¶ … drew you to the post to which you are responding -- a particular insight, way of writing, or question being asked. Be generous and name what you find engaging about the post.

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The writer seems to me curious and engaged with life. He seems to be drawn to nature and to seeing below the surface. From a person's descriptions, one can tell something about their interests and preoccupations, and it is interesting to note that in all descriptive, the author turns to nature and uses nature-connected illustrations.

In his first reflections about Gaslan, the writing could have been remotely, if at all, connected to nature. Gaslan seems to have asked questions of an existentialist character: where do I come from? Where do I go? The author, himself, notes that Gaslan was a solid, down-to-earth personality who seemed yet to have resonated with greater depth....

The author is attracted to Gaslan for this depth. He senses a shamanism, an organic nature to the man, an atmosphere that transcends earthliness and binds him with the transcendental Gaia of the Earth. The author himself seems mystical and interested in the natural phenomena of the world. Each person interprets phenomena according to his experiences and personal tendencies. One may read into Gaslan a totally different interpretation than that which the author comes away with. To the author, Gaslan resonates with the spirit world and with the inner energies of nature." I personally visualized it like allowing your soul to wander in search of its own words."
The author approaches Robert Bly's account about Georg Groddeck's "Charakter und Typus" with a similar perspective. He notes that both writers are "very keen on different types of energy, spirit and kinetic. In their writings, their words surround nature and things beyond." Another reader would undoubtedly have noted different things, because people observe according to…