Ideas and Relationships

First off, a disclaimer. I am not a teacher. Here I am recording some insights that come to me in the course of “risings”… some feel more original than others. Many are synthetic, coming together in a new-to-me way. Some do not resonate for me for long after they “come through”…others are sticky and integrate into my daily life in meaningful ways… for as long as is suitable. Take them or leave them. 

All is relational. That is something our culture has largely lost…it has in fact been eradicated in many ways. For example, our ability to relate to “inanimate objects” is summarily dismissed in many western ideologies. I even know many people for whom animals are of questionable “relation-ablity”. Which is just patently insane to me. Their feelers seem completely burned off to me. Emotional amputees. I feel sorry for them. 

I have relationships with trees, dead people, my animal neighbors that are often more a source of growth and depth than my human ones. It’s not that I’m not open for human connection (though I am still developing those skills), but rather that the sort of relationships I’m seeking are unusual in our culture.

What occurred to me today, as I thought about the robotic relationship I have with my space heater, is the ways in which ideas seem to wait in the interstitials between entities. 

I do not “come up with” ideas. Ideas are always relational and often related to changes to or between the entities invoked. 

For example, an idea: “I could paint the door red.”

I have long-standing, ever-evolving relationships with the specific door, passage ways more generally, and the color red. The notion of making the door red exists somewhere in the no-space between them, and is the ways of possible futures. Perhaps also it resonates with what is in other realities, or was at some point. Possibility, will, and desire triangulate in some ideas more powerfully than others, drawing energy. 

We have choice, which seems somewhat rarified in the world of entities. Not exclusive, though. Agency looks different on different levels of reality, and there are realms few humans have touched…likely others we know nothing about.

In certain states of consciousness, I am able to consult with the non-human entities and seek their consent with changes or ideas…or at least help thinking through the effects of enacting ideas. I do not mean some ritual-only, one-sided “consultation”…I do indeed receive “new” information and expanded perspective. It is deep empathic practice. It reshapes experience and reality in ways that feed my spirit and soul. The availability of this state is increasing, though not yet persistent. 

I still wrestle regularly with the  “execute” or “do” output and/or consumption-oriented programming that possesses most of my social network. That state and this other, relational one are, as far as I’ve experienced so far, mutually exclusive. Hard switches. Perhaps that sort of flow will open up as I advance.

So choices can be a shared, communal “tool” for world building; which begs the question of what then would qualify as an entirely “personal” choice? 

There are no rules. That is a choice too. But one that becomes less and less attractive the more I experience this relational-based choosing. 

By the way, I suspect this is at the heart of practices like Feng Shui based on the little bits I’ve picked up over the years, underlying the “rules” that have become the shorthand over time.

This relational approach and “mapping” of where ideas are waiting for us to be discovered and contemplated is powerful. Use at your own empowerment.