Copyright Lance
Kinseth, Living Computer, 2012
THERE IS, OF COURSE, the “cybernetic/electronic Internet”
that weaves us into the world in remarkable ways. Within each of us, there is also an inTRA-net with memory that goes deeply back into time,
even well before time itself. And
were we to understand this intranet, we might find that it is, perhaps,
something not exclusively within.
The body is this intra-net’s “electronic computer” of sorts. It has been contrived across the
millennia. Seemingly thick tissue
is porous—with a variety of intricate systems of channels—nerves, and
circulatory [blood and lymph] and respiratory and digestive, and some sort of
more elusive energy process at work [chakras and “meridians,” and quantum processes and chaos
patterning and dark matter and suspect particles jumping into other
dimensions].
In the simplest reflex, perhaps a near ancestor’s gesture is
there—that gesture which appears at times in your gesture. Your index finger—an uncle’s—taps the
table. The tone of your voice is
perhaps that of another relative embedded in you carrying forward, alive in
you. Your aging aunt may have
pointed such things out to you.
All of the ancestors are there (were you to calm and deeply
attend). And all of the most
tested knowledge that reaches far beyond the emergence of genus Homo and species sapiens on the nature of life is also present. The Earth itself is a billions-years
old computer of sorts, outspread into and interconnected with innumerable
computers that we name “flora” and “fauna” and “mountain” and “water,” aspiring
to answer (as is suggested in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Universe), the “meaning of life.”
This intra (“within”)
net is “on” in each moment, but it is typically only “reading” (at least,
consciously to you and I) the very selective “email” of everyday chatter that
is both essential to accessing needs and intrusive to the point of inducing
stress. Because of the overload of
just this small range of process, we rarely, if ever, intentionally/consciously
go much further, and “search” the files and their connections to the external,
infinite “cloud.”
The stillness and calmness of some body-mind practices are
the essential “search engine” of this intra-net. And their most simple objective can be
just to induce a little rest and, perhaps, bring a greater sense of harmony
between the “little universe” of self and the larger universe that expresses
and designs it for a goal of improved health.
When we very intentionally still and calm and quiet, we
stand a chance of accessing this Oceanus of information, both stored internally
and in the infinite cloud. Often,
however, we get caught up in the rituals of the practices, and may do little more
that reflect or mirror our beliefs.
Or we simply aspire to find some moments of respite, and so we lean back
into the rituals of a particular body-mind practice.
The ultimate promise of the stillness and calmness of
body-mind practices is the possibility of reaching deeply into a landscape that
is imaginal rather than imaginary, which
is really to say, a deeper reality that is intuitively read. “Google” “Quiet/Stillness/Calmness,”
and be sure to combine your search with a strong sense of self-criticism to
gradually bypass our cultural/social/psychological filters enough to begin to
access this intra-net, and see
what might present itself.
Aspire to offer an invitation rather than set an intention [often culturally driven and therefore
limiting. Quiet, still, and calm,
not making anything, not believing, not defining, just opening a gate where
there had appeared to be a wall.
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