The flow of life and energy

Primordiality can be a very abstract and conceptual word, that it can seem like something that's quite remote from our everyday lives and our consciousness. And yet, the archetypal tradition exists in the realm of the primordial and archetypes are expressions of the primordial.

 I have explained what is primordial in previous videos, so I won't go into great detail please check them out if you want a more detailed explanation of primordiality but I'll just say here briefly, that generally primordial means something that is at the beginning the source the foundation, the basis, but in an archetypal tradition, primordiality is that returning to the seed form, it is that consciousness that or that awareness that preexists, the roles and the narratives, even the name that we get, because the minute we are born, we start assuming all these stories, narratives, ideologies, the inheritance, mostly the inheritance of the past and that is what we then embody and follow and sign up to.

 So primordiality is the invitation to return to the great waters to return to that seed consciousness and to allow a reemergence or re igniting. There is another way in which primordiality is considered which is by the Deity Krishna in the seminal philosophical text. the Bhagavad Gita. And here is another very beautiful invocation of primordiality or Nature. In fact, for Krishna primordiality is the same as nature. So He uses the word Prakruti, which is the Sanskrit word for nature, and also the goddess, the most ancient goddess, and therefore Nature as the Divine Feminine.

 So primordiality is that which preexists our creation, we didn't create this. It is that which has always been there, into which we are born, not that which we have birthed and we have created or we have made it meaningful or real with our descriptions and our stories.

The problem we have is because we operate so much from the space of a mind led hubris where we think that by explaining something or by narrating something, we somehow create it and make it meaningful. Primordiality is a really beautiful way of balancing that hubris to remind us that even in ourselves, our body, for example, is what preexists the mental consciousness and so there is primordiality is right here within the Body.

 Krishna also offers as a beautiful movement way of experiencing this primordial this consciousness of primordiality. He speaks about primordiality as this movement of emergence and it's dissolving or its return. It's this incessant movement of emergence and of returning. It's like the ebb and flow of the waves of the sea.

Or there is another very beautiful poetic movement in dance, which is the swing and the swing is a very archetypal expression in dance that is associated and even especially with Krishna, where he is shown to be enjoying the swing along with his lovers. The movement of the swing reveals to us that the dance of primordiality So, let me share with you this poetic invocation of the swing.