Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,
It’s the Dark New Moon, and here is this weeks episode, which you can listen to on the platforms, or here on my website.
Today there’s a shake up in the structure, directly from, and directed by a Dream, which is totally how this stuff works ! There’s a Waking Dream as usual, at the end of the recording. I hope you enjoy …
With Courage, Imagination and Love,
Beth
There’s a change in structure to the podcast this week, and we’ll have to see how that all pans out, but the images on the website version will be changing too. But for now, here is where the recording took place today…
And for those of you who’d like to share or make use of it, here is the transcript for our Waking Dream today.
Waking Dream - The movement of the Moon.
So close your eyes, and on the out breaths I want you to visualise first a 3, now a 2, and finally a 1, tall straight and bright.
You are standing in a field at dusk, it’s foggy and in distinct. It is a warm night, and you are quite safe.
Look at your hands, they’re holding a small cardboard puzzle. A few pieces of card are held together by a small round plastic rivet. The rivet means that none of the different pieces can move, all except one piece, that is shaped like a crescent moon.
As you look at the crescent moon, you see its curve hugging against the round plastic rivet. Watch it as it moves around the rivet, it tries to find a place for itself, but it can’t get comfortable. As you watch, you see it is becoming crumpled and misshapen against the hard piece of plastic. The puzzle feels tired and constricted as you hold it in your hands. You feel tired and constricted too.
With one hand take the plastic rivet and pull it out. Throw the rivet into the air to your left, and watch as it flies out of sight.
Now take your hands off the puzzle entirely, and watch as the pieces start to separate and levitate up and out into the beautiful night air. The pieces have become alive, watch with amazement
as a dark brown piece becomes huge, and heavy, and takes its place as the earth. See another piece, a rich navy blue colour, as it opens up overhead and becomes the deep, dark, clear night sky. Tiny silver pieces scatter themselves across the blue, and appear as twinkling stars. And finally see the crumpled moon piece become its full open mysterious self, a luminous cool humming crescent, finding its perfect place among the stars.
Suddenly your senses flood you, your hear owls hooting, you feel the warm night breeze on your skin, and the scent of the grasses, flowers and trees.
Feel yourself surround by the clarity generosity and beauty of this landscape, and know your part and your place in its mysterious structure.
Open your eyes, breathe out one more time, and feel the awe of belonging.
And lastly, for any of you who want to re read it - the excerpt from Panarchy, via my friend Simon. Huge credit to Simon Handy and his knowledge in this area, which is completely lacking in my own !!
“The environment is not constant. Environmental change is not continual or gradual, it is episodic…[The] critical processes that structure ecosystems take place at radically different rates covering several orders of magnitude, and these rates cluster around a few dominant frequencies.
The spatial organisation of natural systems is not uniform either. Nor is it the same at different scales. Ecological systems are “patchy” at all scales - from the leaf, to the landscape, to the planet. … Therefore scaling up from small to large cannot be a process of simple aggregation: nonlinear processes organise s shift from one range of scale to another.
Ecosystems do not have a single equilibrium. Rather, multiple equilibria define functionally different states, and movement between these states is a natural part of maintaining structure and diversity. On one hand, destabilising forces are important in maintaining diversity, resilience and opportunity. On the other hand, stabilising forces are important in maintaining productivity and biogeochemical cycles.”
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