner or the Kybalion then you may be familiar with the separation of spirit and matter.
Matter is both subsumed and initiated by spirit but they are distinguished nonetheless — not in totality, but in character.
The point is, if you are trying to cultivate the spirit, especially in your day to day life, then it is far easier to do this in an environment protected from the more annoying, though no less necessary, elements of nature.
Why is it, do you think, that gurus and monks of the Eastern traditions “hermiticise” themselves in caves amidst the mountain fog?
Or the dragon and the treasure upon which he sits is so deep in great caverns far from the distractions of nature — intrusive, cyclical and unceasing?
The treasure is within you, but that makes it no less easy to find; however, the right environment can help.
A rammed earth dwelling is like a bear's cave. It can be a place truly like no other, where you can at one point touch something that resembles a slice of sedimentary wall — as if some primordial titan has carved a butchers knife through the hillside...
yet at the same time feel like you are in a crisp, fortitudinous, and isolated environment. Something concentrated and tranquil, where one can ponder the infinite, the glory of god, or simply one’s own will and ambition — perhaps this is the same.
I personally am a man of variation, I want my cake & eat it. For me, a single room within my house that is a thermal enveloped rammed earth structure, combined with something like mass timber, or a combination of complimentary materials to minimise thermal bridging would be ideal
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