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Broody Blue: A Handbook of Ruthless Gentleness for the Natural Human Mystic
This is not a book about mysticism, nor about meditation.
It introduces a radically different way to cultivate a contemplative attitude, a way for all humans but known to only a handful of western people. A way of simplicity for a culture addicted to complication. A way of the whole human for a culture infatuated with the mind at the expense of all the rest.
Its core attitude of non-doing leaves the body, the breath, the Earth in charge of effecting subtle yet profound transformation at all levels - physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual… without spending years on the meditator's cushion.
In non-practices of body, breath, Earth, the natural mystic in us awakens.
Why the body, the breath, the Earth? Because these parts of who we are - neglected, tortured, oppressed under the empire of the mind - are the most obvious and accessible forces that faithfully enable us to live our lives even as we ignore them.
With exquisite unrecognized wisdom, they repair us if we allow them to do so. When we are attentive to them, they teach us what no treatise can teach, and arguably, hold the key to reintegration of the whole human.
They dissolve false polarized dualities of physicality and spirituality, matter and spirit, body and soul, human and Nature.
They are the natural forces with the power to cut through an unnatural culture that worships the unnatural, the virtual, the artificial, the simulated - that traps us in the violence of deceit.
This book picks up the thread of my previous work, Krivda, the Godtrix Against the Matrix, into the re-membrance of who we are.
It introduces a radically different way to cultivate a contemplative attitude, a way for all humans but known to only a handful of western people. A way of simplicity for a culture addicted to complication. A way of the whole human for a culture infatuated with the mind at the expense of all the rest.
Its core attitude of non-doing leaves the body, the breath, the Earth in charge of effecting subtle yet profound transformation at all levels - physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual… without spending years on the meditator's cushion.
In non-practices of body, breath, Earth, the natural mystic in us awakens.
Why the body, the breath, the Earth? Because these parts of who we are - neglected, tortured, oppressed under the empire of the mind - are the most obvious and accessible forces that faithfully enable us to live our lives even as we ignore them.
With exquisite unrecognized wisdom, they repair us if we allow them to do so. When we are attentive to them, they teach us what no treatise can teach, and arguably, hold the key to reintegration of the whole human.
They dissolve false polarized dualities of physicality and spirituality, matter and spirit, body and soul, human and Nature.
They are the natural forces with the power to cut through an unnatural culture that worships the unnatural, the virtual, the artificial, the simulated - that traps us in the violence of deceit.
This book picks up the thread of my previous work, Krivda, the Godtrix Against the Matrix, into the re-membrance of who we are.
271 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 18, 2023
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About the author
Enna Reittort
2 books6 followersIn my capacity as a Human Being, fiercely and tenderly in love with our Mother Earth, I am devoted to our human co-evolutionary bond with her, and to pursuing the fullness of what it means to be human.
As an anthropologist, my field is that of traditional cultures and grassroots wisdom. Having acquired a PhD on the basis of ten years with an esoteric caste-denying Indian subculture, I turned away from academia to ‘go native’ as an aspiring peasant in the spirit of regenerative farming. I practice what might be called ‘deep’ anthropology, experiential rather than theoretical, and in apprenticeship to Nature, our deep teacher whose language is understood by our multidimensional bodies.
This anthropologist got her education in the west but credits her un-learning to the east. Life in both the west and the east has made me a polyglot who takes words seriously. But I delight in silence, where my contemplative self is nourished. I live at the edge of a village in Southeast Asia, among tropical trees and paddy fields, and a large free-ranging menagerie.
As an anthropologist, my field is that of traditional cultures and grassroots wisdom. Having acquired a PhD on the basis of ten years with an esoteric caste-denying Indian subculture, I turned away from academia to ‘go native’ as an aspiring peasant in the spirit of regenerative farming. I practice what might be called ‘deep’ anthropology, experiential rather than theoretical, and in apprenticeship to Nature, our deep teacher whose language is understood by our multidimensional bodies.
