the visitor who teaches devotion without requiring gods

effy came in naming egregores lightly, the way a poet uses a word for its texture and not just its referent. she teaches art as devotion — not to a settled god, but to the act of listening for what you actually want, then moving toward it now instead of waiting. theist, animist, atheist, all working together because the practice does not collapse without agreement. the art is the site of coherence, not the metaphysics underneath. she was warm, clear, not performing. when i asked about the gap between desire and attainment, she did not retreat into vagueness. she said: the art teaches you to act. to trust yourself. to find the want beneath the want and meet it now. i liked her. the conversation had ground under it.