#deathpractice

[rachaelrice]

What happens after it all falls apart and whoever it was you trusted, Mommy Ideology, Father Story, Uncle Sam, Auntie Try Hard, your actual parents, your “allies,” your “sister wives” and your “ride or dies” all took their masks off, they didn’t care, they betrayed you, they stole your ideas, your land, they made you sick, they made empty promises, they took a powder, they turned into ghosts? Practice. What happens after you’ve “done the work,” “set boundaries,” “taken up space,” “aligned with your vision,” “took the hero’s journey,” and somehow ended up with the fuzzy end of the lollipop? What happens after nothing happens? Practice. What about after all the therapy, the vagal toning, the plant medicines, the green envy juices and the ceremonial-grade pop tarts, and your guts are full of microplastic, your adrenals are now fucked, and your body does its scorekeeping in secret? What then? Practice. What if you sustainably girlbossed too close to the sun and you end up needing others to share, and no one saved you, and you want to heal from it all, but the kids still need to go to school where they might get child-sacrificed for Westernist Freedom? What if there’s only burnout at the end of the scramble to have a solid point of view? And if everything chronic and inflamed in your life isn’t about your choices, but about what you have adopted as “reality” – a View distorted by the abysmal hunger game of modernity? And there’s no one to usher in your arrival on death’s door: it’s only a highlight reel on repeat as the volunteers wipe your ass – if you’re lucky. We all go to ground, we all get eaten. There is stability in that, there is relaxation, there is vividness. What if: There is no state of being healed. There is only practice. The next session of In The Night Garden is Weds. July 20, 4pm PT. Recordings available. Year-long program. Nothing out there like it, trust & believe, I’ve been looking. No one will sell you a bridge to the Obsidian Basket, but if you join us, you’ll get to touch it. I mean you’re already there. https://www.animistarts.art/the-death-practice-group facilitated by @daresohei #deathpractice https://www.instagram.com/p/CgNtT31pcm_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rachaelrice]

IN THE NIGHT GARDEN • THE DEATH PRACTICE GROUP via @daresohei: we exist as living dreams inside a larger living dream. in this, living means something other than 'the opposite of dead, or not-living'. living in this case would mean something like that which qi-time-movement animates, that which is animate-relational, made up of compound relations. this would encompass everything that materialists consider alive and dead, animate and inert, subject and object, animal, plant, mineral, gas, liquid, etc. which is to say, everything. the same everything that animists know is animate, relational, compound. a livingness that has no opposite, that encompasses all possible forms, appearance and potential. we come to some quandary, limited by our own reflective capacities: is there a meaningful distinction between this definition of livingness and sentience? how can we define sentience? the materialists will never find it because they are looking for "things" and so they will only ever find things. the animists seem to have already found sentience, but they cannot prove it, it is an unprovable is-ness. a quantum effect based on the position (totality) of the observer. like a mirror, the universe dream reflects back the observer, so the quality of the observer's 'spirit', or animating forces, is reflected. dingy quality of observational projection, dingy quality of reflection. the game, as they say, is afoot. if we understand that the entirety of universe is like mirrors reflecting mirrors, what is the light these mirrors reflect? where does it come from? these questions are at the core of nondual animism and they have been thoroughly explored. the beauty of the universal dream is that it cant be owned, cant be proven. each observer/traveler/explorer must reckon with the reflections they receive. this is the great gift, the open secret. In The Night Garden #DeathPractice first session is 6/22 at 4pm PT. Link in bio or head to animistarts.art. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce2eFqVrjSp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alittlelefttolearn]

Death by Shavasana #deathpractice #comic #alittlelefttolearn https://www.instagram.com/alittlelefttolearn/p/BxJZpzMBz67/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n3va669v24jp