Symbiosis

Scientist James Lovelock suggests Gaia, the place we call home, is generating the conditions for life of which human beings are a subspecies in the abundant diversity of nature. Life is further described by Lynn Margulis as a conversation, in other words she would say development is community ecology and evolution is community ecology over time. This is symbiosis, it's life as we know it (or ought to know it!), it's all about cooperation, interplay and the dance. Earth and life upon it is indivisible.

The questions that challenges those at the frontier, on the transformative edge, is how to describe something new with a language that is old? Or maybe it's the other way round life and symbiosis is not new, it's the everything. What's relatively new in this scene is homos sapiens and from there the use of language. So really the challenge is how to describe something old with a language that is new. Not only that, but how to participate, contribute and keep journeying on the invisible path whilst resisting dominant thought collectives that are unbalanced, rigid and too often violent?

Sometimes the metaphors needed to describe our new and emerging understanding of life are yet to be born from our creative universal consciousness. Nevertheless we must continue because in flowing in the dance new ways of being are possible. Be watchful in this process for loneliness, abandonment, and disapproval. The invisible path, unseen by the many, brings us back into community, into harmony and affinity with all life. Language can be tricky, it is not always necessary, sometimes silence is enough. Listen to the silence to know the invisible path, to feel a part of the community ecology, to sense your place of healing and to reconnect to the web of life.