Some may wonder why Wisdom sits in the Death area.
The principles of Death and Life are far wider than at first appears. All things that flow freely belong in Life. All things which are coalescing, hardening into form, belong to Death.
Experience, perceptions, feelings: these are all within Life. Reflection, understanding, memory, knowledge, mind: these come within Death.
Flesh, blood, water - Life.
Bones, rocks, structures - Death.
Soil - Life, mound - Death.
The Sacred Mound is the oldest form of worship known to humanity. At one moment it is unstructured earth, unformed matter, in chaos and free. Then a Hand moves that earth into a mound, and right there, the whole of creation manifests. The Mound is the archetypal symbol of Creation, and as such has been worshipped from the earliest and long forgotten journey of our species. Before fire, before weapons, before anything, we saw the hand of the source of the universe in the mound.
Life and Death constantly inter-twine to support and renew each other. From the moment a young sprout pushes from the seed, it is both Life and Death. It is energy expanding and structure containing.
Pure energy is the essence of Life. But to be useful, fruitful, it has to be channelled (Death), contained (Death) so it can produce power to survive and flower.
Thinking is Death, acting is Life. We need both to create a result of value - we need both the left and right side of the brain.
To reflect and coalesce experience into words, is a Death process, but it can contain the juice of Life - that is Wisdom.
Quoting the words of others should never be a way to speak without making an effort, to pretend we are saying something meaningful without valuing the juice.
Whenever you quote someone else's words in Restless Soma, I ask you to also give us pointers to assist us in extracting the juice. We should all find our own juice, but we also like to see the juice that caused you to post the words in the first place. Provide a little commentary please, or it becomes boring.
