The Naked Truth: Meditations on Naturism (071717)

 Oh, Great Spirit,

whose voice I hear in the winds

and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes

ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand

the things you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden

in every leaf and rock.

~*~

When I have the opportunity 

I Love Being Naked Outdoors

Stripping away my clothes

I feel the weight of society's chains drop away

All barriers dissolve

To stand Naked - Pure - 

in the Light and warm embrace of the Sun

Basking in the Glory of God's Creation

I thank God for giving me the time to commune 

with Him and Nature Naturally

Nothing between me and Nature

I am One with the Great I Am

    

There is nothing "sinful" about being a naturist

Being naked is not dirty or nasty or lewd or "sin"
As I was taught growing up

It is how God made us - it is our Natural State

It is all in our attitude - our perspective

As Kahlil Gibran wrote in his book, The Prophet

"Forget not that modesty is for a shield 

against the eye of the unclean.

And when the unclean shall be no more,

what were modesty 

but a fetter and a fouling of the mind

And forget not 

that the earth delights to feel your bare feet 

and the winds long to play with your hair."

One of my favorite quotes about Naturism

Comes from one of my favorite teachers

Walt Whitman 

(Uncle Walt, as I like to call him)

Here's what he says about his experience

Being Naked in the Great Outdoors

"Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me… Nature was naked, and I was also… Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! - ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.

Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is—nor what faith or art or health really is. (Probably the whole curriculum of first-class philosophy, beauty, heroism, form, illustrated by the old Hellenic race—the highest height and deepest depth known to civilization in those departments—came from their natural and religious idea of Nakedness."

~Walt Whitman

(“A Sun-Bath–Nakedness” in “Specimen Days”)

~*~

May we lie naked in the sun

On blankets of sweet clovers

Swim naked in the cool flowing stream

And stand Naked and Pure before God

In Joy, Pleasure, and Praise

Engulfed in silent rapture by the artwork of the Great I Am

We are One

~Amen