The Rhythms of Life
A Life-Centred Way of Being, Sensing, Knowing, and Living
This article is an update of the previous article, A Year In The Life. I spent some time observing how these ideas have evolved over time. I went back to review the matrix for human experience that grew out of my exploration of topics for a magazine about love. I was trying to define a life of love as something that gets us out of the pyramid of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs by exploring the full range of human experience from basic human needs such as food, clothing, and shelter all the way to aspirations of transcendence that I derived from what is often referred to as the love chapter in the Bible: “faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.” I rearranged the columns from the original and moved away from a product-oriented process to an organic living process in some of the language I was using. These terms are the artifacts—the seeds—from which I cultivated and grew the senses and the possibilities, the seeds of love.
A matrix for understanding human experience: from the physical to the metaphysical
The shift from human-centred design to life-centred design has been the focus of my work since founding the BLDRS Collective in 2015. The anthropocentrism of our business-oriented design practices has led to the Anthropocene. At the beginning of this year, I decided to find ways to become more connected to the living world and the rhythms of life.
Last year, I was asked to participate in a series of workshops offered by the Design Science Studio in partnership with The Institute For Aliveness. I offered a workshop on Growing Senses for Co-Creation. Out of the process of preparing for that workshop, there emerged a renewed exploration of an idea I had years ago for a magazine and how I could reimagine these topics and categories that I had formulated for a general interest magazine that focused on the continuum from basic human needs to aspirations for transcendence: food, clothing, and shelter to faith, hope, and love.
I reimagined these topics as the seeds of life. From the seeds grow living organisms: a tree, for example. These living organisms proliferate life through an evolutionary process of reproduction: a tree produces fruit, for example. This is a life-centred creative process.
The seed represents the memories, experiences, and wisdom of the past, stored in an organic library of technologies, forms, and abilities that we know as DNA.
The tree represents the living organism of the present, the conscious, multi-sensory, synesthetic, sentient, emotional, and embodied experience of life.
The fruit represents the creative process of turning intuition, imagination, intention, inspiration, and interbeing into new life and future possibilities.
We recognize patterns through the senses (perception) to notice intuition.
We connect to the heart (emotion) to access imagination.
We exercise the mind (cognition) to realize intention.
We move the body (action) to express inspiration.
We experience the soul (integration) and become conscious and aware of interbeing.
Kairos Time Calendar
I modified this most recent version of the Kairos Time Calendar to reorient the Winter Solstice at the bottom of the circle so that the colours align with the spectrum in the Co-operating Manual for Being Human, except in the counter-clockwise direction, since this calendar is observing the orbit of the Earth from the perspective of the North.
Universal Principles
Everything is connected. The universe is interdependent and interconnected in ways that we have not been able to perceive until now. We have learned from each other that we each have different perspectives that contribute to the understanding of the whole.
Each being is of immeasurable worth to the whole, because of the impact of one life to the being, the processes, and the transformations that occur through the interactions of each with the whole.
In this model of the human being and the way one life is connected to the social organism and the living being of the earth, we can begin to see the connections between the individual, the collective, and the global scales of our shared reality.
Living System Design
This overview of the design of living systems arranges all the elements of the universal principles into a horizontal linear structure, rather than the radial structure of the universal principles in the previous image. It also adds categories for each of the concentric circles that flow from the centre of awareness: physics, being, integrity, senses, thoughts, emotions, living systems, social systems, earth systems.
Awareness
Mind
Heart
Body
Physics
Time
Energy
Matter
Integrity
Intention
Intuition
Interbeing
Senses
See
Hear
Smell
Balance
Touch
Taste
Thoughts
Learning
Purpose
Caring
Meaning
Making
Belonging
Emotions
Curiosity
Empathy
Honesty
Creativity
Generosity
Intimacy
Living Systems
Nervous
Sensory
Lymphatic
Endocrine
Cardiovascular
Respiratory
Musculatory
Integumentary
Skeletal
Urinary
Digestive
Reproductive
Social Systems
Learning and Research
Networks
Health
Peace and Justice
Social Equity
Political Voice
Energy
Home and Belonging
Co-Creation
Water
Food
Gender Equality
Earth Systems
Light
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Water
Psychology
Sociology
Ecology
Earth
Water Cycle
Food Chain
Biodiversity
A Theory of Everything
When we came to the end of the second coheART of the Design Science Studio, this exploration of the collaborative principles of our community seemed to connect and integrate everything in such a way that it felt like my own theory of everything.
