Archetypes and seed consciousness

One of the dominant demands of our mind is that we must have a plan. There's always this question, “So what's the plan?” And without a plan, the mind is very uneasy and uncomfortable. It may even start cooking up its own plans and templates or apply whatever plans and templates that it knows.

So, this idea that we like the unknown is a myth, because our minds do not like the unknown. Even if it thinks that it likes the unknown, it is because the mind is determined to make it known to apply what it knows to bring everything that it knows and then to make whatever is unfamiliar, familiar. So, this is very normal for all of us. This the sense of a life plan that we cannot know, is almost beyond the mind’s imagination. What does it mean? How can it even be a plan, if I can't see it, if I can't know if I can't predict it, if there isn't something that's going to tell me what's coming, or what's going to happen.

And yet, in archetypal tradition, there is this beautiful archetype of the seed of dropping into that seed consciousness, that seed experience of the body, just like a seed that falls into the bottom of the ocean, and just floats so we can see the floor of the ocean. And we are moved by the movement of the currents, or whatever is going on, perhaps the movement of a sea creature that swims past us and, and ruffles the waters, or even we are aware of the waves above us, as we are simply floating, watching the floor of the ocean. And, in this seed, when we return to seed, it is the invitation to acknowledge that the seed holds the wisdom of unfolding, just as the seed of a tree knows the tree within it. We don't have to go in and give a plan to the seed and change it or teach it, the seed always unfolds into the tree that is already within it.

And this is why in ancient dance, the trees are the archetypal dancers, they teach us what is that expression of that emerging from the seed at that poetry of emergence from the seed into the dance of the trees. And when you look at the tree, even when they are still, there's so much movement, in their branches, in their shapes against the sky, it is a dance, it is always a dance, each tree is a divine archetypal dancer. And this poetry this is what we are invited to allow to emerge in our own self that we are like, like the seed the like the seed like the tree, that there is the seed in us that holds that emergence that holds the intelligence of that emergence.

If you ever heard of Vandana Shiva, the great environmentalist and activist who has been doing a lot of work to protect seed from genetic modifications, she speaks about how when we interfere, or when we try to engineer the seed, when we think that we can do better than nature, we in fact, create expressions that intervene with the delicate complex multi-dimensional balance of nature, that balance that we really cannot unpack because as it is not a plan, as the mind is used to, that you can simply break up into its elements and somehow reconstitute, it cannot be done. Because it's not a sum of the elements. It is much more than that.

It is about the poetry of the interstices, that poetry, which is not available to us if we go with that plan, roadmap structure, process-oriented approach. And so just as we consider that the seed is best left alone, to become what it must, so also, there is an invitation for us to also explore and inquire into what we are at that level of that seed, that seed which is held in the waters, and what is it to actually allow the emergence of that seed and the poetry of that seed. And it's not a passive thing. We are not standing back and witnessing this emergence. On the contrary, we become that emergence we are the poetic dance of the emergence of the seed as the tree in the world.