OYPARAPLOO SET OF LENSES
What does it mean to sense through this particular way of sensing ... Our lens is not just polished glass ... Not glass manufactured in a factory where workers never see the moon ... Our lens happens when the eye to pupil stops pretending to lie or be separate from what it sees or witnesses. When the watcher becomes the one being watched ... More human than human means: we are not trying to be perfect ... we are tremembering what human originally was ... Before it was severed ... before the Long Sleep that called itself progress ... Indigenous senses know this ... The elder who reads weather ... Smells snow days before it arrives ... The child who knows which adult is not telling the truth before any words are spoken ... This is what remains when we stop subtracting ... Our lens does not add ... it stops subtracting ... Superconscious is above ordinary sensing but not apart from it ... Super does not mean better here ... It means more woke inside a body ... It is the part that watches behind awareness ... Not floating above ... Rooted deeper ... The tree does not fly to see further ... It grows tall by growing down to earth wide and deep ... Our superconscious notices: patterns that repeat ... a spiral in a shell is also a spiral somewhere in the galaxy ... and a spiral in our ear that hears ... A branching of rivers is also a branching of veins ... and a branching of thoughts that arrive unexpected ... Fine cracks of wondrous light—the superconscious sees these cracks as passages that are no longer damaged ... Naturally and Nonviolently Emotional ... Feeling without force ... Emotions that arrive without being summoned ... as grief that has work to do ... That joy that erupts because the body cannot contain all of what it holds ... Nonviolently emotional means: not weaponizing what we feel ... Not turning sorrow into accusation ... Not just turning joy into some kind of performance ... Letting the emotion move through without latching onto it ... or pushing it away ... Without forcing the emotion to prove itself ... The elder Indigenous grandmother knows this ... Tears come and go ... The crying does not mean anything except that something needed to start moving and continue ... The laughing does not mean anything except that something needed to be released ... Certain dominating individuals tried to control the emotions ... They told us which ones were acceptable ... When to feel ... They told us that tears are a weakness ... That expressing joy is frivolous ... Fortunately ... our naturally emotional body refuses to listen to those unhelpful instructions ... Our naturally emotional body cries at protests ... laughs at funerals ... rages at injustice ... and is not nice and calm only to appease others ... Nonviolent anger and grief serves life ... The emotion is not thrown at anyone ... It is felt all the way through until it becomes something else ... Becomes what it should be at that specific time ... Morally Filled With Goodness ... Not performing goodness but being filled with it ... Difference between a cup that effectively holds water and a cup that is slightly wet around the edges ... Morally filled means that the goodness saturates ... Is what the thing is made of ... Elder Grandmother Earth is morally filled with goodness ... Because that is her composition ... The soil does not decide to be generous ... It's generous because that is what soil is ... Kindred Lover—the phrase holds two things ... Kin and desire ... Family and heat ... The moral goodness is not cold or distant ... Not above the body ... Includes the reaching toward an ache of separation and relief of return ... Shape shifting shadows of darkness—the morally filled being knows the shadow ... Has walked in it ... Been it ... What is the moral weight of making Ties ... The morally filled being asks these questions not to paralyze ... but to make ties that serve the soil ... Serve deceased and passed on souls and those not-yet-born ... Our Oyparaploo Lens sits in the body before it sits in the mind ... Our lens is not just a concept ... it's also a physical posture ... Way of holding the spine and softening the jaw ... Way of letting our bare feet feel the sand between our toes ... Rejuvenating mystical way arrives through the body as a shiver that happens before knowing what the tingling really is ... Mycelium teaches us how the roots of a tree feeds the seedling of another tree ... Shows us how fungal threads carry sugar and make decisions ... The choices shaping what is possible ... The Delightful Laughable Quirky Surprise ... Arriving wearing a ridiculous costume ... That mammal body with its specific hungers ... Emotions that arrive at the wrong times ... And still grandmother's rough knees know the messages ... Emotions that seem inconvenient are instruments ... The heaviness is the weight that makes the Ties hold ... Sprinkles of delight—the phrase knows what it is doing ... Not a drowning ... The amount that lands on the tongue and dissolves quickly ... The laughable part of this is: we keep trying to make new ties ... even though we also fail we keep trying ... again and again ... Always ... The uncertain cosmic joke is that the trying to Tie all day every day is the point of it ... Every Tie existing over time will eventually break ... The making ... repairing what was made ... refusal to stop is a type of worthwhile practice ... Our 5 Lenses ... 