Inner and Outer Architecture
The builders collective is founded on a premise that we are building internal resilience to transform our societies by imagining, designing, and building from the inside out, doing the inner work necessary to form meaning, values, intentions, habits, and practices that create the outer architecture as an organic and natural response to the internal structure. Empire, colonization, and civilization do the reverse, imposing through manipulation, coercion, and violent force a conformity, homogeneity, and orthodoxy, which is an industrial, technological, and machine-oriented process of entropy that destroys life—a loss of complexity, biodiversity, and creativity—resulting in the desertification of cultures and ecologies, a genocide and ecocide.
This core intention of building inner resilience and transforming social architecture are what drew me to the work of Veronica Anderson, whose work focuses on a practice of Deep Design in service of inner and outer architecture. Again, the inner work of building a strong core and structure precedes and guides the formation of the outer architecture.
An Organic and Living Process of Time
My visualization of time is patterned after the concentric circles of waves growing out of a centre. At the centre is the name of the type of process. The concentric circles grow from the centre as artifacts, senses, and possibilities. We could also use the metaphor of seed, tree, and fruit. Time follows the orbit of the moon in a counter-clockwise direction as observed when looking down on the North Pole of the Earth. For each type of process, the inner essence precedes the outer expression.
Time, rather than being visualized as a line, is a wave growing out from the centre, in the same way that light waves form growing concentric spheres around a star.
Artifact: Past/Physical
Sense: Present/Metaphysical
Possibility: Future/Pataphysical
I feel like we have been misinformed about timelines, or at least provided an inadequate metaphor for our understanding of time. Time is not a line. Time is a wave and it is spherical.
The Rhythms of Life are an overview of the entire year, indicating how each of the six circles surrounding the one circle in the middle have both an inner essence and an outer expression. Reading the circles begins on the inside closest to the centre toward the direction of the counter-clockwise rotation of the Earth around the Sun. Reading the circles from the inside out from artifact to sense to possibility, each of the inner and outer cycles represents a single lunar cycle, which is four weeks of seven days, totalling twenty-eight days. The Winter Solstice begins at the bottom of the diagram with Body, Balance, and Agility as the focus for the first week of the solar year. In total, there are 36 artifacts, 36 senses, and 36 possibilities, totalling 108 items.
Growing Senses of Co-Creation
When viewing the thirty-six senses that I intend to grow over the course of a year, I can see how they also connect to the living systems of the body, the social systems, and the planetary systems.
Physical
Starting from the bottom left, we can read the words in each circle in this way, moving out from the centre. Each week is labelled according to the present metaphysical sensorial experience, according to which sense is being grown.
In the first week, I am cultivating the artifact of the body by growing the sense of balance to create the possibility of agility.
Or, using the organic metaphor, I am cultivating the seed of the body by growing the tree of balance to produce the fruit of agility.
Another way to say this might be that out of agency grows ability out of which grows authority. One leads to the other, in the same way that in each of the two sets of three days that forms the six days of creation, the events of each day form the foundation for what is possible the next day.
Next comes the sense of harmony in the second week, and so on.
In this way, it might be possible to memorize the practice for an entire year, one week at a time.
