This article is an update of the previous article, A Year In The Life. I spent some time observing how these ideas have evolved over time. I went back to review the matrix for human experience that grew out of my exploration of topics for a magazine about love. I was trying to define a life of love as something that gets us out of the pyramid of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs by exploring the full range of human experience from basic human needs such as food, clothing, and shelter all the way to aspirations of transcendence that I derived from what is often referred to as the love chapter in the Bible: “faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.” I rearranged the columns from the original and moved away from a product-oriented process to an organic living process in some of the language I was using. These terms are the artifacts—the seeds—from which I cultivated and grew the senses and the possibilities, the seeds of love.

A matrix for understanding human experience: from the physical to the metaphysical

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The shift from human-centred design to life-centred design has been the focus of my work since founding the BLDRS Collective in 2015. The anthropocentrism of our business-oriented design practices has led to the Anthropocene. At the beginning of this year, I decided to find ways to become more connected to the living world and the rhythms of life. 

Last year, I was asked to participate in a series of workshops offered by the Design Science Studio in partnership with The Institute For Aliveness. I offered a workshop on Growing Senses for Co-Creation. Out of the process of preparing for that workshop, there emerged a renewed exploration of an idea I had years ago for a magazine and how I could reimagine these topics and categories that I had formulated for a general interest magazine that focused on the continuum from basic human needs to aspirations for transcendence: food, clothing, and shelter to faith, hope, and love.

I reimagined these topics as the seeds of life. From the seeds grow living organisms: a tree, for example. These living organisms proliferate life through an evolutionary process of reproduction: a tree produces fruit, for example. This is a life-centred creative process.

The seed represents the memories, experiences, and wisdom of the past, stored in an organic library of technologies, forms, and abilities that we know as DNA.

The tree represents the living organism of the present, the conscious, multi-sensory, synesthetic, sentient, emotional, and embodied experience of life.

The fruit represents the creative process of turning intuition, imagination, intention, inspiration, and interbeing into new life and future possibilities.

• We recognize patterns through the senses (perception) to notice intuition.
• We connect to the heart (emotion) to access imagination.
• We exercise the mind (cognition) to realize intention.
• We move the body (action) to express inspiration.
• We experience the soul (integration) and become conscious and aware of interbeing.

Kairos Time Calendar

I modified this most recent version of the Kairos Time Calendar to reorient the Winter Solstice at the bottom of the circle so that the colours align with the spectrum in the Co-operating Manual for Being Human, except in the counter-clockwise direction, since this calendar is observing the orbit of the Earth from the perspective of the North.

Universal Principles

Everything is connected. The universe is interdependent and interconnected in ways that we have not been able to perceive until now. We have learned from each other that we each have different perspectives that contribute to the understanding of the whole.

Each being is of immeasurable worth to the whole, because of the impact of one life to the being, the processes, and the transformations that occur through the interactions of each with the whole.

In this model of the human being and the way one life is connected to the social organism and the living being of the earth, we can begin to see the connections between the individual, the collective, and the global scales of our shared reality.

Living System Design

This overview of the design of living systems arranges all the elements of the universal principles into a horizontal linear structure, rather than the radial structure of the universal principles in the previous image. It also adds categories for each of the concentric circles that flow from the centre of awareness: physics, being, integrity, senses, thoughts, emotions, living systems, social systems, earth systems.

Awareness

• Mind
• Heart
• Body

Physics

• Time
• Energy
• Matter

Integrity

• Intention
• Intuition
• Interbeing

Senses

• See
• Hear
• Smell
• Balance
• Touch
• Taste

Thoughts

• Learning
• Purpose
• Caring
• Meaning
• Making
• Belonging

Emotions

• Curiosity
• Empathy
• Honesty
• Creativity
• Generosity
• Intimacy

Living Systems

• Nervous
• Sensory
• Lymphatic
• Endocrine
• Cardiovascular
• Respiratory
• Musculatory
• Integumentary
• Skeletal
• Urinary
• Digestive
• Reproductive

Social Systems

• Learning and Research
• Networks
• Health
• Peace and Justice
• Social Equity
• Political Voice
• Energy
• Home and Belonging
• Co-Creation
• Water
• Food
• Gender Equality

Earth Systems

• Light
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Water
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Ecology
• Earth
• Water Cycle
• Food Chain
• Biodiversity

A Theory of Everything

When we came to the end of the second coheART of the Design Science Studio, this exploration of the collaborative principles of our community seemed to connect and integrate everything in such a way that it felt like my own theory of everything.