This anthropologist got her education in the west but credits her un-learning to the east. Life in both the west and the east has made me a polyglot who takes words seriously. But I delight in silence, where my contemplative self is nourished. I live at the edge of a village in Southeast Asia, among tropical trees and paddy fields, and a large free-ranging menagerie.
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May 4, 2023
I've been reading books and listening to tapes for a little over 15 years hoping to reestablish *something* I felt I lost...something critical... something that life might be fundamentally about. I've found many snippets which fanned the flame of hope in me. Some even provided a window to glimpse that 'something', but never have I come across such utter clarity and honesty. No fluff. No watering down or dazzling up- just what it is.
The depth of gratitude I have for this book for being a perfectly clarifying look at how I might orient myself toward the real and fully engage life cannot be overstated.
Thank you for writing this masterful piece!
The depth of gratitude I have for this book for being a perfectly clarifying look at how I might orient myself toward the real and fully engage life cannot be overstated.
Thank you for writing this masterful piece!
April 9, 2023
This is not a review as much as it is a call to action. But that in itself is the paradox because this book is about showing us the way forward is actually by ‘no action’.
It’s in the ‘un-doing’ of all the things we have been programmed to do.
It’s about stepping aside and allowing our true selves to come through. But of course it’s more than that. It’s a book of hope for humanity, how to navigate a true natural path forward in this tech riddled AI world.
For me, this book is a much anticipated follow on from her first book Krivda with practical ways to elicit innate knowing and continue my intended natural spiritual growth uncontrolled by ‘current systems’.
Enna is a beautiful litterateur and I devour her intellect, wisdom and boldness in bringing forth this lost (and hidden) knowledge to our current reality. I truly feel like I’ve been gifted secret information. It’s been a game changer for me and one I encourage real truth seekers to explore.
It’s in the ‘un-doing’ of all the things we have been programmed to do.
It’s about stepping aside and allowing our true selves to come through. But of course it’s more than that. It’s a book of hope for humanity, how to navigate a true natural path forward in this tech riddled AI world.
For me, this book is a much anticipated follow on from her first book Krivda with practical ways to elicit innate knowing and continue my intended natural spiritual growth uncontrolled by ‘current systems’.
Enna is a beautiful litterateur and I devour her intellect, wisdom and boldness in bringing forth this lost (and hidden) knowledge to our current reality. I truly feel like I’ve been gifted secret information. It’s been a game changer for me and one I encourage real truth seekers to explore.
April 19, 2023
In her Krivda book, Enna introduces significant core problems with the thinking and teachings of our time going back many generations. Various people have written about these issues for a long time. No one has any fundamental workable solutions. How can anyone address a problem without a solution? We get stuck, ignore, pretend...
This morning I finished her Broody Blue book and must say that in it she shares a solution; a simple solution anyone anywhere can implement for gain. It is so simple, I know it is correct. It transcends any need for more. The solution is yours. Life is good.
This morning I finished her Broody Blue book and must say that in it she shares a solution; a simple solution anyone anywhere can implement for gain. It is so simple, I know it is correct. It transcends any need for more. The solution is yours. Life is good.
June 25, 2025
Another banger from Reittort.
It is a signal in a world of noise.
And it is blunt, so reverse-psychology, counterintuitive that the non-doing would be so potent.
It is a continuation of the masterpiece that is Krivda, her first book.
Shatters many modern fallacies in our 'western minds'.
Why otherwise is there so much hate from the west towards the east? West doesnt' really have their stuff together, perhaps.
It shatters dichotomies. More than the ones in Krivda.
It is a signal in a world of noise.
And it is blunt, so reverse-psychology, counterintuitive that the non-doing would be so potent.
It is a continuation of the masterpiece that is Krivda, her first book.
Shatters many modern fallacies in our 'western minds'.
Why otherwise is there so much hate from the west towards the east? West doesnt' really have their stuff together, perhaps.
It shatters dichotomies. More than the ones in Krivda.
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