I love earthworms!!..I’ve always had an attraction to them and what they represent to me…I think mushrooms may have a similar pull for me which I hadn’t considered before. So, if you can’t locate a mushroom that consents to being petted perhaps you can locate a congenial earthworm…I think you will get the same desired result.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of developing frames of reference that range from macro to microscopic and when it’s most appropriate and useful to use them. If we get overly microscopic in our perspective then we lose the overall pattern of what’s happening…the nature of the game…we lose the forest for the trees…we can get lost in the weeds. If we allow ourselves to ‘Pause’ and take an emotional ‘step back’ to enlarge our frame of reference then we can see the larger patterns at work. Typically, it’s in these larger frames of reference that we find equanimity, congruency and ‘We Space’. Wisdom, it seems to me, is predominantly a feature of large frames of reference whereas genius tends to live in smaller frames of reference.
It’s a very obvious thing to me that there are forces at work in our world that benefit from keeping us in the weeds, overwhelmed with small detail…it serves us to remember that ‘the devil is in the details’…that’s where his/her work is most easily accomplished it would seem…and it seems to me that’s a huge aspect of the various conflicts we have today both at the ‘macro’ societal level and the ‘micro’ level between individuals and the even more ‘micro’ inner life of a single individual.
I’ve read quite a few comments on The DarkHorse Podcast page and they are overwhelmingly positive. Many, many people appear starved for this sort of intelligent discussion. It’s a missing nutrient from our emotional diet which is very scarce in the buffet of words that’s offered by mainstream conversation.
Peace my friend,
G.