One of our greatest fears is to be expelled from the familiar. When I meet people who are interested in my Individual Program, for many there is a lurking fear—what if my inquiry removes me from my familiar cosmos? Will it mean I have to leave friends and family? I do not suggest at any point that Self-inquiry is about removing oneself from anything. However, we appear to harbour a deep intuition that there is a mismatch between our Self or authenticity, and our everyday reality, therefore turning to Self may entail a transformation of our intimate reality.

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There is something very finite about Bone. We come to an ending in the architecture of Bone which is the skeleton of Body. In the intimacy of Bone, all masks of narratives, like flesh, become one with soil. What endures beyond flesh is Bone.

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Archetypal dance is the dance that was practiced by many ancient cultures in different parts of the world to transform consciousness. An archetypal tradition is a space of plurality and multi- dimensionality.

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Archetypes brings reality home into the body as the experience of our senses, and the ability to express that experience through embodied traditions.

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The iconic words of Abraham Lincoln describing the modern birth of democracy in the Unites States of America recognises the birth of freedom through revolution, sacrifice and, more directly, death. He draws a line from the death of people who fought for freedom and the emergence of a political and social system that locates agency in the phrase “of the people”.

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Some of us grew up in cultures where the proposition that everything is conscious was alive, at least in philosophy if not in practice. From the age of seven, before every dance class and every performance, I offered a prayer by touching the Earth and putting my hands to my eyes thereby seeking her “Kshama” or endurance and forgiveness for my stamping feet as I danced on Her. Many indigenous cultures hold the wisdom of the aliveness of Earth in more day-to-day contexts.

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Creative expressions which are concerned with manifestations of an idiosyncratic, subjective, and imaginative consciousness have all but become invisible in the value systems of our times. These manifestations, which are largely artform practices such as dance, music, visual arts, sculpture, and the like, have become things that anybody can undertake.

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The archetype of the lion is considered an invocation of the heart. Today we experience the lion-heart in tropes of power, kingship, domination, and mastery. However, the ancient invocation of the lion was a multi-dimensional constellation where the Goddess played a central role. This Goddess-centred lion-heart is necessary for us to trust the feminine capability to manifest a different and hitherto unknown Reality.

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Womb is an archetypal invocation. The ancients experienced womb both a a literal reality as well as in the landscape of Earth. Womb-caves were spaces of ritual invocation in traditional cultures across the world. Womb formations as cave systems, in trees, and as anthills or termite hills are honoured as sacred spaces of emergence and return.

This poem is a word-dance to honour womb-intelligence.

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Humility is a worthless quality in a competition dominated world. Where life is interpreted as a competition for resources, humility is tantamount to death. Survival of the fittest philosophy celebrates a muscular aspiration to dominate and control. Success is recognition and renown. Today even monks must make themselves known and market their services.

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