The Cosmic Womb

INTRODUCTION:
The tree lives in you
the beautiful music lives in you
the greenery lives in you
and that is why they live outside of you

The air lives in you
that is why it lives outside of you
sustains you every second
it will never go away
even if you do not thank it
because that's its job.

Life's job is to keep you alive
and it will.

An interesting question asked in a Philosophy Group I participate in sometimes.

"Why do we breathe?"

I believe breathing is a manifestation of a very deep, seamless connection we have with our environment. A living connection. It keeps us alive.

In fact, from what can be referred to as the LIVING PERSPECTIVE, it may not be wrong to compare "a human living on earth", with "a child in the womb".

If phrases like 'deep interconnectedness' and 'sustainability' are used as the guiding perspectives, then it is easy to see the above mentioned parallel.

The unborn child emerges from the material of the womb, and lives in a state of deep connectedness with the womb. Gets blood, oxygen, nutrition from it, which is the unborn child's complete universe.

The unborn child's connection with its environment is a living connection.

The earth sustains us in the same way. Breath, food, shelter from extreme forces, pressures, temperatures and killer radiation that lie beyond the earth's atmosphere.

Our connection with our environment is a living connection.

Some hindus hold the perspective that the entire cosmos is a womb.

And when the human becomes sufficiently developed, he exits the earth-womb, but only to enter a different womb.

Perhaps what we perceive as death is childbirth into something newer. Death of the caterpillar is birth of the butterfly. The paradigm shifts. The environment changes.

If you have seen Stanley Kubrick's movie 'A Space Odyssey', in this movie, in the final scene - the STARCHILD is shown. An unborn child in open, deep space.

This unborn child represents the next stage in human evolution. And by putting him in outer space, Kubrick is trying to instill the cosmic womb perspective.

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Question: So why use the word 'WOMB' in place of the word 'environment'. What use is it?

Answer: The word 'environment' is a detached, clinical viewpoint. It's not wrong, but it's not sufficient to explain life.

'WOMB' is a word that points to the existence of deep feelings of nurture. And since life cannot be founded on anything except feelings, the word 'WOMB' instills the living perspective.



The tree lives in you
the beautiful music lives in you
the wind lives in you
the thunder lives in you
the greenery lives in you
food shelter drinking water
nurture, air

all live in you

and that is why they live around you

Attached images:

1. Painting by artist Sonali Chaudhari of Feminine Creations

2. StarChild image from Stanley Kubrick's 'A Space Odyssey'(1967).

Memory Lane - Part I

They were neighbours and wonderful friends. They also attended the same school. She was one year his senior.

One day as they were sitting and talking, after school hours, he could not help but notice how exceptionally erotic she looked that day.

She's continuous erotica, he thought to himself, as they continued their conversation. She was telling him what someone at school had said to her, but he could barely focus on what she was saying. His mind was saturated. Obsessed.

He'd been madly in lust with her for three years now. But he never mentioned it to her. Felt pretty awkward. He didn't want to come across as stupid. Or some desperate freak.

He was sure she had noticed his feelings, but pretended as if she had no clue.

Their talk very rarely involved comments of a personal nature. Their talk revolved around events at school. Things going on in the neighbourhood, etc.

So she never saw it coming.

Suddenly he said, "Listen, there's something I want to say...but...am afraid that if I do, you might never want to speak to me again."

"What?! Don't Understand!" , She said.

He looked straight at her for a couple of seconds, almost staring.

"Not really easy to say what I want to."

"Why?" She asked. He could see that her expression was serious. Dead serious.

"Let it be. I changed my mind. I gotta go, see you later." He said.

And he left. And as he walked way, he was wondering what she was thinking about. He knew her mind had hit 'Red Alert' instantly....and that made him nervous.

He knew she knew he was in lust with her. Over the years, he had done many strange things in her presence, without wanting to. Like stare at her breasts. Her legs. Her arms...lips..On many occasions he had ended up trying to look up her skirt. Or down her blouse.

So he was sure she knew. But she never let it show. She never made him feel uncomfortable. Never ignored him, was never rude. Suddenly he felt grateful for the way she had been treating him. Because he felt vulnerable. His lust for her made him vulnerable.

And as he walked, he started fantasising about a situation in which he walks up to her and just blurts it out. No bullshit. No vague, cute things. Just blurts it out....'I WANT TO FUCK YOUR BRAINS OUT.'

"What if I did it?" He asked himself. "We have been friends for many years. If she hates me for expressing my lust for her openly, I'll apologise. She might not break the friendship. She likes my company."

But he wasn't ready yet. It was so damn awkward..... :-/

CHAPTER 2 --

School was off for summer, and he was glad. Because he just didn't want to run into her, not for a long time.

But since she lived in the neighbourhood, it was going to be difficult to not run into her.

He was afraid he might blurt it all out prematurely...because offlate he had been spending hours and hours every day, fantasising about her. Sometimes in her school skirt, sometimes in her tennis skirt. Sometimes in her tight jeans, heels, and the sheer, almost see-thru, sleeveless tops that she used to wear, in summer.

To be continued....