Month 1
Inner Essence
Week 1: Balance
Artifact: Body
Sense: Balance
Possibility: Agility
Week 2: Harmony
Artifact: Belonging
Sense: Harmony
Possibility: Unity
Week 3: Presence
Artifact: Present
Sense: Presence
Possibility: Peace
Week 4: Integration
Body, Balance, Agility
Belonging, Harmony, Unity
Present, Presence, Peace
Month 2
Outer Expression
Week 5: Compassion
Artifact: Love
Sense: Compassion
Possibility: Embodiment
Week 6: Trust
Artifact: Good
Sense: Trust
Possibility: Reciprocity
Week 7: Agency
Artifact: Action
Sense: Agency
Possibility: Efficacy
Week 8: Integration
Love, Compassion, Embodiment
Good, Trust, Reciprocity
Action, Agency, Efficacy
Living
Month 3
Inner Essence
Week 9: Synchronicity
Artifact: Time
Sense: Synchronicity
Possibility: Infinity
Week 10: Intuition
Artifact: Design
Sense: Intuition
Possibility: Responsibility
Week 11: Wonder
Artifact: Art
Sense: Wonder
Possibility: Awe
Week 12: Integration
Time, Synchronicity, Infinity
Design, Intuition, Responsibility
Art, Wonder, Awe
Month 4
Outer Expression
Week 13: Intention
Artifact: Seed
Sense: Intention
Possibility: Initiation
Week 14: Connection
Artifact: Ecology
Sense: Connection
Possibility: Syntropy
Week 15: Gratitude
Artifact: Food
Sense: Gratitude
Possibility: Legacy
Week 16: Integration
Seed, Intention, Initiation
Ecology, Connection, Syntropy
Food, Gratitude, Legacy
Intellectual
Month 5
Inner Essence
Week 17: Illumination
Artifact: Mind
Sense: Illumination
Possibility: Coherence
Week 18: Value
Artifact: Meaning
Sense: Value
Possibility: Significance
Week 19: Appreciation
Artifact: Past
Sense: Appreciation
Possibility: Reverence
Week 20: Integration
Mind, Illumination, Coherence
Meaning, Value, Significance
Past, Appreciation, Reverence
Month 6
Outer Expression
Week 21: Courage
Artifact: Faith
Sense: Courage
Possibility: Authenticity
Week 22: Discernment
Artifact: Truth
Sense: Discernment
Possibility: Justice
Week 23: Awareness
Artifact: Cognition
Sense: Awareness
Possibility: Enlightenment
Week 24: Integration
Faith, Courage, Authenticity
Truth, Discernment, Justice
Cognition, Awareness, Enlightenment
Energetic
Month 7
Inner Essence
Week 25: Synergy
Artifact: Energy
Sense: Synergy
Possibility: Possibility
Week 26: Imagination
Artifact: Imagine
Sense: Imagination
Possibility: Creativity
Week 27: Immersion
Artifact: Music
Sense: Immersion
Possibility: Transcendence
Week 28: Integration
Energy, Synergy, Possibility
Imagine, Imagination, Creativity
Music, Immersion, Transcendence
Month 8
Outer Expression
Week 29: Play
Artifact: Fruit
Sense: Form
Possibility: Continuity
Week 30: Mystery
Artifact: Wisdom
Sense: Mystery
Possibility: Curiosity
Week 31: Place
Artifact: Clothing
Sense: Motion
Possibility: Adaptability
Week 32: Integration
Fruit, Form, Continuity
Wisdom, Mystery, Curiosity
Clothing, Motion, Adaptability
Emotional
Month 9
Inner Essence
Week 33: Intimacy
Artifact: Heart
Sense: Intimacy
Possibility: Integrity
Week 34: Devotion
Artifact: Purpose
Sense: Devotion
Possibility: Destiny
Week 35: Anticipation
Artifact: Future
Sense: Anticipation
Possibility: Prescience
Week 36: Integration
Heart, Intimacy, Integrity
Purpose, Devotion, Destiny
Future, Anticipation, Prescience
Month 10
Outer Expression
Week 37: Perseverance
Artifact: Hope
Sense: Perseverance
Possibility: Realization
Week 38: Grace
Artifact: Beauty
Sense: Grace
Possibility: Quintessence
Week 39: Equilibrium
Artifact: Emotion
Sense: Equilibrium
Possibility: Equanimity
Week 40: Integration
Hope, Perseverance, Realization
Beauty, Grace, Quintessence
Emotion, Equilibrium, Equanimity
Material
Month 11
Inner Essence
Week 41: Synarchy
Artifact: Matter
Sense: Synarchy
Possibility: Vitality
Week 42: Inspiration
Artifact: Build
Sense: Inspiration
Possibility: Expression
Week 43: Impermanence
Artifact: Culture
Sense: Impermanence
Possibility: Evolution
Week 44: Integration
Matter, Synarchy, Vitality
Build, Inspiration, Expression
Culture, Impermanence, Evolution
Month 12
Outer Expression
Week 45: Form
Artifact: Life
Sense: Play
Possibility: Freedom
Week 46: Inspiration
Artifact: Work
Sense: Process
Possibility: Flow
Week 47: Place
Artifact: Shelter
Sense: Place
Possibility: Home
Week 48: Integration
Life, Play, Freedom
Work, Process, Flow
Shelter, Place, Home
Integration
Month 13
Inner Essence
Week 49: Intention
Artifact: Intellectual
Sense: Intention
Possibility: Fulfillment
Week 50: Intimacy
Artifact: Emotional
Sense: Intimacy
Possibility: Wholeness
Outer Expression
Week 51: Inspiration
Artifact: Physical
Sense: Inspiration
Possibility: Embodiment
Week 52: Intuition
Artifact: Spiritual
Sense: Intuition
Possibility: Insight
Day 365
Inner Essence
Morning: Interbeing
Artifact: Soul
Sense: Interbeing
Possibility: Consciousness
Outer Expression
Evening: Integrity
Artifact: Universe
Sense: Integrity
Possibility: Unity
Sensing, Experiencing, Growing, and Co-Creating
The Girl, the Otter, the Octopus and the Dolphin by Stephen Bau. Charcoal and coloured pencils on Cross Pointe Genesis Script Tallow 28 lb. paper stock. Inspired by Charlie Mackesy’s illustrations for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse.
