AS BELOW, SO ABOVE, AS ABOVE, SO BELOW…

Body of Earth

Earth Embraces Me — prose/poem

Taken by the sea From the throes of insomnia, I wake To a sound of ocean waves, surf. A sound machine in a corner makes.

In a symphony of sound of fish talking In the bosom of a coral reef’s — protected As a mother makes a home, schools of fish Swirl above while tiny creatures blend unto

The reef as I drift edging dreamtime. The energies Of the waves and sounds, the busiest of streets. Sing fishes and one tortoise weave water and stream Into waves only my navel understands:

I connect as she connects with me blending together.

After nearly fifty years of grounding; sending roots down, Earth has found me and soothed my weary emotions. Sleepless I feel her heart connect to my body, through my feet, Hands and chi. I am part of her and she me — Mother Earth.

On land I stand barefooted on dirt of dusty Earth, brown and At times moist from rain. Earth, she infuses me with drink, I mix with her and feel complete. Shoulders, arms thrown back I bow upwards to sky and air.

With my eyes I see the rhythms of energies between all creatures Birds fly, people together walk and talk, dogs bark and skip happy To see loved ones. And Van Gogh’s visions of swirls of sky and peopled Creatures make —

I breathe in all woven energies by sky and air.

In the swirl and whirl at my belly button chi mixes all this in me and I feel Earth speak. I listen with my breath; slows and I drift off to dream, to Sleep as waves wash me clean, at last I surrender — sleep with Earth: I am complete, completed.

Interconnectedness

In 1980 I learned this prayer before meals at a Gurdjieff/Bennett (Spiritual) School — Working Farm:

All Life is One and everything is holy, Plants, animals and the human-animals. We bless the lives that have died To give us our food. Let us eat together, Resolving by our work to pay the debt of our existence.

I came to understand that the debt of existence is to honor those that came before: people, animals, plants, oceans, land masses, rivers, and mountains. The debt of existence is about how I practice being present.

By the end of the year-long course, I felt chained in all beings (even rocks are beings). I knew the world of modern humans was upside-down. I vowed to be part of the team to turn it right-side-up. Right-side-up is a euphemism for equal rights, equal justice, income equality, ecological equality, racial equality, gender equality, and peace. This is not a complete list.

As I age (I’m 71 now) I don’t sleep as well as I’d like. This poem was channeled through me from the rhythms of connections. Energies flowed through the vortexed cyclone that I saw over my belly button the other morning. I felt touched by Earth.

Earth grounded into me. I am embraced, a part of the whole equally important as the other — working, flowing, being. That’s the whole of it.

The experience was prompted/ triggered by HBO Max’s series called Calm in the first episode “The Coral City” read by Lucy Liu, (clip above in the link). As I watched I felt the little “I” this ego drifting away, tethered in the flow of forces vast and wonderful beyond the “little me”. I saw multicolored lights swish and circle in the vortex of my 2nd chakra at my belly button drinking in Earth’s energy. I thank my mother whose body has passed for the great gift she gave me. I felt the connection of the web and weave of the flow connections of Earth pass through me. No longer longing for sleep I reveled in the moment of innocence and wonder.

Without effort or strain, I fell to sleep. And this I only knew when I woke some hours later realizing I had slept. Left with a gift, we met in the middle. As I grounded in the core of Earth, she grounded in me.

Dedicated to all Mothers.

Thank you for reading. Blessings.