You Didn’t Come into tis world. You came out of it…

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”

— Alan Watts

Micah (my youngest brother) and I were having a conversation the other day. Sometimes I wish that one of us would think to press record, because I think we could have an epic podcast together. But… maybe these conversations are so rich because they come so authentically and there is something sacred about the way that only he and I are there to witness each other, as we weave together a beautiful web of the wisdom we have each collected in our journeys. Conversations in the car with him, whether that be in person or on the phone, are some of my favorite parts of being a person.

We dive quickly into the realm of curiosity together & swimming there is so natural to each of us.

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it…”
This quote came up during our conversation as we began to explore what we want to step into in regards to where we see ourselves going in the future. I began talking with him about my new found love for eco-somatics and how I would love to step deeper into this space and maybe one day get a PHD in this area. How the merging of ecology and the body invigorates something inside of me that is like an itch waiting to be tended to. We were talking about grief and death, of course, because that is a constant conversation these days… and he spoke about a book he recently read, “Ishmael: A Novel” by Daniel Quinn. Which explores the idea that the core issue of this world is that we as modern westernized humans have been taught that we exist as separate from nature, animals, and each other. And with this separation we find ourselves thinking and not being…

Our conversations typically end with more questions than answers…
And stir up more feelings than the brain probably likes.

But how would we live differently if we knew that we were not from some outside place in the heavens far away and then plopped here on earth in need of survival? What if we knew, not cognitively, but could sit in our bodily knowing that we indeed come from this place, we indeed are connected to the moss, to the trees, to each other? What if we were aware that every action we take also impacts us? How would we treat our earth differently if we learned that how we treat our own bodies is a reflection of how we treat the bigger body?