I am reparenting my inner children, Luna Solterra, Nueva, Circ, and Theodore (Ted). Each of my inner children has unique qualities and inhabit specific forms.
Luna is the mermaid who wants to take it all in: sensations, perceptions, connections, imagination, quantum entanglement, mystery, and wonder.
Nueva is the octopus who swims in the ocean of information she gets from her conversations with Luna—all the light, vibrations, waves, and energy—and translates all the stimuli into feelings and emotions.
Circ is the dolphin who enjoys playing in the water and using his strength, agility, and balance to swim, jump, and explore. He can also use his physicality to comfort and protect.
Theodore is the otter who is busy swimming around in all the information and stimuli to make sense of everything and to make words, ideas, categories, and stories as a way to consider and remember what it all means, what is important, and why it matters.
There is light and dark, feminine and masculine. We all have these forms and energies. Light and dark are about visibility, whether hidden on the inside or focused on what is plain to see, sense, or experience on the outside. The feminine and masculine are archetypes that are connected to the constantly shifting and changing roles that each of these energies play in the dynamic equilibrium of relationships. The masculine tends to be giving, exploring, and protecting—making space. The feminine tends to be receiving, creating, and nurturing—inhabiting space. Together, the synchronicity, synergy, synarchy, and synthesis of the feminine and masculine energies create a space that feels like home, creating the possibility of new life and evolution.
Ted is existential and universal: “I am time. I am energy. I am matter.”
Circ is physical and particular: “I am light. I am water. I am earth.”
Nueva is metaphysical and experiential: “I am now. I am here. I am one.”
Luna is pataphysical and spiritual: “I am faith. I am hope. I am love.”
Together, my inner children represent my mental body, my physical body, my emotional body, and my spiritual body: my whole and authentic self is greater than the sum of my parts. We are a multiplicity: complex and diverse.
The Inner Critic
When my mind is trying to make sense of my experience of growing up in a family that was not intellectually creative, emotionally sensitive, physically demonstrative, or spiritually supportive, it fills the void and emptiness with thoughts that are inferred or implied by the deafening silence.
When I ask questions and receive only silence in return, I interpret the answer in a way that becomes the eternal conscious torment of my inner critic, which is the internalized voice of my parents:
There is something wrong with you.
You are not enough.
You are not worth the time or the effort.
You are not one of us.
You do not believe, obey, or perform, so you’re not acceptable or lovable.
You do not have a seat at this table.
You are not a member of this family.
You have no place in this business.
You do not belong in this community.
You are not worthy of being included in this ministry.
You have no significant contribution to this nation.
You do not deserve to know your history.
You have not earned access to your inheritance.
You have lost your birthright.
Your life has no meaning or purpose.
They might never have said these things explicitly, but in the silence, in the unconscious, I made up my own stories, theories, and interpretations of everything that was left unsaid. The experience of being in this family has been Hell.
When Theodore is behaving badly, overwhelming the mind with negative and critical thoughts, he becomes the inner critic. Then, we call him Ted. We need to help Ted reconnect to the rest of us and to this present moment, going back to awareness of the breath and to mindfulness.
