WOW, WHAT A BODY!

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

How do we define and contextualize the word, body?

A group of cells capable of communicating and co-operating?
A self organizing life system, capable of sustaining itself?
The Great Coral reef in Australia could be considered a body,
a living organism large enough to be seen from space.


What we know about our human bodies is that they are miraculously complex
and completely astounding.
The diversity, the specialization, the intra-cell biology,
all this organizing intelligence
in the service of providing the "you" with a home,
to exist in the physical domain.

There is a growing mountain of direct experience
pointing to individual human beings as having
unified fields of experience.
Languaging this can create a bit of a barrier,
yet dozens of people I walk up and speak to
feel a great sense of macro connectedness with
their animal companions, a few humans and
unquestionably, with nature.

We as humanity, our colony this earth
this our spaceship, with its sister moon
running laps around Sol,
in relationship with larger and larger systems and bodies.

We look inwardly into infinity,
we gaze outward into infinity,
we are bounded only by our perspective
and our sense of feeling and behaving separate from all that is