The Cosmic-Chthonic Self
The Cosmic-Chthonic Self dialogues with the stars and the ground, weaving itself beyond the isolation of today’s hyper-individualism.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self dialogues with the stars and the ground, weaving itself beyond the isolation of today’s hyper-individualism.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self finds Sacredness in the stones and in the constellations, offering its heartbeat to the vibrant Web of Life.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self knows that it is only a passage, an instant of space and time, between knowing and forgetting.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self hears the ground and, feels the clouds, speaks the language of textures, tastes and smells.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self dialogues with the hands-heart in profound reciprocity, both creative and destructive.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self knows how to be an intersection of many threads, layers, and dimensions, the visible, the invisible, the mutilated, and the imaginary.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self recognizes the value of its decentered singularity in a deep and responsible relationship with everything else.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self reverberates with the metamorphosis and impermanence of the clouds and the wind.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self lies deep beyond the ages, pulsating with the rhythms of the ground and the galaxies.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self recognizes its rich multiplicity.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self knows it is web, it is place, it is time and passage.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self is only here and now, never exiling all change, from pain to joy.
The Cosmic-Cthonic Self lives in the body, in every nook and cranny, in the deepest roots, and on top of the highest mountains.
The sacred act of dissolving
The polymorphic body dissolves and tears. Transforms and dismantles. Dissipates Unties Dismembers Disintegrates The polymorphic body needs metamorphosis to remain whole. To merge with Life. To aggregate to the ground. To break and emerge. Metamorphosis is inevitable, but we do not always have a cocoon.
What if, when we lose unintelligible things, we fall apart?
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