art | Mystical Conversation, Odilon Redon, 1896 :: from The Sacred Feminine For Life
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ANAM CARA
In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."
In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.
The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.
Since ER dlc is almost here and so on, I've been wondering...
Fellow veteran fromsoft fans, have you ever had a lore theory/headcanon that was later confirmed by a new dlc/game?
For example, in my case I had a ds1 headcanon that there were human dragonslayers who were forced by the gods to fight in their war and later erased from history... and then ds3 with the Ringed City dlc came out.