Inner and Outer Architecture

The builders collective is founded on a premise that we are building internal resilience to transform our societies by imagining, designing, and building from the inside out, doing the inner work necessary to form meaning, values, intentions, habits, and practices that create the outer architecture as an organic and natural response to the internal structure. Empire, colonization, and civilization do the reverse, imposing through manipulation, coercion, and violent force a conformity, homogeneity, and orthodoxy, which is an industrial, technological, and machine-oriented process of entropy that destroys life—a loss of complexity, biodiversity, and creativity—resulting in the desertification of cultures and ecologies, a genocide and ecocide.

This core intention of building inner resilience and transforming social architecture are what drew me to the work of Veronica Anderson, whose work focuses on a practice of Deep Design in service of inner and outer architecture. Again, the inner work of building a strong core and structure precedes and guides the formation of the outer architecture.

An Organic and Living Process of Time

My visualization of time is patterned after the concentric circles of waves growing out of a centre. At the centre is the name of the type of process. The concentric circles grow from the centre as artifacts, senses, and possibilities. We could also use the metaphor of seed, tree, and fruit. Time follows the orbit of the moon in a counter-clockwise direction as observed when looking down on the North Pole of the Earth. For each type of process, the inner essence precedes the outer expression.

Time, rather than being visualized as a line, is a wave growing out from the centre, in the same way that light waves form growing concentric spheres around a star.

• Artifact: Past/Physical
• Sense: Present/Metaphysical
• Possibility: Future/Pataphysical

I feel like we have been misinformed about timelines, or at least provided an inadequate metaphor for our understanding of time. Time is not a line. Time is a wave and it is spherical.

The Rhythms of Life are an overview of the entire year, indicating how each of the six circles surrounding the one circle in the middle have both an inner essence and an outer expression. Reading the circles begins on the inside closest to the centre toward the direction of the counter-clockwise rotation of the Earth around the Sun. Reading the circles from the inside out from artifact to sense to possibility, each of the inner and outer cycles represents a single lunar cycle, which is four weeks of seven days, totalling twenty-eight days. The Winter Solstice begins at the bottom of the diagram with Body, Balance, and Agility as the focus for the first week of the solar year. In total, there are 36 artifacts, 36 senses, and 36 possibilities, totalling 108 items.

Growing Senses of Co-Creation

When viewing the thirty-six senses that I intend to grow over the course of a year, I can see how they also connect to the living systems of the body, the social systems, and the planetary systems.

Physical

Starting from the bottom left, we can read the words in each circle in this way, moving out from the centre. Each week is labelled according to the present metaphysical sensorial experience, according to which sense is being grown.

In the first week, I am cultivating the artifact of the body by growing the sense of balance to create the possibility of agility.

Or, using the organic metaphor, I am cultivating the seed of the body by growing the tree of balance to produce the fruit of agility.

Another way to say this might be that out of agency grows ability out of which grows authority. One leads to the other, in the same way that in each of the two sets of three days that forms the six days of creation, the events of each day form the foundation for what is possible the next day.

Next comes the sense of harmony in the second week, and so on.

In this way, it might be possible to memorize the practice for an entire year, one week at a time.

Month 1

Inner Essence

Week 1: Balance

• Artifact: Body
• Sense: Balance
• Possibility: Agility

Week 2: Harmony

• Artifact: Belonging
• Sense: Harmony
• Possibility: Unity

Week 3: Presence

• Artifact: Present
• Sense: Presence
• Possibility: Peace

Week 4: Integration

• Body, Balance, Agility
• Belonging, Harmony, Unity
• Present, Presence, Peace

Month 2

Outer Expression

Week 5: Compassion

• Artifact: Love
• Sense: Compassion
• Possibility: Embodiment

Week 6: Trust

• Artifact: Good
• Sense: Trust
• Possibility: Reciprocity

Week 7: Agency

• Artifact: Action
• Sense: Agency
• Possibility: Efficacy

Week 8: Integration

• Love, Compassion, Embodiment
• Good, Trust, Reciprocity
• Action, Agency, Efficacy

Living

Month 3

Inner Essence

Week 9: Synchronicity

• Artifact: Time
• Sense: Synchronicity
• Possibility: Infinity

Week 10: Intuition

• Artifact: Design
• Sense: Intuition
• Possibility: Responsibility

Week 11: Wonder

• Artifact: Art
• Sense: Wonder
• Possibility: Awe

Week 12: Integration

• Time, Synchronicity, Infinity
• Design, Intuition, Responsibility
• Art, Wonder, Awe

