Connections

In the documentary “Symphony of the Soil”, the interface between rock and lichen is discussed. At that interface, filaments of the lichen merge with rock. There “dead” rock is converted into elements of life that lichen make available to fungi and trees and so on. This lichen/rock interface, and the linking pathways of fungi, combine to blur the strict boundaries we’ve established between animate and inanimate worlds.

This “wood-wide web” is a form of dialogue. In dialogue, dissolving and in-forming (decay and growth, death and life) go hand in hand. The boundaries between smaller, deader worlds are dissolved, so that wider worlds — more lively and diverse worlds — can come together.

Metaphor plays the role of psychic lichen, dissolving hitherto strictly held separations between contexts (negating), and simultaneously making connections to a wider, more lively vision.

This growing list of links shows some of the mycelial connections of an emerging (and non-local) mind.

But these are in the order they came to mind, which is to say, somewhat chaotically arranged:

Blogs and Other Web Sites:

My Own Stories, Poems and Misc.:

A few essays in German
Poems and Rhymes
- Recording of poem “Falling Stones”:
Stories
- Recording of “Coils and Spirals”:
Jokes
- - Chogyam Trungpa: “Sense of humour seems to come from all pervading joy, joy which has room to expand into a completely open situation because it’s not involved with the battle between ‘this’ and ‘that’. Joy develops into the panoramic situation of seeing (or feeling) the whole ground, the open ground. This open situation has no hint of limitation, of imposed solemnity. And if you do try to treat life as a ‘serious business’, if you try imposing solemnity on life as if everything is a big deal, then it is funny. Why such a big deal?”
  - Recording of some jokes: