ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 30
This sense of falling is the key to chaos.
Flowing is receptive - it moves inwards. Staccato is
expressive - it moves outwards. In Chaos we
surrender to the bigger picture, which always takes
us down. All our big ideas about ourselves have
to go.
All our lines and boundaries have to shatter. We
have to be willing to surrender to the inevitable
pull of the earth, and let ourselves fall.
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When people first start practicing the 5Rhythms, this is often a scary moment.
For me it felt like dying, to really let my head go and give myself totally to the
beat, becoming a frenzy of wild motion. I could feel every cell in my body
resisting and hanging on like fingernails on a cliff face.
The moment I let go it felt amazing though.
Isn’t this what’s happening on earth now? Our patriarchal institutions from
governments to banks are failing and falling; they’ve all been found out to be
made up of people playing games with money sex or power like the rest of us.
No moral high ground left. All lines and boundaries are being blurred, with
races mixing, information flooding, and it’s plain to see that the relentless push
forwards of the human ‘race’ just can’t go on. We’re crashing big time, on
every front.
If you were identified with the Staccato phase of a wave - the bit where it’s
pushed forwards as far as it can go, and you’d been working on that forward
movement for thousands of years, wouldn’t your instinctive reaction to the
next stage of Chaos be that it’s a calamity?
“Everything we’re about is falling apart! This is the end of life as we
know it! We’ve been striving to move up and out forever - ‘down’
means failure! HELP!!!!!!!!!”
What if the approaching chaos we’re seeing is not a calamity at all, but the
most magnificent break of the most almighty wave we can imagine?
What if our task is, just as in the rhythm of Chaos on the dance floor, is
to let go, surrender to life, and trust?
To allow life to pour through us like a flood, stripping us of all we think
we know, and opening us up to an entirely new reality?
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