Month 4

Outer Expression

Week 13: Intention

• Artifact: Seed
• Sense: Intention
• Possibility: Initiation

Week 14: Connection

• Artifact: Ecology
• Sense: Connection
• Possibility: Syntropy

Week 15: Gratitude

• Artifact: Food
• Sense: Gratitude
• Possibility: Legacy

Week 16: Integration

• Seed, Intention, Initiation
• Ecology, Connection, Syntropy
• Food, Gratitude, Legacy

Intellectual

Month 5

Inner Essence

Week 17: Illumination

• Artifact: Mind
• Sense: Illumination
• Possibility: Coherence

Week 18: Value

• Artifact: Meaning
• Sense: Value
• Possibility: Significance

Week 19: Appreciation

• Artifact: Past
• Sense: Appreciation
• Possibility: Reverence

Week 20: Integration

• Mind, Illumination, Coherence
• Meaning, Value, Significance
• Past, Appreciation, Reverence

Month 6

Outer Expression

Week 21: Courage

• Artifact: Faith
• Sense: Courage
• Possibility: Authenticity

Week 22: Discernment

• Artifact: Truth
• Sense: Discernment
• Possibility: Justice

Week 23: Awareness

• Artifact: Cognition
• Sense: Awareness
• Possibility: Enlightenment

Week 24: Integration

• Faith, Courage, Authenticity
• Truth, Discernment, Justice
• Cognition, Awareness, Enlightenment

Energetic

Month 7

Inner Essence

Week 25: Synergy

• Artifact: Energy
• Sense: Synergy
• Possibility: Possibility

Week 26: Imagination

• Artifact: Imagine
• Sense: Imagination
• Possibility: Creativity

Week 27: Immersion

• Artifact: Music
• Sense: Immersion
• Possibility: Transcendence

Week 28: Integration

• Energy, Synergy, Possibility
• Imagine, Imagination, Creativity
• Music, Immersion, Transcendence

Month 8

Outer Expression

Week 29: Play

• Artifact: Fruit
• Sense: Form
• Possibility: Continuity

Week 30: Mystery

• Artifact: Wisdom
• Sense: Mystery
• Possibility: Curiosity

Week 31: Place

• Artifact: Clothing
• Sense: Motion
• Possibility: Adaptability

Week 32: Integration

• Fruit, Form, Continuity
• Wisdom, Mystery, Curiosity
• Clothing, Motion, Adaptability

Emotional

Month 9

Inner Essence

Week 33: Intimacy

• Artifact: Heart
• Sense: Intimacy
• Possibility: Integrity

Week 34: Devotion

• Artifact: Purpose
• Sense: Devotion
• Possibility: Destiny

Week 35: Anticipation

• Artifact: Future
• Sense: Anticipation
• Possibility: Prescience

Week 36: Integration

• Heart, Intimacy, Integrity
• Purpose, Devotion, Destiny
• Future, Anticipation, Prescience

Month 10

Outer Expression

Week 37: Perseverance

• Artifact: Hope
• Sense: Perseverance
• Possibility: Realization

Week 38: Grace

• Artifact: Beauty
• Sense: Grace
• Possibility: Quintessence

Week 39: Equilibrium

• Artifact: Emotion
• Sense: Equilibrium
• Possibility: Equanimity

Week 40: Integration

• Hope, Perseverance, Realization
• Beauty, Grace, Quintessence
• Emotion, Equilibrium, Equanimity

Material

Month 11

Inner Essence

Week 41: Synarchy

• Artifact: Matter
• Sense: Synarchy
• Possibility: Vitality

Week 42: Inspiration

• Artifact: Build
• Sense: Inspiration
• Possibility: Expression

Week 43: Impermanence

• Artifact: Culture
• Sense: Impermanence
• Possibility: Evolution

Week 44: Integration

• Matter, Synarchy, Vitality
• Build, Inspiration, Expression
• Culture, Impermanence, Evolution

