The Vital No - part two (deathpractice dreams 16.2)
New interview, links, writing & events
new interview on last born in the wilderness:
https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/dare-sohei-2
linkshares: clicky clicky
—> peter michael bauer instagram live - very cool chat, must see teevee
independent puerto rican decolonial media:
—> amazing article on Prince, gender and culture
school ya’self on how scams work:
seeking center, reaching center
we find no absolute center
feeling outward, seeking outwardly
we find no final periphery
then, discovering wholeness
we act from wholeness, relate from wholeness,
experience from wholeness.
no loss, no gain
no finality and no scarcity
no truth and no fiction
no absolutes!
relative means all things in relating
there is no not relating
even and especially beyond the concepts of societal stricture
such as emotions and morals
we can discover wholeness without loss or gain
relating without status or morality
a pre-ethical reality that is a shifting dream.
when i sleep at night, i enter into levels of dissolution
the relieving abandonment of narrative memory and identity
and then a void where entering and exiting are rhythmically enacted
afterward, a sense of coalescing waves
levels of entrainment and fixation
temples of identity that are born and die
as dreams that are real
as realities that are dreams
until again awakening as this form, this body, these memories, this narrative.
what is real and what was real are merely perspectives on a vast plane of awareness and being
this dream will become
that old place
barely remembered, loosely held
undone.
neither (anti)social media, nor (anti)social society can handle the reality that whole people are complex, not cliches, not characters, not easily reducible tropes.
Whole people are what animism has always been about. Whole people = whole relating = whole relationships = whole collectives.
It's only because people have been so bamboozled by whiteness, westernism, imperialism and domination that you would imagine that a person was only 1 or 2 "things", that's it!
One or two emotional tones, one or two styles, one or two whatever. One gender, one sexuality, one "personality"... that's not what wholeness is!
Wholeness is a collection of pluralities. Any whole being is a compound of compounds, and knows it! They are fully integrated collectives of voices, songs, beings, histories, futures... in "one body". But they know their body and the land is the same wide expanse of beinghood! and they are responsible for their relating as the temporary body that holds many elemental forces.
this doesn't make you crazy or DID or fractured or all-over-the-place. all of those symptoms are still someone who is resisting wholeness, still has domination and competition impulses running amok. Whole beings are beyond simple binaries, including the moral fictions of life & death.
#deathpractice #dreampractice #bardoworlds
do not let perfect become the enemy of the good enough.
do not let solutions and cures block the peaceful possibility of conscious death practice.
do not let addiction prevent clarity and liberation.
do not let the violent fragility of others prevent compassion and honesty.
do not let stupidity block out the dawn light.
events & ephemera
stay tuned for more… animist arts will be announcing new events as well.
A new Between Sun & Moon will be happening Thursday mornings March 23rd-May 4th - 6 sessions plus extracurriculars across 7 weeks
go here for the animist arts substack where we will announce all the juice:
Do join and engage the reddit if you are a DPG participant. you can find the pdf instructions within any main session folder you have access to.
DPG LUNARIUM WEDS FEB 22 5-7pm PST
Free/BY DONATION for those who have already been to a DPG or bought a recording
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/animistarts/853521/
PS - if u want this work to exist and want to help build community and curriculum, you have to put your skin in the game. #collaborativelearnership
Also if you are in Portland, our in-person events are slowly starting up end of the month on Feb 23rd 5-8pm pst. Contact for invitation info if you want to train and are in town.
please donate if you have the means: www.paypal.me/daresohei
Fuck, that podcast is such a massive exhale for me