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WOW, WHAT A BODY!

Posted by Howard McQueen on December 10, 2009 at 5:00pm
(C) 2009 Howard McQueenHow do we define and contextualize the word, body?A group of cells capable of communicating and co-operating?A self organizing life system, capable of sustaining itself?The Great Coral reef in Australia could be considered a body,a living organism large enough to be seen from space.What we know about our human bodies is that they are miraculously complexand completely astounding.The diversity, the specialization, the intra-cell biology,all this organizing intelligencein the service of providing the "you" with a home,to exist in the physical domain.There is a growing mountain of direct experiencepointing to individual human beings as havingunified fields of experience.Languaging this can create a bit of a barrier,yet dozens of people I walk up and speak tofeel a great sense of macro connectedness withtheir animal companions, a few humans andunquestionably, with nature.We as humanity, our colony this earththis our spaceship, with its sister moonrunning laps around Sol,in relationship with larger and larger systems and bodies.We look inwardly into infinity,we gaze outward into infinity,we are bounded only by our perspectiveand our sense of feeling and behaving separate from all that is
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