#vitalism

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The mother matrix & patriarchy

Invasion, colonisation & extraction is both psychological & biological / organic / bodily.

The modern worldview tore through reality to divide it in two halves: spirit & matter; mind & body; either man or woman etc.

This is the schism, schizoid split, disconnection, distancing 8 separation that has sent western civilization on a path & trajectory of collapse.

Patriarchy is an invasive / parasitic belief system that invades the mind & body of humans. It is a belief system of 'othering' & isolating things into categories, drawing boundaries, borders & demarcations around things, from land to nations, things are not encamped.

Psyche & nature interpenetrate / is co-existent.

Nature / the physical / is suffused with spirit & soul.

Nature / environment is the inverse / the image of the spirit & soul / the Self.

The environment IS my Self. Is the mirror, the surface in which I behold my Reality.

Unity consciousness is spectral, it sees all the gradations of the in-between. The in-between can't be cut away & thrown into a bin.

The in-between is home to variations/variety & the other.

Nothing can be dissected out.

The web is the extended matrix of perception & awareness, propagating, transmitting, transducing & signalling communication instantly between one point & everywhere else in the web. The web is necessary for eco / equilibrium, maintaining the delicate parameters that sustains life itself.

The spectral in-between, is a delicately infolded & alive tissue-web-substance / filamentous strands of green elemental colloidal sap / highways of communication.

One plant is not separate or isolated from another.

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When "what is life?" became "who am I?"

Matriarchy & Patriarchy

The arcane words related to breath across languages & cultures are rooted in a tacit understanding of the question "what is life?".

The life principle is associated with the feminine / with Shakti.

The apparent different words for "what is life?", have grown on branches on a tree from an ancient common seed - - from the same underground soil / the deep unconscious / the underworld.

The myth of Persephone is about picking flowers & fruits in the upperworld but having accepted & received seeds in the underworld. On one level the myth is about the turn of the wheel of the seasons / the circle of LIFE, but read in another way it is about receiving knowledge in the underworld that allows the upperworld to flourish. 'Something' is drawn up from the underworld to flourish in the upperworld.

The cycle of LIFE is a much deeper reality & mystery / occult knowledge to be experientially remembered.

Arcane, primeval knowledge is always handed to the underworld journeyer to be brought to the living. Like Inanna you can't enter the underworld clothed with a body. Like Ramana Maharishi demonstrated, we either sit the body down or we lie down, so as to die to the upperworld / the land of the living & we sink down into what we are- on the currents of prana / the life force / the Serpent of the Deep / that takes us deep into the stream of life itself or the Self, we drift to the centre of what we are.

In the Eastern tradition a mantra

may be given that rides on the

tides of the breath to the center, the fountainhead of LIFE.

Understanding has evolved from the notion of vital breath, to eternal Soul, supreme Spirit, the Self or consciousness but are but different pointers to a reality that is so vast, that no single word can fully contain it. The words are seeds that inwardly grow into true knowledge through experiencing their meaning directly.