Question: How do you feel part of the earth, the earth as alive? What rejuvenates you in this?
Answer:
When I think about how the Earth is alive, and how dream and revery take me out
of my smallbuzzing brain into the larger aliveness, I think about a dream I had
a long while ago that stays with me, about flying. In a way, the dream feels
like earth aliveness in that it's like I'm in a bird body. I see starkly down
into the land that's going by. I feel the air buoying my body and also whizzing
past my beak. It's exhilarating. I am keenly aware of the trees, I see/sense
their large green beings far out from their trunks and limbs. Also, my sense of
"I"-ness is different than in my waking human body. It's almost as if when I put my attention to something, I go down into it, into its depth and also
see/sense from its point of view. Every part of the aliveness has a different
signature/feel/way of see/sensing. --I also get this feeling sometimes while
gardening, tuning into a plant, I feel it's ?aura? ?energy body? ?present
momentness?, also from its being, its aliveness/wholeness.-- In the fragment of
the dream of flying, I go down to sit/sense/rest am in a large tree, inside of
its greenness, both in body and in that feltsense extending beyond the tree
body form. That's it, like many
dreams, it's not a story, it's just a moment that stays, that felt sense, that
different way of being. When I think of your question about how it feels to relate
with the larger Earth, that's what arrives, these bird-being tree-present senses
and feelings. In good, whole moments of waking, I also feel inklings of this.
And when I arrive/arise/realize that's where I am, I feel renewed, deepened,
fresh, alive. Something else, almost submerged, underneath, but that is
tingling and alive, emerges. My senses widen. I
know I am whole while also being dissolved/merged/thrummed/extended into
everything else, and that too feels whole.
