Essence of Water - The Deeps
Silence.
Stillness.
Motion.
Darkness.
Those places here - Earth - where no-man has gone before, or perhaps they have visited there but only in specially constructed dive gear that allows the body to survive for brief periods of time in the timeless expanses of those places …
Marianus Trench … The great Atlantic Trench … Loch Ness … magma chambers … mountain caves … underground rivers and ceynotes … places where the mysteries of the deeps still survive untouched by surface insanity …
What is there?
Vision adjusts.
Breath suspends.
Movement slows.
A luminescence emerges from the liquid absence of light, at first as if shy … blinking … not blinking … carried by an unseen current in an un-known direction … now observed yet un-affected by the intrusion of another life form. Just is.
Then more …
This breathless, timeless place exists beyond clocks and controls, yet there is rhythm. Can you feel it? Listen with your pulses.
There is anticipation of something hinted at in slow motion and then as the senses adjust and pulses re-calibrate there is the entirety of the ocean available: un-divided, un-bounded, un-remarkable, immeasurable, magnificent, perpetuum mobile.
Just is.
This place, of The Deeps, seeped into the stream of Essence of Water, introduced by the Isles of Orkney. Those deep places of water between islands are an illusion to the surface dweller: the land is not disjointed but continues submerged until a peak rises at a distance. It is we, the surface dwellers, who imagine the un-joining of the land by the waters. Not so.
The land is one ever continuing spread of rock, mud, magma, all of which include water. The waters that flow astride the land in higher concentrations still perpetuate hydration of the rock, mud, magma, body ...
No form could exist here without water: it is indivisible from every aspect of this body.
There is constant motion. Water must have motion or it diminishes in vitality and life force. There may appear to be stillness yet for there to be water there must be movement of atoms of both hydrogen and oxygen for water to exist. Then stillness becomes the illusion. Mysterious, no?
Where are you? Can you plumb the depths of the waters there? If you can navigate those deep places can you also know the heights of the inverse mountains? Both places challenge breath of a human body, yet other bodies thrive there.
What vibrations from those sources of essence are essential to you and your body that you may not have known were missing? And now that you know them, can you perceive them and allow them to melt into you and you into them?
What do those vibrations add to your surface-dwelling body that is actually an essential drop of earth in miniature?
What mysteries do the deeps impart to the waters of your body, which catalyse the knowing of something different?
Space?
… a different listening now?
Receive
Breathe
Stretch
Arise
Watch what activates when your body encounters the deep re-sources of water …
Thank you, Water.
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