“Blending” is described in the book, Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions.
For the possibly miraculous and for fun, from the documentary, The Fire Yogi — an example of blending? Rather extreme — don’t try this at home, folks!
Here, the Yogi will call it, “union.”
Another example also from the Autumn 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, by visionary poet, Mary Oliver:
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
© Mary Oliver
There are many examples of her poetry related to the environment as a participant in her work. Please visit this link for more of her poetry, Modern American Poetry, online. Mary Oliver, a very popular visionary poet in the American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, and Emily Dickinson.
Another example from the Autumn, 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, Charles Bukowski’s “Bluebird,” from, THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS.
what does this have to do with the environment, or with blending? is there an inner environment as well as an outer environment?
This example of the art and lifestyle of Georgia Okeefe from the Autumn, 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, also offered as a contemplation.
what is a life lived on purpose?
This example of the art of Andy Goldsworthy from the Autumn, 2009 CraniOcean.Calm Newsletter, from the film, RIVERS AND TIDES
what is it to blend with the environment? can the environment respond? and what is the experience of blending with another living being?
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Book of John 3:1 – 3:5
We might dream of a home on the ocean, we might have such a home, but when we have acheived such a dream, how often do we interact with the ocean? We look at the views, we smell the salt air, and might there be something that we are missing?
If you have been lucky enough to find a copy of Touch the Ocean, and have read it, and gotten its message, the Audio Book for Touch the Ocean, by Early Audio Productions with background music by Rusty Crutcher (Macchu Picchu Sunrise, Chaco Canyon, Ocean Eclipse) and vocals with the Author, authentic, will be available from November 23, 2009.
It was recorded in the Author’s rented cottage in West Palm Beach on Garageband, with “all the ambient sounds of the Palm Beaches, dogs barking, airplanes flying overhead, rain storms, and ocean sounds …”
Notes from the Production Crew:
The listening is engaging. Not only is it good storytelling, there’s perfectly timed humor within a very serious subject. And he delivers on each of the characters!
Alex Early, Early Audio Productions
Engaging! He really gets into it and this gets you into it.
Robert Dean, musician, Star People
Enjoy.