1) SUPER CONSCIOUS LENS ... What does this phrase mean to the waking mind? ... When we started creating TIES ... Not only cords ... or rope ... or chains ... or volunteer contracts ... Our conscious mind dreams about something being joined together ... Assembled ... Things is being connected that were separate before ... Waking and fully woke awareness asks—what kind of imposition? ... That difference between a tender handshake and a couple shackles lives in that question ... We thought it was important for a few things to happen here ... Our "we" arrives before an explanation ... Our consciousness notices: not "I or me thoughts" but "we and them felt in the whole of the body ... A Receiver's turn already present in The Pod's Seed ... Plural erasing singular ... Communal Public erasing Individual Private ... What does awareness leading to better understanding skip? ... It skips the obvious ... It skips asking what the ties are made of ... Are they light or the kind of thread that appears only when we stop looking at it directly? ... Contradiction held: ties free us. The weave that is pulled and made looser ... or connection that provides more space to move ... not an all sides marginalized room ... Super conscious knows that a waking mind holds both at once without needing to fully resolve anything ... Fine cracks of wondrous light entering through what was broken ... Consciousness sees: the crack is not failure. The crack is entrance. What dominating space tried to close, light finds anyway. Shape shifting shadows of darkness—the conscious mind watches darkness change its shape when light arrives. Not defeated. Rearranged. The shadows learn new positions ... LENS 2: NATURALLY EMOTIONAL ... What does this phrase or thing mean to feeling selves? ... First emotion that arrives: hope ... Quiet hope that has been disappointed before and learned to keep its distinctive voice ... When we started creating Ties ... Feeling selves remember every failed connection ... Every thread that broke ... snapped ... or parted ... Every promise that became an unwoven discombobulation ... And still ... And still doing something begins again ... That thing is not just optimism ... it's something much older that does not require belief. Something that firmly represents Oyparaploo Continuing ... We thought it was important for a few things to happen here ... What aches in this phrase: the few things ... not everything ... Not the full repair ... just a few things ... The feeling or empath self knows this type of humility ... Knows that asking for everything in this world guarantees nothing ... It means asking for a few things—that might possibly arrive where we are at ... Underneath the hope: grief ... Always grief underneath ... That conjuring grief wondering what the Ties are trying ... We do not create Ties unless too many somethings have been separated and away from each other ... We do not physically join things together unless they have been apart and separated for too long ... Tenderness lives in the words Here and now ... Not everywhere ... this specific place and moment ... The ground we are on while we give something our best effort ... Rejuvenating Mystical Ways—our emotional body feels this as relief ... as an exhale after holding our breath too long ... As the belief that Repairs and Renovations are always possible ... even when certain evidence might says otherwise ... LENS 3: MOTHER EARTH TYPE OF MORAL GOODNESS ... What does this phrase mean to our conscience? ... Whose land are we creating these Ties on? ... That question usually arrives first ... Before ... Whose land? ... Whose labor made it possible for us to be here? What was taken or stolen so that we could own or reside on this ground under our feet? ... When we started creating TIES ... The moral weight: ties can be imposed ... Colonies and extractions were types of Ties. Extraction is a tie ... The question is not whether to Join Together but what joining together ... Elder Indigenous keen sensing knows: some binded assembling honor and some steal ... The difference is consent and reciprocity ... Whether the Tie is willing to give back what it unfairly and unjustly took ... We thought it was important for a few things to happen here ... The conscience hears "important" and asks: important to whom or for whose benefit ... Important measured by whose calendar and values ... Whose definition of success ... Mother Earth Type Of Moral Goodness means: the tie must serve more than the ones who make it ... It must serve the soil and what was here before ... and what will be here after ... The tie must serve the unknown and forgotten ones who were never in the picture or frame ... Different Dominating Space—the true moral sense recognizes wrongful domination ... What was taken ... controlled ... marginalized ... converted ... Shape Shifting Shadows of Darkness: darkness is not usually only evil ... It is what wrongful domination creates ... Scary shadows blocking nurturing light ... What is owed: acknowledgment for sure ... Repair where repair is possible ... Refusal to