[Stones] A penny for your thoughts?

[Ric]

the fact that this is, indeed, a secular, material society is reflected in the apparent inability of the contemporary culture to approach existence in a spiritually symbolic way - 'giving' might not be material at all, it may involve an act of pilgrimage, for example, or an act of self-abnegation?
   
  ric
  

Thelma Wilcox <thelmawilcox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
  

Ric <megalith6 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:      
  but equally, i am interested in how others perceive this type of custom
   
   
  Obviously if people have a need to express themselves in leaving offerings at a site than I think it should be part of  what is happening at sites. The cheapskate pennies and 5ps are a token of our half wanting to believe in something that is "other" and in a sense belongs to the tradition of throwing a coin into a well and wishing for something good. We have become a secular society, but the tantalising thought that the gods did exist still seems to haunt us and so we appease them, or ask them for favours....  

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