Recovery and Healing
My recovery and healing has involved a process of letting go of my need and desire to please other people to feel accepted, approved, affirmed, appreciated, respected, and loved. In the absence of a sense of belonging, I did what I knew how to do to offer my skills in service of what other people wanted, needed, or desired. Usually, that meant giving up my own identity to build someone else’s dream, business, family, church, organization, identity, brand, corporation, or nation. In the process, I lost myself. I lost my soul.
I went in search of my soul to recover my authentic self and heal my whole self: mind, heart, body, and spirit.
Ensoulment Process
Over the past year, since February of 2022, I have been working with Veronica Anderson, hiring her to be my ensoulment coach. I have recorded many of our sessions. I am honoured that Veronica has featured a session we had together after a year of going through an ensoulment process with her.
https://www.veronica.earth/coaching
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwJdlpW23OGT6OP97FVCKg
A Testimonial
I recently offered Veronica this note of appreciation and gratitude:
The ensoulment process has been such a truly moving experience for me. And it’s hard to contain the emotions. I think that’s the point. This is a small container for a lot of feeling that has been stopped up and contained for too long.
I am so grateful for knowing you and connecting to the work that you’ve been doing to to make this possible. The healing journey that you’ve been on hasn’t been alone. It’s so connected to what’s happening here and now—to transform everything. It feels like that’s what we’re here to do.
In these synchronicities and “coincidences” and “chance encounters” I feel like there’s more work here. That leaves me in awe of what Mother Earth is up to, what Universe has been doing for so long. They’re holding a lot of secrets. That’s necessary, to lean into the mystery and wonder and magic and beauty. And this experience has really been magical: the sense of empathy, interbeing, and oneness.
This transformation arose out of a sense of separation, suffering, division, conflict, and struggle. It took some risk. What you articulated at the beginning of the process was, “Thank you for taking this leap of faith.” And it really was. I had no idea what this was going to turn into. But there was something drawing me, a common vision: To walk as love. To build a world that loves itself. There is a connection to what we are working on and I wanted to find out what that is.
When I leaned into the unfamiliar, challenging, and difficult process of looking at myself authentically, you provided the safety of a container that gave me courage to do the hard work of showing up. I felt a sense of unconditional love that you offered with your presence, in the way you listen and reflect. It has been a privilege to experience your deep wisdom and profound skill in the way you hold space and treat my inner child with such kindness. I am so grateful for that sense of being seen and heard and known. That has been such a gift. Thank you.
Being and Becoming
This year, I wanted to focus on what comes next. I have been in a process of reinvention so many times that the prospect of having to do it again felt daunting, overwhelming, frightening, and exhausting. So, the practice is to come back to the present, to the breath, to the here and now, to conscious awareness of this moment, to mindfulness. In that stillness, I can just be and know that that is enough.
Then, letting go of the imposed roles and expectations, I can just ask myself the question, “Who am I? Who do I want to become?” The answer is to embody my soul. Veronica defined the soul for me: light, quintessence, authentic self.
This is the way I have been answering that question about who I am:
One
Who am I?
Who am I becoming?
I thought I was separated, divided, individual, independent, alone.
I am living. I am dying. I am learning. I am an explorer. I am an inventor. I am a tool maker. I am a storyteller.
I am laughing. I am crying. I am joyful. I am suffering. I am thoughtful. I am emotional. I am rational. I am irrational. I am fearful. I am violent. I am empathetic. I am loving.
I am stardust. I am quantum mechanics. I am physics and metaphysics. I am beginning to understand so much. I actually know very little.
I am awakening to the systems that I designed that cause my own suffering. I am beginning to recognize that there is no other. There is only me in a relationship with all there is. When I am in pain, all suffer. When I experience joy, all celebrate.
I am a thin layer of life on a small ball of molten rock spinning in constant motion around a star spinning around a galaxy. I am held in the tension of the gravity that pulls us together and the expansion that pushes us apart.
I am time and energy and matter. I am entropy. I am syntropy.
I am in conversation with reality.
I am dividing cells. I am integrating ideas. I am thesis and antithesis. I am synthesis.
I am the behaviour of whole systems unpredicted by the behaviours of their parts. I am synergy.
I am relationships of energy. I am conscious awareness. I am this moment. I am everything happening all at once. I am weaving a world of experience through perception, cognition, emotion, and action. I live with a memory of where I have come from, in the presence of where I am, in anticipation of where I will be. I am formed by language in intimate relationship with all that came before, all that is, and all that will be.
