The Praxis of Whole-making

It's really easy to tear something down. Entropy as essential to everything. It's literally less energy (and for ignorant/immature types, deeply gratifying) to just destroy something.

It's an art and a technique to build something up.

To foster it to express its potentials, to attain its full expression (full-fill-ment).

To weave together the collective needs, desires, and wills into something more.

It takes energy applied in a special way, that feels like effort, followed by a reward of bliss. Life does this.

Have you been thus initiated? Do you know how to act like nature does: moving towards wholeness, enclosing wounds into greater wisdom, so even more thriving becomes possible?

Life is negentropic: moving opposite of, yet entangled with, entropy in the universe.

Life's job, in general, is to build up more structures—more elegant and more efficient—so that MORE niches are created for MORE types of life.

Entropy is a force of less: wanting and obtaining less for ourselves.

Negentropy is the magical force and artform of MORE. Not the consumerist, materialistic form of "more." MORE in terms of what beauty and wisdom are unlocked from how energy is applied.

As forms of Life: WE ARE THIS.

And we can build human cultures around this, if we come to understand and cultivate our true potentials.

In the face of an authoritarian, cynical, insecure, ignorant, stunted, and abusive regime coming into political power—what comes next is to be expected. It will gleefully destroy all that which collective will has painstakingly brought into the world, and continues to try to birth. It will relish denying people of their dignity and the validity of their perspectives. It will relish enforcing a less-complex worldview on the rest of us—we who are fighting for other more equitable and compassionate worlds to be born will see our efforts crushed by state power. They aim to tear it all down and hobble it permanently—so the complexity which they fear cannot grow back again.

And then there is the meek who shall inherit the earth. The indigenous (and the decolonizing/reindigenizing) healers who have a deep grasp of this mysterious art of nature: wholemaking. How to help things become more whole.

This is in stark contrast to the abject brokenness such a cynical, short-sighted regime would inflict on people and land. A brokenness reproduced from their conviction of their projections of a broken world out there. 🪓 Severed from life/ nature, severed from wisdom, severed from anything but a distorted, self-aggrandizing narrative, they can only reproduce their sick, sad projections.

(Which itself is a product of the way the society has inappropriately elevated and enabled such conduct—via the twisted moral logic of capitalism, colonization, patriarchy, white supremacy, and dualism—all rooted in the western tradition. (All natural phenomena has roots.))

In their image, the harm/brokenness shall multiply.

But once they are themselves ultimately destroyed by their own ambition and its misalignment with the people's will...

Then may the wholemakers emerge and rule the day in counterbalance: in true leadership that tangibly betters the lives of people and ecosystems.

This I pray! So it is! It must be!

And, dear reader, I implore you: become the medicine your communities need now (and especially, soon). Become yourselves sophisticated in the ways of whole-making.

Enjoy this week's talk, shot outside in the lush setting of the natural world, my kin and training grounds for my sacred work Fractal Praxis. This talk flowed in one stream of thought, inspired and guided (as is often true for me) by vague dreams and ideas salient in mind upon awakening from deep sleep.

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Sending love to you all on our ongoing journeys to seek, attain, and remake wholeness from these wounds—again and again, for as long as it takes.

I believe that we are tasked to develop an enduring, Life-aligned culture for planetary resilience and intensive, widespread wellbeing. One in which humans once more belong in this world, and coordinate themselves on a shared meaningful purpose: playing a crucial role with our sacred intelligence in restoring right relationships at all scales, and fulfilling the purpose of Life as a collective.

What you choose, what potentials you sponsor with your attention and action, matters. Even if your current worldview might prevent you from perceiving that.

More on that later.

Love,

C.