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prana Mana's avatar

This is the most beautiful eulogy I have ever read. It is monumentally transcendent, which is the most appropriate form of devotion in light of the circumstances.

Thank you for sharing it with us. 🩷🥲

Benjamin J. Sanford's avatar

Beautiful, and thank you for talking about toruses. They definitely don't get enough attention.

Bonny Tydeman's avatar

Beautiful reflections, thank you 🙏💛

It was Nasim Haramein’s work that first turned me on to toroidal fields. His theory is that there is a black hole at the centre of everything… and it makes sense that all matter arises from a central void.

Similarly, I agree that it is our longing, our sense of loss/ lack that propels and shapes our path. And psycho-spiritually, I think our personality structures grow around our wounds. I wrote about this in my essay on the sacred wound…

https://bonnytydeman.substack.com/p/what-marks-us-makes-us?r=1666e&utm_medium=ios

Debbie Aliya's avatar

If you can't get fed, be bread. (Rumi via Moyne/Barks) I am trying to remember when I came to the conclusion that was my only path. Thank you for your beautiful writing and the reminder.

Alexander J Pasha's avatar

A Beautiful tribute. That within us which is empty is what we each go out seeking to fill. At some level, loss is the motivating force behind everything.

Kevin's avatar

I was struggling with the geometry of fractal toruses; what would it mean for a bagel to contain a second selfsimilar bagel? Bubbles, foam, whose skin is made of foam - that fit in my head a little better. And then I seized on "skin", imagined my Self in my skin, AS my skin, across conceptual levels, and had a frisson of alienation that reminded me of the first time I thought about how my body contains a skeleton which mimics all my movements. Picturing a skin-only golem, devoid of any interiority, feels like a suitably profane icon - thin enough to make a self similar fractal, to be uploaded to the Internet. And precarious, an empty skin is as obviously fragile as life is, if it were removed from its comfortable prior circumstances