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Jsabél Bilqís's avatar

Timely, thoughtful, enjoyable, *important* read. Thank you for this seminal work you’re planting in the collective field.

Sofia Batalha's avatar

Thank you for reading Jsabél. We all have nutritious seeds to sow and nurture ❤️

Seth's avatar

This is a powerful key: the awareness of our own multiplicity, of being an assemblage of life, of being home to others…unlocking a door we’ve chosen to forget.

Since life is fractal, holographic, it makes perfect sense that our bodies reflect the body of the earth we live on/with/in. If we can see and feel our “Earthliness”, then the distance for us to cover through “reconnection” collapses…we ARE Earth. Earth is Us.

Of course, these aren’t new ideas—and the tragedy of suppressing and attempting to erase the cultures that embody them is very real—but the need for new language is undeniable. We must build as many cognitive and sensory bridges back to Truth as we can. Despite the fact that our separation is delusional, the delusion

matters.

Thank you Sofia, and everyone else who is speaking and living this song 🙏🏼🌺 We need to be called back to ourselves!

Sofia Batalha's avatar

Thank you Seth! Exactly like you said: not new ideas but indeed delusionally and violently being severed from modern psyches and institutions. We need all of our diverse voices!

The thirst for a universal and homogeneous truth (or self, as in an autonomous being) is, at its core, an ecological nightmare. A monoculture of the soul and the mind. Just as agricultural monocultures aim for maximum yield but only result in soil erosion and depletion, it eliminates complexity, weakens systems, and drastically reduces life’s resilience. Ecology teaches us that power lies in diversity, in difference without separability, in the friction between ways of being. Life is not linear, flat, stable, or impartial. It tilts, proliferates, resists, exceeds.... To seek a single truth or to single out the self (or body, or identity) is to amputate the complexity of reality

But it is indeed a disorienting unlearning trail (for people like me, steeped in modernity's illiteracy of paradox) to listen otherwise to contextual truths, accepting that living is inhabiting a mesh of multiple, irreducible, deeply relational forces... such as our own bodies.