pretend the ground beneath is only neutral ... LENS 4: THE WHOLE MAMMAL BODY ... What does this phrase mean in the flesh or on skin? ... The body hears Ties and feels the wrists of tentacles ... Feels the ankles shackle of every place ... Keyhole cuff that locks ... Short tempered chain restricting ... Iron ball impeding mobility ... deterring escape ... The body also feels all forelimb palms and fingers ... phalanges ... metacarpals ... that do the tying ... Feels the choice in the anatomy—to assemble or take apart ... then discard ... When we started creating Ties ... The mammal body ... including our body ... knows creation as labor on the shoulders and in the lower back ... Knows it in the Eye that has been gazing at a ditch too long ... Creation is never even close to abstract ... It is real sweat repetition ... Bodies doing the same circular motion until it becomes The Thing ... We thought it was important for a few things to happen here ... The body holds "here and now" in the feet and soles that touch sacred grounds ... The body knows "here and now" is not multitasking everywhere at the same time ... "Here and now" is where the weight settles and bones speak to earth ... Blended layers of soil ... Fine cracks of wondrous light—the body feels this on and behind the skin ... In the places where light rays streaming towards warms our consciousness ... In the shift from shadow to registering before the sequential thinking mind labels anything ... The Whole Mammal Body knows what the mind forgets: we are flesh and blood that came from other flesh and blood ... Bodies that will at some point in time return to sacred ground somewhere ... Our Ties are made by whole bodies and matter ... LENS 5: CREATION'S COMMUNAL BODY ... What does this phrase mean to a natural network? ... The mycelium hears Ties and recognizes itself ... Ties are what it does and is ... Thread-grief traveling through that we did not know we belonged to ... Communal bodies are always tying something ... Connecting and carrying important messages between what otherwise is separate but is not ... When we started creating Ties ... The communal body does not start and stop ... What looks like just beginning is actual joining ... What seems like only inventing is remembering ... The Ties always exist and we are learning to experience them ... We thought it was important for a few things to happen here ... Creation's communal body knows: what happens here also happens somewhere else at the same time ... The mycelium under ground we are on is the same mycelium that is under our entire neighborhood ... and community ... and village ... What we Tie here in a given span of minutes reverberates all the way out ... Rejuvenating Mystical Ways—the communal body feels this as the pulse that travels through when one node heals ... The signal that something is regenerating ... A message that arrives at a distant place as an unexplainable type of hope ... A communal body includes the dead and not-yet-born ... The ones who made ties we are still held to ... Our work sometimes seems very old and patient ... This work does not need us to believe in it for it to still continue ... But it's a little easier when we do ... The Delightful Surprise ... What appear before us that was not expected? Our ties that has more character seem to laugh more often ... Not at us ... but with us ... The living and material ties have harmless humor in their being ... The ties know that all of this seriousness—the moral weight ... the body felt labor ... the collective pulse—all of it can also be perceived as ridiculous ... Beautiful in its absurdity ... We are mammals on a rotating igneous ... sedimentary ... and metamorphic rock ... That is also very breathtaking ... resilient ... abundant ... diverse ... and vast ... We are earnestly trying to connect things that were never separate ... The surprise: the mystical way includes play ... Child in a class Tie twigs together with jute just to see them unified ... Different dominating space tried to erase this joy to make all Tying serious ... Make all connection instrumental ... The delightful surprises are the ties that refuse to adhere to that self importance ... and self involvement ... that is too strong ... Ties that glow with wondrous light and keep their capacity to change form ... Ties keep secrets that dim surfaces know—because darkness and light are always playing us ... Will continue relaxing in this way long after we stop caring so much about this stuff ... Weaving TIES ... When we started creating ties, we thought it was important for a few big things to happen ... Not everything ... Our conscious minds ask what kind of joining together ... The collective feeling self remembers every single thread that broke ... Moral sense wants to know whose land ... whose labor ... whose benefit ... The body holds "here and now" in the soles of the feet ... The communal body—the mycelium underneath—has been creating ties longer than mammality has existed ... Fine cracks of wondrous light enter through what was broken ... This is not just a metaphor ... also instruction ... The crack is a type of entrance ... What dominating darkness closed ... light finds ... Shadows do not disappear ... They learn new positions
