09/07/2024
Matriline Medicine, 12
Matriline Medicine is dynamic.
Matriline Medicine engages the quanta. (A quanta is "the smallest discrete unit of a natural phenomenon in a system where the units are in a bound state.")
Matriline Medicine engages quantum dynamics.
Matriline Medicine is the quantum dynamics of consciousness.
Matriline Medicine acknowledges the consciousness of all life.
Grandmother Twylah taught us about the consciousness of stones.
She told me to speak with the consciousness of the sun.*
I teach people how to connect to the consciousness of plants.
Brandt Secunda told us he was trained to treat the fire as though it were conscious.
I have attended ceremonies to "wake up" the consciousness of a place.
Quantum dynamics operates in everything; everything is conscious.
Matriline Medicine weaves our consciousness with the consciousness of everything we encounter, so our health, our healing, our holiness is intertwined in a dynamic co-evolution of consciousness.
Matriline Medicine trusts the psyche.
In the psyche, the dynamics of consciousness are impacted by the quanta of all that eludes our consciousness.
Matriline Medicine is psychic. It understands that the bold, dramatic, in-you-face, get-your-attention language of the psyche is not literal, but symbolic.
The psychic yokes intuition to pattern recognition in a dynamic dance. The path to health emerges in the mind's eye.
Matriline Medicine understands that the somatic manifestations of our deepest, scariest needs and desires are not problems to be eliminated, mistakes to be fixed, or failures. They are gifts of wholeness.
Zach Bush suggests that we have a "quantum relationship with our food."
I know we have a quantum relationship with herbs, with plants.
And this relationship is dynamic.
And entangled.
And superimposed.
Matriline Medicine knows that cause and effect is only one story.
A local, limited story we cling to because it offers the illusion of control.
The quantum dynamics story is infinitely complex, completely entangled.
"Quantum entanglement occurs when a group of particles interacts, or shares spatial proximity, in such a way that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance."
Our physical body is a living, dynamic, quantumly entangled mesh of systems, organs, cells, and mitochondria which interact with other dynamic, entangled webs of life. It cannot be described independently of the state of others. It is not a machine or a flesh bag, but a dynamic flux of connection and interchange.
Matriline Medicine sneaks into the intersections of connection, operates in the interstitial spaces of interchange, trusts the message in the quanta.
I trust my body.
I walk in beauty.
I trust my psyche.
I am made of the earth.
I am entangled with all life.
I breathe in a giveaway dance.
The earth's heartbeat is my heartbeat.
Green blessings shimmer.
* I told Grandmother that others were concerned that I would "burn out" due to the enormous amount I was doing. She told me the sun would advise me, that it was conscious and able to communicate. So I asked the sun if I ought to be concerned about burning out. With breath so fiery it seemed cold, the sun laughed, a nuclear explosion of mirth. "Yes, you will burn out. So will I." I saw the sun burn and burn until it became a red giant and then a cold, white dwarf. "Yes, we will both burn out. Until then, I intend to pour everything into burning brightly. Will you." Of course.
