Dis-membering synchronicity

It's Odin's day and the mailbox opened onto record heat here in Okieland . . .

It's the 311th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's birth. The libertarian philosopher was born on this day in 1712 Geneva.

In the arts, the free expression of the creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules – Rousseau

“The opposite of remember is not forget. It’s dis-membered. We’re all chopped up.” – Alan Watts.

Another term for co-incidence is synchronicity. Multiple co-incidences are also synchronicties. Everything is co-incidentally synchronous. Like you, reading these co-incident words across an illusion of a time/space frame referent. The referent is contained in each alphabetical symbol, which, gathered in the present instance, refer to an experience beyond the phenomenal.

Mystical experiences point to a transformation in consciousness from the feeling of being a separate self to a sensation of inter-being, the feeling of being inextricably woven into a mutually interdependent web of life. They serve as a re-membering. . .It’s virtually impossible to write about mysticism because the entirety of it is non-representational. On a good day, the best poets give us a glimpse of the mystic as it transcends symbols and words. – Jeff Krasno

When the Animals Come

When the animals come to us,

asking for our help,

will we know what they are saying?

When the plants speak to us

in their delicate, beautiful language,

will we be able to answer them?

When the planet herself

sings to us in our dreams,

will we be able to wake ourselves,

and act?

– Gary Lawless, First Sight of Land. © Blackberry Books, 1990.