Look at nature! All nature loafs, while Man alone works for a living!

From: The DruidCraft Tarot

The Fool in the Tarot game is a return to childhood. My concept of The Peter Pan Project builds on this. And this is again connected to philosophy. Poetry, storytelling and philosophy melt together. If we take Wordsworth´s poem, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", we can see how deeply imbued it is with a kind of natural Platonism. The poem begins with the famous lines:

 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.

 Shortly thereafter, we read:

 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come

The primary ideas here, so beautifully evoked, come from Plato, and although the speaker is chagrined about the loss of the “visionary gleam” available in childhood and in nature, where he is naturally “Nature´s Priest,” he also recognizes that nonetheless these riches remain accessible. The child is a “best philosopher…Haunted for ever by the eternal mind – “ And, Wordsworth writes, even though the weight of years bears down on us, to each of us is given “primal sympathy” and the consolation of “the philosophical mind.”

The above piece is from the end of my article: My Life as a Vagabond.