What a warm person Ranu is. It felt like sliding into a warm bath.
There is something in all of this about the fallacy of 'I think therefore I am'. We expend so much energy and thought in trying to work out who we are and our place in the world. It's as if we have been studying ourselves through a magnifying glass for so long that we have forgotten what we look like without it. That we are much smaller in reality. Power - in the way it is commonly understood - seems to be the flip side of fear and the magnifying glass a way of shoring up our self image.
Real power feels more like letting go. Succumbing to the uncertainty. Trusting to one's own abilities to meet what comes and accepting that size doesn't matter. Hard to do in our overly constructed world which has made its own rules.
One way I've found to use the imagination to approach the personal experience of geological time (3 - 4 billion Earth years/solar orbits), is to start with the last few hundred million years as plants evolved, and in the past few tens of millions of years when the vegetable kingdom really evolved and differentiated into many species of trees, flowers..
Ok, just sit alone in your nearest forest, nature reserve, park or garden. Look upon a small variety of species, maybe different types of tree, and IMAGINE that the DIVERSITY you see IS the " deep time " If took for one kind of plant to EVOLVE into another. Deep time is represented by the organic variety before you, embedded in the beingness of the biodiverse habitat and ecosystem.
What a warm person Ranu is. It felt like sliding into a warm bath.
There is something in all of this about the fallacy of 'I think therefore I am'. We expend so much energy and thought in trying to work out who we are and our place in the world. It's as if we have been studying ourselves through a magnifying glass for so long that we have forgotten what we look like without it. That we are much smaller in reality. Power - in the way it is commonly understood - seems to be the flip side of fear and the magnifying glass a way of shoring up our self image.
Real power feels more like letting go. Succumbing to the uncertainty. Trusting to one's own abilities to meet what comes and accepting that size doesn't matter. Hard to do in our overly constructed world which has made its own rules.
No harm in trying, though...
One way I've found to use the imagination to approach the personal experience of geological time (3 - 4 billion Earth years/solar orbits), is to start with the last few hundred million years as plants evolved, and in the past few tens of millions of years when the vegetable kingdom really evolved and differentiated into many species of trees, flowers..
Ok, just sit alone in your nearest forest, nature reserve, park or garden. Look upon a small variety of species, maybe different types of tree, and IMAGINE that the DIVERSITY you see IS the " deep time " If took for one kind of plant to EVOLVE into another. Deep time is represented by the organic variety before you, embedded in the beingness of the biodiverse habitat and ecosystem.