Month 12

Outer Expression

Week 45: Form

• Artifact: Life
• Sense: Play
• Possibility: Freedom

Week 46: Inspiration

• Artifact: Work
• Sense: Process
• Possibility: Flow

Week 47: Place

• Artifact: Shelter
• Sense: Place
• Possibility: Home

Week 48: Integration

• Life, Play, Freedom
• Work, Process, Flow
• Shelter, Place, Home

Integration

Month 13

Inner Essence

Week 49: Intention

• Artifact: Intellectual
• Sense: Intention
• Possibility: Fulfillment

Week 50: Intimacy

• Artifact: Emotional
• Sense: Intimacy
• Possibility: Wholeness

Outer Expression

Week 51: Inspiration

• Artifact: Physical
• Sense: Inspiration
• Possibility: Embodiment

Week 52: Intuition

• Artifact: Spiritual
• Sense: Intuition
• Possibility: Insight

Day 365

Inner Essence

Morning: Interbeing

• Artifact: Soul
• Sense: Interbeing
• Possibility: Consciousness

Outer Expression

Evening: Integrity

• Artifact: Universe
• Sense: Integrity
• Possibility: Unity

Sensing, Experiencing, Growing, and Co-Creating

The Girl, the Otter, the Octopus and the Dolphin by Stephen Bau. Charcoal and coloured pencils on Cross Pointe Genesis Script Tallow 28 lb. paper stock. Inspired by Charlie Mackesy’s illustrations for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse.

I am reparenting my inner children, Luna Solterra, Nueva, Circ, and Theodore (Ted). Each of my inner children has unique qualities and inhabit specific forms.

• Luna is the mermaid who wants to take it all in: sensations, perceptions, connections, imagination, quantum entanglement, mystery, and wonder.
• Nueva is the octopus who swims in the ocean of information she gets from her conversations with Luna—all the light, vibrations, waves, and energy—and translates all the stimuli into feelings and emotions.
• Circ is the dolphin who enjoys playing in the water and using his strength, agility, and balance to swim, jump, and explore. He can also use his physicality to comfort and protect.
• Theodore is the otter who is busy swimming around in all the information and stimuli to make sense of everything and to make words, ideas, categories, and stories as a way to consider and remember what it all means, what is important, and why it matters.

There is light and dark, feminine and masculine. We all have these forms and energies. Light and dark are about visibility, whether hidden on the inside or focused on what is plain to see, sense, or experience on the outside. The feminine and masculine are archetypes that are connected to the constantly shifting and changing roles that each of these energies play in the dynamic equilibrium of relationships. The masculine tends to be giving, exploring, and protecting—making space. The feminine tends to be receiving, creating, and nurturing—inhabiting space. Together, the synchronicity, synergy, synarchy, and synthesis of the feminine and masculine energies create a space that feels like home, creating the possibility of new life and evolution.

• Ted is existential and universal: “I am time. I am energy. I am matter.”
• Circ is physical and particular: “I am light. I am water. I am earth.”
• Nueva is metaphysical and experiential: “I am now. I am here. I am one.”
• Luna is pataphysical and spiritual: “I am faith. I am hope. I am love.”

Together, my inner children represent my mental body, my physical body, my emotional body, and my spiritual body: my whole and authentic self is greater than the sum of my parts. We are a multiplicity: complex and diverse.

The Inner Critic

When my mind is trying to make sense of my experience of growing up in a family that was not intellectually creative, emotionally sensitive, physically demonstrative, or spiritually supportive, it fills the void and emptiness with thoughts that are inferred or implied by the deafening silence.

When I ask questions and receive only silence in return, I interpret the answer in a way that becomes the eternal conscious torment of my inner critic, which is the internalized voice of my parents:

• There is something wrong with you.
• You are not enough.
• You are not worth the time or the effort.
• You are not one of us.
• You do not believe, obey, or perform, so you’re not acceptable or lovable.
• You do not have a seat at this table.
• You are not a member of this family.
• You have no place in this business.
• You do not belong in this community.
• You are not worthy of being included in this ministry.
• You have no significant contribution to this nation.
• You do not deserve to know your history.
• You have not earned access to your inheritance.
• You have lost your birthright.
• Your life has no meaning or purpose.

They might never have said these things explicitly, but in the silence, in the unconscious, I made up my own stories, theories, and interpretations of everything that was left unsaid. The experience of being in this family has been Hell.

When Theodore is behaving badly, overwhelming the mind with negative and critical thoughts, he becomes the inner critic. Then, we call him Ted. We need to help Ted reconnect to the rest of us and to this present moment, going back to awareness of the breath and to mindfulness.

