Update and Return
Dear Friends of the POP-UP School,
Thank you all for your well wishes (for both me and my mom) - this community (are we a community?) is a kind of anchor in my life right now. When I think of the question “what do you do?” I think of the combination of 1) running this farm/Alderlore and 2) hosting this campus. It is wondrous in the strange way of Magik-Realite and the cosmic causal field, that my illness, my mom’s emergency and the backdrop against we participate (in the linimal web of players) have all “turned on a dime” as it were. I am wondering if the planets in your solar system (your assemblage) have shifted lately? There definitely seems to have been a quickening of the patterns that shape us in this “time between worlds” but this turning — this timely time — is different. It is like living in the moment when a great gyre that has been accelerating, begins to change course. At first you only perceiving the slowing-downess, like when you turn a big fan from intake to exhaust, without shutting it off first. Some people only see the slowing down-ness, and miss the reversal. What I am feeling is the reversal. Maybe we can talk about this intuition I have, punctuated as it were by significant signs (that for many are hidden in plain sight) in recent days during Sunday’s SOLUT session.
The Core Self Sessions begin (in earnest!) this Saturday. Interestingly, because my mom’s primary problem is progressive dementia, I am watching the permutations of self-other-world at this stage in her life. She is “slowly by leaps and bounds” returning to magical thinking. [Writing this just now, it occurs to me that this is the phrase that also captures the reversal processs I wrote about above, that it is proceeding slowly by leaps and bounds”] I believe this is a time that demands a certain vigilance and precision. Therefore, the updates I shared at the end of the last course session, about expanding into a new cohort, has now been put aside (this is the message I got from my illness — we can talk about that on Sunday!). Instead, I am focused on this notion of vigilance, multiple perspectival perception (like we can function as the individual facets of an insects’ eye) and precision. I was particularly struck by this video while web-surfing when I was ill
In my work I emphasize signs over symbols — and I want to adopt the Dragonfly as a sign of the times.
When I was a kid, my father took me down to the “boulevard” where he dredged up a couple of handfuls of sludge from the pond and filled a jar with it. Then we went home and he instructed me to watch! Over the next few weeks I noticed these ugly worm-like bugs filling the jar. He removed the bugs (which he called perch bugs, because they were traditionally used to fish for perch) and put them in another jar with fresh water from the pond. He instructed me to “just watch!” Eventually those ugly bugs emerged as dragon and damsel flies! Much to my delight. This timing, this rhythm, where nothing seems to be happening for most of that time and then, slowly by leaps and bounds, something marvelous emerges! This I think is our rhythm now.
What does this have to do with the core self? This entire shift is a shift in the organization of self-other-world. A shift into the realm of Magik-Realite and the apparition mystique that portends it.
Just watch! What do you see?
Core Self Session 1 Launches this Saturday. Get links here
“(are we a community?)”
I’d say we are a community because we keep coming together to commune. And in coming together we commune for our multi-varied needs in an interaction which allows us to leave this space and develop our own mutual commons in essentially a non-reciprocal way.
Yes this community is an anchor in my life as well as a platform which forms a congregation where we merge in community and then apply what we have gleamed in each of our local communities, I would say.
Regardless of what we do in our personal lives there must be, I assume, a form of “Magik-Realite and the cosmic causal field” that unites us.
I have been turning on many dimes as my assemblage point has stabilized into the pattern I have been “intending” since before I joined the pop up school.
The patterns have quickened since joining in conjunction with many points coming together for me to take the shape to be able to handle the quickening.
I am not experiencing a change of course but a quickening to enable me to form the shape in my lifestyle within my local community in order for me and my community to be able to handle this “time between worlds.”
In this way maybe I have accelerated in order to be prepared to change course within and without the present moment.
I would have enjoyed in todays Solut Session to have discussed the Reversal which your intuition brought to you Bonnie. Because you have a way of bringing our attention to things hidden in plain sight. I would love to hear more.
I will miss everyone and our communing during my travels over the next couple of months. My husband and I have been hospicing his 100 year old mom, and she passed yesterday. A precious time. Off to the wilderness!