where spirit meets matter
By: opheliarising
tags: connections
Category: Anais Nin, Shivana Inalsingh, connections, everything, existence, love is the most important thing, nature, rumi, wisdom
I think Johann was onto something. He tuned into that place that is just beyond consciousness, that infinite look at life just over the surface (or under the surface). That place we only go in dreams, or just as we are waking. The eternal and indescribable place.
(Just a quick note: I had actually wanted to include the piano version here, played by Leon Fleischer, which I highly recommend – but couldn’t find it on youtube. Although the orchestral version is undoubtedly grand, I love the way the piano winds the notes up simply, like small, concise machinery in an fractal-like pattern. It’s lovely).
I’m reading a book about a woman who survived a stroke, and in it she talks about how she perceived the world while her brain was operating without left hemisphere functions; how she observed that the distance between objects virtually disappeared, and melded into one another with no real distinction or separation – like one blur of movement and energy – so beautiful to her, as she lost reality as we all know it and stepped into something else altogether.
She talked about the fluidity of our bodies, and the fluidity of the universe itself, atoms and molecules all spilling around and about.
I love the idea of us all being liquid – (which, actually, we are, mostly) – and our energies all intertwined, becoming an intense mass, binding to one another through vibration and light.
Of course, she was considered mentally ill, by “normal” standards. (And what is normal, anyway)? But this incredible perception of the world may have been a peek into what some may access regularly. I wonder if our wisest sages who walk the earth can see into another dimension, one that radiates joy and peace and wonder.
How odd it is that we lose all this, this natural connection, in our fear – that we fight, misunderstand each other, feel isolated, and ultimately hold the capacity to harm and kill, when we are so alike, so connected and alive, and all of us full of this blinding energy.
Perhaps it has to do with a lack of love for the self – that when one sees him or herself in another, instead of creating a bond, it creates conflict and hatred – simply because of the connection. If a person has no self-love, how can there be love for others?
But in tuning into this place, this journey into light and energy, surely isolation falls away and becomes irrelevant. How can we not admit we are a part of one another? How can we not? And, how can there not be love?
I am you; and you are me.
And, Love Is The Most Important Thing.
Everything else will just rise up and shine on, all from these sturdy, intrepid roots.
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
- Anais Nin
“We are energetic beings where spirit meets matter, all connected through a timeless energetic matrix. While the quest for health and well being may seem limited to a personal experience, it is through actively honoring ourself and others with integrity and truth, celebrating life with appreciation and gratitude, engaging in pursuits that allow us to achieve our highest potential and expand our consciousness, that we each support and facilitate the transformation and wellbeing of others and the world we live. This is our responsibility as evolving energetic beings and it is time that we all embrace this way of Being.”
-Shivana Inalsingh
“You have been hiding so long
aimlessly drifting
in the sea of my love
Even so
You have always been
connected to me
Connected, revealed
in the known
in the unmanifest
I am life itself.”
-Rumi
I saw Jill Bolte Taylor give a TED talk about this. I definitely believe that we’re all connected. I have no doubt in my mind, given certain experiences I’ve had. I try to live from that place, knowing we are all ONE. It changes art. It changes perspective.
it really is so simple, isn’t it? that we are all part of one, where you believe it to be God, spirit, or the science of lifeforce and energy. music always takes me there. and i have reached a point in my life that generally this is my guiding principle.
though that doesn’t mean i don’t still get frustrated with ‘other’ be it husband, child, friend, mother…i mean i am human living on earth. haven’t quite reached a state of nirvana just yet…
Kristen, I haven’t finished the book yet, but it’s great, so far. She creates this fuzzy, boundary-less imagery so succinctly. I can totally see/imagine/experience what she is seeing, and have felt it before, actually – to a lesser extent. I find that I experience this when I’m in nature a lot, with the trees and the sky. It’s pretty overwhelming.
It certainly does change perspective, and art. It changes everything.
Cathy, it’s so simple, yet so difficult to always be aware of, or to achieve, even. And, yes, there is always frustration with others, inasmuch as we all get frustrated with ourselves. It’s hard to separate the two, you and me, me and you.
I am hard on myself and tear myself down, and so turn that onto the others around me. I feel joyful and peaceful with myself, and everyone is divine.
Beautiful quotes, beautiful blog! I remember a conversation with an old roommate in college about music. It struck us both so much how music is like water, flowing along, liquid sound, taking our bodies for a ride when we dance along with it. Your blog reminded me of that. I would love to read that book, I will try to find it.
hi ophelia
i just wanted to thank you for dropping by my place.
it looks like you have some interesting stuff here but at the risk of repeating myself, i am a bit foggy with flu right now so i’ll try to comment intelligently some other time
cheers
k
What a wonderful post.
Your blog is beautiful and so was the video and the music.
Love your children well. Little lanterns.
Renee xoxo
Jo, thank you! Music is pretty incredible, isn’t it? I’m constantly transfixed, and pretty blown away at the power it has. I’m going to post a thing my brother sent me, which speaks to the power of music and how universal and HUMAN it is. Which makes it a likely candidate for helping bridge distrust and fear between people. I like that it’s the universal language. No one, in all the world, can be unaffected by it, I think – in some way.
This book, “Stroke of Insight,” is remarkable, in its intense scrutiny of the brain and its functions. And how our perception both clouds and enlightens us in this strange, marvelous physical world. And how we can, if we try very hard, access a place of complete joy and freedom, away from boundaries and space. It opens up all sorts of questions and ideas about the universe and our part in it as human beings. I do recommend it.
Kylie, you’re welcome, I so enjoyed your blog and will be back. I hope you feel better soon – hard to comment at all with the flu, I’m sure.
Best wishes to you.
xo
Renee, thank you so much. I enjoyed your blog, too, it’s lovely. What beautiful, thought-provoking artwork!
I do love my children well, with all of my heart. They definitely have lots of light inside them.
I hope that doesn’t get put out anytime soon (or at all). Or, if it does get put out at some point, i hope that they manage to bring it back. I’m pretty sure that can be done.
xoxo
Hi Ophelia,
You have a beautiful place here. A good feeling. Your post is very interesting and was wondering if you finished the book yet. Really curious to read about how she saw the human body as atoms and light.
It’s amazing isn’t it? How music can actually heal us due to the vibrations and harmonics.
Your kids are beautiful.
Joann