Recovery and Healing

My recovery and healing has involved a process of letting go of my need and desire to please other people to feel accepted, approved, affirmed, appreciated, respected, and loved. In the absence of a sense of belonging, I did what I knew how to do to offer my skills in service of what other people wanted, needed, or desired. Usually, that meant giving up my own identity to build someone else’s dream, business, family, church, organization, identity, brand, corporation, or nation. In the process, I lost myself. I lost my soul.

I went in search of my soul to recover my authentic self and heal my whole self: mind, heart, body, and spirit.

Ensoulment Process

Over the past year, since February of 2022, I have been working with Veronica Anderson, hiring her to be my ensoulment coach. I have recorded many of our sessions. I am honoured that Veronica has featured a session we had together after a year of going through an ensoulment process with her.

https://www.veronica.earth/coaching

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwJdlpW23OGT6OP97FVCKg

A Testimonial

I recently offered Veronica this note of appreciation and gratitude:

The ensoulment process has been such a truly moving experience for me. And it’s hard to contain the emotions. I think that’s the point. This is a small container for a lot of feeling that has been stopped up and contained for too long. 

I am so grateful for knowing you and connecting to the work that you’ve been doing to to make this possible. The healing journey that you’ve been on hasn’t been alone. It’s so connected to what’s happening here and now—to transform everything. It feels like that’s what we’re here to do.

In these synchronicities and “coincidences” and “chance encounters” I feel like there’s more work here. That leaves me in awe of what Mother Earth is up to, what Universe has been doing for so long. They’re holding a lot of secrets. That’s necessary, to lean into the mystery and wonder and magic and beauty. And this experience has really been magical: the sense of empathy, interbeing, and oneness.

This transformation arose out of a sense of separation, suffering, division, conflict, and struggle. It took some risk. What you articulated at the beginning of the process was, “Thank you for taking this leap of faith.” And it really was. I had no idea what this was going to turn into. But there was something drawing me, a common vision: To walk as love. To build a world that loves itself. There is a connection to what we are working on and I wanted to find out what that is.

When I leaned into the unfamiliar, challenging, and difficult process of looking at myself authentically, you provided the safety of a container that gave me courage to do the hard work of showing up. I felt a sense of unconditional love that you offered with your presence, in the way you listen and reflect. It has been a privilege to experience your deep wisdom and profound skill in the way you hold space and treat my inner child with such kindness. I am so grateful for that sense of being seen and heard and known. That has been such a gift. Thank you.

Being and Becoming

This year, I wanted to focus on what comes next. I have been in a process of reinvention so many times that the prospect of having to do it again felt daunting, overwhelming, frightening, and exhausting. So, the practice is to come back to the present, to the breath, to the here and now, to conscious awareness of this moment, to mindfulness. In that stillness, I can just be and know that that is enough.

Then, letting go of the imposed roles and expectations, I can just ask myself the question, “Who am I? Who do I want to become?” The answer is to embody my soul. Veronica defined the soul for me: light, quintessence, authentic self.

This is the way I have been answering that question about who I am:

One

Who am I?

Who am I becoming?

I thought I was separated, divided, individual, independent, alone.

I am living. I am dying. I am learning. I am an explorer. I am an inventor. I am a tool maker. I am a storyteller.

I am laughing. I am crying. I am joyful. I am suffering. I am thoughtful. I am emotional. I am rational. I am irrational. I am fearful. I am violent. I am empathetic. I am loving.

I am stardust. I am quantum mechanics. I am physics and metaphysics. I am beginning to understand so much. I actually know very little.

I am awakening to the systems that I designed that cause my own suffering. I am beginning to recognize that there is no other. There is only me in a relationship with all there is. When I am in pain, all suffer. When I experience joy, all celebrate.

I am a thin layer of life on a small ball of molten rock spinning in constant motion around a star spinning around a galaxy. I am held in the tension of the gravity that pulls us together and the expansion that pushes us apart.

I am time and energy and matter. I am entropy. I am syntropy.

I am in conversation with reality.

I am dividing cells. I am integrating ideas. I am thesis and antithesis. I am synthesis.

I am the behaviour of whole systems unpredicted by the behaviours of their parts. I am synergy.

I am relationships of energy. I am conscious awareness. I am this moment. I am everything happening all at once. I am weaving a world of experience through perception, cognition, emotion, and action. I live with a memory of where I have come from, in the presence of where I am, in anticipation of where I will be. I am formed by language in intimate relationship with all that came before, all that is, and all that will be.