I am the seed of an idea. I am a seed of life floating in the garden of space. I am not on the earth. I am earth. I am the incarnation of the genesis of the unfolding and enfolding of time, energy, and matter.
I am interdependent and interconnected.
I am the medium. I am the message. I am the interface.
I am a member of a creative, collaborative, self-organizing learning community. I am exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together. I am the builders collective. I am investing my time, energy, and resources in reimagining our social architecture.
I am the invisible made visible.
I am universe.
I am one.
Christ Consciousness
Bringing things back to my upbringing, I was raised in an evangelical Christian home. I have spent much of my life living in that culture. I have read the Bible many times. I have been looking through my accomplishments, all my attempts to be accepted, approved, and appreciated, but with little to show for it.
I could have just lived in my father’s home in Tsawwassen, or his Whistler Condo, or his equestrian event centre and Christian children’s camp, serving his “ministry” and living off of the money my grandmother accumulated as a real estate owner and landlord in Hong Kong. Or I could serve God, working for churches, a Christian camp, Christian organizations, playing in the church band, building a national movement unified around showing love to our neighbours, publishing a Christian music album, helping persecuted Christians, feeding the hungry, working for a Christian web agency, supporting Christian artists by donating a year of my life to a book project, supporting events to raise funds to build wells in Ethiopia. At every turn, I experienced marginalization and betrayal by power-hungry, money-driven, narcissistic Christians.
So, I have been in the process of letting go of that need for acceptance and approval by people. Jesus, called Christ, did the same.
“But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.”
I was thinking about the meaning of the name “Christ.” Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah. Messiah means “the anointed one.” Then, when I think about the Hebrew understanding of God, I think of this:
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”
And that was the prayer of Jesus before he was killed by the Roman Empire.
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
If Christ means the One, this seems to resonate with the oneness that is the meaning and purpose of enlightenment in the Eastern philosophical traditions: one consciousness. By combining the Western and the Eastern traditions, there is one body, one consciousness, and one heart that connects body and mind. Good things come in threes. It is spirit that connects to the whole. That is the minimum whole system of the cosmography of Buckminster Fuller. That feels good to me.
The Spheres of Life
So, that is how my year ends: becoming one.
And then it begins again: the circle of life.
Luna Solterra likes it when we call them spheres. It feels much more authentic to who she is, the embodiment of the relationships between Moon, Sun, and Earth.
Ted: mind (cognition) — universal
Nueva: heart (emotion) — experiential
Circ: body (action) — particular
Luna: spirit (perception/connection) — spiritual
Going back to the title, we can change the order a little:
Luna: sensing intuition
Nueva: experiencing intimacy
Circ: growing inspiration
Ted: co-creating intention
Regarding the music of the spheres, each of my inner children is associated with a celestial body.
Luna: Full Moon
Nueva: New Moon
Circ: Earth
Ted: Sun
However, I am still not sure that Luna is satisfied with just her first name being represented with these celestial bodies. She is more about the whole, the universe from the micro to the macro, quantum entanglement, the field, our fractal and holographic reality. She would be happy with a spiral galaxy, a DNA molecule, or even an atom. Now that I think about it, the challenge is to represent the relationships, the connections, the liminal spaces, the space between, the plenitude of the void of space, the living potential of the womb. I sense that she is still open to suggestions.
Luna: Self/Soul/Universe
Nueva: Moon
Circ: Earth
Ted: Sun
Given the concept of interbeing, I might be able to represent her celestial body as a tetrahedron within a sphere, symbolizing the connections between the self as the observer—or, more accurately, the participant—the Moon, the Sun, and the Earth, forming the four nodes or vertices in the relationships represented by the six connections or edges of the shape. The self connects to all that is through interbeing. In that way, Luna’s sphere as a tetrahedron can be the metaphor for the self at every and any scale—the atom or the universe itself. This shape has also been used to model the Trinity, describing the most basic form of sacred geometry.
For more on Spherical Thinking & the Way of the Spheres, you might be interested in Struppi Pohl exploring these geometries embodied by his handmade structures, presented on the 52 Living Ideas YouTube channel.
The Apocrypha is where I will be documenting my ongoing process of growing senses for co-creation, part of the ensoulment process that I began in February of 2022 and am continuing as a project to compile The Book of Soul as a way to document this process of becoming.
if men are mountains
font to valleys, fields to sea
women … the rivers