Thursday, February 28, 2008

Entropic closet X

'"Strong communication" is not accessible through the language of common usage.' ' The human being is dissolved in "strong communication," by opening a tear in [oneself] through which [one] loses "a part of [ones] own being to the profit of the communal being...."'
How much of our daily communication is strong? Much more than we are aware of. How many times have I had an intense, emotion filled conversation with someone and not until the next day do i understand what was talked about, only to find that the topic was about a completely different thing? How much do we dance around the thing we really want to communicate? Perhaps accessing "strong communication" is painful. "Loss" is often congruent with grief. And yet we are at a loss when we miss opportunities to access the profits of the communal being. Communal being? seems to me the phenomenon I have accessed in certain altered states in which there is connection with all things, the idea of separation vanishes as does attachment to the ego or self - the loss of self. The profits? as infinite as all that is.
"'...I knew I was identical to this man.' The identity of the self is canceled in this revelation. The self is disseminated, since if all men equal one another, 'each man is every other man.' 'No man was my brother: each man was myself, but temporarily isolated in his individual skin.' 'Essentially all beings are only one. They repel each other at the same time that they are one. And in this movement-which is their essence-the fundamental identity is annulled.'"
These thoughts bring me back to "The Sacred" project, each drop of water, an individual, yet they fall onto the land, seep into the groundwater, which flows to a stream, which flows to a river, which flows to an ocean, which evaporates into the atmosphere, which collects and becomes rain, new rain, which falls again. This clay that I use contains the minerals from the bones of my ancestors, from the fossils of transgressed oceans, the sedimentary layers of the earths crust worn down to clay by the drops of water.

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