Matter is a miracle.
The history of Western thought has led many to believe that matter doesn’t matter.
Minds were valued over bodies and feelings, and this has had disastrous effects on our lives and our world.
Believing ourselves to be separate from the physical world has led to capitalism and the fast paced life; trying to get somewhere else, because at core, the belief (and thus experience) is that being here, being now, being present in the everyday experience of our lives and ourselves is not enough.
I remember watching a video of an interior designer walking around her house, banging her hand down hard on her beautiful artisan table and hand-made couch. I felt sad, sensing that despite her love of beauty, she wasn’t being present with those beautiful items.
This goes much deeper.
A baby being held roughly, without presence;
a woman holding the flesh of her thigh in a tight, angry fist;
someone looking in a calf’s eye and not seeing the sentience there;
a man chopping down all the trees in a woodland and feeling no loss.
Of the last chapter of The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy Lent summarises, “A more desirable possibility is discussed: a transformation of global norms based on a realization of our intrinsic connectedness within a web of meaning. Whatever transpires in this century, the book concludes, is ultimately up to each of us, and the meaning we choose to forge from the lives we lead.”
If we are to heal the apparent split between spirit and matter that never existed in the first place, I believe that part of that is for us to experience that matter is a miracle.
Imagine living your life knowing in your very cells that matter is a miracle.
That means all of it.
The cup that you drink your tea from in the morning.
The water that makes your tea.
Your body that drinks and receives the tea.
The mountain that the cloud moved over to create rain that made the water that made your tea.
As we increasingly experience matter as a miracle, it all becomes meaningful.
The broken glass isn’t just a broken glass. It’s imbued with miraculous meaning.
The book title that matches the dream you just had last night points you to something sacred.
What you feel drawn to when you look around you invites you into deep relationship with your soul and the soul of the world.
It’s all imbued with a sacredness, that if we were to truly live in consciousness of, we would be weeping for the wonder of it.
The Room: a place for Conversations with Life is about the reenchantment of everyday life; to borrow the title of Thomas Moore’s book.
The Room invites us to engage, converse, attend to the events in our lives, the signs, the songs, the synchronicities, what we feel called to do or say when we’re listening to ourselves.
The Room is opening soon! We’d love to greet you and meet you there!
Much love,
Marion xoxox