Chapter 1: Life and Death
The body self-organizes. Long before any conscious decisions are ever made, cells bundle, replicate and expand into meaningful structures.
When a sperm pushes into an egg an organizational fire called Life is unleashed. The egg multiplies into a ball of cells, and slowly builds itself into the beginnings of a creature.
The blob elongates and splits, forming limbs. Not long after, a new heart beats for the first time. A baby is not built by its mother. The parents merely provide the starting seed and fertile ground where the baby can grow. The same process continues after birth. Given correct nourishment, a baby will grow into an adult of its own accord. We are like plants that way...
Chapter 2: Sensitivity
Sensitivity is experiencing the senses. To make meaningful experiences from our sensations. To be so absorbed in sensation that judgment falls away.
We are sensitive when we listen to the beating of our own heart on a cold morning. We are sensitive when, laying in bed, we hear the horn of a distant train breaking through the mist. When we take off our shirts and let the hot sun caress our skin and seep into our bones. When we see the blood flushing through our partner’s face at the moment of climax. When, looking through a tapestry of leaves, we can see the full moon just...
Deep Rest and the Metabolism
Many of you are stuck in your houses right now. Some of you are twiddling your thumbs as we speak. Twiddle, twiddle, twaddle... Well, don't let me stop you. But hear me out whilst you twiddle away...
Harry Potter and the Curse of the Giant
Hagrid's mighty chest heaved and hoed like a hundred stallions in a bounce-house. An unobservant muggle might not have noticed the flush in Hermione's cheeks...