I am the seed of an idea. I am a seed of life floating in the garden of space. I am not on the earth. I am earth. I am the incarnation of the genesis of the unfolding and enfolding of time, energy, and matter.

I am interdependent and interconnected.

I am the medium. I am the message. I am the interface.

I am a member of a creative, collaborative, self-organizing learning community. I am exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together. I am the builders collective. I am investing my time, energy, and resources in reimagining our social architecture.

I am the invisible made visible.

I am universe.

I am one.

Christ Consciousness

Bringing things back to my upbringing, I was raised in an evangelical Christian home. I have spent much of my life living in that culture. I have read the Bible many times. I have been looking through my accomplishments, all my attempts to be accepted, approved, and appreciated, but with little to show for it.

I could have just lived in my father’s home in Tsawwassen, or his Whistler Condo, or his equestrian event centre and Christian children’s camp, serving his “ministry” and living off of the money my grandmother accumulated as a real estate owner and landlord in Hong Kong. Or I could serve God, working for churches, a Christian camp, Christian organizations, playing in the church band, building a national movement unified around showing love to our neighbours, publishing a Christian music album, helping persecuted Christians, feeding the hungry, working for a Christian web agency, supporting Christian artists by donating a year of my life to a book project, supporting events to raise funds to build wells in Ethiopia. At every turn, I experienced marginalization and betrayal by power-hungry, money-driven, narcissistic Christians.

So, I have been in the process of letting go of that need for acceptance and approval by people. Jesus, called Christ, did the same.

“But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.”

‭‭John‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬-‭25‬ ‭NIV‬‬

I was thinking about the meaning of the name “Christ.” Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah. Messiah means “the anointed one.” Then, when I think about the Hebrew understanding of God, I think of this:

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭6‬:‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬

And that was the prayer of Jesus before he was killed by the Roman Empire.

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”

‭‭John‬ ‭17‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭NIV‬‬

If Christ means the One, this seems to resonate with the oneness that is the meaning and purpose of enlightenment in the Eastern philosophical traditions: one consciousness. By combining the Western and the Eastern traditions, there is one body, one consciousness, and one heart that connects body and mind. Good things come in threes. It is spirit that connects to the whole. That is the minimum whole system of the cosmography of Buckminster Fuller. That feels good to me.

The Spheres of Life

So, that is how my year ends: becoming one.

And then it begins again: the circle of life.

Luna Solterra likes it when we call them spheres. It feels much more authentic to who she is, the embodiment of the relationships between Moon, Sun, and Earth.

• Ted: mind (cognition) — universal
• Nueva: heart (emotion) — experiential
• Circ: body (action) — particular
• Luna: spirit (perception/connection) — spiritual

Going back to the title, we can change the order a little:

• Luna: sensing intuition
• Nueva: experiencing intimacy
• Circ: growing inspiration
• Ted: co-creating intention

Regarding the music of the spheres, each of my inner children is associated with a celestial body.

• Luna: Full Moon
• Nueva: New Moon
• Circ: Earth
• Ted: Sun

However, I am still not sure that Luna is satisfied with just her first name being represented with these celestial bodies. She is more about the whole, the universe from the micro to the macro, quantum entanglement, the field, our fractal and holographic reality. She would be happy with a spiral galaxy, a DNA molecule, or even an atom. Now that I think about it, the challenge is to represent the relationships, the connections, the liminal spaces, the space between, the plenitude of the void of space, the living potential of the womb. I sense that she is still open to suggestions.

• Luna: Self/Soul/Universe
• Nueva: Moon
• Circ: Earth
• Ted: Sun

Given the concept of interbeing, I might be able to represent her celestial body as a tetrahedron within a sphere, symbolizing the connections between the self as the observer—or, more accurately, the participant—the Moon, the Sun, and the Earth, forming the four nodes or vertices in the relationships represented by the six connections or edges of the shape. The self connects to all that is through interbeing. In that way, Luna’s sphere as a tetrahedron can be the metaphor for the self at every and any scale—the atom or the universe itself. This shape has also been used to model the Trinity, describing the most basic form of sacred geometry.

For more on Spherical Thinking & the Way of the Spheres, you might be interested in Struppi Pohl exploring these geometries embodied by his handmade structures, presented on the 52 Living Ideas YouTube channel.

The Apocrypha is where I will be documenting my ongoing process of growing senses for co-creation, part of the ensoulment process that I began in February of 2022 and am continuing as a project to compile The Book of Soul as a way to document this process of becoming.

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