We shape the world and the world shapes us.
Like those white earbud cables that become
hopelessly tangled in one’s pocket seemingly
of their own accord, we too become tangled
in both mind and body in the course of a
normal day. Yoga and Alexander Technique
are about straightening out the mess. What
happens from there can only be conjecture.
Like putting mountain spring water in plastic bottles,
visualizations of Music tend to lead us away from
its source, cutting us off from the transcendental
flow of its spiritual freedom. We clearly see the pure
water through the bottle, but some crucially important
essence has been lost.
See the glistening of the fresh morning snow,
reflections, nodes in triangles of relationship
between you, the snowflakes, and the sun.
Perhaps that is all we are,
just so many sparkles—
shimmering,
in an infinite
web.
We shape the world and the world shapes us.
The real currency of the web of life is not money,
is not time, but is rather mutual benefit, a web of
interdependence based on a free back-and-forth
flow of energy. This is a free flow of energy without
waste, without contradiction, without conflict,
without the idea of a collection of isolated resources
to be controlled and managed, and then invariably
hoarded, fought over, used up, and ultimately destroyed.
I say to you: I live in community: Mother moon,
Father sun, Brother stream, Sister tree. And you?
There is always a small number of profiteers who
will turn the screws of contradiction to the point
of societal collapse.
Revolution is about confronting this contradiction
head on and bringing it to a stop.
The first and last revolution is that of conscience,
which then goes on to transform consciousness
itself. It says “no” to the ultimate contradiction
of waste or violence, violence against one’s fellow
human beings, against oneself, and against
the living Earth.
When science opens an hitherto unseen door,
encountering thresholds it cannot yet cross, we have the
beginnings of spirituality; When spirituality manifests
in new number, ratio, or universal theory, we have the
beginnings of science at its best, as a journey of discovery.
Science and spirituality, just like the relationship between
known and unknown, or tradition and creativity, are always
two sides of one movement. The line we draw between
them is like the line of a distant horizon, forever
receding as we come near. Metaphor is then the
scientist’s rhyming of meaning, in both number and word;
it is this sense of wonder that becomes the songline that
guides us deeper and deeper into this uncharted,
essentially pathless, land.